High School skiers wrapped up their season over the past week with the State Championships events held over the course of 2 days. Last Thursday featured skate races at Craftsbury, while they raced classic events at Prospect yesterday. CVU showed their strength and depth to take the overall titles in both boys and gals D1.
BFP Day 1 Coverage and Results
BFP Day 2 Coverage and Results
MNC athletes were present on many teams from around the County, including CVU, MMU, Essex, BHS, Colchester, BFA-St. Albans and Harwood. Skiing for the State Champion CVU squad were: Forrest Hamilton, Emmett Peterson, Parker Francis, Sean Delaney, Charlie Maitland, Thomas Clayton and Sam Longenbach — all members of MNC!! Forrest won the individual title for D1 skate, and was 2nd in the classic. Nathanael Kuzio (Harwood/MNC) was 2nd in the state in the D2 skate, and 3rd in the classic. Rounding out the podium yesterday was Emmett Peterson in 3rd. Ethan John joined the aforementioned athletes in 13th overall D1 skate and climbed to 9th in the classic.
On the gals’ side, CVU won it all, featuring several MNC athletes as well. Autumn Eastman was 3rd in skate, followed by Cally Braun, Kayla Servin and Emma Hamilton (all CVU/MNC) and all in the top-15. Autumn claimed 3rd again in classic, while Cally and Emma moved up to 7th and 9th, respecitively.
While I am not certain, I believe nearly >90% of participants in the MNC summer program represented their high schools at the State Champs. I haven’t seen full results, but I know there were many other MNC skiers racing (Nigel Sarrazin, Jordan Lamay, Ethan Thibault of Colchester, Lucy Leith and Lukas Adamowicz of BHS, Leslie Robers of BFA-St.A, Tatum Braun of CVU). My apologies if I missed anyone, please let me know or add a comment.
MNC will host open training tomorrow (Thursday 2/28) as well as next Tuesday and THursday 3/5 and 3/7. All training will take place at the Range at 4pm.
Nigh Time Rollerskiing
Emmett Peterson, CVU
Amy Bruce, MMU
Ethan John, Essex
Ethan Thibault, Colchester
