Ski & Snowboard Club Vail hosts freestyle comp

VAIL — Ski & Snowboard Club Vail hosted a Rocky Mountain freestyle mogul event on Cookshack on Saturday and Sunday. After a week of consistent, heavy snowfall, freestyle athletes took advantage of the blue skies and warmer weather to compete against one another on sun-softened bumps.

More than fifty competitors participated in Saturday’s event, and more than forty-five athletes competed on Sunday. Despite sharing Cookshack’s venue, Saturday’s and Sunday’s events differed in format and the ages of its participants. On Saturday, freestyle skiers ages 10 and older taking part in the Rocky Qualifier Series competed against one another hoping for a podium finish. The Rocky Qualifier Series, a two-jump timed competition, serves as a stepping-stone for mogul skiers to better prepare themselves for the upper level Rocky Competitive Series.

On Sunday, Cookshack hosted a Rocky Development Series event — a freestyle series for athletes ages 12 and younger featuring a one jump competition that was not timed.

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“On Saturday, a number of our freestyle athletes moved up from the Devo to the (Rocky Qualifier Series) level competition to compete in a two jump course on Cookshack, taking advantage of their one time free move up opportunity for the season. Several top ten finishes were posted among this move-up group. A number of these move-up athletes competed again on Sunday in the Devo competition, capturing some top-five podiums,” said John Grigsby, who heads up the Ski & Snowboard Club Vail freestyle development program.

“It was great to see a number of top five finishes by our athletes on both days. This weekend’s events show great promise for the future of Ski & Snowboard Club Vail’s moguls athletes,” he added.

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The next Rocky Mountain qualifier and development freestyle events will take place in mid-February in Steamboat Springs.

A list of the top-three finishes and all of the Ski & Snowboard Club Vail finishes are listed below. Racers are with Ski & Snowboard Club Vail unless otherwise noted. For a complete list of race results, visit http://www.rocky mountainfreestyle.com.

Rocky Qualifier Series moguls results

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Feb. 6

Girls

1 Gabrielle Wahl

2 Natalie Knowles, Winter Park

3 Ava Ganter, Winter Park

4 Skye Karsh

6 Tessa Chelain

Boys

1 Eddie Hein, Winter Park

2 Tanner Roberts

3 Dane Lee, Winter Park

4 Jameson Kust

16 Evan Sapp

17 Beck Sapp

19 Ryan Stockton

20 Enzo Sink

22 Landon Cunningham

27 Timothy Soulakis

31 Steven Kelso

Devo moguls results

Feb. 7

F09 Girls

1 Cali Carr

2 Caroline Harrison

3 Annika Broecker, Team Summit

4 Eliana Carr

7 Sydney Thompson

F11 Girls

1 Nichole Goluba, Aspen

2 Julia Coors, Winter Park

3 Cydney Harrison

4 Sloane Thompson

7 Skye Karsh

F13 Girls

1 Maggie Schneider, Winter Park

2 Jane Price, Winter Park

3 Selby Hall, Aspen

M09 Boys

1 Owen Hassel, Team Summit

2 Leo Soulakis

3 Max Jachimowicz, Team Summit

M11 Boys

1 Henry Frank, Winter Park

2 Evan Sapp

3 Enzo Sink

4 Ryan Stockton

12 Joseph Cleary

15 Blake Roberts

18 Steven Kelso

M13 Boys

1 Stephan Lazarus, Team Summit

2 Justin Jachimowicz , Team Summit

3 Max Salaman, Winter Park