Thanksgiving Camp Success!

The Bates Alpine Team has just gotten back from an amazing 9 days of training at Sunday River!
Two days of GS and 7 days of slalom and the Bates team is feeling amped for whats to come this season. The conditions were great for November skiing in the east coast and we are so happy we were able to get so much training. Shoutout to Sunday River for great snow making and conditions!
Moving forward, the ski season is coming at us quick, fis races kick off in less than two weeks and we have the annual Turkey Chase slalom this sunday!

Check out this awesome video highlighting our last week of training!

Fall is Upon Us

It is officially fall and classes are back in session here in Lewiston, however despite the season, the weather is incredibly hot-we're hoping this changes real soon.

The team has started its lifting and drylands programs and we are working to be in the best shape we can for this 2018 season.

This past weekend was Back to Bates weekend where many of our alumni and families were present at our tailgate to cheer on the Bates sports teams and hang out with past team mates.
Here are a few pictures from the weekend!

(Sierra Ryder '18, Kelsey Chenoweth '17, Hannah Johnson '18)

Summer Update 2017!

Summer Update 2017

It’s already August, and with only a month left until the bobcat alpine team heads east for fall semester we have been amping up the dryland and summer skiing hoping for an awesome 2018 season.

The whole team has been up to a lot this summer from summer skiing, internships, and various trips!

Here are just a few highlights of some of the bobcat skiers.

Incoming freshman Calvin Wilson and senior Hannah Johnson started out skiing in Mammoth! Hannah is now currently ripping it up in Chile for a few weeks.

Incoming freshman Amelia Kaplan, sophomore Tagert Mueller, and senior Sierra Ryder are all in New Zealand prepping for the season and appearing in a few New Zealand races. Tagert Mueller won a race in NZ scoring a personal best too!

Sophomore Emma Finfer skied in Hood for a week as well!

More pictures and updates to follow J

Ski Season Wrap Up

Just like that our 2016/2017 ski season has come to a close-officially.
After carnival season finished in February we have been busy at NCAAs, NorAms, Eastern Cups, US Nationals, and Canadian races. After a long month and a half of spring racing we have finally finished and are ready for some very much needed sun and break.
The semester is almost done as well (one more week!!) and the alpine team will be taking a little break before getting right back into training and getting in shape.
Next season starts now right?!

In the mean time we would like to thank everyone and anyone who has supported the Alpine team this year, we so greatly appreciate it!

Additionally we would like to give a shout out to Kelsey Chenoweth who is graduating this spring, congrats on everything Kels!

Thanks for a great season bobcats and bobcat supporters!

Bates Carnival/End of Carnival Season

And just like that our wonderful carnival season is over. Six weeks sure does fly by!

The Bates Carnival/EISA Regionals was very interesting this year...The GS race was a one run race due to the incredibly warm wet weather producing difficult racing conditions. Kelsey Chenoweth had a good one run race ending her GS Carnival season with a 10th place! And congrats to freshman Emma Finfer on an awesome GS run where she ended up 25th for college!!

The slalom races were equally exhilarating with some great skiing by many of our skiers. Michael Cooper had a great second run finishing overall in 7th place and 6th for college!
*Special thanks to Kurt and Dylan for their awesome announcing!

I'd also like to give a huge shoutout to our only senior this year Kelsey Chenoweth on her skiing career. Congratulations on an amazing ski racing career that you should be incredibly proud of. We are going to miss you so much you have no idea.

Looking towards the end of the season we have a few more fis series that we will be doing and NCAAs are in two weeks for our two qualifiers (Kelsey and Michael).

Middlebury Recap

Well, the Middlebury Carnival came and went. The weather was amazing as always and one of the highlights was Kelsey Chenoweth's 11th place finish in GS!

We have been on break this whole week ramping up for our home carnival this Friday/Saturday at Sunday River!
We are delighted to announce that two of the funniest amazing people we know, Kurt Niiler and Dylan Malone, will be announcing the races! This will help make the carnival the best of the year for sure. Additionally we expect to see many alums and parents and hope everyone can come up and watch as our bobcats kill it on our home mountain!

Dartmouth Carnival

Last weekend was the Dartmouth Carnival. Still not our favorite venue, especially those GS flats, but the slalom ended pretty well!

For the slalom junior Sierra Ryder had a career best finish in 10th place! Go Sierra!
Junior Hannah Johnson also had a pretty good day ending up in 18th, overall the girls got 5th, not our best team score but still pretty great!

On our mens side we had great skiing but unfortunately there were some DNFs, however we are confident they will channel that great skiing and bring it into this weekend at Middlebury!

Also don't forget the Bates Carnival is one week away!!!! We hope to see everyone there supporting our fellow skiers and having a great time, trust me this will be the carnival you want to attend.

