Archive for Saturday, March 6, 2010
Photo by Joel Reichenberger
U.S. Ski Team member Heidi Kloser does a trick Friday during the duals moguls finals at a NorAm Cup freestyle skiing event at Steamboat Ski Area. Kloser, from Vail, won.
Vail's Heidi Kloser grabs NorAm Cup in Steamboat
Steamboat’s DeGrandis 6th on men’s side at freestyle event
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Canada's Eddie Hicks skies during Friday's NorAm dual moguls finals at the Steamboat Ski Area. Hicks went on to win the competition.
Steamboat Springs NorAm Cup freestyle skiing results
Women
- Heidi Kloser, USA
- Chelsea Henitiuk, Canada
- Alison Digravio, USA
- Whitney Henceroth, USA
- Jackie Brown, Canada
- Alexanda Dufresne, Canada
- Alexa Stein, USA
- Lindsey Cannon, USA
- Mikaela Matthews, USA
- Justine Dufor-Lapointe, Canada
- Brittany Loweree, USA
- Becky Miller, USA
- Christel Hamel, Canada
- Alyssa Lawson, USA
- Aspen Witt, USA
- KC Oakley, USA
- Annie Serra, USA
- Kiersten Adams, USA
- Tali Peters, USA
- Alison Crowe, USA
- Kristi Waring, USA
- Keaton McCargo, USA
- Kylie Sivell, Canada
- Lane Stoltzner, USA
- Rebecca Goldstein, USA
- Elizabeth Smith, USA
- Kayla Burcin, USA
- Vienna McLeod, USA
- Alissa Pinkoski, USA
Men
- Eddie Hicks, Canada
- Bryan Zemba, USA
- Joey Discoe, USA
- Simon Pouliot Cavanagh, Canada
- Bradley Wilson, USA
- Michael DeGrandis, USA
- Robert Burden, USA
- Reed Snyderman, USA
- Mikael Kingsbury, Canada
- Troy Tully, USA
- Jay Panther, USA
- Pascal-Olivier Gagne, Canada
- Marc-Antoine Gagnon, Canada
- Robert Carroll, USA
- Nathan Park, USA
- Wade Parkinson, USA
- Arnaud Laurin-Landry, Canada
- Dalton Lee, USA
- Sterling Crescimanno, USA
- Andrew Pool, Canada
- Julie Dufresne, Canada
- Ryan Reilly, USA
- Simon Lemieux, Canada
- Nick Hanscom, USA
- Tim Chamberlain, USA
- Branden Goldenberg, USA
- Cody Tempel, USA
- Garrett Wiltshire, Canada
- Nicholas Keating, USA
- Kyle Jordan, USA
- Zachary Hoffman, Canada
- Zak Watkins, USA
- Brandon Denker, USA
- Luke Ulsifer, Canada
- Barley Damon, USA
- Nick Didomenico, USA
- Brayden Pawlik, Canada
- Brandon Cronin, USA
Steamboat Springs — Revenge was served Friday at Steamboat Ski Area as a pair of freestyle skiers who suffered through miserable runs Thursday rebounded to win Friday’s events, wrapping up the two-day NorAm Cup freestyle skiing stop in Steamboat Springs.
U.S. Ski Team member Heidi Kloser won the women’s dual moguls event a day after she crashed out on her first run in the single moguls. Canadian Eddie Hicks, meanwhile, took the men’s title after an ugly qualification run Thursday kept him from even making that day’s finals.
“It was a good day. I just went out and skied like I knew how to ski,” Kloser said. “I just did what I knew I needed to do, and I won.”
Kloser was just happy to be there the last time competition called her to Steamboat. She had been on the U.S. Ski Team for one week before the U.S. Olympic Trials in December. She didn’t shine that day, or Thursday, either, when she crashed near the top of the course on her first run of the singles competition.
Friday, though, she bested all comers, blasting down the course in the finals to win the day and secure the victory in the season-long NorAm championships points race.
She beat Canadian Chelsea Henitiuk in the finals. Alison Digravio, of the United States, beat fellow U.S. skier Whitney Henceroth for third place.
“My season’s been going really well,” Kloser said. “It’s been really fun.”
Hicks, too, had to overcome a bad Thursday to win Friday. He didn’t crash, but he skied such an ugly and inconsistent run that he failed to make the finals of a single moguls competition for the first time in weeks.
It all looked right Friday. He beat U.S. skier Bryan Zemba in the finals. Joey Discoe, of the United States, beat Simon Pouliot Cavanagh, of Canada, for third place.
“I just came out wanting to relax and do my thing. Things really started to click for me in the finals,” Hicks said. “The conditions were way better today. There was a little more snow out there, and I like that, bigger moguls and a softer course.”
Canada’s Mikael Kingsbury, Thursday’s men’s champion, was ninth Friday but still wrapped up the season-long NorAm championship.
Steamboat skiers were again denied a spot on the podium but were well represented in the final standings.
Michael DeGrandis was sixth, Rob Burden was seventh and Reed Snyderman was eighth on the men’s side. All three skiers earned their second top-10 finish in as many days.
Alexa Stein, meanwhile, was the top local female finisher. She was seventh.
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