APPLES GO SKYDIVING

Geronimo
Apples Take a Leap

RUNUTS
Nashville, TN

Following last week's crushing defeat on the diamond, the Apples sought to regroup this weekend and at the same time turned another page in the Thrills of Victory book of life.

In one of their more spectacular off the field endeavours of the past few years, the Apples where seen this past weekend Skydiving from 14,000 feet over Middle TN.

In a jump that saw them "free fall" for 60 seconds at speeds up to 130 miles per hours to 5,000 ft above ground, the Apples were as can be imagined exhilarated after the then 5 minute parachute descent back to the ground.

The action got started when Apple Patty Pender and her tandem jump partner did a back flip out of the King Air Jump Plane to get the jump off in style. Pender was joined by AGFHOF Don Bernitt who left the plane last and soon was free falling like a pro.

"That was awesome!" said Pender as she slapped high fives with her parents Jo and Bob Pender who joined former Apple Coach Dennis Miller on the tarmac to witness the jump. Pender then added "I've been on some pretty cool roller coaster rides at amusement parks before and about all I can say now is that roller coasters are for wusses"

Following Penders landing all eyes turned to sky as Bernitt was seen making his final approach below the red, white and blue canopy of his parachute. At about 500 feet Bernitt could be heard yelling to the ground crew "get the Apple champagne ready" Bernitt then made a near perfect landing which soon had several instructors at the jump school questioning whether this was truly his first ever jump.

"Un frickin believable!" said Bernitt when he landed, "I'm ready to do it again" he added as his tandem partner unclipped their harness and began the process of gathering the parachute that lay fluttering in the wind behind them.

With the spectacular events of the day behind them, the question must now be asked; what next? Only time will tell but with these Apples there is one thing that can be said for sure............

How Bout Them Apples!