UNH Carnival

The team had an awesome weekend at the UNH Carnival in Jackson, NH with some historic performances and personal bests that left us motivated and hungry for more!

After the races, the women's team stayed at my house on Saturday night for an awesome OD on Sunday morning. It turned out that a lot of the EISA+Utah+Eli+Gardner had the same idea, as we saw a bunch of other teams out skiing yesterday. It was a great weekend of skiing at home (for me), skiing new courses (for a lot of others), and skiing on an appreciable amount of snow (for everyone).

Below are some pictures recapping the weekend, along with the results of a meme/caption contest courtesy of the women's team.

These are the turkeys that visit my house everyday. Apparently Tsaina needs to work on her animal identification skills because she thought they were emus.

We love waiting to clean skis!

Corduroy on our ski yesterday... it's been a long time since we've skied in tracks that nice!

Sonya, Lucy and Becker are stoked! (PC: HC)

We had a couple of equipment malfunctions this weekend. The first happened when Sonya broke a knitting needle on the way up in the van, but luckily Jordan knows the locations of all fabric/knitting shops along the I-91 corridor in Vermont, so if you ever have a fabric emergency while driving, give him a call. 

Another equipment malfunction occurred when Ingrid broke a pole on an icy downhill during our OD. Luckily we happened to run into the Hoenigs at the bottom of the downhill, where Peter saved the day with his Swiss Army knife. In the above photo Peter is whittling Ingrid a new section of pole so we could ski back to the touring center. Phew! 

 And now, the meme/caption contest! All photos are courtesy of Steve Fuller (flyingpointroad.com), all captions courtesy of Williams Women's Nordic.

Now the team is focusing on resting up for next weekend at Trapp's and preparing for the impending chaos that comes with the beginning of the spring semester. I am taking a few days at home with my emus, while some others have gone to their respective homes or back to campus for the beginning of the week. Can't wait to rip it up again next weekend!

Benson

While we’re now in the thick of carnival season and about to start the semester, winter study allowed us a little extra time to do some sweet extra activities as a team. A few weeks ago we got to ski with a bunch kids with the Bill Koch league at Prospect. It is always great to see such excitement for skiing and take some time to think of how we can have an influence on younger skiers with the knowledge and enthusiasm we’ve been lucky enough to gain in our years skiing and our time at Williams.

We also had a special 80’s outing to the bowling alley. Unfortunately who knew bowling was so popular on a Wednesday, there were no lanes! But we just took the fun back to our kind senior boys home where we played sardines, cards, and ate cookies.

Here are some photos from the event:

 

Evan and Jack!

 

 

Lucy, Ingrid, Sarah, and Hans rock some sweet apparel!

 

Luckily we've got a camp counselor in our midst to get us going with some good games!

What is also new since my last blog post is that I am back in the United States! It is fun to be back with the team along with some great new members. Ever grateful for the fun, enthusiasm, and support from this team, coaches, parents, and fans!

Saint Lawrence Carnival

We are getting pumped for the UNH Carnival in Jackson New Hampshire tomorrow!  But here are some highlights from the races last weekend including our wonderful fan base.

Jordan coming in fast with pro photographer Peter Hoenig.

Braden killing it with high hands.

Some of the best fans from Poker B: Jeffery, Diddy, Troy as well as Clara.

Getting funky on the race course.

Thanks to Peter and Kathy for raising a wonderful son.

Elowyn and Sarah resting after a hard effort.

Ingrid was very excited to make the heats.

Nick and Joey posing and Benson with the photobomb.

Cheer squad for the heats.

Elowyn trying to make a seductive face and Nick is not having it.

"Quick and Dirty"

Girls squad

Jayvin, Caitlyn, and Rogan are all smiles,

Our youngest fan

Luke and Clara

Supportive moms, Emily, Marcy, and Liz, on the course and at the food table.  

Perry did some sick waxing this weekend.

Pasta dinner is always a blast.

Pre-race breakfast done right.

Tsaina and Ingrid loved cheering for the boys.

Braden getting after it!

Marge, Haley, Eleanor and Emily came up for the day to support the team!  Note the beautiful signs and Eleanor's sick hat.

Go Jordan! Go Williams!

Hans working on his weight transfer.

 

Perry is good at multitasking.

Benson and her father, Peter, enjoying a post race lunch.

What a cute crew!

Lucy and her WOOLF leader

Liza Lamb and Don Carr

Carmen and her father, Luis, enjoying a post race lunch as well.

What it would be like to be taller than Evan...

The girls are looking cute.

Thanks to the coaches, friends, and family for great opening carnival.  We are ready to rock the cow tomorrow morning.  Tune in to barttiming.com.

SLU Carnival

We had a great start to our Carnival season, but everyone is hungry for more!

Senior Captain, Hannah Benson double-poling the classic sprint qualifier.

Sonya Jampel double poling the qualifier  - just barely missing the heats.

Ingrid Thyr double-poled to 21st  in the qualifier!

Tsaina Mahlen double poling her qualifier.

Carmen Bango opted to go on kick wax.

Sarah Becker DP'ing.

Heidi went for kick wax and qualified in 12th!

Ladies cool-down!

Senior Captain Eli Hoenig qualified in 19th!

Luke Costley had a great day, qualifying in 17th!

Braden Becker just barely missed the heats for 31st.

Dylan had a great day, qualifying in 22nd!

Hans also made the heats in 20th!

Ingrid at the start of her quarterfinal - she finished 17th overall.

Heidi ended the day in 25th place!

Hans finished in 20th overall.

Luke almost made it through as a lucky loser, but ended the day in 13th!

Dylan and Eli skied the same quarterfinal for 26th and 15th place.

Sarah Becker had a great skate race for 30th place!

Ingrid skied into the top 20 with an 18th place finish!

Sonya finished just behind Ingrid in 19th!

Tsaina leads a UVM skier.

Luke Costley

Nick Gardner skied to 21st place.

Braden was our first guy in 10th place!

Jordan skied to 12th place!

Eli was our third scoring male in 13th place!

We leave for UNH carnival tomorrow!  Friday is a 5/10k individual start classic race, and saturday is the 15/20k mass start skate.