Results

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Race re-caps:

Pico 1/9:

Overall, last Saturday was a very fun day – cold temps, but beautiful sunshine. The kids raced well and enjoyed the afternoon free-ski program. For some kids, it was their first chance to explore a new mountain!

However, I wasn’t too thrilled to not return home with the trophy we had held all summer long!!! Pico was able to defeat both Okemo 1 and Okemo 2 to snag the boot from us. Never fear though – Okemo 2 will return with a vengance next Saturday and (fingers crossed) take back the boot!!!

Despite the lack of the team win, there were some great individual showings.

J6 Girls: All of our J6 girls are rookie DEVOs this year and they showed the rest of the mountains how J6s can ski! All 5 of our young ladies took home some hardware, most of them having their faster run second run, which shows great race day determination!! Frances Whyte led the girls with a second place finish with her smokin’ second run time of 35.60. Abby Crowley placed 6th with a second run that was 4 seconds faster than her first! Saige Anapolle snagged 7th place. Emma Chute, who bettered her first run time by 4.5 seconds (!!) in the second run, took 9th. And Samantha Burton rounded out the top ten in tenth. Way to go J6 girls!

J6 Boys: We only have two J6 boys this year and both of them did extremely well. Returning for his second J6 year, Nick Ambeliotis posted an excellent 33.57 seconds first run to take home third place. Jay Schoudel, in his first Devo race ever, was 13th in a surprisingly tough field! Great job boys!

J5 Girls: The J5 girls’ field is often a tough one and this race was no exception. In a field of 46, 7 of our 13 girls were able to post top 20 finishes, again with many second run times bettering their first run times. Rookie Anna Moscovici led our J5 girls with a 5th place finish – After being in 23rd first run, she threw down a second run that was 2 seconds faster to grab 5th. Sofia Gerrard came back from a crash first run to take 8th place. Ellie Ashman was a second faster second run to take home the tenth place medal. Rounding out the top 20, were Katie Ashman (16th), Coco Schaaf (17th), Paola Loy (12th), Dolores White (20th). Nice work J5 girls!

J5 Boys: Another notoriously tough field is the J5 boys and, again, no exception at Pico last Saturday! Kyle Burton led the group with a 4th place finish! Stacked in positions 7th-10th, and also bringing home medals, were Luke Cuticelli, Danny King, Spencer Tretter, and Carver Provance, respectively. Then we had an impressive grouping of boys just out of the medals, but still in the top 20. In 11th – 17th, we had Luke Valentine, Max Glickman, Ricky Myers, Andrew Gil, Connor Marschke, Ben Schwinn, and Jack Lorenze, respectively. In 19th was Sam Cowles. Awesome job boys!

J4 Girls: Ingrid Backe was the shining star of the J4 girls group this race bringing home the gold medal!! Lindsay Tretter wasn’t far behind in 4th and rookie Kristina Bonnet had an impressive 6th place finish! Rounding out the top ten was Gwendolyn Jaye in 10th. Just out of the medals were Brittany Fitzpatrick, Peggy Shemitz-Wagner, and Natalie Schanzer in 11th-13th, respectively. Nice work ladies!

J4 Boys:The J4 boys were our hardware kings for the day sweeping the podium!! Trevor Harker led the charge with the fastest time of the day, 29.77, to win gold! Chase Jaye grabbed silver and Jackson Lovejoy bronze. Following these guys, in 4th-10th were Jonah Glickman, Simon Ludl, Ray Albanese, Sean Sullivan, Robbie Reilly, Jack Marschke, and Garrett Sherman, respectively. Great job!

Pico 1/23:

WHAT A DAY!! The sun was shining and the kids were ready to rock and roll. They rallied hard to bring the boot home…and did so in dramatic fashion!! I couldn’t have been prouder of the way the kids all seemed to really bring their “A game”!!!

J6 Girls: Mackenzie Laurion rocked the J6 world winning first by over 2 seconds!! She was the ninth fastest girl overall, which is quite a feat against some tough competition in the J4 and 5 girls. Saige Anapolle also had a great showing with a 7th place finish! Way to go J6 girls for all medaling.

J6 Boys: Nicholas Ambeliotis and Jay Schoudel – our lone wolves of the J6 boy world – had a good showing in 14th and 17th, respectively, in an unusually large field of J6 boys!

J5 Girls:Dolores White lead the charge for J5 girls bringing home the 5th place medal. Coco Schaaf had an awesome day bringing home 8th. Paola Loy brought out the animal and took home tenth! Just out of the medals were Eliza Scher (12th), Lydia Hill (14th) and Caroline Grace (15th). Way to go girls!!