Halfway Through Carnival Season

Hard to believe but we are already halfway through carnival season. 

This past weekend at the Stowe/UVM carnival we had a weekend of mixed results. 

First day of GS started out great, good surface and pretty descent weather, however the afternoon turned into a bit of a blizzard, making second run a little bit of a challenge for some. Regardless we pushed through and produced some good GS skiing.

Slalom was perfect conditions and weather for all, it was a truly beautiful day for ski racing.

Highlights from the slalom was sophomore Michael Cooper and his career best finish in 9th place! Additionally junior Hannah Johnson got 12th! Good work bobcats!

Moving forward we are ready to crush the next three carnivals, Dartmouth will be this coming weekend, then Middlebury, and finally to top things off our home carnival at Sunday River is in just three weeks! You definitely don't want to miss the Bates Carnival so mark your calendars everyone! (Feb 24-25)

Results:

GS:

Johnson- 18th

Smith- 29th

Mahon- 36th

Cooper-19th

SL:

Johnson-12th

Smith-30th

Finfer-34th

Cooper-9th

Mueller-37th

Second Carnival Updates!

Kelsey Chenoweth did it again in the GS with another 5th place finish! So awesome, congrats to Kelsey on starting off the season with a bang!
In addition to Kelsey's 5th place junior Sierra Ryder placed 14th and junior Hannah Johnson was 27th helping the women's team score a third place for team totals in GS! Go lady bobcats!
On the mens side we had freshman Ryan Clermont place 32nd moving all the way up from bib 78!

For slalom junior Sierra Ryder finished 15th overall and sophomore Michael Cooper had a career best finish in 17th place.

Next stop on our carnival agenda is UVM/Stowe. It will be nice to get on some steeps this weekend as many of our skiers excel on steep hills. Stay tuned for results!

GS:
Chenoweth- 5th
Ryder- 14th
Johnson- 27th
Finfer- 29th
Smith- 40th
***3rd for women's teams!!!

Clermont- 32nd

SL:
Ryder-15th
Johnson- 21st
Finfer- 27th
Smith- 40th
Chenoweth- 41st

Cooper- 17th

First Carnival Complete- St. Lawrence

Our first carnival of the season is complete, and many great things happened.
To start, senior Kelsey Chenoweth got her career best 5th place in GS! We are all so excited about this. Additionally the women's team placed 4th in GS, which was also amazing after some of our girls' second runs were not quite as good as they can be.

Slalom was interesting considering the snow conditions were bad with slush and weird cross ruts forming. Despite the difficult conditions we powered through, with junior Sierra Ryder placing 11th on second run and 14th overall. On the mens side we had freshman Gaven Chen place 35th overall.

Looking ahead we are excited at the momentum we are building and are all confident that we will continue to improve. This weekend will be at UNH/Cannon, updates to follow.

Results:

GS

Women:

Chenoweth: 5th

Ryder: 20th

Johnson: 23rd

Smith: 32nd

Finfer: 36th

Antonelli: 41st

(Overall: 4th)

Men:

Cooper: 26th

SL

Women:

Ryder: 14th

Chenoweth: 16th

Antonelli: 25th

Finfer: 42nd

Men:

Chen: 35th

Almost Carnival Time!

It's almost time for our first carnival of the season so I thought it would be a good idea to show everyone what we have been doing lately- training hard at Sunday River!
Here is a video highlighting some great slalom training we had this past week, enjoy! :)

Winter Updates!

Ski season is now in full swing for the bobcats as we enter the new year.
The first races we have this month are the Nor Ams at Burke mountain and a few races at Whiteface. Along with the races we have some great training set up at Sunday River, and after this huge winter storm we have had here in Maine the conditions are expected to be great!
In other news our team is officially all together now that our two juniors who were abroad (Hannah and Sierra) are back with us.
Everyone is so excited for the carnival season to start as well. The first carnival will be held at Whiteface in Lake Placid NY, hosted by St. Lawrence. Since the first carnival is a little bit later this year we will be taking full advantage of all the training time we have before the college races kick into full swing.

**More updates on race results will be posted as the season progresses, in the mean time Happy New Year!!

Go Bobcats!

Summer Update

With less than month left until everyone heads back to school here is a little summary of what the alpine team has been doing the past few months.

For starters two of our fabulous skiers (Sierra and Hannah) are now abroad for fall semester, Sierra down under in Melbourne Australia, and Hannah just made it to Namibia Africa!

While in Melbourne Sierra was able to get in touch with one of our incoming freshman skiers, Annabel Mahon, and got to ski with her for a few days at Mt. Buller!

Many of our other skiers were able to hit the slopes over the summer too.

Two incoming freshmen, Griffin and Tagert Mueller, were able to ski at Whistler, and Hannah was also at Whistler this summer.

