News from 2005

SDC Furies traveled to Perris Valley, California for the 2005 USPA Nationals. They competed in 4 Way Formation Skydiving, Intermediate Class starting on September 5th through the 7th. You can check out the Nationals website. You can also check out the scores and daily activities on Omniskore at www.omniskore.com.

The 4th Midwest Skydiving League (MWSL) competition of the 2005 season was held at Skydive Chicago on the 20th of August. The SDC Furies won with 69 points over 6 rounds giving them an 11.5 average. Playoffs were also held for the National Skydiving League (NSL) that weekend and included the 6 rounds from Saturday and 4 additional rounds on Sunday. The SDC Furies scored a cumulative 106 points over the ten rounds giving them a 10.6 average. The playoffs are graded on a handicap system determined at the beginning of the season which has yet to be officially applied, but from initial reports it appears the SDC Furies won the playoffs for the A class. You can check out the highlights at www.skyleague.com. The SDC Furies also earned a team high of 15 points on round 3 on Saturday. The dive was F-E-9.

Training is complete! The girls had a wonderful time Saturday at Skydive Chicago's annual Halloween Party and made sure to celebrate: Sarah's birthday, Sarah's 1,000th jump, and the completion of training. We'll post pics of the pieing on our gallery. What a season! The girls got to sleep in til 10am or so... but that Sunday, the girls were already planning next season. No lineup change for next season. With the accomplishments of this season, the girls hope to build off of it and get better, and faster, and smoother... and of course... have fun doing it.

Mid October, the girls took a weekend off. Mom visited one Fury, another Fury went biking in WI, while the remaining two with video went to Bridge Day. Obviously everyone got back alright and the stories are still being told.

Golden Knights were doing tandems at Skydive Chicago the weekend of 9/24/05. After those were done, the Furies got a chance to do a couple jumps with Kurt Isenbarger of the Knights. The girls and Kurt had an awesome time and learned a few things. The team was weathered out on Sunday due to Hurricane Rita effects reaching all the way from Louisiana to Chicago area.

With Nationals completed, you'd think the girls would be off celebrating. The girls did celebrate in Perris, but once home, training started for 2006. With solid goals in mind from their Nationals experience, the girls want to do better next season and are wasting no time working toward those goals.

SDC Furies had an awesome time at Nationals in Perris Valley, CA. 43 teams competed in Intermediate class. There was tons of competition. After ten rounds, the girls earned 98 points for a 9.8 average. This placed them in 13th place.

SDC Furies have completed their training for the 2005 season in preparation for USPA Nationals on August 28, 2005. A total of 8 jumps were done over that last weekend. The girls did 4 jumps on Saturday from 13.5 doing their favorite exits and dives to keep the last few just fun and positive. On Sunday, thanks to SDC pilot and DZO Rook Nelson, the girls were exiting at 10.5 and at Nationals speed to get a feel for the changes. The changes did not slow down the girls, it actually sped them up. They beat their 15 point record with a 16 in 35 seconds in one of their dives! It looks like the girls are ready.

SDC Furies want to thank Skydive Chicago for helping them complete their training for nationals. The pilots, manifest, Rook, Melissa, Donovan, the grounds crew, the other teams, Pimps and Sirens, Jeanie and the cafe staff. Thank you all. We could not have trained as hard nor focused as much as we were able to without your help. Thank you. Thank you to the fun jumpers for keeping the loads going... without them we'd still be sitting on the ground.

Sarah had a bad opening on Saturday in which her bright green helmet came off and fell to the ground. Luckily she watched where it was headed. The SDC Furies and the Pimps went trudging through high grass, trees, and near electric fences in search of the helmet. After a half hour, the green helmet was found amongst green grass and green trees near green corn. The SDC Furies extend a thank you to the Pimps for their help and a special thank you to Shane for actually finding the helmet with the green neptune nearby.