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The MSA Gala will be the place to be on Saturday night, February 12. There’ll be music, fine food and beverages, live and silent auctions, and a chance to party into the night for a great cause. The newly-refurbished Grand Summit Hotel will be the place. John and Mandy Ianiri, who headed up planning for our very successful Gala last year, have graciously agree to do so again – so we know it’ll be another wonderful evening. See you there!
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Three time Olympian (and MSA graduate) Kelly Clark climbed to the top of the podium at the 12th Annual Burton European Open Halfpipe Championships on January 15, with a score of 90.37. Clark has now won the Burton Open a total of four times. This win gives her an automatic qualification for the 2012 World Snowboarding Championships to be held next February in Oslo, Norway.
Closer to home, Clark dominated the women’s 22-foot Superpipe competition during the Dew Tour at Killington this weekend. Her first run was the performance to beat – and no one did. She also set an all-time Dew Tour Pipe run record, with a score of 95.75. This big win puts her in second place for the Dew Tour Cup, and in third place for the Over All Rider of the Year Award which will be given by Allied Sports in March. This coming weekend, Clark will compete at the 2011 X-Games in Aspen – Snowmass, Colorado.
The brother and sister team of Chris and Devin Logan (of West Dover and alums of Mount Snow Academy) are also headed for the X-Games. They won their respective slope style finals at Tahoe in The North Face Park and Pipe Series on January 9. In fact, they won on the same pair of skis. Chris broke a ski in practice, and borrowed Devin’s for the finals. As a result of their wins at Tahoe, both Logans secured spots at the 2011 Winter X Games this coming weekend. Probably that special pair of skis will be traveling with them.
Richie Paradise, new Head Coach for MSA’s Freestyle program, brings to the position a long list of personal wins and a rich background coaching at camps and clinics as well as heading up the Cranmore Mountain travel team. We anticipate an exciting season for this newly-reconstituted program.
The MSA freestylers this year are Boo Strachan and Robert Bittner, both of Freedom, New Hampshire, and Andrew Powell and Jon Caplan, both local boys from southern Vermont.
MSA alpine racer Eli Swing (Brookline, VT) took the top of the podium in Giant Slalom at the Second Annual Can/Am at Sugarloaf, Maine, on April 3. Swing, who races at the J4 level (ages 11 and 12), topped a field of 30 American and 30 Canadian skiers who represented the top competitors of their age group. Swing also won the Giant Slalom at Future Stars, a three day competition for J4 racers (ages 11 and 12). About 150 competitors earned a place at Future Stars based on their rankings at state championship races throughout the east.
Seven MSA snowboarders had a successful week at the National Championships at Copper Mountain, Colorado. The Nationals brought together over 1500 competitors from across the nation.
DJ Torroni (West Dover) – second overall among Junior Men (ages 16 and 17).
Noelle Edwards (Stamford, CT) – second overall among Breaker Girls (ages 12 and 13)
Jessica Gibson (Floral Park) – second in halfpipe and slope style among Youth Women (ages 14 and 15)
Austin Schweyher (Point Pleasant, NJ) – second in halfpipe among Junior Men (ages 16 and 17)
Codey Ellison (Bethany, CT) – fifth in slope style and sixth in half pipe among Youth Men (ages 14 and 15). Codey also took the title for Best Trick with a front side inverted 900.
Allie Kaplan (Lido Beach, NY) competed in slope style among Junior Woemn.
Wyatt Mosher – qualified for Nationals but was unable to compete due to an injury
Kelly Clark who attended MSA for 5 years won the renowned US Open with a nearly perfect score of 94.1.
Mount Snow Academy Alum Eliza Outtrim finally got her first World Cup podium performance, and she made it even better by winning the race. The mogul skier from Steamboat Springs, CO won the first World Cup moguls competition of her career in Sierra Nevada, Spain.
