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.

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

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!

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

This weekend is our last team meeting and should be a fun one!

This Saturday we will meet at 10 at the gate shack for a fun race duel! There will be a cookout at the gate shack following immediately after where we will present the awards for the year!

It has been a great year for the J3 program and we hope that you all can make it up to wardance for our last fun day out on the hill!!

-J3 staff

USSA B Regional Championships, OKEMO Mogul TEAM 2010

USSA B Easterns 2010, OKEMO TEAM

USSA B Easterns 2010, OKEMO TEAM

…And CONGRATS to SAM PAWLAK, landing his first ever 720, in competition, for Eastern Champs Aerials… landing him in 19th place!

See full Eastern’s Results here:

• Slopestyle
• Moguls
• Aerials

Some Final Reminders for the end of the season:

• Last Day of Team is 3/28.
• On Sat., 3/27, there will be some fun activities on Blackout and/or Wardance to interact with racers, snowboarders, etc… parents are welcome to join in, along with coaches and athletes!
• OMARA-wide BBQ at 12 noon on 3/27 (weather permitting) followed bby Awards Ceremony at bottom of Blackridge @ 1PM.
• TEAM party, 3/27, 5PM at OUTBACK Pizza in LUDLOW
• If you ordered a TEAM Jersey in the first batch and have not yet picked up/paid, PLEASE DO SO!  …you are holding up the second order from being placed.  Those of you in the second batch, I apologize… it’ll happen, just need to close out this first order.

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

There has been a quick change for tomorrow the men have been moved from Sugarbush to MIDD!!

So everyone will be racing at MIDD together!! There will be a van and it will be departing from the school at 6:15!

Great job today at Killington, everyone skied will considering the tough trail and the large ruts!

Any questions feel free to ask!

-J3 Staff

First year J3’s there will be SL training at Okemo on Satuday at 8:30 conditions permitting to prepare for the slush cup at Suicide Six on Sunday for those that have entered.  I believe you can still register I have posted the information below.  Meet at Suicide at 7:30. PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU PLAN ON ATTENDING PRESENTLY THERE IS NOONE REGISTERED FROM OKEMO

On the 27^th of March the race department will be holding the annual awards ceremony.  It will take place as last year at the bottom of wardance after a fun dual race with parents, coaches and athletes.  There will be a 12:00 cookout weather permitting.  More details will come from the competition office.

OMS Closing ceremonies will be held at Willie Dunn’s on April 2^nd, Friday at 5:00pm.

Also;

Okemo Mountain School students and families are selling raffle tickets to benefit the school building and scholarship fund.  The tickets are $20.00 each and you can win a 5 day 4 night trip to Crested Butte CO, good summer or winter.  Lunch at Uley’s cabin is included which is an eclectic log cabin on the side of the mountain with much history as well as rentals tickets and lodging.  The other prize is a weekend of golf at OVGC and Tater Hill, 18 holes of golf with carts included.  Tickets can be purchased through the school or by contacting myself, Mariel or any of the OMS families or staff.  Thank you in advance for supporting the school.

We are still waiting for the quilted jackets but the pullover softshells are here and can be picked up over the weekend.  Drop me an email if you would like to arrange to pick yours up.

J3 coaches