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 five FAI Classes 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 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, and 2001 are available.
15 Meter Class Rick Indrebo 97.133 % 18 Meter Class Sean Fidler 96.957 % Open Class Dan Mockler 95.670 % Club Class Tony Condon 95.371 % 20 Meter Class John Cochrane 94.511 % Standard Class Thomas Greenhill 93.234 %
Day Date Daily Winner Score Contest Winner 1 (May 31, 21) Ittner, Gary : 1000 Indrebo, Rick : 996 2 (Jun 01, 21) Indrebo, Rick : 1000 Indrebo, Rick : 1000 3 (Jun 02, 21) Indrebo, Rick : 1000 Indrebo, Rick : 1000 4 (Jun 03, 21) Ittner, Gary : 1000 Indrebo, Rick : 960 5 (Jun 04, 21) Ittner, Gary : 1000 Indrebo, Rick : 908 6 (Jun 05, 21) Deane, Peter : 1000 Indrebo, Rick : 964 Totals Daily Winner : 6000 Contest Winner : 5828
Rick Indrebo's total score as a percentage of total daily maximum scores is 97.133 %.
Day Date Daily Winner Score Contest Winner 1 (Jun 29, 21) Seaborn, John : 817 Fidler, Sean : 796 2 (Jul 01, 21) Clark, Robin : 1000 Fidler, Sean : 992 3 (Jul 02, 21) Indrebo, Rick : 1000 Fidler, Sean : 998 4 (Jul 03, 21) Fidler, Sean : 880 Fidler, Sean : 880 5 (Jul 04, 21) Bostik, Czech Joe : 1000 Fidler, Sean : 968 6 (Jul 06, 21) Blackburn, Andy : 1000 Fidler, Sean : 983 7 (Jul 07, 21) Seaborn, John : 992 Fidler, Sean : 951 8 (Jul 08, 21) Ittner, Gary : 1000 Fidler, Sean : 887 Totals Daily Winner : 7689 Contest Winner : 7455
Sean Fidler's total score as a percentage of total daily maximum scores is 96.957 %.
Day Date Daily Winner Score Contest Winner 1 (May 31, 21) Essex, Keith : 1000 Mockler, Dan : 809 2 (Jun 01, 21) Mockler, Dan : 982 Mockler, Dan : 982 3 (Jun 02, 21) Mockler, Dan : 1000 Mockler, Dan : 1000 4 (Jun 03, 21) Mockler, Dan : 1000 Mockler, Dan : 1000 5 (Jun 04, 21) Lee, Jim : 1000 Mockler, Dan : 932 6 (Jun 05, 21) Mockler, Dan : 1000 Mockler, Dan : 1000 Totals Daily Winner : 5982 Contest Winner : 5723
Dan Mockler's total score as a percentage of total daily maximum scores is 95.670 %.
Day Date Daily Winner Score Contest Winner 1 (May 06, 21) Condon, Tony : 816 Condon, Tony : 816 2 (May 07, 21) Sazhin, Daniel : 906 Condon, Tony : 806 3 (May 13, 21) Holloran, Tom : 1000 Condon, Tony : 974 Totals Daily Winner : 2722 Contest Winner : 2596
Tony Condon's total score as a percentage of total daily maximum scores is 95.371 %.
Day Date Daily Winner Score Contest Winner 1 (Jun 14, 21) Jacob Fairbairn, Mike Westbrook : 600 Cochrane, John : 572 2 (Jun 15, 21) Cochrane, John : 684 Cochrane, John : 684 3 (Jun 16, 21) Jacob Fairbairn, Mike Westbrook : 460 Cochrane, John : 445 4 (Jun 18, 21) Cochrane, John : 800 Cochrane, John : 800 5 (Jun 19, 21) Jacob Fairbairn, Mike Westbrook : 980 Cochrane, John : 849 6 (Jun 20, 21) Ben Mayes, Dennis Linnekin : 891 Cochrane, John : 843 7 (Jun 21, 21) Jacob Fairbairn, Mike Westbrook : 961 Cochrane, John : 860 8 (Jun 22, 21) Jacob Fairbairn, Mike Westbrook : 1000 Cochrane, John : 973 Totals Daily Winner : 6376 Contest Winner : 6026
John Cochrane's total score as a percentage of total daily maximum scores is 94.511 %.
Day Date Daily Winner Score Contest Winner 1 (Jun 14, 21) Greenhill, Thomas : 403 Greenhill, Thomas : 403 2 (Jun 15, 21) Greenhill, Thomas and Rogers, Walter : 1000 Greenhill, Thomas : 1000 3 (Jun 16, 21) Yamauchi, Zach : 347 Greenhill, Thomas : 268 4 (Jun 18, 21) Greenhill, David : 800 Greenhill, Thomas : 770 5 (Jun 19, 21) Greenhill, David : 751 Greenhill, Thomas : 539 6 (Jun 20, 21) Ittner, Gary : 833 Greenhill, Thomas : 797 7 (Jun 21, 21) Greenhill, Thomas : 1000 Greenhill, Thomas : 1000 8 (Jun 22, 21) Ittner, Gary : 1000 Greenhill, Thomas : 942 Totals Daily Winner : 6134 Contest Winner : 5719
Thomas Greenhill's total score as a percentage of total daily maximum scores is 93.234 %.