Athlete News, January 11, 2019

Posted on 01/11/2019 by sswscadmin in

Cross Country

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Only six men and six women earned spots at the cross-country Junior World Championships, and Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club trained two of the 12.

The 2019 U.S. Cross Country Skiing Championships in Craftsbury, Vermont, Jan. 3 to 8 included two distance and two sprint races over the course of six days. Six current and 11 alumni SSWSC athletes competed in the first three events: a 10K classic race for women, a 15K classic race for men, a 1.4K classic sprint, then 7.5K and 10K mass start skate races for junior women and men.

Noel Keeffe, a former SSWSC athlete and current University of Utah freshman, raced to a podium finish in the freestyle sprint on Tuesday. It marked the best finish ever by a SSWSC cross-country athlete. READ MORE

Snowboarding

The Junior Team competed in USASA Rocky Mountain Series halfpipe last Sunday!
Rocke Weinberg - 8-9 yr old girls - 1st
Aaron Wild - 8-9 yr old boys - 2nd
Braden Duty - 12-13 yr old boys - 8th
Anika Juneau - 12-13 yr old girls - 7th
Kendall Harrington - 14-15 yr old women - 6th
Johnny Duty - 16-17 yr old men - 6th
Cecily George - 16-17 yr old women - 3rd

It was super fun getting in the 22ft halfpipe. The kids adjusted well from our 18ft pipe here in Steamboat. We’re definitely so grateful to the Steamboat park crew for getting our pipe up so quickly and built so well.

Freestyle

Rocky Mountain Freestyle Moguls Competition

Nordic Combined

We had our first Native Excavating Hitchens Brothers’ Wednesday Night Jump Series this week! It was incredibly fun and the athletes enjoyed jumping, pizza, and cookies!