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2017 Nolichucky Hometown Throwdown #1

wildwildwes wrote 326 days ago:

The first event in the 2017 Nolichucky Hometown Throwdown series was some fast paddling fun! We had a great turn out with 15 competitors joining in for some friendly downriver boatercross competition!  We had some spectators who watched and cheered on the competitors from the start line.  The event was held on the Lower Nolichucky River, TN with mild cloudy skies.

The river level was around 1,200 CFS and spirits were high with several first timers in this event!  The course start was at the USA Raft river access and the finish line was the Chestoa Pike Bridge 1.5 miles downstream.  The course have several class I-II rapids and a couple of islands to negotiate along the way.  We launched classes in a mass start format and good times were had by all!

2017 Nolichucky Hometown Throwdown Event #1 Results

Women’s K-1 Long Boat:

1. Sarah Reis – Green Boat

2. Maggie Darden – Green Boat

Men’s K-1 Long Boat:

1. Ryan Horn – Stinger

2. Jeff Vannoy – Green Boat

3. Wesley R. Bradley – Karma Unlimited

4. Steven Adams – Karma Unlimited

Men’s K-1 Short Boat:

1. Rahul Subramainian – Remix 69

2. Mike Crooks – Fun Runner 70

3. Elliot Wolff – Bazooka

4. Andy Woods – 9R

5. Isaac Balaicuis – Duckie

Women’s SUP:

1. Kathryn Bogdanescu

Men’s SUP:

1. Jack Nelson

2. Will Saylor

3. Tom Huml

 (Click here for a PDF copy of Event #1 Results)

 Thank you to all the racers for their participation and congrats to all of our class winners of Event #1!

Event Highlights:

*We had 1 SUP swimmer during the event at the finish.

*Some rocks may have been loaded into a racers boats prior to the race and going unnoticed complete the race in tow!

*Every competitor and/or volunteer in the event went home with a prize!

Event #1 Photo Album Link:

Cheryl Killman’s HTTD #1 photo album

A big thank you goes out to all of our great volunteers for their help in event #1:

Todd Emma – Finish Line Judge

Matthew Hart – Starter

Cheryl Killman – Photographer

A huge thank you goes out to our World Kayak Partners & the local sponsors below for all the great prizes & support of the events!

Our World Kayak Program Partners

Our local sponsors for this event:

A special thank you to USA Raft for hosting the event and providing shuttle for the competitors!

Stay tuned for details about HTTD event #2 coming soon to the Tri-Cities!  Hope to see you on the Noli to throwdown!!

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2016 Nolichucky Hometown Throwdown #1

wildwildwes wrote 743 days ago:

The first event in the 2016 Nolichucky Hometown Throwdown series was some fast paddling fun! We had a great turn out with 19 competitors joining in for some friendly downriver boatercross competition!  We had several spectators who watched and cheered on the competitors from the start and finish line.  The event was held on the Lower Nolichucky River, TN with cool and breezy mostly sunny skies.

The river level was around 1,700 CFS and spirits were high with several first timers in this event!  The course start was at the USA Raft river access and the finish line was the Chestoa Pike Bridge 1.5 miles downstream.  The course have several class I-II rapids and a couple of islands to negotiate along the way.  We launched classes in a mass start format and good times were had by all!

2016 Nolichucky Hometown Throwdown Event #1 Results:

Women’s K-1 Short Boat:

1. Stephanie Griffin (12:49)

2. Rachel Humfleet (12:58)

Men‘s K-1 Long Boat:

1. Ryan Horn (10:20)

2. Jeff Vannoy (10:39)

3. Wesley R. Bradley (11:00)

Men‘s K-1 Short Boat:

1. John Davis (11:38)

2. Mark Masters (11:40)

3. Kevin Masters (11:48)

4. Curt Wilhoit (11:50)

5. Steve Thorp (12:50)

Women’s SUP:

1. Camille Swan (11:27)

2. Abby Williamson (16:50)

Men’s SUP:

1. Aaron Koch (10:28)

2. Jack Nelson (10:47)

3. Dale Swanson (11:30)

4. Justin Griffin (11:44)

Tandem SUP:

1. Will & Danelle Saylor (18:50)

Men’s Bellyak:

1. Adam Masters (12:43)

(Click here for a PDF copy of Event #1 Results)

Thank you to all the competitors for their participation and congrats to all of our class winners of Event #1!

