West Potomac High Grad Wins Parachuting Championship

PHOTOS: Trevor Woods, left, won a gold medal last week at the 2015 U.S. Parachute Association National Collegiate Parachuting Championships; photo courtesy of USPA; second photo is Woods and team member seconds after jumping from plane.

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FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA -- West Potomac High School Class of 2013 grad Trevor Woods won a gold medal last week at the 2015 U.S. Parachute Association National Collegiate Parachuting Championships, the oldest and biggest collegiate skydiving event in the world, held at the Florida Skydiving Center in Lake Wales.

Woods is a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York.

The competition drew more than 100 collegiate skydivers from around the country—the biggest Collegiate Nationals in six years—to compete for the title of national champion in four spectacular skydiving disciplines: Formation Skydiving, Vertical Formation Skydiving, Sport Accuracy and Classic Accuracy.

Woods and his team WP Calvin and Hobbs won gold in the two-way formation skydiving event. In formation skydiving, the team leaps from an aircraft more than two miles above the ground and then races against the clock to form prescribed geometric formations in freefall before opening their parachutes.

Woods is a sophomore majoring in systems engineering. He has completed more than 100 skydives.

For more information on skydiving and to find a USPA Group Member skydiving center near you, visit www.uspa.org.