Plan for Weekend & Week Four Wrap-up

Week four took the athletes into tall gate slalom.  The first course was set on Dudley and included stubbies, 25mm gates and 27mm gates, with and without helper brushes.  The second course was longer and was set on lower Dudley.  The younger athletes had their own stubby course to practice on.

We continue to look for better turn shape and direction change above the gate.  To reinforce this, in the afternoon session the groups worked on drills and free skiing.  The older group of athletes did railroad tracks over and over again until we had a good athletic stance for everyone.  We then proceeded to do one ski skiing to promote balance and carving on both sets to edges.

The Mt Abram Worldcup teams are now set and each team will need to come up with a team name.  The teams are listed with Team Captain listed first:

Team 1
Annika Kahkonen
Polly Rae
Kali Flaherty
Chloe Noack
Leah Weinberg
Jack Harrington
Ella Novick
Abby Lane

Team 2
Colleen Stauder
Kailey Lane
Sean Flaherty
Sarah Novick
Carson McAvoy
Claire Williamson
Caroline Burns
Caroline Harrington

Team 3
Chris Burns
Erin Lane
Harrison Lane
Owen White
Keaton McAvoy
Jake Carroll
Jackson Bleakly
Will Manchester-Wells
Dane

Team 4
Hayden Pearson
Aaron Rae
Amanda Hanning
Abby Condon
Cooper Knudsen
Bennett Carroll
Frankie Kennedy
Will Kline
Andrew Klein