J5 boys: Connor Laurion also had a awesome day placing 2nd is a very tough field! Sam Cowles unleashed an animal too and placed 6th. Followed by Luke Valentine, Carver Provance, and Luke Cuticelli in 7th – 9th, respectively. Also finishing in the top 20 were Spencer Tretter just out of the medals in 11th and Jack Lorenze in 18th. Overall, super showing by the J5 boys!!

J4 Girls: Lindsay Tretter led the J4 girls at Pico winning by over 1.5 seconds! Gwen Jaye had a great 4th place finish and Brittany Fitzpatrick an awesome 5th place. Deanna Bottomley took home 7th. Peggy Shemitz Wagner and Emily Faller were just out of the medals in 12th and 13th respectively. Nice work girls!

J4 Boys: THIS was where the drama was!! Despite lost bibs and late arrivals, these boys threw down! All of the J4 boys brought home hardware! Chase Jaye led the pack with the fastest time of the day – a 31.03! – to win gold. Right on his heels was Alex Milewski in 2nd and then Trevor Harker in 3rd. ONLY 0.17 seconds separated the three boys! In fifth place was Joe Werthan, in 6th Grant Anapolle and 7th Thomas Whalen. Awesome job boys!

Okemo 2/7:
J6 Girls: Mackenzie Laurion rocked the hill with a smokin’ time of 50.68, which not only won J6 girl’s gold for her, but was also the fastest girls time overall by over a second. In fact, only 3 boys beat her time! Way to go Mackenzie! Then we had a great J6 sweep of third through seventh, by Frances Whyte, Abby Crowley, Saige Anapolle, Emma Laurion, and Samantha Burton, respectively. Of particular note are the fact that both Abby and Samantha totally blew away their first runs times with much faster second run times to earn their excellent rankings and that this was Emma Laurion’s first DEVO race ever! Emma Chute took home a ninth place medal and, in her first DEVO race, Michaela King finished just out of the medals in 12th.

J6 Boys: We only have two J6 boys this year, but boy have they been putting up a good fight! Nick Ambeliotis was the fastest J6 boy in the first run, but was beaten by one boy in the second run, and took home the silver medal. Jay Schoudel had a great race finishing in seventh in a very competitive field of J6 boys.

J5 Girls:Sofia Gerrad led the charge for our J5 girls – she threw down an awesome first run that earned her the GOLD medal! Her first ever in DEVOs – way to go Sofia!! Coco Schaaf was right on her heels in second place and the two girls were over a second ahead of the third place J5 girl. Nice work ladies! In 6th was Anna Moscovici and in 7th Eliza Scher, who has been steadily working her way up the podium each race! In 9th we had Paola Loy and in 10th Dolores White. Just out of the medals in 11th was Katie Ashman who came back from a fall in the first run to throw down a great second run! Also finishing top 20 were Sarah Bonnet (14th), Clara Everett (15th), and Lydia Hill (17th). Way to go girls!

J5 Boys: The J5 boys category was lead by Connor Laurion who threw down the fastest time of the day with a super 49.72! We then proceeded to sweep the podium with the following boys in 2nd through 10th, respectively, Connor Marschke, Carver Provance (who came back from a shaky first run to kill it in the second run!), Sam Cowles, Danny King, Kyle Burton, Luke Cuticelli, Ben Schwinn, Ricky Myers, and Owen Skinner (in his first DEVO race ever!). Just out of the medals were Andrew Gil in 11th and Max Glickman in 12th. Also in the top 20 were Nicholas Killian (14th), Kyle Stuart (16th) and Luke Valentine (17th). Way to go boys!

J4 Girls: The J4 girls almost completed a podium sweep with the exception of the bronze medal! Ingrid Backe led the charge with a great first run and won gold! Lindsey Tretter snagged the silver medal. In 4th was Jane Wiesenberg, followed by Natalie Schanzer (5th), Taylor Ludl (6th), and Gwen Jaye (7th). In 8th was Kristina Bonnet who came back from a big fall first run to have a great second run and secure a medal. In 9th was Deanna Bottomley and in 10th was Emily Faller. Also finishing top 15 were Peggy Shemtiz-Wagner (12th), Samantha Danziger (14th), and Brittany Fitpatrick (15th). Excellent job girls!

