posted Apr 2nd, 2021 - Exciting news came for the 4-way community in the Carolinas this week. The Carolina Skydiving League will have a restart this year, after coming to a complete halt in 2020. CASL director Dustin Fowler had completed the last CASL meet in July 2019, which was the end of the last league season. The USPA Nationals 2019 at Skydive Paraclete XP then concluded Formation Skydiving competition in the Carolinas for the year.

The corona virus crisis began even before a new CASL season would be launched in the Carolinas, and the 2020 season had to be skipped completely, in the Carolinas just as much as almost everywhere on the planet. There were only very few and small live competitions taking place last year.

The outlook for 2021 season is very different, due to the vaccination campaigns which are running worldwide. The competition season in the United States already began with the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship at the end of February, followed by the Shamrock Showdown in March. The restart of the regional NSL meets in the Carolinas is the next sign of new life for Formation Skydiving competition.

There is even more exciting news coming from the Carolinas. CASL director Dustin Fowler is getting help and support from two very active competitors, Jamie Caldwell and Matt Alarif, who will run the Carolina Skydiving League together with him.

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Paraclete XP Indoor 2021		1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Intermediate	8,A,16		P,O,B,G		N,10,K		M,F,18		5,E,17		13,D,3		L,21,Q		6,C,1		7,J,H		19,4		Total	Avg
1	Lightspeed 8	9	-4	18	-1	13	-2	17	-1	13	-1	17		18		16	-2	18	-1	17		156	15.6
2	Carolina Gr8ness Fest RhEvolution	15		18		14		17		14		14		15		16		15		14		152	15.2
3	QRF 2	13		14		13		14		13		12		15		10		12		12		128	12.8
4	Beastly Dynasty	12		13		11		18		8		11		12		13		13		12		123	12.3
5	QRF 3	12		14		13		11		10		11		13		14		11		13		122	12.2

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Carolina Gr8ness Fest at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2021

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Jamie Caldwell and Matt Alarif know each other very well from competing together at the first two events of the year. SDC RhEvolution XP member Matt Alarif and all his team mates also competed in 8-way at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship. There he connected with Jamie Caldwell for the Carolina Gr8ness Fest, who also competed in 4-way with the pick-up team Name Pending.

AAA/Advanced Class indoor champion SDC RhEvolution XP did not compete at the Shamrock Showdown, while Jamie Caldwell and Matt Alarif both wanted to be a part of the first outdoor competiton, as well. They joined forces in both events at Skydive City and competed with the Sandbaggers in 8-way and Just 4 Fun in 4-way. A few weeks later they announced the restart of the Carolina Skydiving League with five scheduled monthly 4-way competitions, beginning in May.

The Carolina Skydiving League is one of the longest-standing NSL leagues in the country. It was launched by Adam Wheeler in 2000, and the meets of the first years are not even recorded in the SKYLEAGUE.COM database. However, the NSL News found the information of the second CASL meet in June 2000 and added the event.

The NSL News covered the event on 21 June 2000, and some of the competitors are still familiar names. Raeford Express member Jason McClure recently won the AA/Intermediate Class 4-way indoor championship title with Kaos Theory.

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Shamrock Showdown 2021	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		11		Total	Avg
8-way Open	1,J,3		Q,K,D,H,L		F,B,C,22		18,E,21		M,5,10		4,G,2		15,8,11		16,19,O		7,P,14		9,12,20		N,17,A,6		Total	Avg
Sandbaggers	8		5		7		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		20	6.7
4-way AA/Intermediate	1,J,L		Q,K,D,H		F,B,C,22		18,E,21		M,11,6		4,G,2		15,8		19,O,13		7,P,14		9,20		N,A,6		Total	Avg
Just 4 Fun	7	-2	11		11		9		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		38	9.5

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Sandbaggers and Just 4 Fun at the Shamrock Showdown 2021

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Did you know that Raeford Express scored 10.2 at the Carolina Skydiving League?

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Posted by National Skydiving League on 20 June 2000:

Carolina Sky Sports hosted the second season meet of the Carolina Skydiving League. League director Adam Wheeler has reported that the host did a great job preparing and running the meet. The new facilities are beautiful and extremely skydiver friendly. Chris Wagner did the judging and coaching. He provided the teams with some excellent insights on dive engineering.

The meet went very smoothly. The five participating teams were on the same CASA loads throughout the meet. This gave everyone the same break between the rounds, leveling the playing field even more. The teams did not feel rushed and still completed six rounds. It was interesting to see that no team funneled any of the exits from the tail-gate while launching the complete first formations of the sequences.

The five participating teams represented three drop-zones in the Carolinas and made this competition even more exciting than the season opener. Raeford Express (Jan Lane, Todd Hoover, Mike Treman, Jason McClure) set the standard for the meet scoring 61 points over six rounds. Pure Ass Heat (Rodney Cruce, Ken Wolfe, Michelle Davis, Eric Bush) finished behind Raeford Express with 49 points.

PAH had some personnel changes for this meet. Michelle Davis, who is a former member of the all-female team Frigid-Air, replaced Nicole Fouche as outside center. Eric Bush took Billy Andrews' slot at tail. The team improved well at this meet, raising their average from 7.0 in May to 8.2 in June.

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Carolina Skydiving League June 2000		1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Total	Avg
1	Raeford Express	9	11	11	9	11	10	61	10.2
2	Pure Ass Heat	9	9	10	9	6	6	49	8.2
3	BIG	2	6	4	3	5	4	24	4.0
4	Xceed Xcel	0	5	6	5	3	3	22	3.7
4	U4IA	3	4	5	2	4	4	22	3.7

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A pickup team from Louisburg, BIG (Cliff Weaver, Steve Kemp, John Lyman, David Zimmerman), placed 3rd with 24 points in the raw scores. As at the season opener, U4ia (Adam Wheeler, Pete Langehans, Erin Engle, John Neely) and Xceed Xcel (Rob Belknap, Scott Weed, Joe Funderburke, Brett Holmberg) tied again at this meet, making the competition that much more exciting. Both teams scored 22 points with a competition draw a little bit more challenging than at the first season meet.

The CASL has decided to extinguish the whole dive pool to give competitors a chance to see all of the blocks and random formations twice during the season. Xceed Xcel did an outstanding job of battling back from a zero in Round 1 to actually lead U4ia going into the last round.

The Carolina Skydiving League is already showing growth only half way through the season. League director Adam Wheeler is expecting more exciting competition to come at the remainder of the season. He is receiving a lot of great feedback in the Carolina areas. Paul and Nancy Fayard, very prominent members of the skydiving community in this area, both expressed a lot of enthusiasm towards the league. The next meet will be held July 29-30 at the Raeford Parachute Center in Raeford, North Carolina. This meet will be coached/judged by Chris Talbert and Matt Davidson of the Golden Knights.