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.
