UMD College Park

Course results can be seen below.

Because everyone visited the controls in an unique order, there will not be the traditional report showing the splits and how much time you each spent between the controls. Instead, please enter your routes into RouteGadget.

To enter your routes into RouteGadget, and see to how others went, head to RouteGadget.

The Score-O College Park meet was held at Kim Plaza at the University of Maryland on April 8. We had more than 120 starts. The day was sunny and windy with temperatures in the 50s.
Runners were given 90 minutes to complete as many of the 30 controls as possible. Each control was allocated 1 point and every minute over the 90 minutes would be penalized a point per minute. Many competitors completed the north or south maps within the allotted time and some of our runners found all 30 controls in both the north and south maps under an hour! Kudos to all. Chris Silva, Alex Merka, and Jens Wira were among those who brought groups of their friends to enjoy orienteering for the first time. Shout out to them for introducing this to their friends! We also had several families. I saw an enthusiastic 6 year old who completed 6 controls.
We could not have run this meet without the army of volunteers who turned out cheerfully and willingly. Thank you to Rob Briber and Dan Lathrop for securing the venue. Amy and Valerie were at Kim Plaza bright and early to set up the registration and start area and Valerie had sealed maps all ready to go, and as usual, Amy brought her delicious cookies for our finishers. Don Fish, Joe Barrett, Sidney Dixon, and Harry Jones, greeted Tom Nolan, our course setter, and I as we drove up to Kim Plaza. Everyone quickly made quick work of assembling the tables and set out the maps, compasses, and keybox. Joe and Sidney, most importantly, erected the large flapping QOC orienteering flags and Tom stuck signs at the entrance of UMD roads to direct orienteers to the location of the plaza. Access this year was particularly challenging because of road closures around the plaza due to construction of the nearby new computer science building and other buildings on campus.
Harry Jones worked tirelessly to check off attendees and efficiently provided information to all orienteers. Richard Briggs and Tom Nolan provided beginner instruction. Three of our Control Pickup runners called in sick that day but we quickly recruited new runners. Victor Lin, Carl Lungren, John Baker stepped up to the need for control pick up along with Jane Leggett, John Cummings, Jens Wira.
Thank you, to the volunteers, who made this Score O orienteering event so well run, and thank you to all those volunteers doing the same throughout the years. I am so grateful to have this community.
-Florence Tan, Event Director