Day 5

Grommet Girls – Halfpipe:

Anna Valentine – 5th place
Kiersten Edwards – 6th place

Breaker Boys – Boardercross:

Colton Gray – 19th place after an amazing pass to get in third place in the first heat. In the last two turns, Colton turned early and passed the third place rider and was barely holding on. As they came over the last two jumps their boards were hitting each other and then Colton fell in front of the other rider to garner third. In his next heat he got left behind, but that first heat will be indelibly imprinted in my memory.

Day 6

Grommet Girls – Slopestyle:

Kiersten Edwards – 3rd place
Anna Valentine – 5th place

For those who compete in all 5 events there is an Overall award given and let me tell you this is well deserved, because doing all events is exhausting.

Kiersten Edwards has received the 2nd place Overall award this year for the Group 2 Grommet Girls.

Day 3

Grommet Girls – Slalom:

Kiersten Edwards took home a 1st place in Slalom on Tuesday. Her run in Slalom was almost picture perfect aside from a slight bobble on gate 3 on her second run. Well done Kiersten!

Menehune Boys – Halfpipe:

Max Jensen came in 16th
Jack Valentine – 19th
Austin Hawkes – 29th

Breaker Boys – Halfpipe:

Taylor Spaulding – 15th out of 53 riders. What a showing for his first time at Nationals!

Day 4

Grommet Girls – Giant Slalom:

Kiersten Edwards brought home a 2nd place medal in GS.

Menehune Boys – Slopestyle:

Max Jensen – 4th
Austin Hawkes – 12th
Jack Valentine – 15th

Breaker Boys – Slopestyle:

Taylor Spaulding – 41st

Very exciting news from Colorado after just 2 days out here.

Randall Reynolds 1st place HP

Randall Reynolds won First place in Junior Halfpipe on Monday. He received an almost perfect score of 97 of 100 by pulling out back to back inverted tricks. The tricks were a Crippler and a switch Crippler, which is called a Haakonflip, named after Terje Haakonsen. The rest of the run consisted of enormous straight airs with grabs.

Kiersten Edwards 2nd place BX

Kiersten Edwards (Grommet) grabbed Second Place in Boardercross. She got 4th best time trial and then proceeded to dominate all heats except for Maddie Mastro, who could not be touched(this year).

Leah Jennings (Youth) competed in Slopestyle on Sunday and came in 23rd with a solid run. She looks forward to next season at Okemo when she can train even more and get a higher placement next year. She also came in 20th place in Boardercross today. She rode solid in these heats as well, but was up against some riders who were twice her size.

Anna Valentine (Grommet) rode in Boardercross on Sunday and did very well considering she was sick as a dog on Saturday night. She came in first in the consolation round, giving her 5th place overall for Boardercross.

Kiersten Edwards and Leah Jennings ready to ride!

A number of you were unable to accept your trophies for this season (or 2008)… as a result, we have still have them!

I have dropped them off with the ladies in the Administration building and they are available for pickup there.  Administration is the office building with the ramp leading up to it (above Snow Stars).

The list is below if you have one.

Congratulations to all the recipients and Thank You for a great season!!

The following trophies are available for pick up in the Administration Building:

Ingrid Backe – Devo

Kristina Bonnett – Devo

Mackenzie Laurion – Devo

Connor Laurion – Devo

Jackson Lovejoy – Devo

Coco Schaff – Devo

Ben Schwinn – Devo

Luke Valentine – Devo

Maggie Bonnett – Freestyle

Eric Rauch – Freestyle

Gwen Rauch – Freestyle

Sam Curt – J1 / J2

Chris Meckel – J1 / J2

Lauren Pierce – J1 / J2

Jeffrey Cole – J3

Ben Gilroy – J3

Kelsey Teague – J3

Natalie Wetmore – J3

Austin Aebetz – Snowboard

Lauren Jennings – Snowboard

Maeve Rabbitt – Snowboard

Mateo Riveros – Snowboard

Randall Reynolds – Snowboard

Jack Valentine – Snowboard

Thomas Williams – Snowboard

Chelsea Baum – ’08 J1 / J2

Colin Cox-Steiner – ’08 Devo PG

Alexandra Fuentes – ’08 J3

George Frick – ’08 Council

Palo Pierce – ’08 J1 / J2

Michael White – ’08 Devo

Kieran Mottau – ‘08 Council

Celeste Buitoni – ‘08 J3

Duel GS fun race!

When-Saturday March 27th  A.M.

Where-Wardance

What- Duel GS fun race!

Lets show those double plankers that we can run gates as well as shred the park and pipe!

BBQ at 12:00 and  awards at 1:00

We are having our annual End of Year Awards Party on Saturday, March 27^th.

The morning will have a dual course set up on Wardance for fun racing and beginning at noon we will have a BBQ (weather permitting of course) at the Yurt/Gate Shack area.  At 1:00 the season long awards from each program will be handed out.

So come on by and have a great time with us!

Hey all, this is the final weekend. Can you believe it has gone by so fast?

Full Day Riders -

Saturday we are meeting at the US Open at 8:30-8:45 at the Jumbotron in the area between the Sunbowl Base Lodge and the Lift.
Sunday will be a regular training day for those who are not in the Junior Jam. Those who are competing in the Junior Jam need to be there around 7:30am. On Saturday we suggest you get there early, like 6:30-7:00am or you will not get local parking. Any later than 8:30 and you will be bussed in from a ways away.

Schedule for the Open:

Half Day Riders

- There will be coaches (either Eddie or Jerry) on both days for those of you who would like to ride this weekend.

We would like to thank you all for a truly wonderful season!

Congratulations to all of the National Champions going to Colorado in couple of weeks!

Kiersten Edwards, Anna Valentine, Jack Valentine, Max Jensen, Austin Hawkes, Randall Reynolds, and possibly Leah Jennings

Best,

The OMST Coaches – Eddie Johnson, Mike Lund, Kevin Burke, Betsy Verillo, Elisabeth Novak

If you are going to participate in the Junior Jam at the US Open at Stratton on Sunday, March 21st, the only time for practice is for two hours from 12 noon to 2pm on Friday March 19th and for 45 minutes the morning of the event.

The following is the schedule for the Sunday:

Sunday , March 21
Junior Jam Halfpipe
8:30am – 9:15A – Girl’s PRACTICE
9:30am – 10:30A – Girl’s FINALS
10:30am – 11:30A – Boy’s PRACTICE
11:45am – 2P – Boy’s QUALIFIERS
2:15pm – 3:15P – Boys FINALS
3:30P Junior Jam Awards

Below are the preliminary results of our riders based on the USASA rankings so far. The official list will not be available until the 15th. This is merely to give you a heads up on your present standing. We need to know who will need accommodations with us and who will be signing up for our coaching. The more of you who participate, the less expensive it is for all.

For those of you who are on the edge of making it, just wait for the second round, which is 48 hours from the initial release. The second round of emails will go out on the 17th and you will have 48 hours to respond to that.

Again, please let us know your intentions as soon as is possible so we can begin making arrangements for the coaches.