J4 Boys: Well the J4 boys didn’t have much outside competition, BUT they didn’t let the one Quechee J4 boy even get in the mix – these 13 guys totally swept the first 13 spots. No among themselves they were sure to put on a show. Alex Milewski led the efforts coming out on a VERY cold day with a VERY bad cold to throw down a great first (and only) run to win gold and have the second fastest time of the day! He was closely followed by Jackson Lovejoy who took silver and Ray Albanese who took bronze. In 3rd -13th we had Sean Sullivan, Jack Marschke, Joseph Werthan, Robbie Reilly, Garrett Sherman, Simon Ludl, Connor Hanlon, Jonah Glickman, Grant Anapolle, and Thomas Whalen, respectively. Great job guys!

AND then it was on to some intense stubby slalom training for the next couple of weeks….and boy was I nervous when we started, but WOW did the kids catch on quick. Within a few days over President’s week all of teh kids really started to ski well in the stubbies and we started to see some “slalom specialists” begin to emerge!

So now….drumroll please…the Quechee Stubby Slalom re-cap!!!

Well let’s start by saying that the Quechee Stubby Slalom wound up being the only race in Mid-VT to run last Saturday – the welcome, but unexpected, snowstorm of last week posed some challenges to other race venues, but with some hard work we were able to make it happen! Now again, I was super impressed to see how well the kids skied this new event! Some new faces appeared higher up the podium and it was great to see them shine!

J6 Girls: Mackenzie Laurion once again topped the podium, but this time in slalom, showing us that she has some great versatility – great job Mack! Emma Chute rocketed up in the standings in this new event to snag the silver medal – with a great second run – one of the only racers to improve over their first run! Abby Crowley took bronze and Frances Whyte was in 4th. In 7th was Samantha Burton and in 8th Emma Laurion. Nice work girls!

J6 Boys: Nick Ambeliotis was our only J6 boy for the day and he did a great job finishing 5th for the day!

J5 Girls:Definitely some stiff competition in this crowd, but Coco Schaaf led our bunch by snagging another silver medal for herself showing consistency across disciplines. Ellie Ashman had an awesome first run to finish in third and take home the bronze – I believe her best finish all year! Then the girls showed off their talent for sweeps with a sweep of 5th through tenth by Dolores White, Anna Moscovici, Sofia Gerrard, Paola Loy, Lydia Hill and Sarah Bonnet, respectively. Congratulations Lydia and Sarah on really moving up in the standings! Just out of the medals were Paige Ludl (12th), Katie Ashman (13th), and Caroline Grace (15th). Nice work girls!

J5 Boys:Wow, now this is where the action was this race! Connor Laurion absolutely threw down the run of the day with a 33.07, which was nine tenths faster than the next fastest racer, earning him a gold medal. Connor Marschke took home silver with a run that was absolutely thrilling to watch. Luke Valentine, who has totally found his event with slalom, skied a very clean run to take bronze. Showing great consistency between GS and SL, Luke Cuticelli had a great run and took home 5th. In 7th was Spencer Tretter and in 8th Kyle Burton. In 9th was Andrew “Ligety” Gil, who has totally been shredding slalom in training. I was standing on the side of the course as he came down SHREDDING first run only to end in a pile in front of me! But man was he having a good run! He was still able to come back with a strong second run despite the deteriorating conditions. Sam Cowles, who also has been skiing slalom really well, rounded out the medals in 10th. Also finishing in the top 20 were Ricky Myers (13th), Kyle Stuart (15th), Jack Lorenze (16th – and with definite promise in slalom), Nicholas Killian (17th), Ben Schwinn (18th) and Max Glickman (19th).

J4 Girls: Another budding slalom skier, Kristina Bonnet, led our J4 girls taking home a silver medal. Just behind her with the bronze was Lindsay Tretter. In 4th we had Gwen Jaye and in 5th Ingrid Backe. In 7th – 9th, we had Taylor Ludl, Emily Faller, and Brittany Fitzpatrick. Just out of the medals were Jane Wiesenberg (11th), Peggy Shemtiz Wagner (12th), Emily Mineau (13th), and Samantha Danziger (16th). Nice work ladies!

J4 Boys: Chase Jaye definitely has been showing great potential in slalom training and certainly performed in the race – he won gold for J4 boys by almost 2 seconds! He was followed by Ray Albanese who took silver and Jack Marschke (another one who really made moves in slalom) took bronze! In 4th was Jackson Lovejoy. Sean Sullivan came back from a crash in first run to snag 5th despite the fact that most were posting significantly slower times second run. In 6th was Simon Ludl and 7th Garrett Sherman. In 9th was Robbie Reilly and rounding out the medals in tenth was Jonah Glickman. Just out of the medals in 11th was Connor Hanlon. Nice work boys!