Women Take First in Wildcat GS

The last GS of the year began the day before. Much of the Brown and BC team spent Thursday putting up fencing along the entire GS hill. This meant 100+ rolls unrolled and drilled into the snow. A safe race to be sure, but exhausting to set up.

The tiredness did not get to our women's team, however. After the first run they had the 2, 3, and 5 spots occupied. Emily Simmons '12 was set to have a season best performance when a bobble on the pitch led to a hard crash into the fences. Kia Mosenthal '12 and Krista Consiglio '11 skiied to 2nd and 3rd places respectively. Blaine Martin '11 finished out our scorers with a regular season GS personal best finish in 20th. Congratulations to the women's team on putting it down, and putting away another win. The deepness of our team is clearly strong, and we hope to continue our performance in two weeks at Waterville Valley for the Regional Championships. 

The men's team put down some personal bests as well. Jeff Ernsting '11 took down another 114 point race to match his result from last week. Rob Culliton '10.5 not only did not have any crashes, something he has been unfortunately prone to this year, but he had a personal best in the GS as well. As he told me at the top of the course at the slalom "If I had known that ski racing was going to be like this, I'm not so sure that I would have actually gone for it. I'm glad I did though." Mike Cohen '11 took the men's team crash of the day in the second run when he was unable to transfer his weight to the new ski and instead headed full on into the aforementioned nets. Alex Salter also put down his best race of his first year racing. One former men's team member even took the opportunity to forerun the race. While the men's season is over, we are looking forward to building on these performances next year.