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Kieffer Christianson braces for the next gate as he flies down the giant slalom course during his second run in the Nor-Am Cup on Thursday at Golden Peak. Christianson finished first in the day’s race. FULL STORY ON PAGE A27.

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Nor-Am races hit Golden Peak International field to compete

By John LaConte SPECIAL TO THE DAILY

VAIL — After the World Cup, it’s the highest level of ski racing competition in North America.

The International Ski Federation (FIS) North America Cup (Nor-Am) visits Golden Peak this weekend, bringing with it national teams from four different continents.

Racers from the national teams of Canada, Argentina, Great Britain, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, New Zealand and the U.S. kicked off the action Thursday in a men’s giant slalom, where they were greeted with dumping snow and low visibility. Despite the race’s timing — taking place during the tail end of a storm that would leave roughly 2 feet on Vail Mountain before letting up Thursday afternoon — both runs went off without a hitch and ran perfectly on time.

“It was soft for sure, but the course workers did a good job of getting it smooth,” Kieffer Christianson, of the U.S. Ski Team, said after his first run. “In terms of race organization, Vail always makes sure things go off smoothly, so it’s a great place to race.”

Leading the field after his first run, Christianson hung on in the second run to ski away with the win, his first time atop the podium in a major event since 2009, when he won a National Junior Race slalom in Stratton, Vt. “First time I’ve won a big-boy race,” he said with a laugh. “Or at least a medium-boy race.”

He said the conditions didn’t bother him.

“I grew up in Alaska, so I’m used to skiing bad weather all the time — I actually kind of like it,” he said after the win. “I feel like it gives me a leg up before I even start racing; more confidence.”

Christianson said the early season training — the U.S. Ski Team practices at Golden Peak — also gave him an advantage.

“Over the last few years we’ve spent quite a bit of time at Vail, so we know the hill pretty well,” he said. “They always do a good

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ABOVE: American Nicolas Krause flies down the Nor-Am Cup men’s giant slalom course during his second run of the day Thursday at

Golden Peak in Vail. Krause took third place in the race.

BELOW: Norway’s Nokolai Tornoe Narvestad leans into the next gate during his second run in the Nor-Am men’s giant slalom race Thursday at Golden Peak in Vail. Narvestad finished in second place, behind American Kieffer Christianson. job preparing the hill so it’s fun to race here.”

Second-place finisher Nikolai Tornoe Narvestad, of Norway, said the weather may have helped him as well.

“It was super bumpy,” he said.

“But I’m just so happy I could stay focused.”

Last year’s winner, Ski & Snowboard Club Vail alumni Will Gregorak, couldn’t find the same success on the course again this year. He cited his skis as a potential issue — at the Nor-Am level, racers are still allowed to use a shorter-radius ski, which performs better in softer snow, as opposed to the World Cup. “It was my first time back on these old skis again this year, and on the soft course I just putted my way down,” he said. “I was really comfortable on this hill but

... maybe I’ll put something better together tomorrow.”

Another Ski & Snowboard Club racer, Seppi Stiegler, put two solid runs together to miss the podium by just a hundredth of a second.

“I’ve had a lot of days on the hill here but, unfortunately, the snow is nothing like what we’ve been training,” he said after the race. “We’ve been here training since November, and we have a lot of great people here who support us, which really helps.”

Upon winning, Christianson was greeted with handshakes and congratulations from Stiegler and the other North American competitors, Canadians included. The high level of sportsmanship is one of the things Christianson likes about competing on the Nor-Am cir-

cuit, he said.

“In North America we compete against each other but when we go across the pond to Europe where the big-time racing is, we’re all friends,” he said.

The FIS Nor-Am Cup contin-

ues at Golden Peak all weekend and into next week — men’s GS action takes place once again today, with men’s and women’s slalom races on Saturday and Sunday, and women’s GS on Monday and Tuesday.

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Anderson and Louri Podladtchikov are among those competing in the slopestyle and halfpipe competitions.

“The U.S. Open is one of snowboarding’s legendary events and some of my best competition memories are of competing at Vail, so for me, bringing the two together is all-time,” said Shaun White. “I’m excited to compete in Vail’s new pipe and see everyone come out for the next evolution of this contest.”

It gets started on Feb. 27 with slopestyle semifinals. Slopestyle is an official sport at the 2014 Winter

Olympics. At the U.S. Open, the best slopestyle competitors in the world are confirmed to compete, including X Games slopestyle gold medalist Mark McMorris (Canada), 2012 Burton European Open (BEO) slopestyle winner Aleksander Oestreng (Norway), 2012 U.S. Open slopestyle champ Sebastien Toutant (Canada) and World Snowboard Tour overall title holder Stale Sandbech (Norway), among others.