We have so much to look forward to this season including the fact that we have 8 incoming freshmen, yes thats right 4 boys and 4 girls. We have quite the full team this season and we will definitely be taking advantage of that! 

Go Bobcats!

(Sierra left, Annabel right, skiing at Mt Buller)

(Griffin and Tagert in Whistler)

NCAA Regionals/Middlebury Carnival

Our final carnival was this past weekend at the Middlebury Snow Bowl.
This carnival marked the last carnival for our seniors Chris Bradbury, Cody Bullen, and Tanner Dirtstine. We will miss you guys!

Result wise some of our women had impressive GS results, and Chris Bradbury had a good GS race as well.

Unfortunately no one from our team will be heading to NCAAs after this years qualification proved to be extremely competitive, especially on the women's side where a few of us just barely missed the last few spots.
Overall our team had a good season full of consistent skiing and solid results. We had some great team scores on the women's side such as our 3rd place at the UVM carnival and being consistently in the top 5 for both GS and SL. After this years results full of career bests and team bests we are very excited for the next carnival season and the remainder of the fis races we will be doing.

Middlebury results:
GS
women
Chenoweth 9th
Johnson 15th
Ryder 19th
Antonelli 32nd
men
Bradbury 24th
Dirstine 43rd

SL
women
Chenoweth 12th
Johnson 14th
Ryder 26th
Antonelli 31st
men
Fordyce 34th
Glasgow 42nd
Dirstine 48th

Williams Carnival

We just raced our 5th carnival of the season at Jiminy Peak and Berkshire East for the Williams Carnival. There were some strong individual performances by both the women and men.
We are now looking forward to the last carnival at Middlebury this coming Friday and Saturday as we make a final push for NCAAs.
results from Williams:
GS
women:
Ryder 14th
Johnson 17th
Antonelli 33rd

men:
Lash 27th
Cooper 28th
Dirstine 35th

Slalom
women:
Johnson 18th
Ryder 19th
Antonelli 34th

men:
Malone 39th
Bullen 40th
Lash 47th

Dartmouth Carnival

The alpine team had a good weekend full of major improvements from the previous season at the Dartmouth carnival.
While we have not been known to excel on the flats of Dartmouth both teams did a great job and had some solid results.
This upcoming weekend is the Williams carnival and we are looking forward to some good racing there.
results:
 GS
women
Chenoweth 13th
Ryder 23rd
Johnson 25th

men
Cooper 36th
Bradbury 37th
Dirstine 43rd
Glasgow 53rd
Fordyce 55th

Slalom
women
Chenoweth 10th
Ryder 14th
Johnson 19th
Antonelli 31st
Engelbrekt 44th

men
Cooper 34th
Lash 37th
Fordyce 42nd

UVM Carnival

The bobcats just had the UVM carnival at Stowe Vermont this past weekend.
It was another exciting two days of racing with good results for our team.
The highlight of the weekend was definitely the women's team placing 3rd out of 13 teams in slalom!
Now we have a week break from the carnivals and pick it back up at Dartmouth on the 12th and 13th.
 GS:
women
Johnson 16th
Ryder 21st
Antonelli 26th

men
Bradbury 15th
Cooper 19th
Lash 29th

SL:
women
Johnson 8th
Ryder 13th
Chenoweth 14th

men
Bullen 50th

Colby Carnival

On January 22 and 23 the alpine team competed at the Colby Carnival (Sugarloaf).

Overall the weekend was a success with some very good races, our women's team had a very good day in slalom with three in the top 15!

GS:

women

Chenoweth 13th

Ryder 16th

Johnson 19th

Hadden 25th

Antonelli 34th

team: 5th

men

Lash 30th

Cooper 44th

Dirstine 46th

team: 11th

Slalom

women

Chenoweth 12th

Ryder 13th

Johnson 15th

Antonelli 31st

team: 4th

men

Cooper 23rd

Bradbury 44th

Bates Carnival

This past weekend the Bates Ski Team kicked off the carnival season by hosting the first carnival at Sunday River! We are now looking forward to our next carnival at Sugarloaf hosted by Colby.
Here are the results:
GS
Women:
Chenoweth 10th
Ryder 19th
Johnson 26th
Antonelli 38th
team= 6th
 Men:
Dirstine 25th
Cooper 26th
team=9th

SL
Women:
Johnson 13th
Ryder 20th
team=8th
Men:
Lash 28th
Cooper 35th

Thanksgiving Camp recap

This past Thanksgiving week the alpine team was in Colorado getting some awesome training in at Echo Mountain. We all had a great time in Colorado, plus the weather was super nice!

Now we are ready to train at Sunday River and race next weekend!

Take a look at the video that highlights our past week!!