USA - Team Profile

Jerry Stark, Co-Captain

Jerry is 51 years old and lives in Middletown California with his wife Donna. He has a 28 year old daughter, Jessie and a 20 year old son Zachary. Jerry has been the Director of Croquet at Meadowood Napa Valley for 17 years. His hobbies are cooking real BBQ, croquet, golf and darts.

He is the only American to have played in all five MacRobertson Shield events the USA has been in.

Jeff Soo

Jeff is forty-two years old. He began playing croquet in 1994. He is the current US national doubles champion in Association Croquet, a title he has won three times with his doubles partner Paul Scott. He has also won the US national championship in American rules, three times each in singles and doubles.

This is Jeff's seventh appearance on the US national team, and his second time playing in the MacRobertson Shield. Jeff was Tournament Manager of the 2003 MacRobertson Shield.

Danny Huneycutt

Danny is from Lexington, North Carolina and the 2006 MacRobertson Shield competition will cap off his 5th year of playing croquet. He is the two-time defending North Carolina Singles Champion, 2005 Southeast Region Singles Champion and 2005 USCA National Singles Champion. He was named to the 2005 US Solomon Team. Danny is active in the USCA as Chairman of the Tournament Committee and President of the North Carolina District. When he's not playing croquet, Danny enjoys reading and relaxing with his wife. He has a home croquet court and enjoys table tennis.

Rich Lamm

Denver tax attorney Rich Lamm made his US team debut during the 2004 Solomon Cup in Manchester UK. This is his first MacRobertson Shield appearance. He enjoys both American and Association rules croquet, winning the AC rules 2002 and 2003 US Open and the inaugural 2004 USCA Selector 8's (Group 2). He is the current runner up, or "bridesmaid" in the AC rules US Open, US National Championship and North American Open along with American rules National Championship doubles.

Damon Bidencope, Co-Captain

Damon began playing croquet at St. Paul's College, Sydney University in 1978. After watching the 1982 MacRobertson Shield, played in Australia, Damon developed a keen interest in playing this game at a high level. He set his sights on achieving this and won the NSW Men's in 1983,1984, the NSW Open Singles 1984, Champion of Champions in 1983 and 1985, and the ACC Gold Medal in 1986, and the Australian National Doubles in 1984. He reached this goal and played in the 1986 MacRobertson Shield Team for Australia.

Bob Cherry

Bob Cherry has played Association Laws Croquet since 2000. He began playing USCA rules in 1991. In 2004 he was the United States National Champion in Association Laws Croquetand in 2005 won the prestigious North Carolina Open.

Bob has been a member of the United States Croquet Team a number of times since 2001. He played against the Great Britain Team for the Solomon Trophy four times and against the Irish Team in the Carter Challenge once. He has represented the USA in the WCF World Championships twice.