The women’s lineup is equally impressive, with X Games gold medalist and 2012 US Open slopestyle champion Anderson

(U.S.A.), 2012 X Games gold medalist Enni Rukajarvi (Finland), Olympian Kjersti Ostgaard Buaas (Norway), three-time BEO Junior Jam winner Ty Walker (U.S.A.) and Cilka Sadar (Slovenia) all confirmed to compete.

On Feb. 28, the Burton U.S. Open halfpipe semifinals begin.

The U.S. Open halfpipe rider list is stacked with nine Olympians, including White, Louie Vito (U.S.A.), Greg Bretz (U.S.A.), Kazuhiro Kokubo (Japan), Kelly Clark (U.S.A.), Elena Hight (U.S.A.), Hannah Teter (U.S.A.) and Bright (Australia). Also com-

peting are World Snowboarding Championships gold medalist Podladtchikov (Switzerland), Queralt Castellet (Spain), Peetu Piiroinen (Finland), Christian Haller (Switzerland) and 14-yearold halfpipe phenom and 2013 X Games silver medalist Ayumu Hirano (Japan).

The entire event is open to the public, with slopestyle finals on March 1 at 10:30 a.m. and halfpipe finals going down on March 2 at 10:30 a.m.

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competitors. While the alpine athletes on Boo-Boo focused on staying grounded, freeskiers on the run beside them focused on hang time.

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place Saturday with a podium sweep from Ski & Snowboard Club Vail (SSCV) athletes.

This was the first competition held in Vail’s new halfpipe, and the competitors had rave reviews.

The added element of the competition being a “double” meant that these athletes competed in a different competition on each of their two runs.

John Leonard from Ski & Snowboard Club Vail won the first pipe competition of the day with a score of 92. Leonard has been on a roll this season with a recent win at the Rev Tour.

Leonard claims that it is his music that makes him ski so well. Behind Leonard in second place was World Cup skier and SSCV athlete Broby Leeds. Leeds didn’t quite make the finals for the grand prix in Utah, so he came back and competed in the USSA Halfpipe competition.

Leeds had the biggest “hit” of the day in the competition, where he boosted out of the pipe around 18 feet. Behind Leeds in the first competition was SSCV athlete Jake Cummings, rounding out the podium in third place.

Leeds took the win in the second competition of the day with a massive score of 96.6.

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but now it is a lot like all the other pipes, so it is super fun,” said Leeds.

His run started out with a massive straight air to a left 900, to an air to fakie (meaning he went up straight and then landed switch), to a switch rodeo 720, to a right 900, and finishing the run with a left 1080. The second competition was the Rocky Mountain Championships, in which Leeds claimed the overall title. Cummings also improved his score and bumped up to second place in the championships.

Today is another day of competition, with double slopestyle taking place at the Golden Peak Terrain Park.

SSCV racers land on the podium at Smartwool race Steamboat has received an incredible amount of snow in the past few weeks, but the SSCV U-16 female racers weren’t there for the deep snow Saturday. The U-16 racers went over to the Smartwool giant slalom race with the goal of landing on the podium, which they certainly did.

SSCV’s Rachael Desrochers crushed the field of 90 girls by almost 2 full seconds for the win. Heidi Livran finished behind Desrochers, in second place. Anna Martin had a great top-10 finish, placing eighth overall.

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By John LaConte SPECIAL TO THE DAILY

EAGLE COUNTY — Going into the second U.S. Grand Prix of the season, Ski & Snowboard Club Vail halfpipe skier Aaron Blunck said he wanted to stick to the same plan he had at the first Grand Prix, which earned him a spot at the X Games.

“I just want to do well and get another good result,” he said Wednesday night, in anticipation of Thursday’s Grand Prix qualifier.

Well, he did, making finals once again for the third time in as many major competitions.

“Just making finals felt good,” he said after Saturday’s competition.

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Making finals and collecting good results has been the story of Blunck’s season so far. On Saturday, he finished fifth, after a second in the first Grand Prix and a seventh at the X Games, with Thursday’s result being the third major halfpipe final in a row to feature the 16-year old. His second-place finish at the first Grand Prix in December at Copper earned him the coveted X Games invite — going into that competition, his goal was to make finals, which he did.

“I’m so pumped,” he said from Aspen after making finals.

In finals, Blunck landed back-to-back double flips — a first for him. He crashed on his third run and finished seventh.

“I’m still happy I went for it,” he said after the competition. “Once I made finals, I knew people would be throwing back-to-back doubles, so I thought, why not just go for it, I already made finals. ... I landed the 12 in the back seat but just going for it and landing it was a firsttime accomplishment, which was huge for me.”

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that it’s just another comp and I’m ready to go out and slay,” he said Wednesday night.

He finished 10th at Thursday’s Grand Prix qualifier and opted to go with a safer run in Saturday’s finals, only throwing one double.

