Athlete News, January 15th, 2015

Posted on 01/15/2016 by sswscadmin in

NORDIC COMBINED

SSWSC Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined came to Park City in force this week with 26 skiers in total! The main event of the week was the Junior National Qualifier on the 68-meter jump where our boys Decker Dean and Elijah Vargas went 1-2 respectively in the U16 jumping competition. Bennett Gamber was close behind in 4th place and only 8 points out of podium position. Dean and Vargas went on to finish 3rd and 2nd respectively after the NC race later that day. Grant Andrews finished 3rd in U20 boys and held his position in the skate race to come home with the bronze medal. On the 45-meter hill, Canden Wilkinson, Niklas Malacinski, and Eric Belshaw swept the podium in that order! Congrats boys!!

CROSS COUNTRY

Noel at US Nationals

US Nationals Event Results

Athlete	Ind. Start Classic 10/15k	Freestyle Sprint	Mass Start Free Junior 5/10k	U18 Trip Ranking
Noel Keeffe	123rd overall/16th U18	76th overall/1st U18	46th overall jr./20th U18	4th
Jordi Floyd	67th overall/7th U18	67th overall/10th U18	21st overall jr./9th U18	10th
Simon Zink	146th overall/22nd U18	158th/31st U18	19th overall jr./6th U18	16th
Anna Burkholder	134th overall/35th U18	137th overall/35th U18	70th overall jr./39th U18	40th
Evan Barbier	124th overall/17th U18	159th/32nd U18	69th overall jr./38th U18	28th
Kathleen O’Connnell	75th overall/13th U18	85th overall/20th U18	30th overall jr./13th U18	15th
Tyler Terranova	116th overall/15th U18	168th overall/35th U18	54th overall jr./26th U18	26th
Wyatt Gebhardt	169th overall/34th U18	171st/37th U18	22nd overall jr./8th U18	21st
Finn O’Connell	155th overall/27th U18	176th overall/38th U18	66th overall jr./35th U18	39th

SNOWBOARDING

SRT athlete Ekaterina Tudegesheva won the World Cup PSL at Bad Gastein Austria on Friday. This win follows on from her other recent World Cup podiums and winning the Russia Cup. SRT World Cup coach Richard Pickl was in the start gate for every run of finals as she battled it out. Her clean and consistent riding proved to be the fastest on the classic slalom pitch. Congratulations to our Russian teammate on her great year so far after joining the team this fall!

VAIL

Jacy Werner Got 2nd place in breaker boys with the biggest back 360 he has ever done! Marty Boyd 6th, Cooper Scheel 15th and Johnny Duty 16th in Breaker Boys. Grace Drobek came in 2nd place for youth women with the biggest jump I’ve ever seen her hit. Braden Duty took 2nd for grommet boys with some crazy rail tricks. Spencer Vaughan came in first in open mens, a huge win for Spencer! (Jason Kaplan Head Junior Team Coach)

Grace Drobeck on right

FREESKIING

Open Skier Men

Sammy Schuiling – 4th *Vail

Ski Club

Payton McElhiney - 11th

Skier Men 16-18

Tim Kastelijns - 9th

Yoshi Sakai - 10th

Skier Men 13-15

Kai Doyle - 4th

Liam Baxter - 15th

McKinley Skov - T 25th

Kaden Mendonca – T 25th

Bryce Zetzman – 29th

Alex Spiegel – 31st

Max Sauerbrey – 32nd

Skier Boys 10-12

Cael McCarthy – 8th

Logan Spiegel – 10th

Wiley Wagner – 20th

Skier Women 13-15

Josie Seible – 2nd

Skier Girls 10-12

Riley Jacobs – 1st

It was a great weekend in Vail for the 2nd USASA Slopestyle competition of the year. With over 100 Competitors in Freeskiing and a massive 13-15 Skier Men group of 44 athletes there was a lot of talent and great competition for our SSWSC Freeskiers. Our two girlsfinished on the podium with Josie Seible 13-15 finishing 2nd landing her first ever 360 in competition on a jump bigger than she has ever done one on before and Riley Jacobs 10-12 putting down a run with great rails and both way 360’s on the jumps. Kai Doyle 13-15 finished 4th out of 44 competitors in the largest field of the day doing a misty off of a rail and both way switch cork 720’s on the jumps.

ALPINE

It’s A Girls Thing

It’s a girl thing skied with Rebecca Shepherd and Connie

Blair this week! Fun times.

U10/U12/U14

The U10, 12 and 14 athletes competed in two days of GS at Loveland last weekend. Although the weather was cold (under 10 deg. F the entire weekend!) the kids set the slope on fire with some scorching runs that landed the team a handful of Top 10 finishes! Annika Ort was Miss Consistency for the U12 ladies, bringing home back-to-back podium finishes on Saturday, and two Top 10’s on Sunday. Competition was stiff amongst the>U14 crowd, with boys and girls shuffling around the Top 10 throughout the weekend. The U14 athletes had podium performances from Molly Mueller, Emi Cooper, Cole Gedeon, Cooper Puckett, Nico Richeda, Finn Sadler, and Benton Sherman! Of the 4 races, the U14 athletes took 37 out of 80 top-10 finishes! Athletes had a blast, skied fast, and pushed their limits run after run! Great job Team Grizzly!