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SkiPennsylvania/SkiNortheast Vol. XXV No. 3 Mountain Edition February 2018 Olympics Preview on Skiers & Boarders U.S. Olympic Ski & Snowboard Selection Update Lindsey Vonn Ready to Attack Blue Mountain Resort Introduces Family and Friends Lessons Shawnee Mtn. 5th Annual Paint The Mountain Pink Kelly Clark Qualifies for Olympics USASA Mid-Atlantic Series Jfbb GS Results at Camelback Jack Frost /Big Boulder 2 S KI P ENNSYLVANIA ~ S KI N ORTHEAST February 2018 February 2018 S KI P ENNSYLVANIA ~ S KI N ORTHEAST 3 U.S. Ski and Snowboard, Olympic Selection Update Laurenne Ross (Bend, Ore.) confirmed her Olympic spot after the final event Sunday Jonathan Cheever (Saugus, Mass.) claimed his Olympic spot in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. Jan. 21, 2018 - On the final day of Olympic selection for most sports, several new spots were N.Y.) and Andrew Weibrecht (Lake Placid, N.Y.) claimed Olympic spots based on World Cup clinched based on objective criteria. Just 10 months after a significant knee injury, Laurenne Ross rankings. Weibrecht has medaled in super-G the last two Olympics. (Bend, Ore.) confirmed her Olympic spot after the final event Sunday in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Jan. 14, 2018 - Olympic selection continued on Sunday, but there were no new athletes Italy. Ross scored a top-10 finish in Lake Louise in December that held up to put her on the achieving objective criteria for selection. In men's slopestyle skiing Sunday in the Toyota U.S. team. Also qualifying in super-G were Lindsey Vonn (Vail, Colo.) and Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle- Grand Prix at Aspen-Snowmass, Gus Kenworthy (Telluride, Colo.) took the men's win over Vail, Colo.). After the final men’s slalom, David Chodounsky (Crested Butte, Colo.) and Nolan Nick Goepper (Lawrenceburg, Ind.). It was Kenworthy's first podium of the selection period, Kasper (Warren, Vt.) qualified based on World Cup ranking in slalom. Kasper returned to the second for Goepper. But it was not enough for either to mathematically clinch one of the three World Cup after nearly three years battling injuries earlier this week to earn his spot in his first objective criteria spots. It will now come down to the final two slopestyle contests at Mammoth World Cup back. Mountain. All of the objective qualifiers from snowboarding halfpipe and slopestyle/big air plus freeski Jan. 13, 2018 - Shaun White (Carlsbad, Calif.) led three Americans to PyeongChang halfpipe were honored Saturday night at Mammoth Mountain during the Toyota U.S. Grand Saturday at the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix in Aspen-Snowmass with all three clinching Olympic Prix. berths. White will make his fourth Olympic team, first for Ben Ferguson (Bend, Ore.) and Jake Team announcements are scheduled for this coming week and will be sequenced whenever Pates (Eagle, Colo.), who won Youth Olympic Games gold two years ago. final team sizes are known. Earlier in the day at Aspen, Maggie Voisin (Whitefish, Mont.) nailed a repeat spot in Jan. 20, 2018 - Lindsey Vonn (Vail, Colo.) earned a shot at repeating her 2010 Olympic slopestyle skiing. downhill gold as she clinched an Olympic Team spot with a win in the final downhill at Cortina Cross country ended its World Cup selection with a freestyle sprint in Dresden, Germany. d'Ampezzo, Italy. Jackie Wiles (Bend, Ore.) was third to make her second Olympic Team. New team qualifiers with a top 50 World Cup sprint ranking included Ida Sargent (Orleans, Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, Colo.) also qualified with her two downhill podiums this season. Vt.), Simi Hamilton (Aspen, Colo.) and Andy Newell (Shaftsbury, Vt.). A fourth downhill position may be added this week. In Kitzbuehel, Jared Goldberg (Salt Lake Jan. 12, 2018 - Teen Red Gerard (Silverthorne, Colo.) rocketed to his second Olympic City, Utah) and Bryce Bennett (Squaw Valley, Calif.) sealed their downhill spots on the Olympic qualifying win at the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix in Aspen-Snowmass Friday to claim a slopestyle Team. snowboarding spot in PyeongChang. Olympic champions David Wise (Reno, Nev.) and Maddie Jonathan Cheever (Saugus, Mass.) claimed his Olympic spot when no other athletes were Bowman (S. Lake Tahoe, Calif.) claimed their halfpipe skiing spots and will defend their Sochi able to unseat him in selection events. Cheever scored a podium in the season opener last summer. titles. At the Visa Freestyle International in Deer Valley, aerials skier Kiley McKinnon (Madison, At Mammoth Mountain, the day kicked off with the final slopestyle snowboarding contest Conn.) sealed her first Olympic Team spot. of the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix. Hailey Langland (San Clemente, Calif.) and Julia Marino Jan. 11, 2018 - Jaelin Kauf (Alta, Wyo.) and Morgan Schild (Rochester, N.Y.) clinched (Winchester, Mass.). Kyle Mack (West Bloomfield, Mich.) took the men's win to claim the Olympic berths with their finishes in the Visa Freestyle International World Cup moguls events final remaining objective criteria spot. Closing out the evening, Kelly Clark (Mt. Snow, Vt.) and in Deer Valley. With just one event remaining in the Olympic selection period, both have Maddie Mastro (Wrightwood, Calif.) claimed halfpipe snowboarding nominations. achieved two top three World Cup finishes and have mathematically sealed a spot. Jan. 19, 2018 - In a hotly contested Toyota U.S. Grand Prix halfpipe skiing finale, final Jan. 9, 2018 - Resi Stiegler (Jackson, Wyo.) clinched her spot on a third Olympic team objective spots for the Olympic Team were claimed. Brita Sigourney (Carmel, Calif.) sealed after the final slalom of the selection period. Stiegler qualified based on her World Cup ranking a return Olympic berth with a win. Devin Logan (W. Dover, Vt.) also sealed a return, but behind slalom leader Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, Colo.). this time in halfpipe. Logan is still in contention for a slopestyle spot. In the men's halfpipe, Dec. 31, 2017 - Bryan Fletcher (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) earned a spot on his second Alex Ferreira (Aspen, Colo.), who narrowly missed in 2014, earned a spot finishing second. Olympic Team with a win in nordic combined. Mike Glasder (Cary, Ill.) clinched his first Torin Yater-Wallace (Aspen, Colo.) claimed a return spot. Defending gold medalists David Olympic berth with a ski jumping victory while Sarah Hendrickson (Park City, Utah) claimed a Wise (Reno, Nev.) and Maddie Bowman (S. Lake Tahoe, Calif.) had already clinched spots. return trip with her women's ski jumping win. Additional fourth spots for men and women may be named next week. Olympic selection continues in most sports through next weekend. In the final men's super-G of the selection period, Tommy Biesemeyer (Lake Placid, 4 S KI P ENNSYLVANIA ~ S KI N ORTHEAST February 2018 ALL-NEW TERRAIN PARKS! Delaware Terrain Park With 18 features from top to bottom, the all-new Delaware Terrain Park is the perfect place for skiers and riders of all levels to perfect their skills! Country Club Terrain Park Same location, new park! The redesigned, Country Club Terrain Park features signature jibs and jumps for creative airtime! Shawnee Parks Instagram Be sure to follow Shawnee Mountain’s new terrain park Instagram account for awesome park photos! @shawneemountainparks shawneemt.com February 2018 S KI P ENNSYLVANIA ~ S KI N ORTHEAST 5 In Her Captain America Suit, Lindsey Vonn Finally Ready to Attack U.S.’s Mikaela Shiffrin speeds down the course during alpine ski, women’s World Cup Lindsey Vonn Ready to Attack at 100% Photo by Getty Images giant slalom, in San Vigilio di Marebbe, Italy, 2017. (AP Photo/MarcoTrovati) CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — The Olympic downhill is little like I’ve finally learned my lesson, and I’ve been taking it easy to make sure that more than a month away, and Lindsey Vonn is finally ready to start attacking at I can make it to the Olympics. Flipping the switch is something that comes very 100 percent again. Forget that unusual image of the 78-time World Cup winner naturally to me.” skiing cautiously amid difficult weather conditions in Austria last weekend. But how will she cope if the conditions in PyeongChang are difficult? Back on one of her favorite courses — she holds a record 11 wins in Cortina “That’s what I’m working on with my equipment right now. I’ve been testing — Vonn is not planning to hold anything back entering a set of three speed races some things and trying to get a setup that I’m more comfortable with,” Vonn said. this weekend: downhills Friday and Saturday and then a super-G on Sunday (full “I definitely was not comfortable and not comfortable risking anything. So I think broadcast schedule). that once I find a setup that’s a little bit better for icier conditions — just in case “This snow is perfect. This hill is perfect. I have a lot of confidence here,” Vonn — then I’ll be ready for any condition in PyeongChang.” said Thursday after dominating downhill training for the second consecutive day. With the Olympics in mind, Vonn set aside a pair of skis that she tested on icy “It’s a place where I can definitely push myself and ski more like my 100 conditions in PyeongChang last season. percent self. I don’t need to be careful. I don’t need to worry about the risks. I’m “I feel like I need a little bit more testing, but in general I’m ready for any just skiing like normal and I’m back to normal. This is how I ski when I am skiing condition,” she said. well. It’s not like I’m not skiing well.” With the women’s technical events being held before the speed races in In both training runs, Vonn’s advantage was nearly a full second — an eternity PyeongChang — the opposite from recent Olympics, Vonn will be able to ease in ski racing.