Ski Club Update

Well, it's been a busy couple of weeks for the ski club. After our big Baldy Cup win the K level kids had a race at Revelstoke on the 15th and 16th. It was an awesome weekend for Silken with two firsts and a fourth in the three GS events. Madeleine had a crash in the first race but did well in the second placing 13th. The revelstoke club did a wonderful job of putting on the event and built lots of fun into the weekend with an after race social gathering on Saturday. The mountain itself is very impressive with the expansion of terrain giving it almost 5000 feet of vertical. A few parents were able to break away from the race action to sample a few runs on the upper mountain. Everyone was very impressed.

The schedule remained busy for Silken for the following week Feb 22-24th. She was part of a select group of kids from the Okanagan to race at the BC Winter Games in Kimberly. Some of the highlights for her were an 8th in GS and 6th in Kombi. The kids from the Okanagan really dominated which helped put the Thompson-Okanagan zone over the top for the overall win.

In the meantime the Nancy Greene kids have been training hard for the upcoming Okanagan finals at Big White on March 8-9th. The kids are very determined this year and have shown it in the results so far. Training is set again for this sunday at 9:30 am as usual. Any parents wanting to help out with course setting can meet out on the Face at 8:45 am.

More details to follow on meeting times for the Big White race and also for the wind-up festivities. It looks like we'll have our wind-up on either March 22nd or 23rd. We are planning to have a parents against the kids race and a lunch in the lounge.

Baldy Cup Mountain Challenge Race

Well, it's official. The Baldy Cup has returned to its riteful owners and it did so in a big way. Our team racked up an impressive set of medals to pull in front of Apex, Phoenix and Sitzmark to reclaim the coveted trophy. Way to go kids!

Our medal total included, in the five year old category, Adam Koczij with gold and Yolanda Fenwick-Wilson winning silver. In the six year old girls category Agatka Koczij won gold and in the boys Mitchell Townsend took gold with Daniel Everton in the silver position. For the seven year old category Mia McBryde won gold in the girls group with Nils Rauhala winning gold and Samuel Foy in fourth for the boys. In the eight year old category we had Jessica Schoyen with gold for the girls and a Baldy sweep of the podium in the boys. This included Nicholas Everton winning gold, Will Kane in the silver position, Nathaniel Larivee in bronze, Ben Myers in fourth and Jack Fenwick-Wilson in sixth. In the nine year old girls group Ella Pasin won bronze. In the ten year old boys group we had Jake Townsend in the silver medal position, Sebastian Larivee in bronze and Foster Kane in fourth. In the last two groups we had Madeleine Everton winning gold in the eleven year old category and Silken Rauhala winning gold in the twelve to fifteen year old category

Nancy Greene Race #1 Apex

Great results for Mt. Baldy at the Apex Nancy Greene race February 2nd. Our E1 blue team (Agatka, Mia, Daniel, Mitchell, Jack and Adam) took the gold in the blue event and our E1 black team (Jessica, Nathaniel, Ben, Nicholas, Will and Nils) took the silver in the black event. Way to go E1s!

Our E2s also did quite well considering the depth of the Big White and Apex teams. Ella Pasin placed sixth in the E2 9 yr old girls category. In the 10 year old boys category Jake Towsend was 6th, Sebastian Larivee 7th and Foster Kane was 10th. Check out the link to the left for great shots of the race.

Next up for the Mt Baldy race team is our Club Challenge Baldy Cup Race this Saturday, Feb 9th at 9 am. Check the race schedule in the earlier post below.