By Jackie Garso
Saint Michael's Carnival: Day Two
As you probably read earlier, Saturday wasn’t SLUSKI’s best
day, but the team stuck together and stayed positive about our chances for
Sunday. After a delicious dinner of wood-fired pizza, we headed back to the
hotel, where we got a nice surprise – new hats/headbands! Getting new swag is
always exciting, and it made us even more excited to race. After all, how can you
have a bad race when you’re wearing something so snazzy?
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| Ryland '21, #2 out of the start PC: India Harvey '18 (Blazing Pines Productions) |
The course from Saturday was expanded onto trails that
didn’t have enough cover to set track, but were snowy enough to skate on. This
meant that Saturday’s double-pole heavy course turned into a course featuring a
lot of up and a lot of down. Without any icy sections, and no really technical
downhills, the course rewarded hard work, and we were sure we were ready for
it. Also, on Saturday after the race, Kyle told us that a few other coaches had
told him that they were scared of us, going into Sunday’s skate race.
They were right to be.
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| Tim '21 finishing hard PC: India Harvey '18 (Blazing Pines Productions) |
The girls team was led to a tie for fourth place by Lucy
Hochschartner ’20 in 12th and Jackie in 14th! WE GOT Fourth!! It also featured a couple of breakthrough
races for Kate Andy ’20 and Gabby Wangler ’21. Even with some girls racing
sick/injured, and some people not having their best day, the team was still
able to top the performance at Colby, which says some great things for the
future!
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| Tim '21 double poling his way through the course PC: Nanice Battaglia |
On the guys’ side, the team was pretty depleted – between a
Mid-A JNQ and illness, only four boys raced, but we still got to see some good performances! First year Tim's dedication is shining through in his races.
We’d also like to extend a huge thank you to Kyle and former
SLUSKIer and assistant coach Adam Terko – with the departure of part of the
team to the JNQ, we only had one van. Adam was kind enough to help ETown wax, so
that Kyle could drive half an hour back to the hotel to pick up the girls and
drive all of us back, so that we didn’t have to leave with the boys at 7:30am for our race at 11:30. Our coaches do a
lot of behind-the-scenes stuff so that we have the opportunity to race our
fastest every single time we’re on the starting line, and we really couldn’t do
it without them!
Video Coming soon!
We look forward to the UVM Carnival two weekends from now! Until then, some of us are heading to Rochester for JN Qualifying races, Craftsbury for Supertour Races or Lake Placid for some good ole quality training!
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