Kiteboarding 4 Cancer 2013 Raises over $100k

photo by Richard Hallman

The 7th Annual Kiteboarding 4 Cancer event in Hood River last weekend was a huge success, meeting it’s fundraising goal of $100K. Monies raised will help fund Athletes 4 Cancer’s Camp Koru Survivorship Program for young adults with cancer. Additional beneficiaries of the silent auction include OHSU’s Knight Cancer Institute’s Adolescent & Young Oncology Program.

The weekend started out with light to no wind on Saturday, but the festival never stopped with music, activities, art, and food! Saturday kicked off with a wind dance and welcome ceremony from the Warm Springs Tribe Canoe Group of Warm Springs, Oregon, followed by One World Taiko Drummer Group from Seattle, delivering heart-pounding traditional Japanese drumming beats.

photo by Richard Hallman

Ben Bonham and his band kicked in mid-day with some foot-stomping high-energy bluegrass, and No More Parachutes out of Portland got the crowd moving around 2 pm, right before the Surf & Swim race. Mosley Wotta and his hip-hop funk band rounded out the live music with some high-energy beats just before the silent auction closed.

photo by Richard Hallman

With the delay of the Kite Derby on Saturday, event organizers shifted the athletes’ focus to some alternate activities that could garner additional laps toward their Kite Derby total lap count. The first event was the Taiko Drum Dance, where athletes had to stand amongst their pumped up kites and dance to the beat of the Taiko Drums while lap counters walked around and marked their jersey number down for an extra lap. The second lap bonus event was the Surf or Swim Race, where relay teams of 4 could either swim or paddle a surfboard around a buoy in front of the event site. No surprise that Team Patagonia, a solid team of surfers from Ventura, California paddled their way to the top spot by a long shot. Team Patagonia won an extra lap for their team totals toward the Kite Derby and every one who participated also received a point toward their lap count.

photo by Richard Hallman

Saturday finished with the Boards of Hope Live Auction followed by the silent auction, which, combined, raised $16,258!

photo by Richard Hallman

Sunday kicked off with light winds again, and not enough to run the Kite Derby. Then, around 1 pm the westerlies started kicking in, and at 3:00 pm the 7th Annual Kite Derby Endurance Race began! With just 3 1/2 hours of wind, racers put in the fastest laps ever recorded for the event, with lap counts similar to the 5th & 6th hours in past Kite Derby Races. Total laps for the 3 1/2 hours equaled 1781, with 422 laps counted in just the last hour. Donors stepped up and pledged $2 per lap for the entire race and 4 per lap for the final hour, bringing in $4406 just in day-of lap pledges!

photo by Richard Hallman

FINAL RESULTS:

Kite Derby Top Finishers ”” All counts below include bonus lap extracurricular events the Surf or Swim Race, the Kite Dance, and the Symbol Photo.

Overall Individual:

Grom Gormley 42
Gabor Vagi 41
Tony Bolstad 38
Cory Roeseler 36
Eric Reimer 36

Overall Women:

Carol Bolstad 34
Colleen Carroll 31
Rachel Callahan 30

Teams: Combined lap count of all members riding

Team Naish 36 (tie for 1st)
2nd Wind Sports 36 (tie for 1st)
Blade Kites 33 (tie for 3rd)
Liquid Force 33 (tie for 3rd)

Groms: 18 and under

Derek Fromm (16) 29 laps
Erin Mayer (15) 27 laps (tie for 2nd)
Vetea Boersma (12) 27 laps (tie for 2nd)
Savannah Boersma (14) 21 laps

All Competitors by Jersey Number:

