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Lanzetta to ski with Waterville Valley Youth Tele Program This weekend team member Josh Lanzetta will visit Waterville Valley, NH to spend a day skiing with their youth telemark program. Waterville Valley has a 5 year old tele program for kids that generally attracts 8-10 kids between 10 and 14 years old. Some of these kids are planning to experience racing at the US National Championships in Gunstock, NH. This is just one way that the US team is working to reach out to individual tele skiers or telemark programs in order to share their love of tele sking and racing. Recently a group of team members from Colorado visited Vail and skied and raced with teens from the Vail Mountain School and the Colorado Rocky Mountain School. In late February, they will travel to Utah and hope to ski with some of the local young skiers in conjunction with the Alta Tele Rando races. If you have a youth tele program and would like a team member to ski with your team, please contact
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Cory Snyder and Madi McKinstry represent the US in Norway WC 5 races will be held in Norway between January 28 and February 4. Cory Snyder and Madi McKinstry will race for the USA. With the Kvitfjell races complete, the racers will travel to Rjukan for the final 3 events in the Norway series. We will post their comments, insights and results throughout this race series.
Saturday, February 4, Madi -Well, today was not quite as eventful for me, but it was a lot more eventful for the people who qualified. I could only manage 9th place, and Cory ate it in the second run of qualifiers. When the finals started, the crashes started. First Sondre crashed into Joergen, and they slid all twisted together into the loom. Apart from bruises, they were ok. Then Amelie raced Thea, and Amelie fell. She recovered and caught back up. Sven also fell during his pair, Bastien had some weird wobbles and ended up breaking two...maybe three poles total? Sigrid also fell during a run, and Johanna was able to stay ahead of her and qualify for the final round against Amelie. While hiking up to the start, Johanna's reoccurring knee problems fired up, and sadly she couldn't ski the final two runs against Amelie, putting her in second place. There were some really close runs between the men, Bene was against Bastien and had broken his pole, so when he went to grab it, he missed the fact he had to skate the extra 2 second penalty. So he lost because of that, and was not too happy. As spectators, we were all going crazy, cheering and blowing into little horns the Swiss coach had given us. The final results-Phil Lau, Tobi Muller, Bastien Dayer. Amelie Reymond, Johanna Holzmann, Sigrid Rykhus.
Friday, February 3, Madi - Today was one of the longest days of my short life. It started off bright and early at 6:30 to chomp on some food and squeeze into my speedsuit. At 7:45 we began inspecting the course...err...courses. At 9:00 it was time to begin the qualifing rounds. First we ran the blue/left course. In qualifiers, we were just by ourselves, not side by side. Then we headed back up to the red/right course and flipped our starting order. Once everyone had gone, it seemed I had just managed to squeeze into the top eight...meaning I would be competeing in the head to head part of the race. Goal completed. What I hadn;t thought about was actually running this whole new parallel race. So Cory helped me get my skis ready for what could have been multiple runs. Finally at 13:00 it was time for the first ever sprint parallel. Oh, and not to mention Johanna had come down the stairs after qualifiers and told me, "you are number 8? you are running with Amelie." That was when the enormous "oh no" groan escaped my lips. Ya...Amelie was sitting across the table laughing at me. But in a good way. Ummm so anyways, I rode up the T-bar with Amelie, and we talked about the race and the upcoming races in Steamboat. Yup, that's about the most I have ever said to that woman. They ran the men first, because there were more pairs of them, and my stomach just became more infested with butterflies as each pair went by. Finally came the highly anticipated, but dreaded "red course ready? 'yes' blue course ready? 'mmmhmmmm*with head nods*' attention...GO!" and the panels dropped. Oh man, the panels dropped, and my hands pulled me out of the start. I re-gripped my poles and dropped into tele. That was when I once again realized that I was racing next to Amelie FREAKING Reymond. SCARY A** S**T. Felt like I was going to throw up. But somehow, a smile snuck onto my face, and I gritted my teeth and tried to keep up. I landed the jump tele, and chased her into the loom. She was ahead of me on the skate, but the "KOM IGNEN!!!" from the Swedes was ringing in my ears and I pushed harder than ever. At the finish, of course she had beaten me, but there was still second run. And yes, second run was just as intimidating. More so actually, because I didn't land the jump tele and had to do the "1 second" skate turn thing...but I was still miles behind, and came smiling and skating into the finish. What I learned from today? This new event is the most fun thing about the sport, even though it takes all day and makes me feel uber jittery.
