[FWM News] End of Season Note

Tue Apr 25 18:29:55 PDT 2017

Greetings all.  I hope you are still skiing.

I'm a little late with a note about the Bernard Cup.  I've been somewhat distracted with family issues. Overall it was a difficult season in terms of getting races off.  A hat's off and wishes for a speedy recovery to Mike Braun for holding the schedule together.  All of our best wishes are also with Don Merritt and Tim Smith for rapid recovery.

We had a great finals weekend at Squaw Valley with five races counting in the Bernard Cup.  The Squaw Valley race department did an excellent job of pulling off the five races with bad weather for only one day.  Congratulations to Emily Andrews (W08) and Pierre Jeangirard (M08) winners of the 2017 Bernard Cup.

The Lodge at Tahoe Donner was the site for our over-subscribed and well-attended awards dinner.  We heard from scholarship recipients, raised some money for the scholarship program with the silent auction and raffle for a pair of skis.  Many thanks to Eddie Mozen for his hard work on the program.

The Cantanho "Spirit of Masters" award, which honors a competitor who exemplifies participation with cheerfulness and joy, as well as contributions to our program that encourages others to share the enjoyment of masters racing, went to Randall Sussek.  We all appreciate Randall's photographs and his great spirit on the hill.  I'm also personally grateful for all of Randall's help in arranging awards parties at Mammoth.

Randall was one of three persons who competed in all 12 races held this season.  The other two were Emily Andrews and Jonathon Garey-Sage.

Rookies of the year were Sara Gold (W01) and Peter Kudola (M03).

Sara Gold also topped the women's leader bib field and will have her name inscribed on our new annual perpetual trophy for the top Man and Woman of the year.
Women's leader bibs were won by:

1. Gold, Sara (W01) - 561 - 10(9)
2(t). Andrews, Emily (W08) - 560 - 12(12)
2(t). Wentworth, Kim (W06) - 560 - 10(10)
4. Lewis, Deb (W08) - 440 - 7(5)
5. Levy, Andrea (W01) - 400 - 5(4)

Emily will get #2 by virtue of having competed in more events.

The men's leader bib's were won by:

1. Filimon, Mihai (M04) - 460 - 5(5)
2. Lis, Wojciech (M01) - 435 - 10(6)
3. Shklovski, Mike (M04) - 400 - 6(5)
4. Cronin-Wilton, Seth (M03) - 365 - 7(7)
5. Jeangirard, Pierre (M08) - 361 - 10(10)
6. Welch, Brian (M03) - 360 - 4(4)
7. Fulton, Doug (M07) - 347 - 12(11)
8. Papazian, Ara (M05) - 340 - 5(5)
9. Braun, Michael (M07) - 331 - 7(7)
10. Sady, Scott (M05) - 316 - 12(9)

Mihai's name will also be inscribed on the Men's perpetual trophy.

If you finished in the top three in your class and were not at the finals banquet to get your trophy, contact me so I can arrange to get it to you.

Thinking ahead to next season, there are several spring training camps on offer to start getting ready.  Pierre will be holding camps at Mammoth on the weekends through most of June.  Contact Pierre at Pierre katopj at aol.com<mailto:katopj at aol.com>.   Ray Tulloch is holding camps at Mt. Rose. Contact Ray at raytulloch at munrotulloch.com<mailto:raytulloch at munrotulloch.com>.  There will be a  speed elements camp at Squaw Valley April 28-30 with such notables as Travis Ganong, Marco Sullivan and Marco,  Bryce and Errol Kerr.  Squaw Valley Masters coach Jeff Rouse will coach the masters.  Information is at:  https://store.squawalpine.com/estore/Content/Commerce/Products/DisplayProducts.aspx?ProductGroupCode=34&ProductCategoryCode=618&utm_source=teams%2B1617&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=teams%2Beg%2B1617&utm_content=teams%2Beg%2Bupdates<https://store.squawalpine.com/estore/Content/Commerce/Products/DisplayProducts.aspx?ProductGroupCode=34&ProductCategoryCode=618&utm_source=teams+1617&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=teams+eg+1617&utm_content=teams+eg+updates> .  Also at Squaw on May 5-8, Anna Goodman with assistant Marco Sullivan will offer a masters camp with two slalom days and 2 GS days.  Contact annagoody at gmail.com<mailto:annagoody at gmail.com> for information.

The spring and summer skiing (yes summer) looks to be great.  Enjoy.

Dan

Daniel L. Simmons
President
Far West Masters Ski Racing
14790 Slalom
Truckee, CA  96161

Tel:  530 587-4864

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