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After three years of building, Elsinore Adrenaline
used their talent, experience, and team love to win advanced gold
and become the 2004 US National Champions.
Although it only formed in 2002, Adrenaline began
with a lot of built-in experience with John Hamilton (Elsinore Matrix
and Arizona Airspeed) as Player-Coach, Lou Ascione (Arizona Inertia),
and Tammi Rettig, Jaqi O’Bryan and Dave Szkaradek (Elsinore
Enigma). After picking up Melanie Curtis to replace Jaqi (U.S. Women’s
World team Syncronicity in 2003), Adrenaline trained hard to improve
on the first year of competition. They had an exciting competition
at the U.S. Nationals in Lake Wales, Florida. Adrenaline ended up
breaking a tie score in round 10 to take the silver medal in the
advanced class with a 14.3 average.
In 2004, Lou Ascione took the year to be a player
coach for three up-and-comers on Elsinore Fuse. Jon Martens, a veteran
at rear center with Formula4 and Elsinore Illusion, replaced Ascione
inside. John Hamilton also moved on to do another player coach team
for ‘04, Elsinore Satori. Tammi Rettig moved up to front center,
while Melanie Curtis remained at point. The Adrenaline Chicks in
the same piece — unstoppable! Rounding out the team, Jim Browning
(Arizona Inertia) filled the tail slot, bringing with him six years
of experience in that slot. Robert Brockman, aka Tigger, shot expert
video at Nationals, helping Adrenaline secure the gold medal.
Now, Adrenaline members are on to bigger and better
things individually. Melanie Curtis has put together a new team
project, Elsinore Gravity, with an aggressive training plan, on
top of working with Skydive Elsinore on all FS coaching and events.
Tammi Rettig is going big, shooting for the women’s world
team slot in 2006 joining the Fastrax project with Team Fastrax
Select. Jon Martens is joining the Elsinore GT project, continuing
to work toward a 16 average. Jim Browning plans to take some time
off from competing to spend quality time with his beautiful wife
and family.
It’s
been a great run — much love, and as always, Adrenaline rules!
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