KUA Varsity Ski Team Scores Gold & Silver at Lakes Region Slalom Finals
KUA Varsity Ski Team Scores Gold & Silver at Lakes Region Slalom Finals
It was a real nail-biter at the Lakes Region Slalom Championships held at Proctor on Wednesday. The KUA skiers came to play and play hard. The boys came home with the gold at the end of the day, adding to their previous gold in the Lakes Region GS Championship. Dan Scherding was able to keep up his reputation of being the fastest skier in the prep school series. He led the team placing first with a two second lead over the next competitor. Jim Herbert has been finding his stride of late and put two fantastic runs together, earning a 5th place result. Close behind was teammate Karl Menzel in 7th place. The surprise of the day, earning the fourth place points for the team, was Craig Tyer, landing in 14th position. Craig had a great season and was on a mission to pop into the top fifteen. Freshman Sam Durst who has been out injured for a few weeks skied solidly and placed 18th. Charlie Parry, Dylan Chauvin laid down two very solid runs. Charlie placed 34th and Dylan 46th place overall. Freshman Levy Byrd had a great first run, attacked the second run, and unfortunately blew out of the course.
The girls’ team was on fire at Wednesday’s race. They were looking to add another gold to their trophy shelf, having brought home gold in the Lakes Region GS Championship a few weeks ago. However, they were barely edged out of the gold by a very competitive St. Paul’s team. Kayla Jacobs (4th), Alicia Fairbrothers (8th), Leah Cole Durst (9th), Zoe Reed (14th), Amalie Peterson (17th) and Greta Hulleberg (fell 1st run, 5th in the second run) were all in the zone. Each and every one of our girls skied the best they had skied all winter. But ski racing can be won and lost by just hundredths of a second, and the amount by which St. Paul’s beat out our Wildcat girls amounted to about 1” of distance over two combined runs… only one inch! Congratulations girls on a great season.
