Race Results; Wild Invite Team Selections

Good Evening:

Thank you to all the coaches and parents and athletes who participated in our first race of the season tonight. Attached are race results. Congratulations to Gabby Harritt and Andreas Drekonja for their first place finishes. They are the 2022 Mpls ALPINE Champions. Taking the Team Championship titles are the Washburn Boys and Washburn Girls.

There was a lot of good skiing on display tonight. If you are unhappy with your results, do not beat yourself up. Instead, think about what you can do a little bit better next time and visualize yourself doing it better. Better turn shape back to the gate? Consistent pressure over the outside ski? More effort and courage coming out of the start? Quicker feet in the combinations? Everyone who has been coming to train on a regular basis is improving. Stay focused on strengthening your technical and tactical skills and the results will start to fall into place.  

The coaches have spent a lot of time looking at the results from our timing sessions last week and tonight's race. We have selected the athletes who will be entered in the Wild Mt Invitational on Friday. I will be issuing refunds to anyone who paid for a lift ticket to Wild for Friday, but was not placed on a team. Please talk with your teachers tomorrow about your upcoming absence from school that day. Be sure to keep your skis tuned this week so that you have less work to do Thursday evening. Congratulations to the following athletes who qualified to compete on Friday. 

MAST Boys
1. Makeen Mkaouri
2. Zae Isensee
3. Colin Brandt
4. Hudson White
5. Sam Moore
6. Henry Payne

MAST Girls
1. Elise Legler
2. Beatrice Moldow
3. Anne McConville
4. Bret Margolis
5. Avery Patterson
6. Maddie Graff

SW Boys
1. Simon Showalter-Loch
2. Parker Hunt
3. Kai Lamb
4. Jonah Byron
5. Eli Kroll
6. Evan Byron
Alt: Leo Spanier

SW Girls
1. Lucy Renz
2. Lia Rulf
3. Eva Voyakin
4. Elli George
5. Ingrid Hartzell
6. Mila Voyain
Alternate: Julia Maurice

Washburn Boys
1. Andreas Drekonja
2. Levi Ehlers
3. Jack Bajek
4. Beckett Wedren
5. Finn Cherveny
6. Callum White
Alternate: Will Cherveny

Washburn Girls
1. Gabby Harritt
2. Ellie Arbeiter
3. Reese Kuehn
4. Kate Moore
5. Sylvia Pulkrabek
6. Julia Westphal
Alternate: Ramie George

We will have a bus to transport everyone TO Wild Mt. As usual, you will need to catch a ride home with a parent-- either your parents or a teammate's parent. No athletes are allowed to drive themselves to the race. If you want to ride to the race with a parent, you are free to do so, just let me know so we aren't waiting for you at the bus.  

I will send a more specific email in the next day or two to just the Wild Invite parents and athletes with more information about the day. For now, try to line up your transportation home, talk with your teachers, get plenty of rest, and keep training well.  And if for some reason you are unable to race, please let me know immediately. 

See you tomorrow.
Mark