Thursday, February 2 - Cory - A good day here in Rjukan on the Pukkelen hill at Rjukan!Madi had two solid runs without major mistakes and was able to pull down an 8th place finish.She was happy with her skiing, but she said she knows she can do better on this hill, on which she has had good results in the past!I had a pretty good day as well, taking home 9th place after skiing two really good, not great runs, but penalty free runs.I have never skied well on this hill, so it feels good to finally ski a piste well that I have never been able to ski well before!We are both very very excited for tomorrows parallel sprint, the first ever to be run at the world cup level.Since we have never run one before, the door is open for somebody to break through and establish themselves on a new stage!Wish us luck!!
Women's Podium: Amelie Reymond 1st, Sigrid Rykhus 2nd, and Laura Grenier Soliget 3rd
Men's Podium: Bastien Dayer 1st, Sondre Kristenstue 2nd , and Phillipe Lau 3rd
Sunlight Sprint Classic
Thirty-three competitors battled the gates, the rap, the skate, and the heavy snow and fog on Saturday at Sunlight Mountain Resort. Madi McKinstry was the fastest woman on the course, and the only women's elite racer. This was a good warm up before her departure this week to Norway to compete in the World Cup events beginning next Saturday. Charlie Dresen placed first in a field of 7 elite competitors followed by Tommy Gogolen in his return to racing after knee surgery and nearly 6 months of rehab. Tommy planned to race at 70%, so watch out for him when he turns it up to 100%. In third place was Joel Nylander who made the trip from Utah to compete. Lyta Foulk was the fastest 16 and under woman and Brendan Durrum had his 2nd win in two weekends in the 16 and under men's division. The 16 and older division was topped by Maddi Conlin for the women and Addison Baker for the men, both of Vail Mountain School. Complete results: click here>
2012 US Telemark National Championships - Online Registration Open
USTSA has established an online registration process for the Nationals event at Gunstock, NH this March. We are using a product by Constant Contact, the same company that we use for our Newsletter emails. This allows us to email everyone on our distribution list and provide a direct link to the online registration. This should make registration much easier for you, the racer, and for our organizer, Josh Lanzetta. REGISTER NOW This online registration will be available until March 4th. After that, registration will be at Gunstock the mornings of each event. Please help Josh plan his event and get a good headcount by registering early!
Utah race moved from Wolf Mountain to Alta ski area - Alta Tele Rando Race Due to scheduling conflicts at Wolf Mountain, US Regioanl Team member, Joel Nylander, scrambled to find a new location and Alta was able to schedule this event on the same weekend it had been originally planned. Thanks to Alta for working with us at the last minute. The 2 day event will include a Telemark Sprint Classic on Saturday, February 25. A uphill/downhill race will be held on Sunday, February 26th. Alta is home of the Alta Town Series, an 8 race series that brings alpine and telemark racers together to test their skills in the gates.
Ty Upson of Steamboat Springs named the US National Team Coach
Ty has a strong ski racing and coaching background. Ty attended the Lowell Whiteman School in Steamboat and grew up racing in the SSWSC program. He attended CU where he ski raced and later coached. Ty has coached alpine racers at various levels and traveled and coached at the international level while coaching for Jackson Hole, Vail, SSWSC and the US Ski Team men's D and C Teams.
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g ski racing and coaching background. Ty attended the Lowell Whiteman School in Steamboat and grew up racing in the SSWSC program. He attended CU where he ski raced and later coached. Ty has coached alpine racers at various levels and traveled and coached at the international level while coaching for Jackson Hole, Vail, SSWSC and the US Ski Team men's D and C Teams.
