Alumni Ambassador - Finger Lakes Community College
Alumni Ambassador - Finger Lakes Community College
Alumni Ambassador - Finger Lakes Community College
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FLCC WOODSMEN TEAM<br />
SPRING MEET AND CELEBRATION<br />
OF MARTY DODGE<br />
On April 19 and 20, <strong>Finger</strong> <strong>Lakes</strong><br />
<strong>Community</strong> <strong>College</strong> celebrated<br />
its woodsmen tradition with another<br />
strong showing by its collegiate and<br />
professional competitors, capped by<br />
a ceremony to honor the man who<br />
started it all in 1974: retired professor<br />
and coach Marty Dodge.<br />
The FLCC men’s team won its 19th<br />
championship title in the 67th Northeast<br />
Collegiate Woodsmen Conclave, a competition among 32 teams representing<br />
14 colleges and universities in the northeastern United States and hosted by FLCC.<br />
The FLCC women’s team came in a close second after winner Colby <strong>College</strong>.<br />
FLCC’s jack-and-jill team, in which both men and women compete, also<br />
took second behind leader Alfred State.<br />
“The coaching staff could not be more proud of each of our student athletes,”<br />
said Ryan Staychock ’96, head coach of the FLCC woodsmen. “I had a good<br />
feeling about our men’s team when they scheduled additional practices for<br />
themselves over the last few weeks. They truly earned the right to wear<br />
the title of champions.”<br />
The mood at the college over the weekend was further buoyed when alumnus<br />
Dave Jewett ’89 of Pittsford won the Stihl Timbersports Series qualifier,<br />
a professional competition also held at the college Friday. Jewett competed<br />
in the U.S. professional championships in June and will go on to the world<br />
championships at the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart, Germany on October 25-26.<br />
Then, in high spirits, the FLCC team, alumni and supporters feted the legacy<br />
of longtime former coach Marty Dodge with a reception and ceremony on<br />
Saturday night. The woodsmen practice field was named the Marty Dodge<br />
Woodsmen Field and a sign was unveiled following remarks from<br />
Ryan Staychock, David Jewett, Professor Bruce Gilman, FLCC President<br />
Barbara Risser and Athletic Director Bob Lowden.<br />
Marty retired as professor and head woodsmen coach in 2011 but continues<br />
to assist the team and root on students and alumni. He, too, toasted FLCC’s<br />
successful conclave competitors for their individual and team wins.<br />
The next major woodsmen event is the FLCC Logging Sports Competition,<br />
the annual home meet to be held on October 5 on the main campus.<br />
12 FINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE
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