posted Jul 15th, 2021 - USPA's next 4-way Advanced Class champion were Arizona Divewerkz in 2006. They succeeded Mass Defiance, the first Advanced Class champion who continued by moving up into the 4-way Open Class competition.

The Mass Defiance example might have been encouraging for Arizona Divewerkz, as they also continued with the same lineup who won the Advanced Class medals in 2006. In fact, three team members (Blane Boynton, Cindy Nieves, Annaliese Peterson) even added another year to their 4-way Open Class experiences and finished with a new team record average in 2008.

Arizona Diverwerkz launched their team project when the Southwest Skydiving League was launched in 2004. The original lineup (Murel Addison, Blane Boynton, Paul Gatling, Annaliese Peterson, with Kelly Green on camera) attended four SWSL meets before the USPA Nationals 2004. The August meet took place at Skydive Perris, host of the USPA Nationals in October, and the new Arizona team, together with 17 other 4-way teams, had the opportunity to get familiar with the event site.

Arizona Divewerkz started out in the AA/Intermediate Class at their first national championships and finished in 11th place with an 8.7 average.

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USPA Nationals 2005		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Intermediate Top 10	9,B,18	L,2,13	7,M,J	Q,8,15	1,4	11,14	O,A,G,K	6,22	H,P,21	D,C,E,19	Total	Avg
1	Elsinore Equinox	14	12	19	9	11	10	18	8	16	13	130	13.0
2	Carolina Ice	13	12	16	10	9	9	16	11	15	16	127	12.7
3	Arizona Divewerkz	14	12	19	11	7	9	18	10	11	15	126	12.6
4	Elsinore Alloy	11	9	18	11	11	9	6	11	16	18	120	12.0
5	Cross Keys	12	4	17	10	9	10	16	10	14	14	116	11.6
6	Air Force Prodigy	10	9	17	9	10	7	14	9	14	15	114	11.4
7	Air Force LOC	11	8	16	8	9	9	14	8	15	12	110	11.0
8	Billy's Beauties	10	10	14	9	9	8	16	8	11	12	107	10.7
9	Airlock	12	10	12	7	9	9	14	8	10	14	105	10.5
10	Elsinore Vengeance	11	9	17	11	6	9	14	9	11	6	103	10.3
10	Elsinore Vengeance	11	9	17	11	6	9	14	9	11	6	103	10.3

Arizona Divewerkz scoring progression between 2004 and 2008

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The same AZDW lineup was back for the 2005 season and were even better prepared for the national championships.

This time, they attended five meets of the Southwest Skydiving League before the same trip to Perris in October. It was the time period when hosts of USPA Nationals hosted the event in two consecutive years.

Arizona Divewerkz were one of the expected top contenders in 2005, and they had to settle with USPA bronze medals after a very exciting 4-team battle for the Intermediate Class top spot. The same lineup had increased their average from 8.7 to 12.6 which was just four points short of the winning number.

However, Arizona Divewerkz moved up into the AAA Class world despite missing the top spot in USPA's Intermediate Class competition of 2005.

Cindy Nieves replaced Paul Gatling in 2006, and the team decided to leave the Intermediate Class behind.

The Southwest Skydiving League eventually split up into the Arizona Skydiving League and the Southern California Skydiving League, and Arizona Divewerkz began to organize the events on their home turf at Skydive Arizona.

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USPA Nationals 2006		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Advanced	13,19,17	N,21,14	7,M,8	9,K,10	B,22,H,3	4,20,16	G,6,1	12,F,2	J,L,Q,P,18	E,O,5,D	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Divewerkz	14	13	16	15	14	13	13	14	17	17	146	14.6
2	Cross Keys Vision	12	12	15	14	13	13	12	10	8	16	125	12.5
3	Perris Voltage	10	11	15	13	13	11	12	11	11	17	124	12.4
4	Cross Keys O2 Project	10	11	13	14	11	12	12	10	14	12	119	11.9
5	Perris KII	9	10	14	12	10	11	9	12	14	16	117	11.7
5	Onyx	11	9	13	13	14	9	6	13	13	16	117	11.7
7	Perris Storm	11	12	14	10	9	9	12	11	11	16	115	11.5
8	Carolina Ice	10	12	13	13	13	6	10	11	16	10	114	11.4
9	Spaceland Havoc	9	11	14	10	12	10	10	9	11	13	109	10.9
10	Arizona Heat	9	10	11	11	10	9	11	10	13	13	107	10.7
11	Spaceland Hi-5	9	9	13	10	11	7	10	10	12	14	105	10.5
12	Perris Thesia	9	10	12	11	10	8	9	11	9	13	102	10.2
13	Spaceland Edge	8	9	11	9	11	8	7	9	9	11	92	9.2
14	CaliCo	8	8	11	9	9	7	9	7	6	10	84	8.4

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Once again, they used the ASL meets to get the team ready for the USPA Nationals, which would be hosted by Skydive Arizona in 2006. They could not be more familiar with the site of the national championships as they were in October a year after the competition in Perris.

The results at the USPA Nationals 2006 spoke for themselves, and Arizona Divewerkz did not have any serious opposition on the top of the AAA/Advanced Class leaderboard with their 14.6 average.

It became even better a year later. AZDW continued with the same lineup in 4-way Open, together with Mass Defiance in their second year. Now both Advanced Class champions of 2005 and 2006 were back in 4-way Open after USPA gold medals in the Advanced Class.

Annaliese Peterson, Cindy Nieves and Blane Boynton then completed a very successful 4-way team career with Arizona Divewerkx at the USPA Nationals 2008, where they posted a new team record average of 19.0 with former Airspeed member Chad Smith in the lineup. They even outscored Mass Defiance (16.7) at the same event and placed 5th in the 4-way Open USPA rankings.

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USPA Nationals 2007			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		11,6,K	12,E,C,A	18,17,F	4,8,P	M,20,D,9	19,16,5	B,3,O,G	13,H,2	7,22,15	N,21,L,J	Total	Avg
1	Airspeed Odyssey	US	23	26	26	23	32	24	28	23	21	27	253	25.3
2	Fastrax	US	22	26	26	22	29	21	27	24	20	27	244	24.4
3	Golden Knights Gold	US	20	25	24	23	29	21	25	21	19	23	230	23.0
4	Perris Fury	US	20	23	19	20	28	19	21	20	17	22	209	20.9
5	Arcteryx	NO	20	22	22	21	24	19	22	19	16	23	208	20.8
6	Aerokart Seloger.com	FR	18	21	16	18	26	19	24	18	17	22	199	19.9
7	Mass Defiance	US	18	20	18	18	25	16	22	19	15	22	193	19.3
8	FooZa	US	18	18	20	16	23	16	24	17	16	22	190	19.0
9	Arizona Directe	US	16	20	18	16	21	15	20	15	16	21	178	17.8
10	Nice Maubeuge Holidays	FR	17	20	16	15	19	17	21	16	15	18	174	17.4
10	Fastrax Blue	US	18	18	18	16	19	17	20	16	15	17	174	17.4
12	Arizona Ace	US	16	18	18	15	21	16	21	16	14	17	172	17.2
13	Arizona Divewerkz	US	16	13	15	15	20	14	17	16	13	19	158	15.8
14	Golden Knights Black	US	13	14	14	14	16	13	14	11	12	17	138	13.8
15	Optik Nerve	US	13	14	12	13	14	12	14	14	11	18	135	13.5
16	Team Twisted	US	13	0	9	13	18	9	17	12	11	14	116	11.6

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