Epic Weekend for Illini Skydiving

Posted Monday, September 11th, 2006 at 11:38 pm by Aaron VanDevender

This past weekend was a huge one for the Falling Illini. We had 38 people make skydives, some more than once. The majority of them were first-time jumpers, so I’d like to say congratulations to those that came out and jumped with us. I hope to see them again in the air very soon. Taking the first jump static line course were: Richard Wlodarsk, Dave Barron, Michael Lindsey, Daniel Bedford, Ben Hodes, Steve Slavicek, Chris Triphahn, Jon Westerhoff, Cody Ward, Mandy Morse, Alex Petersen, Ryan Ewald, Anand Lakshmanan, Jonathan Mun, Daniel Jose, Aram Cho, Nick Zombolas, Paul Bradarich, Wayne Sutton, Jason Blalock, Dimitry Braznichenko, Kevin White and Elliot Tagtmeier. Making tandem jumps were: Nathan Price, Alexis Walz, Luke Heaton, Colleen Lyons, Anne Munaretto, Steve Daar, Nisarg Vora, Carlos Bohorquez, Jeff Mason, Mark Smith, and Lianna Bosher. Way to go!

Big Group of Jumpers

A huge group of Falling Illini gets ready for a day of skydiving

Nathan Price, Jeff Mason, Alexis Walz and Luke Heaton

Nathan Price, Jeff Mason, Alexis Walz and Luke Heaton

Louie the Instructor

Static-Line Instructor Louie Puder comes in for a landing.

Alexis Walz

An excited Alexis Walz after a tandem skydive.

Ryan Ewald after a Sunset Jump

Ryan Ewald after landing his parachute on a sunset static-line jump.

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