Athlete News, March 1, 2019

Posted on 02/28/2019 by sswscadmin in

NCAA Team Named

Congratulations to the SSWSC athletes who will be headed to the 2019 NCAA Skiing Championships in Stowe, VT! Read the Press Release Here

Alpine:

Jett Seymour (Univ of Denver)

Alex Barounos (Univ of New Mexico)

Nordic:

Finn O’Connell (Univ of Vermont)

Kathleen O’Connell (Montana State Univ)

Dariya Kuznetsova (Univ of New Mexico)

Freestyle

This weekend at the NorAm Cup, SSWSC’s Kenzie Radway took home a second place podium in Ladies Moguls and a first place in the Women’s Dual Moguls with SSWSC Maggie Ryan in Second. Congratulations ladies!

Snowboarding

In the Snowboard NorAm’s this weekend, SSWSC Athlete Kendall Herrington was the YOUNGEST athlete on Rev Tour at the age of 15, who brought home 6th place in Snowboardcross! Congratulations, Kendall!

It was a great weekend in Breck. We battled the winds and cold temps on Saturday’s competition but Sunday turned out to be beautiful. We’re stoked to have the three youngest competitors on our team all walk away with golds for Sunday’s Slopestyle comp.

Our Steamboat team member Jesse Hamric was in Aspen this weekend with his family and he earned himself 2 gold medals in a rail jam and a slopestyle competition.

Jesse Hamric on top of the podium in Aspen

Rocke Weinberg on top of the podium in Breckenridge.

Halfpipe - 2/23

2nd - aimee wild - 7 & under girls

1st - rocke Weinberg - 8&9 girls

3rd - aaron wild - 8&9 boys

14th - walker overstake - 12&13 boys

17th - braden duty - 12&13 boys

Slopestyle - 2/24

1st - aimee wild - 7 & under girls

1st - rocke weinberg - 8&9 girls

1st - aaron wild - 8&9 boys

Nordic Combined

93 total competitors from Colorado, Utah, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan came to Steamboat Springs last weekend to compete in the Western Regional Championships. Check out the incredible results HERE. SSWSC’s Annika Belshaw and Decker Dean both took first in the long jump and on the HS100! Athletes competed on 6 different hill sizes: 20, 30, 45, 75, 100, and 127-meter hills. The Junior Championships team was announced and is currently in Park City competing! Congratulations to the following athletes:

Canden Wilkinson

Bennett Gamber

Annika Belshaw

Niklas Malacinski

Gunnar Gilbertson

Erik Belshaw

Jason Colby

Thomas Miller

Tess Arnone

Alexa Brabec

Ella Stroock

Tinsley Wilkinson

Aspen Bennett-Manke

(Not pictured: Annika Malacinski, Decker Dean)

Freeskiing

The Freeskiing program has been busy with their competition season. The USASA competitive group was in Breckenridge over the past weekend for both a Halfpipe and Slopestyle competition. Halfpipe was cold and windy but everyone skied well and in the end Cael McCarthy and Riley Jacobs won their classes with great runs.

The next day for Slopestyle was much warmer and sunny which had everyone skiing great. David Schlicht put down a great run and is excited to clean it up a bit for the Steamboat comp this weekend. Cael McCarthy on his 2nd run went for his double cork 1080 for the first time in a competition and almost skied away except his ski fell off on the landing. His first run was great and got him 3rd place in his age group for the day.

The Big Mountain Group kicked off its heaviest travel section with a week in Winter Park. Lots of fun was had as this was several athletes first event, including Levi Allen and Gage Adrian of the Jr team. An Incredible performance by Callum Becvarik showed the field that you can win without a giant air, Jacobs Gilbertson and Bryce Zetzman also found their way to the podium. Masie Wager skied to a win in the women’s field.

This weekend we will host our Home USASA events with Halfpipe in Bashor on Saturday at 10:00, a rail jam Saturday event at 4:00pm and Sunday at 10:00 am Slopestyle event. Come on out and support our local crew!

Alpine

Congratulations to Jett Seymour who placed 10th overall in Slalom at Junior Worlds!

The SSWSC U14 Alpine team competed at the 39th Prater Cup qualifier (2/21-2/24) in Crested Butte this past week. The following athletes qualified to compete in the U14 Rocky/Central Championships held in Steamboat March 12-17th. (Spencer Richeda, Jeremy Nolting, Jonah Fleischer, Alex Orozco, Jack Fox, Fisher St. John, Rylee McLouth, Karenna Westermeyer, Audra Gowdy, Adi Lage ). Spencer Richeda was the overall winner. If you need anymore information, please let me know. Thanks, Michael Britton (Head U14 Coach)

Prater Cup Results

Women’s SG

13th Karenna Westermeyer

14th Audra Gowdy

22nd Adi Lage

23rd Rylee McLouth

Men’s SG

3rd Jeremy Nolting

12th Jonah Fleischer

33rd Jack Fox

Women’s GS Race #1

9th Rylee McLouth