A thriving university club once provided students with opportunities to skydive at a professional base in Delaware. Now, the College Park Skydiving Crew has all but disappeared. All that’s left of the Crew is its Web site, which features announcements dating from fall 2007.

“The guys who were running the club graduated,” said Kevin Grishkot, a university alum who was active in the College Park Skydiving Crew when it was founded. “And they just didn’t really hand it over to anybody.”

In the Crew’s glory days, Grishkot said, they would offer free pizza at meetings to entice students to learn more. Experienced jumpers gave presentations about how to jump for the first time and what to expect.

The Crew also struck a business deal with the company Skydive Delmarva and scheduled monthly trips to the drop zone for students.

“It was all very informative and very fun,” said Grishkot, who is now a full-time skydiving instructor.

The club’s Facebook page is overflowing with comments from interested students wondering if the College Park Skydiving Crew still exists.

Junior Jackie Kormann said she was hoping to re-start the club next semester.

But “due to busy schedules,” she said, “I’m not sure if it is actually going to happen.”

Kormann went to one meeting her freshman year, “and then never heard of the club again.”

According to employees at the Student Involvement Suite, if student groups don’t renew their accounts, they go inactive. To reactivate the College Park Skydiving Crew, students would have to find a faculty advisor, come into the suite and renew the club’s constitution.

Grishkot agreed that he’d like to see the College Park Skydiving Crew start back up.

“I think the club would be an awesomely cool thing to have,” he said.

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