The Jim McKenna Cup is a traveling award which each year goes to the Unit 359 member who wins the most aggregate Masterpoints in our two annual tournaments -- the Boulder Bonanza Spring Sectional and the Kay McKenna Boulder Fall Sectional.

The Cup was established decades ago as the McKenna Cup and was made a memorial award in memory of Jim McKenna following his death. Prior to 1994, the Cup winner could be from any Unit. At that time the rules changed so that the winner must be a Unit 359 member. Both McKennas were giants in Unit 359 bridge, being among our earliest Life Masters. Kay was in fact our Unit's very first Life Master. The "Kay McKenna Boulder Fall Sectional" tournament is named in Kay's honor -- she was a great supporter and benefactor of duplicate bridge in our area.

Suzanne Jones captured the trophy in 2008. This was the 40th anniversary of Sue's first McKenna Cup win!!. Sue's name appears on the cup more than any other; this marks the 8th time she has taken the Cup since 1994.   Here are details of Suzanne's victory (overall finishes only -- section and Swiss match awards not shown):

Tournament	Event	Finish
Bonanza-May	Fri Bracketed KO's	1st - Bracket 1
	Sat 2-session Strat Pairs	2nd overall(A)
McKenna-Oct	Fri Eve 1500/750/200 Pairs	4th overall(A)
	Sat 2-session Strat Pairs	6th overall(A)
	Sunday A/X Swiss	tie 7/8 (A)

Here are the top 10 contenders in the 2008 race, with their Masterpoint aggregates over the two tournaments:

     31.67 Suzanne Jones
     27.38 Jean Grunwald
     24.07 Bill Brackett
     21.92 Larry Dolan
     21.21 Jim Johnson
     20.97 Joanna Chau
     18.09 Tom Stack
     18.06 Gary Greene
     17.27 Gary Steiner
     15.89 Michael Perlman