Men's Eastern Cup Slaloms - Bump Heldman Wins Twice!

The first two Eastern Cup slaloms of the year at Sugarloaf are in the books and it was a great start for the Bobcats as Bump Heldman won both races. Bump was in 4th after the first run yesterday, when the second run was postponed to this morning due to high winds. He started the day off strong by winning the second run and the race. He continued his strong day by winning the first run of the second race and held on in the second run to win his second race of the day. First-year Jeff Lathrop also turned in a strong performance today moving from a start number of 40 to 14th place (9th on the second run). Due to final exams we only had a few guys in the race, but now that exams are done we will have a full group for the GS races this weekend.

First races of the season

This past weekend marked the start of the race season for the team. Most of the team raced in a pair of USSA slaloms at Sunday River, while Alex Jones made the trek up to Val St-Come in Quebec for a pair of FIS slaloms. Zoe Livingston '13 and assistant coach Dan Loman '08 each picked up a win this weekend. They were both joined on the podium by teammates Micaela Holland '11 and Ben Manter '11 who each finished a close second. In Quebec, Alex Jones '12 picked up a pair of top-20 results against a strong field for a solid start to his season.

At the end of this week we return to racing with the start of the Eastern Cup FIS series at Sunday River (women) and Sugarloaf (men).

Rogan Connell
Head Coach Alpine Skiing
Bates College
Lewiston, ME 04240

www.batesskiing.com
www.eisaskiing.org

Snow!!!

We finally received our first significant snowfall here in Lewiston. It was great to wake up to 6 inches of snow this morning and actually have it feel like winter. We just finished up our third week of training this week and had hoped to be racing this weekend but the weather didn't cooperate. While there was enough snow on the race hill at Sunday River there was not enough open terrain to close it. None the less it was a great week of training and we look forward to finally getting some racing in this coming weekend.

In other news, assistant coach Dan Loman spent this past week at Beaver Creek forerunning the Birds of Prey downhill. It was a great opportunity for him to ski one of the toughest downhills in the world as well as watch the best skiers in the world. As you can see from the photo of Dan signing autographs, everyone involved in the race becomes a bit of a celebrity.

Coach Loman signing autographs -

View of Mt Washington from the top of Sunday River -

Training on T2 at Sunday River -

Rogan Connell
Head Coach Alpine Skiing
Bates College
Lewiston, ME 04240

W: 207-786-6346
C: 207-240-5374
F: 207-786-8232

www.batesskiing.com
www.eisaskiing.org