The Soaring Society of America's most prestigious competition award
Sailplane Racing's Top Gun
The Hatcher Trophy was created in memory of Ron Hatcher a well known contest pilot. At the end of each racing season, the scores of national champions from the four FAI Classes and the World Class nationals are compared to determine which achieved the highest percentage of the maximum cumulative score possible for the competition. The full description of the trophy is available. The results for 2002 are available.
15 Meter Class Striedieck 0.97820 Open Class Garner and Mayes 0.96555 18 Meter Class Ittner 0.96322 Standard Class Hall 0.95831 World Class Sorenson 0.94780
Day Daily Winner Contest Winner Score
May 15, 01: Striedieck, Karl H. : 943 Hall, Richard : 934
May 16, 01: Cundiff, Roy : 874 Hall, Richard : 838
May 19, 01: Opitz, Michael : 1000 Hall, Richard : 977
May 23, 01: Cundiff, Roy : 1000 Hall, Richard : 983
May 24, 01: Garner, Chip (James) : 980 Hall, Richard : 865
Totals : Daily Winner : 4797 Contest Winner : 4597
Hall's total score as a percentage of total daily maximum scores: 0.958307
Day Daily Winner Contest Winner Score
May 30, 01: Pin : 968 Sorenson, Danny : 924
May 31, 01: Pin and Sorenson : 875 Sorenson, Danny : 875
Jun 02, 01: Sorenson : 840 Sorenson, Danny : 840
Jun 03, 01: Yeates : 600 Sorenson, Danny : 352
Jun 04, 01: Sorenson : 789 Sorenson, Danny : 789
Jun 05, 01: Sorenson : 860 Sorenson, Danny : 860
Jun 06, 01: Sorenson : 662 Sorenson, Danny : 662
Totals : Daily Winner : 5594 Contest Winner : 5302
Sorenson's total score as a percentage of total daily maximum
scores: 0.94780
Day Daily Winner Score Contest Winner Score
Jun 22, 01: Chip Garner : 990 Gary Ittner : 962
Jun 23, 01: Gary Ittner : 993 Gary Ittner : 993
Jun 24, 01: Gary Ittner : 1000 Gary Ittner : 1000
Jun 25, 01: Gary Ittner : 876 Gary Ittner : 876
Jun 26, 01: Gary Ittner : 1000 Gary Ittner : 1000
Jun 27, 01: Ray Gimmey : 966 Gary Ittner : 941
Jun 28, 01: Ray Gimmey : 1000 Gary Ittner : 802
Totals : Daily Winner : 6825 Contest Winner : 6574
Ittner's total score as a percentage of total daily maximum scores: 0.963223
Day Daily Winner Score Contest Winner Score
Jun 19, 01: Garner, C, Mayes, R : 792 Garner, C, Mayes, R : 792
Jun 20, 01: Payne, Jim, Payne, T : 1000 Garner, C, Mayes, R : 952
Jun 21, 01: Tabery, Ron : 837 Garner, C, Mayes, R : 815
Jun 22, 01: Garner. C, Mayes, R : 770 Garner, C, Mayes, R : 770
Jun 23, 01: Gimmey, Ray : 1000 Garner, C, Mayes, R : 890
Jun 28, 01: Weissenbuehler, Heinz : 1000 Garner, C, Mayes, R : 994
Totals : Daily Winner : 5399 Contest Winner : 5213
Garner and Mayes's total score as a percentage of total daily maximum scores: 0.965549
Day Daily Winner Score Contest Winner Score
Aug 07, 01: Striedieck and Seaborn: 860 Striedieck : 860
Aug 08, 01: Butler : 1000 Striedieck : 953
Aug 09, 01: Gimmey : 1000 Striedieck : 960
Aug 10, 01: O'Callaghan : 970 Striedieck : 948
Aug 11, 01: Silva : 1000 Striedieck : 995
Aug 13, 01: Striedieck : 1000 Striedieck : 1000
Aug 14, 01: Butler : 932 Striedieck : 889
Aug 15, 01: Striedieck : 1000 Striedieck : 1000
Aug 16, 01: Jacobs, Doug : 1000 Striedieck : 966
Totals : Daily Winner : 8762 Contest Winner : 8571
Striedieck's total score as a percentage of total daily maximum
scores: 0.97820