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| Hannah B and Tsaina at Prospect Before the big storm! |
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| Luke and Ben on a post race weekend distance ski |
On Thursday we left Williamstown for the second week in a row with the Hob Knob in Stowe as the destination. The Dartmouth races were held in Craftsbury, but Stowe is under an hour drive away and provides better accommodation and dinner options for the team. We were invited to ski at the Halvorsen's on Thursday afternoon and it DID NOT disappoint. Absolutely amazing and an awesome day of skiing!!! Thank you so much Halvorsen family!
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| Nice Setting |
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| Perfect tracks all to ourselves! |
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| No caption needed. |
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| Eliza, Sarah, Laura, Elena, Luke and Hans ALL SMILES! |
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| Post race tele practice and dog racing |
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| Olivia happy in the snow! Vanya may have been responsible for this |
DARTMOUTH CARNIVAL RACING
We woke up early Friday morning and headed to Craftsbury to find perfect snow conditions with about an inch of new snow on top of a very firm skate track. The men fired up an outstanding day and finished on the podium for the 3rd race in a row! Here is the EISA websites summary of the day regarding the EPH MEN:
"Williams College put no skiers in the top ten on Friday, but still managed to put 5 in the top-20 by placing Eli Hoenig 12th, Will Wicherski 13th, and Jordan Fields 15th. The solid skiing by the deep Ephs team capped off their third team podium in as many races, and continued their quietly impressive season. Vanya Rybkin was 17th and Isaac Hoenig was 19th on the day."
We've had many folks come up to us this year to comment on the depth of our team. It's really exciting to see and the boys keep us guessing everyday as to what the finish order is going to be!
The women's team followed up the men Friday with Hannah Benson, Hannah Cole and Tsaina leading the way as our top three.
Here are the results from the Skate Races:
http://www.barttiming.com/eisa/Results14/EISA/doc2014-4.pdf
http://www.barttiming.com/eisa/Results14/EISA/doc2014-3.pdf
Saturday's competitions were the 15/20K Classic individual start races. The Craftsbury 5K loop is brutal with a ton of climbing and the team capitalized on their fitness and skiing abilities for another successful day of racing.
The men's field started first again and finished 4th overall, tying UNH for the 3rd place finish for the weekend. Jordan led the way in 10th, followed by Eli in 12th and Isaac in 18th. All 6 carnival skier men finished in the top 31!
Men's results:
http://www.barttiming.com/eisa/Results14/EISA/doc2014-8.pdf
The women went next in the 15K classic and rallied to a much higher team score than on Friday. Hannah Cole led the way with her first top ten finish! Hannah was followed by Elena who had a great race on the grueling course in 27th and Eliza who would have finished 35th in the college race, but was racing in the open field. Tsaina rounded out our top three scorers in 36th place.
Women's results:
http://www.barttiming.com/eisa/Results14/EISA/doc2014-7.pdf
And here is the ephsports write-up for the weekend:
http://ephsports.williams.edu/sports/skiing/2013-14/releases/20140208gqf8sk
The parents were a HUGE help as always this weekend manning the food table. In addition Bill Jahn headed up the feed station on the race course, Peter Benson was taking video and Peter Hoenig and Emily Benson were taking pictures! Bud and I could not do this without such a GREAT PARENT CREW. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Here are a few of Emily's pictures from the weekend:
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| Okay, this is from my iPhone. It was CARNIE CRUSH weekend. CAN YOU TELL? HARVARD BOYS |
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| Hannah Benson en route to a great skate performance |
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| Eli |
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| Eli and Vanya Vanya caught a great ride for 8K! |
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| Kalle |
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| The outstanding (and pretty famous at this point) Williams Parent Food Table! |
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| Laura |
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| Will striding away |
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| Eli charging the top of the big climb |
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| Vanya |
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| Jordan racing to his first collegiate TOP TEN! |
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| Luke on the big hill |
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| Tsaina |
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| Elena |
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| Olivia |
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| Hannah Cole on her way to her first TOP TEN CLASSIC RESULT |
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| Hannah Benson |
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| Eliza |
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| Jenna |
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| Eph Waxing Headquarters |
We returned to Prospect for our distance ski on Sunday to find excellent PistonBully groomed conditions.
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| Prospect race loop pic taken Sunday Feb 9th. |
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