Indiana
OhioStandard Time
(same as Central
Daylight Time)
Savings Time
and EDT (Ohio) as "fast time".
Allow 30 minutes for bus to start.
Music by Mellow Drama following dinner.
Allow 30 minutes for walk to start.
Over 400 Photos from Flying Pig
VIII and US Interscholastics
Photos
by Matt Robbins
460 photos: 17 pages of approx. 25 photos each.
Event Information (old)
Frequently asked questions about this event
Mapper's
Notes, Course Setter's Notes and Embargo areas
Mapper's Notes Page also includes gas prices
& weather forecast.
How to Use Electronic Punching
Start Times / List of Entrants
NEW: Lunch available for purchase
at event sites
Students from The Colony HS will be selling lunches
of burgers, dogs, chips, drink and dessert on Saturday and Sunday, near
the finish area, during lunch hours. Look for details at the event
sites. Expected "lunch deal" price of $5.
Model Area open Friday
Bruce McAlister is planning to set up a model course
for practice Friday morning and evening before and after the MVOC meet.
This will be a short brown course at Hueston Woods State Park (course used
for the 2000 U.S. Short Course Championships). Advantages of doing this
training: Hueston Woods was mapped by same mappers as Mounds and Garr Hill,
and course was set by the same course setter (Mike Minium). Course will
be staffed 9 am - Noon and 5 pm - 8 pm (Ohio times) on Friday. Maps will
be available for $5. Start/Finish is at Locust Grove Picnic Area in southwest
part of park. From Oxford, take OH 732 north for 5 miles, and turn left
into park. Go 1 mile and turn left on Main Loop Road. Go 4-5 miles and
turn right into Locust Grove Picnic Area.
Recreational Courses
Recreational courses will be available all 3 days.
Cost is $5. Register at site, at least 1 hour before start closing time.
Recreational courses will be available to all on white, yellow and orange.
Experienced orienteers may be permitted to do "recreational" on advanced
courses, with permission from Event Director. Recreational Orienteers will
not have your times published, and you may have to copy the course from
a master map, depending on availability of surplus pre-marked maps.
Survey for College-bound High
School Seniors
Coaches and Seniors: USOF's College Development
Committee has put together a short survey for college-bound seniors. The
results will be used to better target USOF's efforts to build a more competitive
college orienteering program in the USA, including establishment of new
college clubs and teams, and development of competitors to travel to the
World University Orienteering Championships. Please pick up and fill out
a survey at the registration table.
Weekend Festivals in Oxford
Saturday 1 pm - 4 pm- "Global Village" Live
entertainment and free food. Sunday 11 am - 11 pm - "Harpin' and Pickin'"
Bluegrass and Appalachian Culture Festival - crafts, food, music and more.
www.harpinnpickin.com Both events
take place in Uptown park, junction of US 27 (High St) and OH 732 (Main
St) in Oxford. Expect street closures in central Oxford from 9 am Sunday
to 1 am Monday.
General Information
The U.S. Interscholastic Orienteering Championship
is a two-day, total time event, offering both INDIVIDUAL and TEAM competiton
for U.S. High School and Middle School students.
The "A" meet will also offer courses for all orienteers of all ages.
The Friday "Pig Sprint" is a one-day short course
"A" meet with separate awards, and is an ideal warm-up for the two-day
Interscholastic competition.
The terrain is described in the Mapper's
and Course Setter's Notes. Control Descriptions: ISCD 2004
will be used! Also, Safety
whistles and weather appropriate attire are required.
The Pig Sprint, Friday, April
16
A short-course format event with late afternoon
starts. 1:10,000 map, 3 m. contours
Woodland Trails BSA Camp, Camden, Ohio. The
camp is located on Gasper-Somers Rd on the west side of US 127, 2 miles
north of Camden, Ohio. (14 miles south of I-70 exit #10). The
new map covers the western part of Woodland Trails and will cover different
area from the maps used in last year's Flying Pig. Allow 30 minutes
for walk to start. Site
Locator Map
U.S. Interscholastics, Day One,
Saturday, April 17
1:10,000 map, 5 m. contours,
classic distance courses.
farsta format courses for M-21+
and F-21+ ONLY.
Garr Hill Ramp on Brookville Lake, Franklin County,
Indiana. The park entrance is on Indiana route 101, several miles
north of Brookville, Indiana. Allow 30 minutes for bus ride to start.
(M-21+ and F-21+ will not use bus). Note: F-21+ will be separate
from the other red course. M 35+ et. al. will ride the bus.
Site Locator
Map
U.S. Interscholastics, Day Two,
Sunday, April 18
1:10,000 map, 5 m. contours,
classic distance courses.
Mounds State Recreation Area, Franklin County, Indiana.
The park entrance is located on Indiana route 101, several miles north
of Brookville, Indiana. Park entry fee will be
collected on arrival:
$2 per Indiana car, $5 per
non-Indiana car, $1 per bus passenger or walk-in.
Please
have money ready and a count of people in your vehicle when you enter the
park.
We've offered to collect this fee in advance, but the park administration
declined.
