Feb. 18, 2006

Vermont Ski Team Wins Fifth Straight Ski Carnival

Link to Results: http://www.eisaskiing.org/BART/Results06/woc06.htm

HANCOCK, Mass. – Vermont senior Hilary McCloy (Sunapee, N.H.) won her 
third race of the season with a victory in the giant slalom and the 
Catamounts battled off rough conditions to win the Williams Ski 
Carnival. Vermont finished with 775 points on the weekend to finish 
ahead of second place Dartmouth’s 716 points. Vermont competes in the 
EISA Championships at the Middlebury Snow Bowl next weekend.

"We’re traveling to Middlebury tomorrow to race there and to start 
preparing for next weekend,” Director of Skiing and head alpine coach 
Bill Reichelt said. “We want to get some work in on the giant slalom. 
As for the entire team we have been pretty consistent this year and 
we’re looking forward to the EISA Championships.”

Vermont took four of the top six spots in the women’s giant slalom. 
Senior Jamie Kingsbury followed up McCloy’s victory in the GS with a 
third place finish. Sophomore Jilyne McDonald (Bellevue, Wash.) was 
fourth and senior Amy Cochran (Keene, N.H.) was sixth.

In the men’s giant slalom senior Paul Epstein (Carlisle, Mass.) and 
sophomore Sam Beck (Norwich, Vt.) finished in a tie for 13th place. 
Freshman Ethan Korpi (South Londeonderry, Vt.) came in 19th place.

Because of the weather the Nordic events were changed to 3x4k relays at 
Prospect Mountain in Woodford, Vt. In the men’s 3x4k freestyle relay 
the trio of freshman Anders Folleras (Lillehammer, Norway), freshman 
Juergen Uhl (Muhlenbach, Germany) and senior Ryan Foster (Weston, Vt.) 
earned a first place finish. In the women’s 3x4k relay junior Carina 
Hamel (Southampton, Mass.), senior Anja Jokela (Shelburne, Vt.) and 
senior Kate Crawford (Hawley, Mass.) finished in second place.

Vermont won all five carnivals on the EISA circuit this year and 
compete in the EISA Championships at the Middlebury Snow Bowl next 
weekend on Friday, Feb. 24 and Saturday, Feb. 25.

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Chris Wojcik
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University of Vermont
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