Crystal Mountain Alpine Club (CMAC)

NW Cup racing at Schweitzer

14 Jan 2014 7:34 AM | CMAC (Administrator)

The CMAC FIS team would like to give a big THANKS to SARS (Schweitzer Alpine Racing School) and Schweitzer Mountain for allowing us to train with them up at Schweitzer!

Over Christmas break CMAC FIS team got the opportunity to go over to Schweitzer for some early morning SG and GS training due to the low snow at Crystal. After four days of excellent training on great snow conditions and some hard work setting up B-Net the FIS team was ready to tackle the NW Cup races at Schweitzer.

Four days of challenging races saw some great move-ups and results for the FIS team. Overall our entire team showed huge improvement throughout the training and races. Keith McNabb finished 5^th and 6^th in the two SGs and 4^th in one of the GSs. Andrew Osborne had a 10^th place result in SG and a 13^th in GS. Lawrence Dickey finished 12^th in a GS. For the ladies Jordan Harrision finished 15^th one of the GSs and Lily Eriksen CMAC alum finished 6^th in one of the SGs.

Points-wise our team did very well! Charles LeCuyer, Riley Hunter, Mitch Stone, Andy Koefoed, Andrew Osborne, Lawrence Dickey, Christian Hanseler, Stephanie Frey, and Natalie McFall all lowered their points in one or both events! Our first year FIS athletes Corbin Kray, Liam Fenn, Braydon Hall, Reid Reininger, Jordan Harrison, Allie Frey, Sarah Hampson, Siri Knudsen, and Megan Wurden all scored and gave themselves some great points to start off the year in GS and SG!

Thanks to Matt Hammond for this report!

Russ Read 2013 (Mt Bachelor)

30 Dec 2013 3:18 PM | CMAC (Administrator)

Ice Storm at the Russ Read races! Due to the poor conditions here at home, many of our CMAC racers made the trek to Mt. Bachelor to race in the Russ Read GS. The weather went for form good to impossible. We had a nice first run of GS and then the ice storm hit. Raining and 26 degrees. The water was freezing so quickly on our jackets that the ice was breaking of like pieces of glass. They rescheduled the 2nd run for Saturday morning , but then all the lifts were frozen and could not operate. It was beautiful sunshine at noon, but we could not get up the mountain to race. They finally had the 2nd run two days later on Sunday morning and then ran a second full GS race, so three runs in one day. We ended up with a very good race experience with a few podium finishes and some excellent move ups.

Christian Hanseler and Katie Hensien both came away with Third place overall and Katie Holm won the girls move up award. On Monday we all stuck around for some SL training. Thanks to Mt. Bachelor for letting us have some training space. We had a nice weekend of training and racing.

(Thanks to Alan Lauba for this race report!)

Full race results are here: Women's Results GS1 Men's Results GS1 Master's Results GS1 Women's results GS2 Men's results GS2 Masters Results GS2

Andrew Osborne races at the Copper Mountain Speed NorAm

16 Dec 2013 4:46 PM | CMAC (Administrator)

Andrew Osborne just returned home from the Copper Mountain Speed NorAm. He competed in 2 NorAm downhill races, the US National Championship downhill and 2 NorAm super g races. Andrew was racing against many different Olympic hopefuls from many different countries including some from the US. Andrew finished all three downhill races with his best result coming in the last downhill race. He finished 76th after starting 89th and had the 34th fastest recorded speed at 68.11 MPH, lowering his points in 2 of the 3 races. Unfortunately Andrew did not finish either of the Super G races. They were difficult courses and some little mistakes cost him a finish in both races.

Mission Ridge hosts Northwest Cup FIS Slaloms - Dec 12-13, 2013

15 Dec 2013 7:51 PM | CMAC (Administrator)

We started the 2013-2014 season with two Slaloms in Mission Ridge. Overall it was a great start to the season with good snow conditions and small field size. It was the first FIS starts for a few athletes: Corbin Kray, Braydon Hall, Reid Reininger, Jordy Harrison, Allie Frey, Megan Wurden and Sarah Hampson. It was great to get that first FIS race out of the way!

Jordy lead the way for the girls, finishing on the podium in her second FIS start. Lawrence Dickey tied for 4th with Christian Hanseler right behind in 6th on the second day. Tasha had her first race since her injury at Mission last season.

(Thanks to Scott McCartney for the race report!)

May Day 2013

01 May 2013 7:07 AM | CMAC (Administrator)

The 2013 May Day races at Mt Bachelor featured some solid CMAC results!

Top 5 overall highlights include Halle Janssen (3rd U10), Katie Holm (5th U12), Max Schoening (2nd U12), Simon Toribio (4th U12), Sydney Janssen (5th U14), Devon Toribio (2nd U14), Megan Wurden (3rd U16) and Corbin Kray (2nd U16).

Check out the details here.

Northwest Cup Finals 2013

15 Apr 2013 7:18 AM | CMAC (Administrator)

CMAC had some great racing at the NW Cup Finals! Here are the top-10 highlights:

In Super G were Karina Schwartznau (4th), Ella Pepin (5th), Jordan Harrison (6th), Talia Toland (9th) and Allison Frey (10th), and in the men's race, Nick Wurden (8th) and Andrew Osborne (9th).