Event Highlights:

*We had 1 swimmer during the event.

*We had a great turn out in our SUP classes and one Bellyaker who came in with a great finish time in the event!

*The Jackson Action Wagon was on-site with FREE demos.

*Many competitors or volunteers in the event went home with a prize!

Event #1 Photo Album Link: Cheryl Killman’s NoliFest HTTD Race photo album

A big thank you goes out to all of our great volunteers for their help in event #1:

Erin Weatherford – Registration & Starter

Jewell Weatherford – Starter

Cheryl Killman & Kyle Koeberlein– Photographers

USA Raft – Finish Line and Shuttle

A huge thank you goes out to our World Kayak Partners & the local sponsors below for all the great prizes & support of the events!

Our World Kayak Program Partners

Our local sponsors for this event:

A special thank you to USA Raft for hosting the event with NoliFest and running shuttle for the competitors!

Stay tuned for details about HTTD event #2 coming soon to the Tri-Cities!  Hope to see you on the Noli to throwdown!!

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2014 Nolichucky Hometown Throwdown #1

wildwildwes wrote 1410 days ago:

The first event in the 2014 Nolichucky Hometown Throwdown series was full of fun! We had a great turn out with 23 competitors joining in for some friendly downriver boatercross competition!  We had several spectators who watched and cheered on the competitors from the start and finish line.  The event was held on the Lower Nolichucky River, TN with mostly sunny skies.

The river level was a little above 1,200 CFS and spirits were high for our first ever downriver boatercross event!  The course start was at the USA Raft river access and the finish line was the Chestoa Pike Bridge 1.5 miles downstream.  The course have several class I-II rapids and a couple of islands to negotiate along the way.  We launched classes in a mass start format and good times were had by all!

2014 Nolichucky Hometown Throwdown Event #1 Results:

Women’s K-1 Short Boat:

1. Jennifer Bradley

2. Andrea Ramsey

Men‘s C-1:

1. Whitney Eure

Men‘s Expert K-1 Long Boat:

1. Wesley R. Bradley

2. Jon Edwards

3. Brian Vermillion

4. Andrew Minskey

5. Jeremy Gass

Men‘s Novice K-1 Long Boat:

1. Bill Berry

Men‘s Expert K-1 Short Boat:

1. Matt Dalton

2. Steve Moore

3. Ryan Shealy

Men’s Intermediate K-1 Short Boat:

1. George Mauger

2. Hayden Blake

3. Michael Crooks

4. Tod Emma

5. Chas Branson

Men’s Novice K-1 Short Boat:

1. Josh Pendergrass

2. Keith Duncan

3. Ryan Horn

Men’s SUP:

1. Jack Nelson

2. Philip Aschliman

3. Keith Lawdermilk

(Click here for a PDF copy of Event #1 Results)

Thank you to all the competitors for their participation and congrats to all of our class winners of Event #1!

Event Highlights:

*We had 2 swimmers during the event and one after crossing the finish line!

*We had our first ever SUP class in the event who were aptly named the “Battle Boarders”!

*We had several first time Throwdown competitors and even had one participate who was over 60 years young!

*Everyone who competed or volunteered in the event went home with a prize!

Event #1 Photo Album Links:

Cheryl Killman’s HTTD Race photo album

A big thank you goes out to all of our great volunteers for their help in event #1:

Jennifer Bradley & Michelle Frazee – Registration & Finish Line Judges

Samantha Vermillion – Starter

Cheryl Killman – Photographer

A huge thank you goes out to our World Kayak Partners & the local sponsors below for all the great prizes & support of the events!

Local sponsors for this event:

A special thank you to USA Raft for hosting the event and running shuttle for the competitors!

Participation in all events is the key to bring home a series championship for the year!  Check out the current standings below:

Click here for PDF Point Series Standings

Mark your calendar for Sunday, June 22, 2014 at 2:00 PM to join us at Big Rock for event #2!  Hope to see you on the Noli to throwdown!!

