The Race Season Has Started

Between the great snow making at Sunday River and an awesome trip to Colorado the team has been fortunate enough to be on snow for almost a month now and this past weekend we finally got the race season started with two FIS races at Sunday River.

Day 1

Avril Dunleavy '15 started the season with a come from behind win. Sitting 6th after the first run behind first run leader Emily Bamford '15, Avril won the second run to edge her teammate by 4 tenths of a second for the win.  Emily Hayes '15 and Anne Rockwell '14 weren't far behind in 6th and 7th respectively.

Chris Bradbury '16 got the men's season started with a strong 16th place finish from the 32nd start despite numerous mistakes in challenging conditions. He was followed by Coleman Lieb '14 in 24th and Tanner Dirstine '16 in 25th from the 60th start position.

Day 2

Day two saw some tougher conditions as the warm night left us with some chunky snow particularly for the men.  Unfortunately the men struggled in the conditions and Brent Talbott '14 was our only finisher of the day in 43rd.

The women had slightly better snow on their side of the hill and battled through the conditions to dominate the day once again. Avril took the win by 1.7 seconds over Williams skier Geordie Lonza. Emily Hayes completed the podium moving from 7th after the first run to 3rd. Emily Bamford finished off a very strong weekend just off the podium in 4th, a tenth of second behind her teammate. Anne Rockwell who was sitting third after the first run was an unfortunate DNF on run 2. 

The team is now finishing up finals before we move into a quick two day block of training to get ready for next week's Eastern Cup races at Sunday River (men) and Sugarloaf (women).  

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