2012 |
Women |
 Meg Parson, New England Orienteering Club
Year of Birth: 1994
School: Concord Carlisle High School, Massachusetts / Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
International Experience: O-Ringen 2009, JWOC 2011, Fin5 2011
Started orienteering: When I was about 7 years old, with my dad. I've orienteered in 17 states and 6 countries.
Fun or unusual orienteering story: During the JWOC long course last year, there were two old Polish men who started pointing in various directions and yelling at me as I ran by them in the woods… I still have no idea what they were trying to say. |
Men |
 Andrew Childs, Green Mountain Orienteering Club (Vermont)
Year of birth: 1992
School: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts
International experience: O-Ringen 2008, JWOC 2009-11
Started orienteering: With family as a young child. I've orienteered in 9 countries and about 15 states.
Fun or unusual story: At the junior champs in Italy, a very nice Italian lady told me where the control was when I was a little bit lost. |
 Nathaniel Lyons, Rochester Orienteering Club (New York)
Year of birth: 1992
School: Carnegie Mellon University
International experience: JWOC 2009-11, spectator at JWOC 2008, Fin5, O-Ringen
Started orienteering: With my Dad when I was about 10 years old. I've orienteered in 13 states and 7 countries.
Fun or unusual story: When I finished the long in Italy, the Swedish girls' team brought me a blanket because I was freezing. |
 Ethan Childs, Green Mountain Orienteering Club
Year of birth: 1994
School: Champlain Valley Union High School, Vermont
International experience: 2 years traveling in Europe, attending O-Ringen, Fin-5, and Swiss O-Week, among other events.
Started orienteering: When I was about 2, with my parents. I've orienteered in 8 countries including the U.S. and Canada; about 9-10 states in the U.S.
Fun or unusual story: I was chased by a cow in Switzerland. |
 John Hensley Williams, United States Military Academy Orienteering Club
Year of birth: 1992
School: United States Military Academy, West Point, New York
International experience: JWOC 2009, O-Ringen 2008-9, Scottish 6-Days 2009
Started orienteering: When I was 14, with my mother and high school teammates; I have orienteered in six countries and 16 states in the U.S.
Fun or unusual story: I tripped on a root while running down a steep spur and tumbled twice; after the second roll I caught the hill with my feet and kept running at full speed down the rest of the hill, map and compass still in hand. |
 Nathan Orwaschel, Delaware Valley Orienteering Association
Year of birth: 1993
School: Coatesville Area Senior High / Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Started orienteering: When I was 13, and I have orienteered in 12 states within the U.S.
Fun or unusual story: At a local event, a homeless man tried to follow me as I ran on a road; it made me run faster.
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 Zachary Barker, Delaware Valley Orienteering Association
Year of birth: 1994
School: Homeschool, New Jersey
Started orienteering: With my Dad when I was 9, and I have orienteered in 15 states in the U.S. and in one other country.
Fun or unusual story: During an event in a snow storm, Dad dropped me in a river ... and boy was it cold! |
Declined: Carl Underwood, NEOC; Theodore Fong, USMAOC; Joe Barrett, PTOC |
