WEEKEND COMPETITION UPDATE

As of Friday 3:00 PM...The Killington B Competition is on for Saturday same time- same schedule. Meet Matt @ 7:30 at K-1 base lodge.

Waterville Valley A comp -is changing to a training day for Saturday and they will have 2 single events held on Sunday. Training tickets will be available at the comp center after 9:00 AM. Brett and Robbie will be working on the course with other coaches to help prepare it for an 11:00 AM training day opening. You can meet them on the course then.             

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WEEKEND OF JAN. 28 & 29

Winter keeps on churning and we keep on rolling out the skiing. This past weekend was an awesome display of tremendous competitions at both our Stevek Mogul Challenge and at icy Whiteface. The turnout for both A-  & B-Teams was exceptional and we got it done and had a lot of fun at both ECS and EQS events. Those that were not competing enjoyed some wonderful snow all over the mountain as well as some great spectating of Stevek's Mogul Challenge on World Cup.

 

Competitions:

First off the upcoming weekend will be another busy one with our A-Team going to Waterville Valley for the Rosemary Bowl while the B-Team goes to Killington for the Killington Classic (moguls on Saturday, Air & Slope Style Sunday). Our Allegro skiers staying at home will be treated to the use of our Stevek course and some rebuilt air bumps. The A-Team will be meeting Friday morning at 9:30 at the WV base lodge for training at Waterville Valley. Meet at the same lodge on Saturday morning (Brett & Robbie) for the first day of the Rosemary Bowl (Another Singles on Sunday).

The B-Team will be hitting Killington Saturday; this is the annual Killington Classic (email Matt Ellinger matt@ellingerdesign.com if you are interested in training on Friday — a training day is not scheduled yet so stay tuned to easternfreestyle.org for up-to-date information). All registered competitors should meet at 7:30 Saturday morning at the K1 base lodge. (they are trying to get Superstar — but are not yet decided).

 

Results:
This past weekend the A Squad hit Whiteface/Lake Placid hard (icy hard). Competing on the same course as the World Cup skiers did a few days earlier. Competition was on Wildfire which proved to be very difficult. Through all adversity the team had a pretty good day — Action Jackson Schunk taking his best ever place 5^th in the singles and Nick Urban again getting it done with the rotations and an 8th place. Grace Baldwin wasn't fond of the course but took home a respectable 10^th place.

Lots of things can be said about The Stevek event this past weekend but 3 words come to mind challenging, fun and inspiring. All the athletes skied great. The coaches are very proud of all the athletes who participated. The Allegro program was very well represented in the almost 90 skier field. If it was your first time ever… congratulations and awesome job. All the groups from the F6-M2’s ripped up a very tough course. The results were pretty sweet too. The Stratton B-Team continues to dominate the Eastern Qualifier Series.

 

Saturday Girls Overall             Saturday Boys Overall           SundayGirls                             Boys
1.  Megan   Loyst                4. Harrison Shunk                     1. Lulu Schaffer                     8. Luke Williams
2.  Lulu Schaffer                 6.  Saheer Mathrani                   2.Megan Loyst                      10. Dean Williams
3 Savannah Forehand       9.  Ronin Linroth                         3.Savanah Forehand
4. Emily Eldridge               10.  Alex Bologna                        5.Emily Eldridge
5. Sam Kost                                                                           6. Rachael Loyst
6. Sam Johnston                                                                    8. Charlotte Kim
7. Rachael Loyst                                                                  10. Gretta Tomson         
8. Grace Holstein
10. Charlotte Kim

Allegro  A team is throwing out an early ask for those of you interested in helping the program out and volunteering for our A meet — Mogulfest — coming up at Stratton on Feb 11& 12^th. The comp is approaching quickly and we need your help (Both A and B parents)! This event is a lot of fun help with because watching the A athletes close up is awesome. Contact  Jillian Shaffer jillians@optonline.net to sign up to help. Just like Stevek's Mogul Challenge the event cannot happen without the support and help of parent volunteers. 

For those thinking about Eastern B's at Waterville Valley in March past lodging stays have been relatively safe and comfortable  at Snowy Owl 603 236 8383, Valley Inn 603 236 8425, Black Bear 603 236 4501, Silver Fox 603 236 3699 . Farther out of town but cheaper: Days Inn 603 536 3520.  (watch and ask about hockey groups staying at any of these places)

* Alex Bologna update: Alex took a tough fall in Sunday’s event and after a talk with his Mom ….looks like he’s feeling fit enough to compete this weekend. Good Luck to Alex and nice recovery

 

 

 For those who've never had your children compete before here's the easiest step by step method

       Register your child/children as a competitor with USSA  then      Register your child/children for the competition itself with Eastern Freestyle

Here are the instructions:

      1.      Register with USSA:

a.      Go to http://my.ussa.org/myussa

b.      Create an account by selecting the “Register Now” button (you should register as a parent).

c.      Once the account is created select “Log In to Register for a Membership”.

d.      Information you will need to create the memberships:

                                                    i.     The club is Stratton Training Center

                                                   ii.     Sport is Freestyle

                                                  iii.     The membership to use is “Rookie” (least expensive – what we recommend for first time competitors)

e.      Once you complete this process, you should get USSA number(s).  You can look this up on the site at anytime in case you forget it.  You will need this number for the next step.

         2.      Register for the event with Eastern Freestyle (each child, each day):

a.      Goto http://www.easternfreestyle.com

b.      Click the “Events” link on the left side of the page.

c.      Look for Stevek Mogul Challenge on the list and select the blinking “Register” button

d.      Enter the USSA number(s) (or first and last name) and press lookup.

e.      Complete the registration process.

 Note that each date, Saturday and Sunday are separate events. Children can register for         either or both.  Every competitor gets two runs per competition and will ski with other children  her age group (by gender).

 Feel free to contact Richie Duncan (rduncan@bds.com) with any questions you have about the  event.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello Everybody and welcome to the East.

 

The weather is improving for skiing but has been nearly impossible for making consistent snow and keeping it on the ground. The long story short for this weekend at Stratton is we will have one trail (North American) open. The one trail will not be able to hold groups of seasonal program skiers on it with basically a ribbon of snow down it. So all Stratton seasonal programs will not be on operating on snow.

 

We do want to get our momentum with Allegro going this weekend though. We are encouraging all Allegro skiers who come to Stratton to get there ski feet under them and ski in the morning on there own.Then in the afternoon for competition ski program people we will offer the Rec Center Trampolines to work on your air skills from 1-3 pm on Saturday and Sunday with our top A & B competition team coaches. We will also being doing video review of our summer training at Mt Hood and water ramping from summer sessions at Lake Placid. Again, this would be for our traveling A & B skiers only. I apologize for this situation but we cant control mother nature, so all things considered I feel this should work nicely.

 

For all the B skiers getting ready for the Killington event on Dec 17 & 18 the weather and event is still on but we will need to watch the situation as far as Killington running it. I will quote an email from Head Coach Deb Newson and what she says about the Killington event and I quote "Killington was able to get a bunch of snow on the mtn this past weekend, just not on the mogul trail! The plan is to see what the weather brings this week and to make the call on Friday, December 9th. If we are good to go, then we will open registration on Monday, December 12th at 6pm for in-region competitors and on Wednesday, December 14th at 6pm for all regions. Keep everything crossed! Our shovels are sharpened and we are ready to build! We just need
 the white fluffy materials to get it done!"

 

So yes indeed, lets hope for snow and get some skiing in this weekend- get through this tough weather situation with our heads up and look to the coming snows and bumps!