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2013 Nolichucky Hometown Throwdown #1

wildwildwes wrote 1767 days ago:

The first event in the 2013 Nolichucky Hometown Throwdown series was full of fun! We had 15 competitors join in for some friendly downriver freestyle/slalom and boatercross competition!  We had several spectators who watched and cheered on the competitors from the Riverpark Campground bank & the river right beach.  The event was held at Big Rock on the Lower Nolichucky River, TN with warm humid weather. 

The river level was a healthy 2,200 CFS, which made the main Big Rock wave/hole feature a fast flushy wave train.  Since a rodeo competition was not a good option, we came up with a slalom course through the rapid.  Each competitor got 2 runs through the course and each run counted for their “DFS” Score.  The course involved catching 3 eddies down through the rapid.  The first eddy was behind a rock above the main rapid feature.  The second eddy was behind a pour over on river left of the main rapid feature.  The final eddy was in between two swirly eddy lines river right of the main rapid feature.  The competitors got 10 points for each of the eddies they caught.  Competitors had 1:30 minutes to complete the course while attempting downriver freestyle moves along the way to earn additional points from our Variety and Technical judges!

The third run was a boatercross race for each class from the top of the campground and went through the main feature.  Then the race course veered through our version of the “Notch” between two large rocks on river right and finished on the river right beach below the rapid!  This made for a fun zigzag course with a bottle neck at the “Notch”.  We gave 10 pts per place in the boatercross race and summed the BC score with the DFS runs for the grand total!

2013 Nolichucky Hometown Throwdown Event #1 Results:

Women Intermediate K-1   DFS    +      BC =           Total

1. Jennifer Bradley                        60                3^rd place:10    (70)

Women’s Novice K-1:

1. Andrea Ramsey                        50                1^st place:30    (83)

2. Erin Weatherford                      62                2^nd place:20   (82) 

Men’s Expert K-1:

1. Wesley R. Bradley                     116              DNF              (116)

Men’s Intermediate K-1:

1. Jeff Weatherford                      81                1^st place:60    (141)

2. Brian Vermillion                         67                2^nd place:50   (117)

3. Jamison Evans                         93                5^th place:20    (113)

4. Elliott Lavery                           64                3^rd place:40    (104)

5. Jeremy Gass                            78                6^th place:10    (88)

6. Todd Emma                    46                4^th place:30    (76) 

Men’s Novice K-1:

1. Kendall Clark                            77                1^st place:40    (117)

2. McCauley Clark                        70                2^nd place:30   (100)

3. George Mauger                         54                4^th place:10    (64)

4. Ben Carr                                 40                3^rd place:20    (60)

Junior Men’s Novice K-1:

1. Collin Keesecker                       9                                     (9)

(Click here for a PDF copy of Event #1 Results)

Thank you to all the competitors for their participation and congrats to all of our class winners of Event #1!

Event Highlights:

*We had 4 swimmers during the event (Boatercross is a full contact sport!) who all went home with with the coveted River Gypsies “Everybody Swims” sticker award!

*Everyone who competed or volunteered in the event went home with a prize!

*We had several first time Throwdown competitors and big congrats to our Jr, Colin, for his bravery in running down the rapid with dry hair!

Event #1 Photo Album Links:

Cheryl Killman’s Noli HTTD #1 photo album

Jamison Evans’ Noli HTTD #1 photo album

Elliott Lavery’s Noli HTTD #1 photo album

A big thank you goes out to all of our great volunteers for their help in event #1:

Jennifer & Wesley Bradley – Variety Judge & Registration

Samantha Vermillion – Technical Judge

Lane Daley & Erin Weatherford – Time Keepers

Cheryl Killman – Photographer

Sara Bone & Michelle Frazee – Registration & Scribes

A special thank you goes out to our World Kayak Partners & the local sponsors below for all the great prizes & support of the events!

Participation in all events is the key to bring home a series championship this year!  Check out the current standings below:

Click here for PDF Point Series Standings

Mark your calendar for July 7, 2013 to join us & Click Here to Register for event #2!  I hope to see you on the Noli to throwdown!!

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