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 unrestricted 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.

Larry Dolan captured the trophy in 2009. He came on strong in the McKenna Fall Sectional team games to edge out many-times winner Suzanne Jones. Congratulations, Larry!   Here are details of Larry's victory (overall finishes only -- section and Swiss match awards not shown):

Tournament	Event	Finish
McKenna-Oct	Fri Bracketed KO's	1st (bracket 1)
	Sunday A/X Swiss	tie 6/7 (A)

Here are the top 10 contenders in the 2009 race, with their Masterpoint aggregates over the two tournaments:

     23.42 Larry Dolan
     23.39 Suzanne Jones
     22.51 Jim Johnson
     22.14 Bill Brackett
     19.52 Anne Vincent
     18.59 Vince Bates
     16.02 John Hart
     14.84 Daedrie Kleppe
     14.02 Jeanne Gray
     12.77 Jim Hoerlein