Athlete News, August 2nd, 2018

Posted on 07/31/2018 by sswscadmin in

Nordic Combined/Ski Jumping

Despite it being summer, our Nordic Combined and Ski Jumping athletes have already competed in their first U.S. Nationals and the “Springer Tournee”, and have returned home with HUGE results! These competitions are held on the plastic jump facilities in Park City, which adds to the excitement. The Springer Tournee took place on the HS100 on Friday, while the National Championships were held on Saturday and Sunday on the HS100 and HS134. Noteworthy from the Springer Tournee was that Decker Dean won the U20 Men’s class (for the third time) and Annika Belshaw was 2nd in U20 Women. Decker then continued to have incredible results in the U.S. Nationals; he was the 3rd American both days which qualified him for the US National Team! Congratulations, Decker!

The most exciting aspect of this tournament was that SSWSC athletes took podium spots in nearly every jumping category; SSWSC Athletes and Alumni took 10 out of the 18 total podium spots in SJ and NC! Over 50% of podium spots went to the hard working athletes of our club! Athletes came home with 3 gold, 1 silver, and 6 bronze.

In addition to a high podium count, it is worth noting that this was the FIRST TIME we have had two female Nordic Combined athletes stand together on the podium; congratulations to Alexa Brabec who was 2nd and Tess Arnone who was 3rd!
Koen Stroock and Thomas Miller took 1st and 3rd respectively on the HS42 (in a competitive field of U14’s), and Thomas Miller ended up skiing to 1st place in the Nordic Combined race. Congratulations to all of the athletes and these incredible results!

SKI JUMPING

HS 15m - U10 Boys
1st - Bridger Lawton

HS 25m - U12 Girls
3rd - Emma Russell

HS 25m - U12 Boys
3rd - Sawyer Graves

HS 42m - Open Class
2nd - Ella Stroock
3rd - Reid Sias

HS 42m - U14 Boys
1st - Koen Stroock
3rd - Thomas Miller

HS 68m - U18 Girls
3rd - Annika Belshaw

US CUP - HS 100m
U20 Girls
2nd - Annika Belshaw

U20 Boys
1st - Decker Dean

US SKI JUMPING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP - HS 100m
(Jumpers marked with “*” are National Team athletes)

Open Women
*6th - Annika Belshaw (3rd American)
13th - Alexa Brabec (10th American)
15th - Tess Arnone (12th American)

Open Men
*5th - Decker Dean (3rd American)

US SKI JUMPING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP - HS 134m
(Jumpers marked with “*” are National Team athletes)

Open Women
*6th - Annika Belshaw (3rd American)
12th - Alexa Brabec (9th American)
13th - Tess Arnone (10th American)

Open Men
*4th - Decker Dean (3rd American)
*11th - Jasper Good (9th American)
*13th - Taylor Fletcher (11th American)
*16th - Grant Andrews (13th American)
22nd - Bennett Gamber (17th American)
26th - Erik Belshaw - (20th American)
27th - Canden WIlkinson (21st American)
31st - Gunnar Gilbertson (25th American)

NORDIC COMBINED

Open Men
*1st - Taylor Fletcher, Steamboat Springs CO
*2nd - Ben Loomis, Eau Claire WI
*3rd - Jasper Good, Steamboat Springs CO

Open Women
1st - Tara Geraghty-Moats, Lake Placid NY
2nd - Alexa Brabec, Steamboat Springs CO
3rd - Tess Arnone, Steamboat Springs CO

Canden Wilklinson

Decker Dean

Grant Andrews

HS134 Special Jumping Podium

Men’s Nordic Combined Podium

Women’s Nordic Combined Podium

Cross Country

SSWSC XC Athletes, Wyatt Gebhardt and Noel Keeffe are two of six junior XC athletes in the United States invited to the International XC Junior Camp In Lillehammer Norway. This elite group will spend two weeks in Norway training with the best in the world. There will be 140 athletes from 20 different nations taking part. US Ski and Snowboard Head Junior XC Development Coach, Bryan Fish, will be leading the trip. Below is the invitation from the Norwegian Ski Federation.

“Hereby we invite your junior national team to the International Junior Camp, Cross Country, to Norway. The organiser, the Norwegian Ski Association - Cross Country together with our sponsor Statoil and IOC. An application of money is send to FIS.
The International Junior Camp will take place from August 8. to August 15. The camp is only for athletes born in 1999 and 2000 with FIS point lower than 200.To ensure good quality sessions during the week, we invite national junior teams. The Norwegian junior national team will of course be present.The final program will be sent to participating nations in the end of June.The aim with this camp is to give junior athletes from many nations good knowledge about training, and exchange experiences through exercise and competing together in a friendly way. For the coaches we hope that this camp also will give good knowledge about each nations training philosophies, development skills and also to get new friends.There will be some seminars at this camp for athletes and coaches. We will also have visits from Norwegian elite athletes from the A-team.”

Noel Keeffe