Freestyle

This past weekend the HP Mogul Team traveled to Apex, British Columbia for NorAm Finals. It was an amazing weekend of mogul skiing and a great event to finish off the tour. We were very fortunate to have had sunny days and an awesome course to ski!

Singles:
Kenzie Radway: 2nd
Maggie Ryan: 4th

Landon Wendler: 4th (Personal best at a NorAm Singles)
Bubba Antkiewicz: 28th
Spencer Belsky: 29th

Duals:
Kenzie Radway: 3rd
Maggie Ryan: 12th

Landon Wendler: 2nd (Personal best at a NorAm Duals)
Bubba Antkiewicz: 33rd
Spencer Belsky: 34th

NorAm Overall:

Women:
Kenzie Radway: 1st
Maggie Ryan: 4th

Men:
Landon Wendler: 5th
Spencer Belsky: 27th
Bubba Antkiewicz: 35th

With Kenzie winning the NorAm Tour, that means an SSWSC athlete has won the tour for the second year in a row. Avital Shimko won last year. She has now moved onto the US Ski Team. 

Overall, it was an amazing tour! We had a lot of ups and down and crazy weather to deal with. We started off the tour with -46 degree temps in Stratton Vermont and ended with a blue bird sunny day in British Columbia.

Alpine

U16 Rocky Central Junior Championships

U16 Rocky Central Junior Championships Ladies SG Podium- Ryli Grosdidier 3, Marissa Drobek 4, Natalia Tatge 7

U16 Rocky Central Regional Championship DH Podium: Cooper Puckett 1, Tyler Thomas 2,  Jordan Simon 3, Nick Orfanakis 10,  Charlie Welch -Bibo Award

Men’s U16 Rocky Central Regional Championships SG Podium

Women’s U16 Rocky Central Junior Championships DH Podium- Ryli Grosdidier 2, Marissa Drobek 4, Caroline Gilchrist 5

U14 World Pro Ski Tour Junior Challenge
Athletes had fun in the U14 World Pro Ski Tour Junior Challenge this weekend! The Top 8 U14 Championships qualifying boys from SSWSC raced against the top 8 boys from Ski & Snowboard Club Vail on the World Pro Ski Tour course.  SSWSC took the team win, Alex Krupka from Vail took the individual win, with Speedy Richeda in 2nd, Jonah Fleischer in 3rd and Jeremy Nolting in 5th. Trophies donated by Billy Kidd and Moose Barrows for the team and individual awards. Photo here is with all SSWSC and SSCV kids, Chad Fleischer and Billy Kidd.

U8

U8 Andrea’s Group

U6
U6 athletes thirsty after a day of powder skiing so we stopped off at the local watering hole for a drink

Freeskiing

The Freeskiing and Snowboarding Programs teamed up last weekend to bring a USASA Rocky Mountain Series weekend here to Steamboat.  Mother Nature thew 26 inches of fresh snow at the teams, but the diligent work of the our staff, Volunteers and Steamboat Park Crew the events were held in great venues considering all of the snow. 

The athletes had a great opportunity to put this weeks focus, Mental Preparation, into action.  Their results speak to the teams ability to focus on the task hand
Halfpipe
Breaker Boys
1 David Schlicht, 2Wiley Wagner, 3 Cael McCarthy

Grommet Boys
1 Griffin Good

Menehune Boys
5 Ryan Montgomery

Menehune Girls
1 Finley Good

Open Class Women
1 Riley Jacobs

Youth Men
1 Silas Leeson, 2 Logan Spiegel

Slopestyle
Breaker Boys
1 Cael McCarthy, 2 David Schlicht 10 Wiley Wagner

Grommet Boys
2 Griffin Good

Menehune Girls
1 Finley Good

Open Class Women
1 Riley Jacobs

Youth Men
3 Will Gossman 5 Logan Spiegel

Rail Jam
10-13 Boys
1 Cael McCarthy 3 David Schlicht 4 Wiley Wagner 6 Shane Good

10- 13 Girls
Finley Good

14+ up men
2 Will Gossman

9 and under boys
2 Griffin Good

Open Women
2 Riley Jacobs

Levi Allen working with the team in prep for rail jam

Levi Allen working with the team in prep for rail jam

Nordic Combined

We had one of our most successful Championship weeks in recent history at the USA Nordic Junior Championships in Park City UT!  We took 17 out of 38 total medals awarded this week! Read the results HERE.

Also awarded this weekend were the overall US Cup trophies.  The US Cup is a series of 11 competitions around the country and throughout the season.  All competitions are age class U20.  We took the following podium spots in the US Cup:

Men’s Ski Jumping
2nd (tie) Gunnar Gilbertson
2nd (tie) Erik Belshaw

Men’s Nordic Combined
2nd Erik Belshaw
3rd Gunnar Gilbertson

Women’s Ski Jumping
1st Annika Belshaw

Women’s Nordic Combined
1st Tess Arnone
2nd Alexa Brabec

NC Podium


Team Podium

Elimination Jump Finalists

U16 Boys Jumping

Medalists

U16 NC Team Sprint

Snowboarding

Halfpipe 3/2 - Steamboat Resort
2nd - aimee wild - 7&under girls
1st - rocke weinberg - 8&9 girls
3rd - aaron wild - 8&9 boys
1st - izzy hamric - 10&11 girls
1st - walker overstake - 12&13 boys
5th - jesse hamric - 12&13 boys
9th - braden duty - 12&13 boys
1st - kendall harrington - 14&15 women
1st - cecily george - 16&17 women
3rd - mac Panzarella - 16&17 men

Rail Jam 3/ 2 - Howelsen Hill
2nd - rocke weinberg - 9&under girls
4th - aimee wild - 9&under girls
2nd - aaron wild - 9&under boys
5th - izzy hamric - 10-13 girls
3rd - walker overstake - 10-13 boys
6th - jackie clemente - 10-13 boys
7th - baden park - 10-13 boys
9th - jesse hamric - 10-13 boys

Slopestyle 3/3 - Steamboat Resort
2nd - aimee wild - 7&under girls
1st - rocke weinberg - 8&9 girls
1st - aaron wild - 8&9 boys
1st - izzy hamric - 10&11 girls
5th - reed van ness - 10&11 boys
1st - jesse hamric - 12&13 boys
2nd - jackie clemente - 12&13 boys
8th - elias christian - 12&13 boys
7th - jacy werner - 16&17 men

It was a great weekend competing on our home turf. SSWSC athletes who don’t usually travel to compete with us were able to compete for their first time and learn about the “competition world”. We definitely battled the elements with all the snow that came through but it was nothing us “Steamboatians” weren’t used to. Saturday’s halfpipe contest was during the day at Steamboat Resort and then we came to Howelsen Hill Saturday night for a Rail Jam under the lights. Sunday’s slopestyle competition was one of the first regional slopestyle events Steamboat Resort has hosted in a couple years. It was held in Bashor Bowl consisting of 2 jumps and 2 sets of rails put together by our awesome park crew. We Winter Sports Club coaches helped work the event, Steamboat parents volunteered, and our kids rocked the boat with the results to prove it.

Jesse Hamric hitting a rail during the Rail Jam at Howelsen.

From left to right: rocke weinberg, aimee wild, and aaron wild seeing what heavy metal testes like after Sunday’s slopestyle comp.

From left to right: rocke weinberg, cecily george, walker overstake, mac Panzarella, aaron wild, kendall harrington, aimee wild, and izzy hamric after Saturday’s halfpipe comp.