http://fallingillini.org Skydive with the Falling Illini! Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:48:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Congratulations to Mike Murphy for getting his B-License from the United States Parachuting Association. Mike will be a sophomore this year at the University, and treasurer for the club. Congrats Mike! http://fallingillini.org/archives/529/new-license-congratulations/ Hey skydivers! For those of you who have been asking me, of course we'll be jumping over the summer! Unfortunately I will not be here to organize or see most of you jump. I'll be leaving this weekend to travel up to Minneapolis to start work. But I wanted to ... http://fallingillini.org/archives/527/summer-jumping/ Hey everyone! For those of you were wondering, Mike Murphy was the winner of the April Showers contest with 12 jumps from April to the end of the school year. He will be awarded $100 for his accomplishment. We had a bundle of terible weekends but congratulations to all of ... http://fallingillini.org/archives/526/end-of-the-year-contest/ Hey everyone. The end if the year is almost upon us. I hope everyone's finals are going well. If you all need a break, and want to come celebrate we'll be going to Papa Del's on Thursday at 9:30pm for pizza. It should be a good time. Please email me ... http://fallingillini.org/archives/524/end-of-the-year-celebration/ We had another weekend with unfortunate weather and airplanes. However, Sunday was beautiful and we got some people up in the air. Congratulations to Kate White, Katie Majewski, Kim Nguyen, Becky Zaworski, and Asma Siddiqi for all coming out and making tandem jumps! Congratulations to Andrea Clark also for completing her first static-line ... http://fallingillini.org/archives/519/congratulations-skydivers-5/ Hey everyone! Sorry for the extremely late email, we are experiencing some technical difficulties. Archway Skydiving Center, our home dropzone was supposed to have a Twin Otter this weekend. However they do not. So if you want to do a tandem jump please sign up for Sunday as we will be ... http://fallingillini.org/archives/511/skydiving/ We had a successful weekend despite the bad weather. Congratulations to Dane Menger, Yin Su, and Dain Christensen for coming out and making their first staic-line jumps! Also congratulations to Pragnesh Podar, Heather Rafferty, Matt Zohn, Larry Milstein, Graham Costaner, Jon Horwitz, Ho Bing Kun, Goh Soo Shuen, Jordan Shevell, Nick ... http://fallingillini.org/archives/501/congratulations-skydivers-4/ Hey everyone, Just a reminder that we will be passing out bar crawl shirts today and tomorrow on the Quad from 11am to 2pm. The barcrawl is on Thursday and starts at Firehaus at 9pm. Please come regardless if you got a shirt or have made jumps this year. Also, I mentioned this ... http://fallingillini.org/archives/500/updates/ Hey everyone, I just wanted to le tyou know that on Wednesday and Thursday we will be passing out barcrawl shirts from 11am to 2pm on the Quad. So if you ordered one come pick it up. We'll be out in front of the Union with the WindBlade flying hopefully. See you ... http://fallingillini.org/archives/482/barcrawl-shirts/ Hey jumpers, it's time to get jumping again.  Archway has a Super Otter there this weekend and it looks really nice so if you want to get skydiving send me an email with your name, what jump you want to do, what day you want to go, your phone number, ... http://fallingillini.org/archives/481/skydiving-weekend-2/