EISA Championships Report
Although it was delayed by a day due to stormy weather, the collegiate racing season came to a spectacular end at Middlebury over the weekend. We had two top-ten individual finishes, and the nordic women placed second as a team in the 5km Classic.
Alpine Report by Coach Mitchell
Harvard Alpine closed out the regular season at the NCAA Regional Championships at the Middlebury Snowbowl this past weekend. With last week’s weather and nearly 4 feet of fresh snow, difficult conditions and deep ruts were expected for the weekend, and that was certainly the case in the men’s slalom. Chris Kinner deftly negotiated knee deep ruts with a solid first run and 10th place on the second run for 24th on the day. Pitching in were Andrew Spielvogel, Sam Harrison, and Alec Boardman handling the ruts well in 35th, 39th, and 40th respectively. The men ended up 9th on the day in team scoring. Conditions for the GS were markedly better, though still quite bumpy in sections. Senior captain Chris Kinner again led the way for the Crimson in 26th, capping an impressive career with the Harvard Alpine team during which he was almost always the team’s top finisher and has been the cornerstone of the rebuilding process the team has undergone these last four years. Personally, I will never be able to adequately convey what Chris has meant to this team and the progress it has made. Backing him up were Andrew Spielvogel in 41st, and Alec Boardman and Brad Alvarez tied for 53rd.
Alec Boardman
The women had their best slalom performance of the season, in 7th place, just 5 points behind perennial alpine powerhouse UVM! Catherine Sheils continued her strong freshman campaign with a season-best 8th place, winning the second run of the slalom en route!!! Tenley Malmquist charged both runs to a solid 26th place and was backed up by Tess Wood in 47th, surely one of her best collegiate performances ever. The women followed that up with solid skiing in GS with Catherine Sheils relying on another great second run, 11th place, to finish 28th on the day. She was followed closely by the ever improving GS threat, Caroline McHugh who is poised for a breakthrough result soon. Tenley Malmquist and Tess Wood both put down two clean runs to round things out in 42nd and 51st respectively.
This season has been a quantum leap forward for Harvard Alpine, and look for more good skiing and strong results in our non-collegiate spring series races coming up in March and April. Thank you so much for your support, we would not be where we are without you!
Brad Alvarez
Nordic Report by Coach City
Last week I mentioned that over the course of the season the women had beaten every team in the league except Dartmouth at least once. On Saturday, the women repeated the feat in one race by finishing second as a team in the 5km classic! We knew the women had the talent to finish in the top 5 on a classic day and they’ve been getting faster over the past few weeks. Even so, second place was a very nice surprise that happened because freshmen Esther Kennedy and Alena Tofte continued their streak of very competitive classic performances and junior Cara Sprague popped a career race at just the right time.
2/3 of the women's nordic team basks in the warmth on Sunday
Breadloaf Touring Center at Middlebury had received about 2 feet of snow followed by heavy rain which turned the tracks quite slick on Saturday. This was complicated by intermittent snow squalls that blew through during the classic races and added some fresh, sticky snow to the mix. In the women’s race, those who had early start times (it was an individual start race) fared better because there was little or no snow falling then. Cara combined an early start time with a fantastic race effort to finish a career-best 6th. Alena (19th) and Esther (14th) had to fight through the beginning of the snow squall and still managed top-20 finishes. These three placings were enough to vault the women into second place as a team for the day – ahead of every team except Dartmouth. Senior Audrey Mangan had the bad luck to ski her whole race in heavy snow. She placed 27th although she was skiing almost as fast as everyone else who got caught in the snowstorm. Clare Miller (40th) and Anika Petach (51st) also had very solid races. Kudos to Sara and wax tech Scott Broomhall (who were both covered with klister by the end of the morning) for helping us find wax that was at least as good as any other team’s under very trying conditions.
Audrey fights through a snow squall
The men had their best weekend of the season. The men’s classic race was skied almost entirely in falling snow at about 32 degrees. All of our guys except one skied on a kind of waxless ski called “zeros” that are designed for just those kind of conditions (0 degrees Celsius). (We didn’t use zeros in the women’s race because the zeros had no kick on the glazed tracks that predominated when it wasn’t snowing–which was the case until after everyone had started.) Tony Ryerson was flying from the start and had a career-first top-30th finish (30th); Trevor Petach had a very good day, too, placing 41st overall.
On Sunday, the mass start race skate races were a demolition derby from the start. A combination of the mass start format, narrow trails and the heavy, wet snow from the previous few days meant for a lot of damaged equipment. Kevin Sprague broke a pole early in the 20km race and skied from dead last at one point to his second-best placing of the year (38th). Trevor finished his senior season with his best placing of the season (36th). Tony was just behind these two guys, and the three of them combined for our best men’s team points this season. Tor O’Brien skied very well until hitting the wall with about 1.5km to go. On the women’s side, Audrey (20th) and Cara (22nd) skied strong, smart races in the 15km and placed in the top 25.
- Trevor and Tony working together in the 20km skate
Trevor and Audrey after their last college race on Sunday
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