Bates Carnival

We had a somewhat mediocre start with a few impressive individual performances over our first weekend of Carnival racing at good old Rumford, ME hosted by Bates. The women's team was without Leah who had to sit out due to illness and Amanda who is unfortunately out for the season now with injury. Caroline raced well to lead the team both days with a 28th/19th place finish respectively. It was a rather rough introduction to college ski racing for the rest of the women's team but I am sure we can improve and learn from it.

The first day for the men saw them finish in 8th which was rather dissapointing but they rallied well to take 6th as a team on the second day. Our three scorers on the second day all beat their classic seeding positions by a fair margin which was really encouraging among a very tight men's field. Highlights included a near personal best for Connor as well as a personal best for Eric in the classic race on day 2. I was also very impressed with freshman Austin Meng's very strong finish to lead the men's team in the 10K classic mass start race on day 2.

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