Quebec trip and the start of the carnival season

We had a great trip to Quebec for three FIS races (2 GS and 1 SL) last week that served as our final warm-up for the carnival season. We had strong performances from assistant coach Dan Loman (2 wins in GS, 7th in SL), Bump Heldman (3rd in GS, 5th in SL), Alex Jones (3rd in GS), Ben Manter (6th in GS, 8th in SL), Ross Brockman (10th in GS, 10th in SL), Jeff Lathrop (9th in SL), John Canney (11th in GS), Zoe Livingston (4th and 8th in GS) and Kristin Waddle (7th in GS, 14th in SL).

Tomorrow the carnival season begins and we look to continue the strong skiing from the entire group. Watch the results as they happen on www.live-timing.com

Go Bobcats!

Winter Break Update

It's been busy few weeks here for the Bobcats with the conclusion of Eastern Cups, holidays and our training camp.  Here is what has been going on - 

Eastern Cups

The men continued to battle weather at Sugarloaf and only completed one of two scheduled GS races and even that race took two days to complete.  Bump Heldman continued his early season success with a 4th place. 

The women had no weather issues with their races and were able to get all four races in. Here are the highlights. 

SL #1

Caitlin Forbes - 8th (Started 24th)

Zoe Livingston - 14th

SL#2

Micaela Holland - 9th 

GS#1

Micaela Holland - 5th (3rd second run)

Caitlin Forbes - 12th

GS#2

Caitlin Forbes - 12th (5th second run)

After a well earned week off the team returned to Sunday River to start our training camp on December 29th.  Despite the challenging weather of the past week, we have had excellent training.  

On the 30th we joined up with the Gould Alpine Competition Program for their first "Carnival" of the year.  The GACP carnivals are a series of races they do with their J4 and J5 athletes throughout the season.  For the carnivals they divide up all of their athletes into different teams named for each of the EISA schools.  We then divided up our group so that that two of our skiers were on each team.  Our skiers spent the afternoon skiing, inspecting and racing with their respective teams.  It was a great experience for the young kids from the Gould program and our skiers had a great time working with all of them.  

Tomorrow starts a busy week of racing.  On Monday and Tuesday the men's NorAms are at Sunday River.  Bump Heldman and Dan Loman will be racing. Then on Thursday we travel up to Quebec with the entire team to get three FIS starts in before we start classes and get ready for the first carnival of the year.