KMS U16 stepped things up today in the GS in Collingwood's Olser's Buff, right onto the podium with Ryan Znamierowski's 3rd place finish.  After a big mistake 1st run Ryan threw down the fastest second run moving him from 10th to 3rd.  Johnny Schwartz, with a solid second run, moved into 13th.  Patrick, a learning experience day finished run 2 but had to bow out of run 1.  Tomasso, working on being more aggressive on the pitch, was in the top half of the field.

The boys have been building over the last 3 days, with strong individual sections and runs and are looking to putting 2 together tomorrow.

jb 

KMS/KSC keeps the banner at the recent MVC U16 SL at Suicide 6.  MLK day proved to be a good one as both the men's and women's team stepped up their game on Suicide's steep front face. 
RZ led the charge again with a strong overall performance and a "slaying" second run.  Greg Osbourne from Okemo was 2nd and Jonathon Schwartz, after a very solid first run, slipped to third to round out the podium.  Rounding out the top 10 was a good skiing day from Tomasso Auerbach in 7th and PSJ-Patrick Salisbury-Jennings in 10th.  Ian Clarke had some difficulties on and pitch while Spencer Wood and Graham Campson improved their placings, since the first race at Pico, to 43 and 45 respectively. 

A bit of travel upcoming, as we'll take a crew north of the border to Collingwood for some mid-season Can Am races and others will stay close to home with another slalom at Suicide and a GS at Killington. 

jb

Well done U16 crew, brought back the Banner!  It was a close one but you all participated and threw down some good slalom skiing.  Ryan took 1st overall, followed by Johnny in 3rd, Tomasso and Ian 7th and 8th and Patrick a nice top 15 finish.  Spencer and Graham both skied much more aggressively second run to move up nicely.  Bringing home the banner is a team effort and you guys came together and got it done. 

Looking forward to next week!

jb

Busy break here at KMS.  Snow, night races, early am training.  A huge thanks goes out to the mountain for getting us on the lifts early over this past weekend.  We had pretty good training even with the busy holiday week, 2 snow storms and colder temps.  Once the crowds settle down and the cold nights tighten up the snow for us, we should have some fantastic training.  Keep u posted. 

Above are some shots from my recent trip to Tremblant before break where we lost a race due to some heavy snow up there.  Next we went to Cochrans on the 27th during that snow storm.  Super soft conditions, running the same 1st course allowed for a decent track considering.  Kyle, moved up from 23rd to 7 and Andrew ended on the front page as well in 14th.  Dan, Shane and James went 17-19 with Wyatt in 23rd.  Ryan Z. in 28th with a nice 2nd run rounded out the top 30th. 

Then we were off to Proctor on New Year's Eve.  2013 will certainly be brighter then we were on the 31st.  The snow was a littler tighter, lights brighter but we couldn't reel things in for 2 runs.  Kyle was just out of the flip for 1st run, but was a little too aggressive with his line down the pitch and went out.  Dan skied solid both runs as he is still really in preparation mode, working on several things.  James, attacked much more 2 nd run and so did Mike, but they gave up too much ground 1 st run.

The EC guys head to Attitash tomorrow for a 4 day tech series there.  USSA crew will head to Smuggs on Friday for the weekend and the U16 guys battle it out at Pico in slalom.

jb