2/9/09 WEEKLY UPDATE

TOP FINISHER OF THE WEEK...
Delia Whyte, once again, lands herself on the podium
with a Silver at Mt. Snow's B mogul comp!

...must have been the OMS February Freestyle Camp she attended last week
with Jace Provance, Kyle Kaufman, Christian Backe, Mark Preschern, and Katie Craig. It was a super-fun week during which a great deal of progress was made by all.

A Freeride...
Stay tuned for the Aspen Open recap from Coach Bruno...

The rest of the A Freeriders who were not in Aspen competed in Slopestyle at Waterville this weekend. One of the highlights of my weekend was seeing Graham Bunt's rodeo 720's that I have been hearing so much about -- they are sicker than heck. Other highlights to the event include Jeremy "Soulja Boy" Peterson's stylie poked-out mute 900's, Tyler Galloway's consistent 7's and even 9's over the big jump, and Karns White's Superman front flips.

When all was said and done, Jeremy had the best finish with a 15th place. See the complete results here: http://services.easternfreestyle.org/results/Rpt2009/23_S.html

Coming up...
We may or may not be going to Sugarloaf's Solpestyle event on Monday... will wait to gauge interest from the team...

A Moguls...
Karns went solo to Waterville's A mogul singles event on Saturday. Though he took on the field alone, he battled like a warrior poet, nabbing a season-best 11th place and missing the hardware by only .1 of a point. He killed it, basically. Next stop -- Eastern Championships!!!


B Moguls / Freeride...
"Congratulations to all the competitors who came down to Mt. Snow this weekend. The mogul venue was a big difference from what our athletes skied at Stratton -- Mt. Snow had bigger, better-spaced moguls and bigger jumps.
Congratulations to Delia on her 2nd place finish, wowing the crowd with her huge daffy on the bottom air. After a few hard faceplants in training she recovered to stick her first run and then went on to ski even better in the second run.
Jace also had a great weekend sticking a huge spread up top and a big 3x down bottom. His run won his age group for the second comp in a row, and beat many of the older competitors run’s in the process, landing him 13th overall.
Sam Pawlak also had a solid day in moguls, sticking a solid run with some big airs.
Christian pushed it in his run and unfortunately couldn’t stick his big 3 on the top air. Way to go for it Christian!!!
On Sunday the team changed gears as we prepared to compete in slopestyle. Sunday was an interesting day as far as conditions, warm temps and rain in the morning made for some nice soft snow. Unfortunately the soft snow didn’t last all day; by the time the comps started in the afternoon the cold air had moved in and firmed up the slope course. Luckily for us, that did not stop our athletes. Sam came out early Sunday morning to train and it paid off, as he learned a switch 180 and took it to the big side of the first jump in the course. After his switch 180 he finished off with a clean box slide to a huge tail grab on big side of the final jump. Christian came out spinning in his run. He threw a nice 3 toxic up top, to a clean box slide to another 3 on the final table. Congratulations to all of our competitors this weekend." -- Coach Lenny

results: http://services.easternfreestyle.org/results/Rpt2009/24_M.html

COMING UP... The much anticipated home B Mogul and Slopestyle comps, 2/14-15!!

• Saturday's Mogul comp is on Ledges, Sunday's slopestyle is in the Dew Zone.
• Please contact me immediately if you are a B parent and did not get my email regarding how to register, or have not yet done so...
• Many of you have signed up to volunteer -- thank you! If you have not signed up, but would like to help, please let me know. Otherwise, come on out and watch and cheer our crew on. Last year, our boys swept the podium... I think we may have some winners amongst us once again!
  

Fresh Start Freestylers...
All of us coaches are very proud of this group; they have worked hard all season towards this weekend's event -- the Okemo B event is the first-ever competition for a Fresh Start Freestyler. On behalf of the whole program, I wish you guys the best of luck and will be cheering obnoxiously loud when its time for your runs. After that, consider yourselves graduated to the B Mogul Team... but just so you don't forget who taught you everything you know, you still get to ski with coach G this Spring!

Thanks and have a great week!
-Marks