USASA Adirondack Slopestyle Results

The Adirondack region of the United States of America Snowboard Association held its second slopestyle competition of the year in the Brookside terrain Park at Whiteface Mountain this past Sunday, January 29^th. Skiers and snowboarders competed on a course made up of jumps, rails, and boxes to try and win the regional title and earn points towards the 22^nd USASA Nationals at season’s end in Copper Mt., CO.

The event was sponsored locally by NYSEF (New York Ski Educational Foundation), Whiteface Mountain, & Hardway Apparel. For more info or detailed results go to www.usasa.org, choose ‘events’, “adirondack’ then click the "SS" next to the event. More photos can be found here.

Open Class Men – 1^st Matt Nardiello, 2^nd Orion Stearns

Open Skier Men – 1^st Keith Shipman

Skier Boys (9 & under) – 1^st Kaylen Reiley, 2^nd Elias Ford, 3^rd Camden Reiley

Skier Boys (10-12) – 1^st Brain Gardiner, 2^nd Jack DeWeese, 3^rd Jake Roney

Breaker Boys (12-13) – 1^st Josh Boise, 2^nd Greg Livingston, 3^rd Anthony Russo

Skier Men (13-15) – 1^st Jake Wenn, 2^nd Jacob Prichard, 3^rd Gavin Fritz

Youth Men (14-15) – 1^st Daniel Badgley, 2^nd Demetrio Drellos

Junior Men (16-17) – 1^st – Christian Mattila, 2^nd Romano Leal, 3^rd David Cardany

Skier Men (16-18) – 1^st Alex Higgins-Lopez, 2^nd Jason Castle, 3^rd Peter Palumbo

NYSEF Mogul Skiers at Bristol & Hunter

The last two weekends at Hunter and Bristol Mountains went well for NYSEF Freestyle Mogul athletes. We had some good results and most importantly, we improved on our goals we set for ourselves! Everyone skied well above expectations going in and fun was had by all.

Coach Mike Lynn

Hunter Pics

Bristol Pics

Special thanks to Jenn DeWeese for the photo links!

Hunter Results – 25 girls/38 boys

Brett DeWeese - 14^th and 21^st out of 25

Brian Gardiner – 4^th (3^rd in age group) and 6^th overall

Jake Roney – 19^th and 23^rd

Jack DeWeese – 25^th and 31^st

Camden Reiley – 31^st and 29^th

Kaylen Reiley – 29^th and 33^rd (3^rd in age group)

Bristol Results – 41 girls/60 boys

Brett DeWeese -11^th and 14^th

Brian Gardiner – 13^th and 15^th

Jake Roney – 39^th and 37^th

Jack DeWeese – 43^rd and 42^nd

Freeride Update - Results and Upcoming Events

Well, winter is still deciding what to do but we're moving forward with events here and all over the country.

I want to thank everyone who came out and helped with our USSA "A" Eastern Moguls event, the Whiteface Bumps & Jumps, this past weekend. The course was solid but the temps helped us out as it warmed up throughout the weekend. Former NYSEF skier Abe Studler placed 3rd both days and 3rd overall. Good job Abe! Erik Sparkowski also showed that a big man can ski bumps!

Kevin Brousseau just returned from training and competition at Copper Mt, CO with the Ski Cross team and reports some great results. In two Rocky Mt regional USASA events KC Brousseau, racing in Open class, took 2nd both days while Matt Brady took 5th. Brian Corcoran(NSA), racing in his age class, took a 2nd and a 1st. The following week racing in the Nor-Am at Copper, KC had the fastest time trial by almost 1 second and came away with 13th place overall while Matt took 26th. Nice work guys! Next up for them is the USSA Revolution Tour in Otsego, MI followed by the US Grand Prix at The Canyons, UT.

Matt Brady
For those of us staying a little closer to home, this Sunday is the 2nd USASA Slopestyle here at Whiteface. Registration info can be found here . Also, if you are interested in volunteering to help out click on the link to Volunteer Spot - the green button on the top right of the blog page - to sign-up.

The following weekend is the Empire State Games Ski/Boardercross and Slopestyle competitions, Feb 2-5th at Whiteface Mt. Anyone who is a member of the USASA in NY state and is at least 13 yrs old can enter. Go to www.empirestatewintergames.com for general info or click on this link to go directly to rules and schedules for our sports. You must contact me (mike@nysef.org) to declare your intent first and I will send you the needed registration info.

Volunteer link for ESG will be up this week on this blog.

Hope to see you here!

Freeride updates

Hello Freeriders,

This past Sunday, Jan 8th, was the first Slopestyle of the 2011 ADK Series USASA competition schedule. Although we have had a shortage of snow all over the northeast to start this 2011-2012 ski season, the snow making crews and the Whiteface Park Staff all kicked into overdrive to provide one heck of a slopestyle course. There were two jumps each with two different size take-offs. The distances on the first jump measure 35 ft and 45 ft, and the distances on the 2nd jump measure 30 ft and 40 ft. After the jump line was a wide jump lip with four rail features sitting on top.

As you can see from the picture above: there was a culvert gap to a flat rail (skiers left), the flat rail could also be slid by itself, a cannon rail (center), and a up to down box (skiers right) (also called the "shark fin").

Every athlete did their best to bring their A game on Sunday. The level of skill was incredibly high. In total there were 39 athletes ranging over a total of 10 disciplined age-groups.

Below are a bunch of photos from Jake Sporn Photography:

Keith Shipman

Brian Gardiner

K.C. Brousseau

Gavin Fritz

Arthur Griffin

Jake Wenn

Greg Livingston

Results can be found by going to USASA events, a searching the Adirondack series, and clicking the SS (slopestyle) button on the right.

More photos can be found at: the whiteface facebook

Huge thanks to the Whiteface snowmakers, the Whiteface Park Staff, the USASA ADK Series, and all the volunteers for making this event possible.

January 16th Skier/Boardercross Postponed

The race planned for Monday, January 16th has been postponed until February 22nd due to snow conditions. The Gore/North Creek staff did all they could to provide a course for us but Mother Nature had other plans. The make-up event will be added to the schedule making it a double event day. Our next USASA ADK event will be a Slopestyle at Whiteface Mt.

Looking for Volunteers for Freeride Events

We are looking for volunteers for upcoming events. You can work off the NYSEF work deposit and/or earn lift ticket vouchers for future use. For some of the positions, such as registration assistant or assistant starter at USASA events, it is preferred that we have at least one person who can cover most of the events so re-training isn't necessary every time.

Click the corresponding button next to the day/event you may be available and it will take you to Volunteer Spot, our online organizer for Freeride.

Jan 20-21 Moguls/Dual Moguls at Whiteface

We have plenty of events over the course of the season and I will be posting more soon so keep on checking back.

Thanks!