Jan. 26, 2006

Vermont Ski Team Competes in St. Lawrence Carnival This Weekend

VERMONT SKIING NOTEBOOK
The Vermont ski team returns to action this weekend at the St. Lawrence
Carnival in Lake Placid, N.Y. on Friday, Jan 27 and Saturday, Jan. 28.
Last weekend Vermont took first place in the Colby Carnival at
Sugarloaf in Carrabassett Valley, Maine.

LAST TIME OUT … The Vermont ski team began its season last weekend by
winning the Colby Carnival at Sugarloaf in Carrabassett Valley, Maine …
Vermont finished the weekend with 639 team points ranking ahead of
second place Middlebury (624 points) and third place Dartmouth (614
points) … On Friday in the Women's Classical Sprint, senior Anja Jokela
(Shelburne, Vt.) came in first place while freshman Marion Solbjorg
(Lillehammer, Norway) was third and Emilia DeMarchis (Burlington, Vt.)
was fourth … Senior assistant captain Molly Gray (Newbury, Vt.) picked
up a 15th place finish and junior Carina Hamel (Southampton, Mass.) was
19th … In Friday’s Men's Classical Sprint, freshman Juergen Uhl
(Muhlenbach, Germany) was the top racer with senior captain Anders
Osthus (Duluth, Minn.) finishing fourth and senior Ryan Foster (Weston,
Vt.) coming in eighth place … On Saturday in the women's 15k freestyle
the women’s nordic team took home the top six spots … Hamel led the
pack for the Catamounts taking first place … Vermont would also claim
the next five spots with DeMarchis finishing second, Jokela placing
third, Solbjorg was fourth, freshman Katrina Howe (Gilford, N.H.) was
fifth and senior captain Kate Crawford (Hawley, Mass.) finished sixth …
Gray came in 14th place … In the men’s 20k freestyle, Osthus finished
first, while Foster was 10th and Uhl finished 11th … In Saturday’s
women's slalom senior tri-captain Jamie Kingsbury (Waitsfield, Vt.)
grabbed a second place finish … Senior Amy Cochran (Keene, N.H.)
followed with a fifth place showing and sophomore Ashley Spina
(Guildhall, Vt.) was sixth … In the men's slalom sophomore Sam Beck
(Norwich, Vt.) was eighth and senior tri-captain Paul Epstein
(Carlisle, Mass.) finished 18th … In Sunday’s final day of racing
Kingsbury, a two-time national champion in the giant slalom, led the
way for women’s alpine team taking first place in the GS … Senior
Hilary McCloy (Sunapee, N.H.) finished less than one second behind to
take second place … Cochran was sixth while Spina was seventh …
Freshman Julie Czesnowski (Killington, Vt.) was eighth and sophomore
Jilyne McDonald (Bellevue, Wash.) finished 11th … In the men’s giant
slalom sophomore Greg Hardy (Stratton, Vt.), the defending national
champion in the GS, finished fourth and Epstein came in 11th place for
the Catamounts.

FORMER CATAMOUNT SKIERS IN THE 2006 OLYMPICS … Lowell Bailey ’05, Jimmy
Cochran and Kris Freeman are former Catamount skiers that will be
competing in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy. Bailey, a
three-time All-American at Vermont, earned a spot on the US Biathlon
Team. Last season he led the Catamounts to a second place finish in the
NCAA Championships. Cochran, a former standout on the UVM men’s alpine
team, was named to the US Ski Team on Wednesday. Cochran skied for the
Catamounts for just one season in 2003, but earned All-American honors
that year. Freeman, a former nordic standout, skied for the Catamounts
for one season before moving on to train with the US Ski Team on a
full-time basis. He was named to the US Cross Country Ski Team for the
2006 Games. While at Vermont, he earned All-America honors at the NCAA
Championships in 2000 and competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt
Lake City. The 2006 Winter Olympic Games run from February 10 to
February 26 and NBC will carry much of the action on its family of
networks (NBC affiliate, MSNBC, CNBC, USA).

FORMER UVM SKIERS COACHING IN THE 2006 OLYMPICS … Three Vermont
graduates will also be in Torino as coaches for the US Ski Team. Johno
McBride ’88 is the head speed coach for the US Ski Team, while Jesse
Hunt ’90 is the alpine director for the squad. Hunt was a two-time
All-American at Vermont. Trond Nystad, inducted into the UVM Athletic
Hall of Fame two years ago, will serve as the head cross-country coach
for the US Ski Team. He won the NCAA Championship in the 20K classical
in 1992, leading Vermont to the national championship that year. Nystad
was also a three-time All-American during his nordic career.

ALL-AMERICANS … Last season the Catamounts had seven All-Americans:
Lowell Bailey ’05 (nordic), Amy Cochran (alpine), Paul Epstein
(alpine), Ethan Foster ‘05 (nordic), Greg Hardy (alpine), Jilyne
McDonald (alpine) and Jamie Kingsbury (alpine). Vermont has had a total
of 278 All-Americans in its ski history.

HEAD OF THE CLASS … The Vermont ski team has six student-athletes on
the 2006 roster that were named NCAA Academic All-Americans last
season: Amy Cochran, Kate Crawford, Emilia DeMarchis, Molly Gray, Anja
Jokela and Hilary McCloy all earned the honor.

VERMONT CARNIVAL … The Vermont Ski Carnival is scheduled for Friday,
Feb. 3 and Saturday, Feb. 4 in Stowe, Vt. On Saturday after a day of
skiing or cheering on the Vermont Ski Team fans, friends and family are
invited to Stoweflake for an afternoon reception and family-friendly
activities such as sleigh rides and ice skating (bring your own
skates!). Alpine coach Bill Reichelt, nordic coach Alan Serrano and the
Vermont skiers will be on hand to join in the festivities. More details
are listed below:

Saturday, February 4, 2006
4pm – 6pm

Stoweflake Resort & Conference Center
1746 Mountain Road
Stowe, Vt.

Register online at alumni.uvm.edu/wintercarnival or by calling
1-888-458-8691. There is no cost for this event.
 
NCAA SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS … This year’s NCAA Ski Championships are in
Steamboat, Colo. The NCAA’s were last in Steamboat in 1993 and the
Catamounts took home a second place finish that year.

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Chris Wojcik
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University of Vermont
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