March and April were busy months for the snowboard teams.

Our young riders continued to train here at home with some excellent conditions – working on meeting their own personal goals with Coaches Anna and Zane. Coach Anna has done an amazing job organizing that program and we have some new interest for next season

Our NorAm team competed in Steamboat Springs where we saw some of our best finishes of the season – Felicia Turcotte with a 2nd place and Zack Zaman with a career-high 3rd place in the FIS race. The crew finished out the season in Mount St. Anne Canada competing after the World Cup on an amazing course built by Red Bull where Declan Murray got a 12th place and Felicia Turcotte a 4th place which should get her some World Cup starts next season.
Meanwhile, the Para team was in Canada for 4 World Cup and NorAm races in Big White and Mt. Sima. In World Cup Brenna Huckaby continued to dominate her category with some good finishes by Dennae and Courtney. This secured Brenna the overall Globes. In the NorAm events, Alex Godowski had his best finishes ever with two 2nds and two 3rds while Kate Delson continued to dominate, winning the NorAm cup. Because of the strong finishes by our NorAm athletes, our team was presented with the Team NorAm Cup.

In Big Mountain Freeride, Gage and Kaito were both invited to the Junior Championships in Breckenridge. Kaito secured a 3rd place finish which places him in 1st place overall for the season. Unfortunately, Gage fell in the qualifiers but came away with 17th place overall for the season.

Of course, it’s not all about results – those are just a byproduct of the time and energy these athletes put into training. And huge thanks to the coaching staff for being there through all the early mornings and challenging competition travel (as well as the powder days that make it all worthwhile). A little time off for everyone and then we will be looking at spring and summer training to prepare for next season.

~ Lane Clegg
SBSEF Snowboard Director
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