Henry Raymond
Fairfax News => Current News & Events => Topic started by: Rev. Elizabeth on January 09, 2010, 09:48:57 AM
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Fred Griffin, Nordic ski coach, in speaking of the team stated: I could not be more proud of the way our team skied on Friday from our Middle schoolers and Jayvees, right up through Varsity. I've been telling the kids since the first few days on snow that we are a team of excellent classic skiers and this is exactly what we showed at Stowe.
Conditions were perfect and the Varsity course was a great combination of long striding sections and swift downhills. We don't have a way to set tracks in Fairfax, so all our classic skiing is done on VAST-groomed surfaces. Our kids have had to learn to find kick on flat surfaces. When they get to groomed trails with firm tracks they feel like they've died and gone to heaven.
On the girls' side we had two more strong performances of the sort we've come to expect over the last four years from Megan and Shannon Kane. Heather Holloway overcame some issues with her skis to take third. Our big surprises came from our fourth and fifth place skiers, Michelle Ambrisco and Julia Snyder. Michelle is returning to aerobic sports after sitting out the entire running season with a stress fracture in her leg and Julia Snyder is a freshman skier who completed her first varsity classical race. Michelle anchored our scoring but Julia was right behind her giving us valuable insurance.
Our senior boys continued to stake out territory in D-2 as a force to be reckoned with. Kyle Bochanski had an off-day but still pulled his third straight top ten. He was followed by Anders Newbury who skied his first classical race and despite a great deal of pre-race bias for skating, grudgingly declared it "fun". Zach Bochanski came from pretty far off the pace to take our third spot and Simon Mann-Gow had his best effort of the young season by far to capture our last scoring position, despite two time-costly falls.
If both teams can translate the sort of effort they made on Friday into the rest of the season, we will contend at States in late February.
Tom Pfeiffer and Cheri Audet are also coaches of this Nordic ski team.
Stowe Classical Race 1/9/10
Boys’ Team scores:
MMU 14
BFA Fairfax 51
BFA St Albans 56
Lyndon 72
Harwood 83
North Country 89
Lamoille 175
Stowe, Peoples inc
Girls’ Team Scores
MMU 40
BFA Fairfax 47
North Country 62
BFA St Albans 70
Harwood 114
Peoples 142
Stowe, Lamiolle, Lyndon, inc