If 300 vehicles take 1 minute each, that's a 5 hour backup... So please
HAVE EXACT FEE READY!
(and, if you arrive early enough, you might not have to pay at all.)
Allow 30 minutes for walk to start.
Site Locator
Map
Schedule
The events of Flying Pig VIII will take place in
TWO time zones.
Clocks in Indiana stay on STANDARD Time year-round.
Please check the schedule closely. Know the time
zone for your motel!
If you are late for your start, you will be "on
the clock" from your original time!
|
Indiana |
Ohio |
Times on this table are tentative as of 30 March 2004 |
| Eastern
Standard Time (same as Central Daylight Time) |
Eastern Daylight
Savings Time |
Note: You may hear locals refer to EST (Indiana) as "slow
time"
and EDT (Ohio) as "fast time". |
| February 15, 2004 | 10 student per school cap on entries has been lifted. | |
| March 1, 2004 | Fees increase for entries postmarked after March 1. | |
| March 31, 2004 | Registration is CLOSED - no exceptions | |
| April 16, 2004 | ||
| 11 am - 5 pm | Noon - 6 pm | Check-in & packet pickup open at Woodland Trails, Ohio |
| Noon - 2:30 pm | 1 pm - 3:30 pm | Short Course (The Pig Sprint) starts |
| 5 pm | 6 pm | 2.5 hour limit, courses close |
| 3 pm - 5:30 pm | 4 pm - 6:30 pm | Dinner to benefit US Junior Team at Woodland Trails, Ohio |
| April 17, 2004 | ||
| 7 am - 11 am | 8 am - Noon | Packet pick-up at Garr Hill Ramp, Indiana |
| 7:30 am | 8:30 am | M-21+ and F-21+ Farsta Mass Start, Garr Hill, Indiana |
| 9 am - 1 pm | 10 am - 2 pm | Classic Course Starts, Garr Hill, Indiana
Allow 30 minutes for bus to start. |
| 4 pm | 5 pm | 3 hour limit, courses close |
| 3 pm - 6 pm | 4 pm - 7 pm | Showers open at Union County MS |
| 5 pm - 7 pm | 6 pm - 8 pm | Dinner to benefit US Junior Team at Union County MS
Music by Mellow Drama following dinner. |
| April 18, 2004 | ||
| 8 am - 11:30 am | 9 am - 12:30 pm | Classic Course Starts, Mounds SRA, Indiana,
Allow 30 minutes for walk to start. |
| 3 pm | 4 pm | 3 hour limit, courses close |
| 2:30 pm | 3:30 pm | Awards Ceremony (earlier if possible) |
U.S. Interscholastic Championship
There are awards for both INDIVIDUALS and TEAMS.
Every participant is automatically entered as an individual.
Teams are composed of 3 to 5 members, who compete individually.
The best three times from each day count toward team standings. Teams
may be single-sex or mixed. Before February 15, schools were limited
to 10 individual entrants. We allowed additional competitive entrants
until the March 31 deadline.
| Interscholastic Courses. Entries will be limited to 180 per individual class. | ||||||
| Middle School | High School Junior Varsity | High School Varsity | ||||
| Individual Classes | MS-Male | MS-Fem. | HSJV-Male | HSJV-Fem. | HSV-Male | HSV-Fem. |
| Team Classes | MS-Team | HSJV-Team | HSV-Team | |||
Eligibility: USOF membership is required.
USOF
Membership Form
Interscholastic
Eligibility Rules Complete USOF eligibility rules
were updated at the Board Meeting on November 1, 2003. This version
is complete, but could still contain minor typographical inconsistencies.
Attention Coaches: If you have questions
or concerns about the eligibility of a particular student, you must contact
the USOF office before March 1, 2004, and apply for an official determination
of the student's eligibility. It is not necessary for the coach to
commit the person to his/her team at that time. E-mail Robin
Shannonhouse for more information.
"A" Meet Courses and Classes
Competitive
All standard USOF competitive
courses and classes will be offered. (See entry form)
Interscholastic competitors
should see "U.S. Interscholastic Championship"
categories above.
All competitive entrants
should pre-register.
Recreational
Recreational Courses will
be offered on white, yellow and orange for $5.
Advanced courses may be
done "recreational" with permission of Event Director only.
Recreational entrants should
register on site on the day of the event, at least 1 hour before the last
start time.
Farsta?
There will be a farsta
format event on Saturday for M-21+ and F-21+ only. The
farsta will have an early mass start and the map-exchange and finish will
be near event parking, so all orienteers can watch the excitement of the
chase! Excellent spectating opportunity
to see the best orienteers in North America in action!
We plan to bring back a farsta format for other courses at future Pigs.
Awards
Awards for top 3 Interscholastic Individuals and
Teams:
High School Varsity
High School Junior Varsity
Middle School
JROTC awards for teams composed entirely of eligible
JROTC members will be given in HIgh School divisions. No separate JROTC
awards for Middle School teams..
Brunton Cups: traveling trophies
for the MS, JROTC and HSV winning teams.
Punching
The Sport-Ident electronic punching system will
be used for all courses. If you own an SI card, be sure to put your
SI number on the registration form. How
to Use Electronic Punching
SI-5 or SI-6 cards will work with all controls.