Laps	Jersey	Name	Team
11	5	Edginton
19	8	Todd
1	9	Nora H
31	10	Carroll C
	12	Elsasser E
17	13	Heckathorn
19	16	Vandome
	17	Wolverton
	18	Lapidus
17	19	Gray
14	20	O’Gorman J
15	21	Beamer
3	23	Hirsch
27	24	Mayer
30	25	Kelsey
2	26	Langmaid
21	27	Boersma S
1	29
29	30	Dennis
1	32
34	34	Bolstad C
42	35	Gormley
27	36	Maher
2	37	Roeseler T
2	38	Johnson
2	39	Spurgeon
2	40	Nora B
10	41	Ackerman W
2	42	Ackerman H
24	43	Ackerman P
38	44	Bolstad T
30	45	Callahan
28	46	Cross
6	47	Vincent
22	48	Boersma V
24	49	Redman
1	50	Silvernager
1	51	Baker
26	52	Bassett	cabrinha crushers
–	52	McClure	cabrinha crushers
–	52	McKenna A	cabrinha crushers
–	52	McKenna I	cabrinha crushers
33	53	Ward
32	54	Kipling
2	59
1	60
1	62	Lieberman Jace	HuiHanaHou
–	62	Lieberman James	HuiHanaHou
–	62	Lieberman Julia	HuiHanaHou
27	63	Wylie	team Spark
1	64	larkman
3	65	Lathrop
34	67	Norwood
29	68	Fromm D
33	69	Holmes	Blade kites USA
–	69	Shaw	Blade kites USA
–	69	Tse	Blade kites USA
14	70	Gilman
4	71	Nora P
7	72	Larivee
20	83	McKenna E
23	84	Nash
2	85	Wayne
25	100	Rubin
	101	McConnell
2	102	Langmaid
	103	Bold
33	104	Graves	Liquid Force
–	104	Kowalska	Liquid force
–	104	Scheid	Liquid Force
–	104	Smith	Liquid Force
21	105	Fromm A
22	106	Billets
1	107	Reagan
19	108	Eagan
12	109	Schurton
18	110	Mills
41	111	Vagi
21	112	Jorgensen
14	113	Davis A	Team Audrey
–	113	Davis M	Team Audrey
–	113	Tayes G	Team Audrey
–	113	Yates S	Team Audrey
30	114	Yanakiev
14	115	Cramer E
8	116	Cohn
22	117	Bradley	Cabrinha legends
–	117	Elsasser Ed	Cabrinha legends
–	117	Kinney	Cabrinha legends
–	117	Lucas	Cabrinha legends
	118	Doces
27	119	Cook J	cabrinha crusiers
–	119	Cook K	cabrinha crusiers
–	119	Elsasser M	cabrinha crusiers
–	119	Orzeck	cabrinha crusiers
7	120	Roeseler L
19	121	Zilberstein
	122	Miller G
31	123	Davison
1	124	Carroll J
25	125	Richardson	Loops for lives
1	125	Cronin	Loops for lives
36	126	Roeseler C
25	127	Kitt	O’Go
–	127	Miller S	O’Go
–	127	Morgan	O’Go
–	127	Murphy B	O’Go
–	127	Murphy D	O’Go
–	127	O’Gorman M	O’Go
–	127	O’Gorman P	O’Go
–	127	Salmon M	O’Go
–	127	Salmon S	O’Go
–	127	Wheeler	O’Go
30	128	Ronk	team North
–	128	Cunningham	team North
–	128	schwarz	team North
–	128	Kites	team North
32	129	Newcomb
25	131	Brown	south padre island kite kings
–	131	Cohen	south padre island kite kings
–	131	Sanders	south padre island kite kings
–	131	Woodcock	south padre island kite kings
27	132	Chouinard	patagonia wind breakers
–	132	Lazinski	patagonia wind breakers
–	132	McCaffery	patagonia wind breakers
–	132	Slezak	patagonia windbreakers
4	133	Winston
18	134	Dawson
	135	Elsasser A
31	136	Gato	Native eyewear
–	136	Koudele	Native eyewear
–	136	Rienstra	Native eyewear
–	136	Stewart	Native eyewear
2	137	Anderson
1	138	Sisk
16	139	Cernera
	143	Schenk
12	145	Fisher
	156
2	157	Zallen
33	158	Schonger
24	160	Beeler
20	161	Kohlwey	Gorge Animals
–	161	Madden	Gorge Animals
–	161	Taylor	Gorge Animals
–	161	Wolff	Gorge Animals
27	165	Clifford	patagonia windmaker
–	165	Lang	patagonia windmaker
–	165	Romano	patagonia windmaker
–	165	Stevens	patagonia windmaker
	168	Erjavec
	170	Gallegos
36	172	Blair	Naish
–	172	Duhaime	Naish
–	172	Richman J	Naish
–	172	Richman S	Naish
19	173	Buttrick
6	174	Curtright(theory)
36	186	Barnes	2nd wind
–	186	Edgar	2nd wind
–	186	Gerald	2nd wind
–	186	Giesler	2nd wind
36	197	Reimer

		Diener
		Leslie Nick
		Leslie Nicolas
		Lorimer

		Mullard
		Nash
		Pugmire