In SL, Karina Schwartznau placed second, with Jordan Harrison (10th), and for the men, Keith McNabb was 3rd.

In GS, Karina had another strong showing taking second place, followed by Jordan Harrison (6th) and Ella Pepin (9th). For the men, CMAC had Keith McNabb taking another 3rd place with Andrew Osborne not far behind in 8th.

2013 U16 Finals at Mission Ridge

03 Apr 2013 7:35 AM | CMAC (Administrator)

Congratulations to the CMAC racers at the 2013 U16 Finals - Alex Oseland, Jordan Harrison and Lawrence Dickey all had podium finishes for the weekend, while CMAC filled out a lot of the top-10 in each race!

On top of that, CMAC finished won the overall U16 series team award in both Men and Women, and the individual results for the season include:

Jordan Harrison and Alex Oseland tie for 2nd
Ella Pepin 5th.
Tyler Ellis 3rd.

Here are the top-10 highlights from the series:

Sunday

Women's slalom
1. Alexandria Oseland, CMAC 2. Georgia Burgess, Banff Alpine Racers
3. Lara Kattler, Banff Alpine Racers
4. Katie Hensien, CMAC
7. Jordan Harrison, CMAC

Men's slalom
1. Jeffrey Read, Banff Alpine Racers
2. Joseph Estrella, Mission Ridge Ski Team
3. Huston Philip, Banff Alpine Racers
4. Andrew Osborne, CMAC
5. Lawrence Dickey, CMAC
6. Christian Hanseler, CMAC
8. Tyler Ellis, CMAC

Saturday

Women's giant slalom
1. Alexandria Oseland, CMAC
2. Elyse Burandt, Spokane Ski Racing Assoc
3. Jordan Harrison, CMAC
6. Ella Pipen, CMAC
7. Katie Hensien, CMAC
8. Tess Baldwin, CMAC

Men's giant slalom
1. Jeffrey Read, Banff Alpine Racers
2. Lawrence Dickey, CMAC
3. Joseph Estrella, Mission Ridge Ski Team
4. Christian Hanseler, CMAC
8. Andrew Osborne, CMAC

Friday

Women's SG
7. Katie Hensien
8. Jordan Harrison
10. Ella Pepin

Men's SG
6. Nick Wurden
7. Henry Baldwin
8. Tyler Ellis

U12 "Cascade Cup" Results - 2013

26 Mar 2013 7:38 AM | CMAC (Administrator)

U12 "Cascade Cup" Champs: 2nd Place Women, Men & Overall

CMAC had a great showing at the U12 "Cascade Cup" Championships hosted at Snoqualmie: second place as a team for women, men and overall!

Highlights of top-10 SL finishes include Kate Jendrezak (2nd), Katie Holm (tied for 3rd), Sarah Wurden (6th) and Madeline Lefreniere (10th), and for the men, Julien Broussard (5th), Max Schoening (6th), Nash Smoll (7th) and Duncan Walker (10th).

Highlights of top-10 GS finishes include Kate Jendrezak (5th), Evie Wright (6th), Madeline Lefreniere (8th), Anna Gibbons (9th) and Leah Blanchard (10th), and for the men, Max Schoening (3rd), Julien Broussard (9th) and Adan Moe-Lange (10th).

Full race results: (Team Results are below)

U14 "Buddy Werner" Championships - 2013

26 Mar 2013 7:16 AM | CMAC (Administrator)

The CMAC U14 athletes had great successes at Ski Bowl, with the men finishing first, the women finishing second, the the combined team results in second place (by just one point!)

CMAC came away with both of the individual combined top spots withSkylar Cooleywinning the women's overall and Devon Toribio winning the men's overall!

Also rounding out the combined top-10 Tess Baldwin (9th) and Carter Jendrezak (10th).

Note: photos from the event are available here.

2013 Western Region U16 Junior Olympics

25 Mar 2013 6:59 AM | CMAC (Administrator)

Awesome performances by CMAC athletes at U16: Tyler Ellis, Jordan Harrison and Alex Oseland!

The CMAC racers enjoyed a cold week up in Alaska. The temps were below 10 degrees in the morning, and with not much warming during the days. Very different than the spring we are enjoying down here in Seattle. The Alyeska ski resort is around 100 feet above sea level, which makes for an interesting climate. plus the days start late and last long this time of year. The hill opens to public at 10:30AM, but they skied in the bright sunshine at 6PM in the evening.

The snow on the race courses was very hard and perfect for racing. The US Academy team provided some tough competition for all of our racers but our CMAC kids scored some respectable results and showed that they are in striking distance of the leaders. We will need a strong off season training program that will improve our strength and agility, and our kids can close the gap and score with the best next sesaon. It will just take some serious hard work, determination and commitment to being a better athlete. Along with that, we found out that racing with a bit more fearlessness will go a long way. Being stronger will give the confidence to lay it on the line, and go for it, rather than holding back and skiing defensive.