Upgrading of both USOF and OCIN control units has been completed.
Rental cards are available. (The M-21+ and F-21+ farsta
on Saturday WILL use conventional pin punching.
Maps
All maps will be 1:10,000. Woodland Trails
has 3 m. contours, Garr Hill and Mounds have 5 m. contours. Maps
have all seen recent fieldwork revision and will be custom printed for
this event.
Preview Maps
Existing maps of these areas will be available for
$5 each. "Preview" maps do not show the course you will be running.
They will not show the latest fieldwork updates. "Preview" maps may
not include newly mapped terrain.
Woodland
Trails (WT) (1:10,000) (Friday)
Garr Hill
(GH) (1:15,000, 1999) (new map will be 1:10,000) (Saturday)
Mounds
SRA (MSRA) (1:15,000, 1996) (new map will be 1:10,000) (Sunday)
Shirts
T-shirts designed by OCIN artist extraordinaire,
Greg Sack.
Dinners
Dinner proceeds will benefit U.S. Junior Team.
We are planning dinners for both Friday and Saturday nights. Friday
dinner will be available at Woodland Trails as you finish running.
Friday menu will include a choice of hamburgers, hot dogs, or veggie burgers;
potato salad, baked beans, chips, carrots and celery sticks, pickles and
olives, ice tea, lemonade, coffee, cookies & brownies.
Saturday menu is planned to be sliced turkey breast & gravy, stuffing,
mashed potatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce, salad, rolls, apple &
pumpkin pie, ice tea, lemonade, coffee. If you require a vegetarian
entree, you must write that on your entry form. Thanks, Janet
Porter, for organizing the dinners. Showers will be available
at the Saturday dinner site. Bring your own towel and soap,
please.
Lodging
Camping is available at Mounds SRA and Hueston Woods.
Many motels are nearby. Make reservations early.
Click
here for lodging information
Child Sitting
Nobody requested Child Sitting, so it will NOT be
offered.
Information
Frequently
asked questions Event Director: Mike
Minium, mike@ocin.org (513) 523-9279
Registration
Registration is now CLOSED.
Printable entry forms are linked below, for your
reference.
Be SURE to sign the waiver form. Your entry is not
confirmed until we receive the signed waiver!
Printable Entry Form for "A" meet (NON-interscholastic) entrants (html version)
Printable Entry Form for INTERSCHOLASTIC entrants (html version)
Teams must fill out a Team Entry and Eligibility Form, IN ADDITION TO individual entry forms. Teams MUST list a coach and contact information.
Registrar: PigReg@ocin.org
Mail forms to: Vince
Hand,
511 East Chestnut St,
Oxford, OH 45056
Make checks payable in US$ to: OCIN.
Entry Fees
If you are not entering all 3 days, please clearly
specify which days you are entering. Please clearly print all information,
especially your e-mail address. Double check your USOF and SI numbers
for accuracy!
Entry fee per competition day
Interscholastic competitors: $15 before March 1, $20 before April 1
(This includes USOF member discount, USOF membership is mandatory)
Adult (age 21+) Non-interscholastic competitors: $20 before March 1, $25
before April 1
(-$3 discount for USOF members: $17 before March 1, $22 before April 1)
Junior (age -20) Non-interscholastic competitors: $18 before March 1, $23
before April 1
(-$3 discount for USOF members: $15 before March 1, $20 before April 1)
Sport-ident e-card rental
$5 for entire weekend. Must sign agreement to pay $35 for lost or
damaged card.
Pig VIII commemorative t-shirt
$15 each (Be sure to specify size: S, M, L, XL, XXL)
Preview Maps
$5 each (Specify: WT - Woodland Trails, GH - Garr Hill,
MSRA - Mounds St. Rec. Area)
Dinner
Friday: $5 for all
Saturday; $7 for age -20,
$9 for age 21+
Joel Rauschenbach Memorial
We've named the 2004 U.S. Interscholastic Championships
and Flying Pig VIII in honor of Joel Rauschenbach. Joel began orienteering
at about age 11, and by his late teens, he had become one of the best junior
orienteers in the United States. He was one of the youngest orienteers
ever to win a "blue" course at an "A" meet and one of the youngest competitors
to represent his country at the Junior World Orientering Championships.
After graduating from Eaton High School (Ohio), Joel joined the US Army.
He served 6 months in Afghanistan. After returning from Afghanistan,
and shortly before Flying Pig VII, which he planned to attend, Joel was
killed in an automobile accident. Joel was an enthusiastic supporter
of orienteering, and he organized several OCIN events including the first
Billy Pig. We honor his memory at this year's Interscholastic Championships.
Photos and
stories about Joel
Links
Printable Entry Form for INTERSCHOLASTIC entrants (html version)
Printable Entry Form for "A" meet (NON-interscholastic) entrants (html version)
Each Interscholastic team will also need to fill out a Team Entry and Eligibility Form
Interscholastic Eligibility Rules
Frequently asked questions about this event - recommended reading
Mapper's Notes, Course Setter's Notes and Embargo areas