UW-Stevens Point Timbersports Team take consecutive Midwestern championship
Footage from select timbersports events held at Treehaven on April 13-14 will air on the Outdoor Channel on Sunday, April 29, at 4 p.m. EDT; Wednesday, May 2, at 8 a.m. EDT; and Friday, May 4, at 2 p.m. EDT. It will air on ESPNU on Friday, July 6, at 7:30 p.m. EDT.
The team of 27 UW-Stevens Point students scored first place with 101.5 points. Second place was earned by Southern Illinois University Carbondale with 61.5 points and the University of Missouri won third place with 24.5. The conclave included students from nine universities in the Midwest.
Events include crosscut sawing, wood chopping, axe throwing and log rolling on an L-shape land course. Success in academic events such as tree and wood identification and inventory techniques are also components of a conclave win. Events are individual and team based.
UW-Stevens Point took first place in 11 events, second place in 10 events, third place in four events and fourth place in three events.
The full results for members of the UW-Stevens Point team and individual events are as follows:
Tree Identification: Nathan Hanzelka, first place
Traverse: Andrew LaChance and Nick Lyytinen, second place
Men's Underhand Chop: Spencer Johnson, first place; Joe Huber, second place; Anthony Lopez, third place
Jack and Jill Crosscut: Rainey and Spencer Johnson, first place; Anthony Lopez and Bethanie Dier, second place
Women's Pulp Toss: UW-Stevens Point, second place
Men's Pulp Toss: UW-Stevens Point, first place
DBH Estimation: Nick Lyytinen, fourth place
Men's Axe Throw: Adam Nelson, first place; Jesse Cox, third place
Women's Axe Throw: Brittany Marx, first place
Men's Bolt Throw: Dan Whipple, first place; Anthony Lopez, second place; Ryan Schneiderwendt, fourth place
Women's Bolt Throw: Kayla Duesing, first place
Single Buck: Anthony Lopez, first place; Joe Huber, second place; Spencer Johnson, fourth place
Men's Crosscut: Ben Hansen and Spencer Johnson, first place; Joe Huber and Dan Whipple, second place; Erik Barttelt and Anthony Lopez, third place
Women's Crosscut: Allison (Rainey) Johnson and Larissa Swanson, first place; Bethanie Dier and Ashley Jones, second place
Men's Log Roll: Jesse Cox and Jesse Servais, second place
Women's Log Roll: Allison (Rainey) Johnson and Kayla Duesing, third place
Mystery Event: UW-Stevens Point, second place
In addition, three UW-Stevens Point students competed on Saturday afternoon's STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® Series U.S. and Collegiate Championships.
In the men's STIHL competition, Ben Hansen competed as UW-Stevens Point's representative and won all four of the events, the standing block chop, underhand chop, single buck and stock saw. He now advances to the national competition to be held at The Great Smokey Mountain Lumberjack Feud in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. June 1-3. For more information visit
Midwest Qualifier Release.
Women competed for the first time in a crosscut challenge, including UW-Stevens Point's Allison Johnson and Larissa Swanson.
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