Sunday 10/26/14
45* and light rain. Ground was wet and a little slick, but we had a decent tailwind on the ascent.
Results below include all historical MNC times.
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MNC has 2nd National Champion in 3 years and many top-10’s !!!
It has been an incredible start to the week at Junior National Championships here in Stowe. Today was a big race for Forrest Hamilton, who won a national title for the U16 Classic Sprint. This is the 2nd national champion we’ve had in the past three years (Henry Harmeyer in 2012 also in the sprint). Forrest skied a really awesome race on Monday and finished 3rd in the 5km classic, as well. Forrest missed out on Junior Nationals last season, and he used that as motivation to improve, and today he enjoyed the fruit of his labor.
Forrest atop the podium!
Henry Harmeyer skied an incredible race today and finished 6th place in the U18 boys sprint. Henry won his quarterfinal with the fastest heat of the day then eeked his way out of his semifinal and into the A-final. He hung tough all the way to the finish. It was pretty cool to see — Henry has been in the A-final for 3 consecutive years now! Henry also skied a great 10km classic race on Monday to finish 13th overall in U18.
Henry Harmeyer
Jack Hegman had a great race again today and finished 3rd in U20 in a photo finish with his UVM teammate Cole Morgan. Jack now has 2 podiums this week.
Ben Hegman started the week strong in the 10km classic on Monday. He was the top New England finisher in U18 with a 6th place showing. Today he made it into his first sprint heats of the year and finished 18th on the day.
Ben Hegman
Autumn Eastman also blasted onto the national scene on Monday with her 5km classic race. In her first event ever at Junior Nationals she skied up to 13th place in the U18 women. Great job and congrats Autumn!
Coach / Volunteer Jake Hollenbach
These races wouldn’t be possible without tons of help from volunteers, parents, sponsors and coaches. Coach Jake Hollenbach was on the trails all day today as a volunteer. The Harmeyer family, Dave Lustgarten, Lisanne Hegman, Amy Kuzio have all played important roles as volunteers. Ethan John, Marika Massey Bierman and Eliza Thomas helped as forerunners on Monday. The Supples and Mammut are also big supporters of this entire week. Annavitte Rand is helping as an event photographer. And lastly, a HUGE thanks to Bill Harmeyer who has basically become a full-fledged member of the New England wax staff. We’ve had great skis thanks in part to his tireless efforts testing wax. I imagine he has skied over 100km in the past few days. Thank you Bill !
Results Round-up!!
Holy there are a lot of exciting events happening right now, above and beyond the Sochi Olympics. If you have photos from any of these events, please send them to me and I’ll try to get as many posted as I can in a timely fashion.
VERMONT STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
Amazing job from so many MNC athletes last week! Champion Autumn Eastman and podium Cally Braun in D1. CVU takes the top spot in both boys and girls relays. MMU girls a strong 2nd in relay. Essex coming in 3rd in the boys relay.
Last Thursday were the Freestyle races (relay & individual). D1 Boys: Ethan John (Essex) 6th individual, Charlie Maitland (CVU) 8th overall, Casey Silk (CVU) 11th, Ethan Thibault (Colchester) 12th, Charlie Cobb (MMU) 21st, Nigel Sarrazin (Colchester) 25th, Caleb Guziak (Colchester) 27th. D1 Girls: Autumn Eastman (CVU) 1st, Cally Braun (CVU) 3rd, Amy Bruce (MMU) 5th, Abby Grab (MMU) 8th, Molly Larson (MMU) 9th, Rachel Slimovitch (CVU) 10th, Tatum Braun (CVU) 11th, Chloe Lemmel-Hay (Essex) 14th, Summer Bishop (CVU) 16, Anna Franceschetti (CVU) 17th, Emily Halporn (MMU) 31st, Lucy Leith (Burlington) 40th, Katie Moino (Essex) 50th, Sarah Tallman (Essex) 51st.
BILL KOCH FESTIVAL
Olivia Cuneo and Marika Massey-Bierman team up to win the Girls 7/8 relay! Kai Richter and Greg Burt team up to finish 5th in the Boys 7/8 relay. Tim Cobb and Conor Munns finish 11th.
Greg Burt also finishes 3rd overal in the individual skate race. Kai comes in 9th in a tight field, Conor 16th, Tim Cobb 20th, and Baxter Bishop 22nd out of nearly 70 racers!
Olivia Cuneo wins the girls skate race and Marika finishes 4th overall in a field of 66 competitiors.
STOWE DERBY
MNC coaches, athletes and parents participated in the Derby. Coach Enman and Coach Hollenbach finish 2nd and 6th in the skate. Ben Hegman 11th, Bill Harmeyer 26th, Charlie Maitland the ironman 82nd, Coach Leigh Mallory 91st, Ben Longenbach 101, and Kort Logenbach 186th.
Bill Harmeyer went out for the classic portion as well — totaling 40km of racing on the day! As did Eli Enman (7th). Ed Hamilton finished 10th in the classic, Coach Hollenbach 13th, Eliza Thomas 58th and winning her age class, and also Karen Alence 68th and second in her category!
ETHAN ALLEN BIATHLON SERIES
Nathanael Kuzio (Harwood / MNC / EABC) finished 3rd overall in the expert category (winning his age group) in the final biathlon race last Thursday. Eliza Thomas (SBHS / MNC) won the sport class for all women, and Ben Carnahan (CVU / MNC) won the sport category for his age group.
MNC Athletes Excel at Tour de Chittenden (Results / News / Video)
Many of the local high school ski teams took part in a cool “Tour de Chittenden” event last week, modeled after the Tour de Ski and Tour de France. Racers started with a classic race on Saturday at Sleepy Hollow, then a skate hill climb on Monday at Cochran’s ski area, with the winners based on aggregate time.
WCAX has a cool video and interviews:
WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports-
Full results from both days – including Middle School and JV – are available here.
