Woody Cavenaugh

First The Setup then The Event, now the wrap up.

Everything went extremely well, the press was excellent, and I couldn't be happier. But as the event wound down, I still had one more problem to worry about and that was returning the Coleman Gym to the state we found it in. The gym normally houses all of UNCG's gymnastics equipment, much of it old and all of it expencive to replace. Back in the UNCG Fencing Club days the trick was trying to keep the club members from leaving early and sticking the core group to tear down and clean up by ourselves. I had seen so many times before in the past couple of days in so many ways that this simply wasn't the same fencing club. Still it was such a pleasant surprise to be able to say to our chief armorer than we wanted to move the direct elimination bouts to the front of the gym so we could begin moving the gymnastics stuff back into the back of the gym as a way of getting a head start on clean up. Than looking up some time later and being shocked to see that our volunteers had swarmed over there and taken care of the whole thing without my even realizing they had started. Just like a dream. By the time the awards for the last event were handed out we were 3/4 of the way packed and loaded. They eneded up having to wait for me to take down the computers and printers that comprised the registration table. Any smoother, and I would have suddenly found myself sitting alone on the floor of an empty gym. It was almost sureal.

The event was so successful I actually look forward to February's Veteran event we're hosting called, The Duel in the Downtown.

Thanks everyone...
Just like a dream