posted May 19th, 2008 - Last weekend's leaderboard also includes two teams from the MidAtlantic Skydiving League. League Director Cherie Schuch reported that the weather made it very difficult for the teams at Cross Keys so far this year. The meet was first canceled due to the bad forecast, but only until it looked more promising Saturday morning:

"We have not been having a lot of luck with the weather up here. No big surprise that we had to cancel the meet on Friday night. However, at 6 am next morning we put it back on again."

The weather forecast had already kept a lot of people away from the dropzone on Saturday, as Cherie Schuch added: "We were still able to jump until mid afternoon. Then the winds picked up, the clouds rolled in and kept everybody grounded."

The two teams that were present on Saturday morning, Sleeper (AA Class) and FXC (Rookie) were able to complete four and five rounds before the weather stopped the meet. The weather on Sunday was even worse.

Cherie Schuch introduced the new AA Class team Sleeper after its first short meet experience. Karl and Cherie Schuch have been working with the team to prepare it for the MASL 2008 competition season.

"We have a new full-time AA Class team that did its first jumps out of an airplane at this meet. They have trained with us in the New Hampshire windtunnel and then just two weeks ago with Pete Allum in Orlando. Three of the team members have less than 300 jumps."

Karl Schuch filled an open slot last Saturday. One of the team members was at an Airspeed training camp at the Ranch. The other three Sleeper members are Dennis Miller, Marieta Lawrence and Kathy-Ann Cadogan. Jason Chen filmed both the Sleepers and FXC at his first 4-way competition.

Seasoned videographer Barry Bichler, former O2 Project and Air Pollution member on camera, will be filming Sleeper from here on. Cherie and Karl Schuch are looking forward to working more with the team and on its progression.

FXC was a pickup team for the Rookie Class and consisted of Dana Hazelton, Chris Schrier, Mike Driscoll, and Pete Guilfoyle. Cherie Schuch helped the new team through the short meet.

The Cross Keys staff and Cherie Schuch are now working on the Karp Cup, which is the next meet of the MidAtlantic Skydiving League on July 26. The MASL Director mentioned that people are already talking about their teams for that biggest day of the MASL 2008 season.

Cherie and Karl Schuch's new team, Wind Shear (Rob Fields, Szilard Kristof, Chris Heinan on camera), will have its debut at the Karp Cup 2008. The new lineup has completed three windtunnel camps and one training camp in DeLand with 20 jumps so far. Cherie Schuch is still waiting for better weather, for her own team, as well:

"It has been a slow start for any jumping in the Northeast. When will the sun come for more than 24 hours????"