From: Cyberstork@aol.com Date sent: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 13:25:48 -0500 To: jammers@easy1.mediacity.com Subject: Jr. Report The 28th Annual World Jr. Frisbee Championships wrapped up in fine style Saturday with some great performances and a beautiful day at Sea World, San Diego. The overall champions were Mirella Martinez of Dallas, Texas and Chris Filer of Seattle, Washington. Mirella had strong play in all events, winning SCF with 67.88 points (7.75s/25.25m). She was second in golf, distance and discathon. In the boy's division, Chris really rolled as he won golf, discathon and SCF. His SCF was an event record 97.15 points (10.01s/42.10m). Other event winners were: Art Viger-Sonoma, CA and Christina Burnap-Seattle, WA-Freestyle (individual) John Buttrey-Nashville, TN and Renee Pardo, Ft. Meyers, FL-Accuracy Christina Burnap, Seattle, WA-Discathon Miroslava Martinez, Dallas, TX (twin to Mirella)-Disc Golf Sabrina Donaldson-Arvada, CO(sister to Chauncey)-Distance (278ft 3in) Nick Thielman-St. Cloud, MN-Distance (352ft 11in) The youngest player ever in the finals last year, 9 year old Nikki Ross of Lancaster, PA set three age group world records in the competition. She will appear on the Maureen O'Boyle television show about amazing kids scheduled for airing on Nov. 15th. Overall Results: Girls 1st(35.5 pts) Mirella Martinez- Dallas, TX 2nd(34.0 pts) Christina Burnap-Seattle, WA 3rd(30.5 pts) Sabrina Donaldson-Arvada, CO 4th(28.0 pts) Lauren Soderland-Seattle, WA 5th(27.5 pts) Miroslava Martinez- Dallas, TX 6th(23.5 pts) Nikki Ross- Lancaster, PA 7th(19.0 pts) Renee Pardo- Ft. Meyers, FL 8th(18.0 pts) Adrianna Zammit-Seattle, WA Boys 1st(51.0 pts) Chris Filer-Seattle, WA 2nd(42.5 pts) John Buttrey- Nashville, TN 2nd(42.5 pts) Andy Moering-Seattle, WA 4th(37.0 pts) Mike McMillan- Vancouver, B.C., Canada 5th(35.5 pts) Nick Thielman- St. Cloud, MN 5th(35.5 pts) Toby Henderson-Seattle, WA 7th(30.5 pts) Evan Hanneman-Bellvue, WA 8th(23.0 pts) Art Viger- Sonoma, CA 9th(22.5 pts) Matt Goldfarb-Shoreline, WA 10th(10 pts) Luis Romero-Mexico City, Mexico Staff for the finals was principally provided by the San Diego Free Flyers, and the golf event was hosted by Snapper Pierson on the Morley Field Disc Golf Course. Special thanks to: AMY BEKKEN, ARTHUR CODDINGTON, JEFF JORGENSON - Staff Photographer, RICK LEBEAU, DAN MANGONE, JIM McDOWELL, SNAPPER PIERSON, ROBBIE ROBISON, JOEL ROGERS, RICK SADER, BETHANY SANCHEZ, GINA SAMPLE, and DAVE SCHILLER. Bill Coberly of Dallas Texas and Mary Jorgenson were honored as coaches of the year. Bill has run local competitions and coached many players to world finals in the past as well as training this year's girls champion. Mary currently coordinates a very successful jr ultimate program in the Northwest which involves nearly 300 players. From that base, she and other regional players ,including her husband Jeff and Steve Hays, qualified an unprecedented 8 finalists for this year's competition. In addition to engraved trophies, the winners received $1000 bonds, runners-ups $500 and third place finishers received $250. Each finalist received a $100 bond and a finalist trophy. Travel, lodging and expenses are all provided for each finalist and his or her guardian or parent. A video news release of the event was filmed and released by satellite feed for international distribution. There was also a 4 camera shoot which focused on freestyle which is being prepared for an anthology sports show in the near future. The host hotel was the Town and Country Resort which provided a great setting for the group including a ballroom which was open for jamming until the wee hours of each night. It was a blast! Over 160,000 children under the age of 16 took part in this year's program at their schools or local parks. The entire event is offered free of charge each year by Mattel Sports and runs from May through November. The local competition includes distance, accuracy and trick catching. Local clubs who assist in the running of the events often also use the opportunity to introduce the kids to other events such as ultimate, golf, freestyle and ddc. To sign up a local park or school contact us at roddickd@Mattel.com with the postal mailing address of the elementry school or park and the staff person responsible. To get personally involved as a volunteer coach you may register your interest at the same address. Dan"Stork"Roddick, Mattel Sports >>>>> End of forwarded message >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. The credits read like a Who's Who of west coast Freestylers and individual event players but there is also support from Ultimate players. It's good to see players from different sections of the family of disc sports supporting this program which initially focusses just on basic skills. Del "one of these days I'll get into coaching" Robins *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Derek Robins | | D.J.Robins@admin.warwick.ac.uk Management Accountant | | Tel 01203 523523 x2710 Finance Office | | Fax 01203 524573 University of Warwick | | Room 343 Coventry CV4 7AL | | Senate House *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-