Greetings Athletes and Parents! I want to first of all THANK all the Athletes and Parents for participating during this less than memorable snow season. We all wish mother nature had been more accommodating, yet we still managed to complete the full season! With that said I want to congratulate ALL the athletes for the progress they made over the season. The coaching staff saw improvements in everyone’s skiing/racing ability.
Over the last weekend we participated in the U16 Championship. Catamount was represented by 15 members of the program. We raced Slalom on Saturday at Bousquet and Giant Slalom at Jiminy Peak on Sunday. As a result of regular season races and Championship events four racers from Catamount earned an invite to the U16 Eastern Finals at Okemo VT, and one racer earned a spot to the U16 Eastern Championships at Sugarloaf, ME.
We are all pleased to acknowledge the following U16 racers who earned a berth to the U16 Eastern Finals; Lindsay Adams, Emily Chudy, Maries Di Vecchio & Christian Kappes. Congratulations!
Special acknowledgment goes to Tyler Coenraads, who not only won the U16 Championship GS at Jiminy Peak this weekend, among other podium results throughout the season, but who also finished the #1 ranked men’s U16 Tri-State Racer. As a result of his season impressive results Tyler will represent Catamount Alpine Racing at the U16 Eastern Championship! Best of luck!
In closing I would like to thank Coach Lars Andersson & Chris Di Vecchio for making the season an enjoyable environment for learning and laughing with both the athletes and the parents.
The regular season may be over but we would like to continue training as long as possible into March. This coming weekend (3/5 & 3/6) we will train on Lower Alley Cat, Saturday we plan on Slalom and Sunday GS.
We would also like to try to hold an end of the season finale March 20th with a Tri-State dual panel slalom down Catamount, assuming conditions warrant. The format might be parent vs athletes.
Thanks again to all our Athletes and Parents for a great season!
Doug Hurry