Snowboard March Update
Para/NorAm
This update is coming to you from Cortina Italy at the Paralympics! Both coach Adi and myself are here with the US Team, working on bringing home some hardware. We completed Boardercross the other day with a pretty awesome finish for Kate Delson who got the silver! Brenna Huckaby ended up in 6th after narrowly avoiding another athlete who fell in front of her and Jackie Hamwey took 7th. Joe Pleban brought home an 8th place along with a broken wrist sustained in a crash in his final heat.
We are currently waiting for the Banked Slalom event and have been plagued by weather delays.
Big Mtn
This last month the team and I entered the bulk of our competition season. Everyone has managed to find themselves on a podium at least once or twice. More important than the results have been the scores and the lessons learned. Everyone on the team is finding their competitive strengths, working on their weaknesses, and hungry for more. I’d like to say that competing in these conditions has been challenging, but anyone who competes in IFSA events religiously knows that the conditions are almost never good. As of now, five of our riders are above the qualification cut line for Junior Freeride Championships.