Race Results Afton MEC #1

Good Evening MAST Fans!

Thank you to all the parents who volunteered to work tonight's race. You did fantastic work. We have another MEC race on Monday and a Hyland race on Wednesday. If you didn't work today's race, please consider volunteering on Monday or Wednesday of next week. The race went very smoothly today because we filled all the race worker positions. The course conditions were very fair from the first racer to the last. The gate judging was excellent. No controversies. The disqualifications that were scored were fairly given.

Congratulations to our three girls teams: Washburn 2nd, SW 3rd and MAST 4th. I was very pleased with how you came out on the second run and attacked the course. You made some nice adjustments: stronger outside ski pressure, better line, and a more aggressive approach as in "I'm not going to let this pitch or the tighter turns kick my butt." Reese Kuehn finished in fourth place overall and posted the fifth fastest times on both runs. Nice consistency. Eva Voyakin was our fastest girl on the first run, posting the fourth fastest time. She ended up fifth overall. Great results girls. Kate Moore and Lucy Renz also finished in the top ten. Kate in 7th and Lucy in 8th. Elsa Addy deserves some recognition. She made the biggest improvement from the first run to the second: 29th on the first run and 20th on the second. That second run was truly the best run of her racing career. Remember that feeling Elsa.  

On the boys side, Parker Hunt had a strong day finishing fifth. Right behind in sixth was Levi Ehlers. Our only other boy in the top ten was Jack Bajek who finished 8th. Nice racing boys.

We had a number of boys who showed just how much improvement they have made this season by posting a  strong single run. That is how it works: make big improvements in training, succeed on one run in a race but fail to hold it together for two runs. Know that eventually your much improved skiing will result in two great runs, back to back. Celebrate the fact that you had one really good run and remember what those turns felt like. Do not get discouraged. Eli Kroll has been working hard in practice and posted the 17th fastest time on the second run, much improved over his 30th place finish on the first run. Will Cherveny went the other way: 19th on the first run and then had some trouble on the second run and posted the 41st fastest time. Sammy Hokanson and Sam Moore also flip-flopped: Sammy was 30th on the second run and Sam was 30th on the first. Sammy had some difficulties on the first run and Sam had them on the second. In fact, Sam put so much energy into his skis as he came onto the flats that they shot him straight up in the air on his tush. He will learn to control that energy and send it down the fall line eventually. Look out then.

The boys teams did not fair well in team scoring. Learn from your mistakes. Keep your confidence. Review the fundamentals. Support each other. You are really good skiers.  You are going to figure it out.

And we had some really nice results in the JV girls scoring. Sloane Petersen finished first among JV Girls. Sammy Abellera-Wright was fourth and Evalie Hedrick was fifth. Very nice skiing girls.

Here are the links to sign up to work the races next week.
Monday, January 15th at Wild Mt (Noon Start)

Wednesday, January 17th at Hyland (4:30PM Start)

See you on the hill tomorrow. Video is posted on Sprongo. Please tag yourself. But not tonight. Go to bed.
Mark