He stomped his run and wound up in fifth.

“I couldn’t have asked for a better first run,” he said of the tricks — a double cork 1260, left 900, right 1080, switch 720, right 900 and alleyoop flatspin 540. “I wanted to end with an alley-oop double flat 900, but it was too risky.”

Blunck’s teammate, Ski Club Vail freeskier Annalisa Drew, also made finals for the women at the Grand Prix after landing her first-ever 1080 in qualifiers. Last week at the X Games, Drew tried going even bigger with a 1260.

“She really went for the 12, which is a very hard trick to land,” Ski Club Vail freeskifreeride program director Elana Chase said after the X Games. “It is difficult to set up a landing on a trick like that. Once she gets a few kinks worked out in her run, she is going to be an unstoppable force.”

Drew finished sixth. Ski Club Vail freeskier Alex Ferreira was also in the Grand Prix; he didn’t make finals and ended 28th.

Farrington takes third

Meanwhile, on the snowboard side, Ski & Snowboard Club Vail snowboarder Kaitlyn Farrington said she had fun at the Grand Prix while also finding her way onto the podium.

She was riding alongside Kelly Clark, who just came off a win at the X Games, and managed to best the superstar. Clark trained on Ski & Snowboard Club Vail’s airbag in Vail, where Farrington also trains, in the days leading up to the X Games.

“It’s always fun to ride with Kelly; I’m bummed she isn’t on the podium with us,” Farrington said after the Grand Prix.

Clark crashed in both of her runs. Meanwhile, Farrington landed a backside 900, backside alley-oop 540, backside 540 tail grab, frontside 360 and frontside 720 indy for her third-place run.

“My front 9 was a little sketchy in my run, but what can you do?” she said. “I don’t think I was riding my best, but I always have a good time at the Grand Prix, and that’s really what snowboarding is about.”

Jiayu Liu, of China, won the women’s snowboard halfpipe competition, while Shawn White took home the victory for the men.

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SCHLADMING, Austria — This year, Lindsey Vonn isn’t the only favorite in the super-G at the world skiing championships.

The American has won the World Cup super-G title for four straight seasons, but Vonn is only now regaining speed after a mid-season break to shrug off health problems. Several rivals have been showing the kind of form that could earn them the gold medal in Tuesday’s opening race.

Despite winning two of four races this season, Vonn isn’t even leading the discipline standings. She trails Tina Maze of Slovenia by four points.

“In downhill and super-G, I feel really strong,” Vonn said.

Germany’s Viktoria Rebensburg used to be a giant slalom specialist but has been improving in speed events the last two seasons. She won the most recent super-G in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, two weeks ago.

Maze claimed her first super-G victory in St. Anton, Austria, in January to become the sixth female skier to win World Cup races in all five Alpine disciplines.

“Tina is having an incredible season,” said Vonn, who is likely to lose her overall World Cup title to the Slovenian. “I don’t really compare myself to her as I had that break and missed so many races.”

Vonn’s teammate, Julia Mancuso, finished in the top six of each super-G this season, including a second and a third place.

The American is third behind Maze and Vonn in the discipline standings and usually performs well at major championships.

“It’s nice to have a little break (from the World Cup) and to put more focus into these races,” said Mancuso, who won silver at worlds in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, two years ago.

“I really enjoy the championship races,” Mancuso said. “I don’t really feel extra pressure. I just want to go fast.”

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An average crowd of 30,000 is expected at each race, with many of the fans hoping for a repeat of Austria’s success in 2011 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, when the country topped the medal table with four golds, three silvers and one bronze.

But the Austrian team is likely to have a hard time matching that feat this time around.

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beth Goergl has failed to finish in the top 10 of any speed race this season. Slalom champion Marlies Schild is still doubtful after knee surgery in December, increasing pressure on super-combined champion Fenninger.

Maze has dominated the World Cup season so far, winning seven races with 10 more top-three finishes. She is in contention to beat Austrian great Hermann Maier’s record of 2,000 World Cup points in one season.

Maze could also become the first woman to medal in all five individual events at a single world championship. The only skier achieving that feat was Lasse Kjus of Norway at the 1999 championships in Vail and Beaver Creek, Colorado.

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Hirscher, who missed the 2011 worlds with a broken foot.

Hirscher has 13 podium finishes, including six victories, this season. The Austrian will skip the speed races to fully focus on his strongest disciplines, slalom and giant slalom, though he was considering a start in the super-combined event.

In GS, defending world champion Ted Ligety looks to be the man to beat after taking four races with huge winning margins, despite having to use new skis following a rule change by the governing body that the American criticized before the season started.

In the speed events, former overall champion Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway, who took the super-combined title two years ago, is among the favorites again after winning three super-G races and a downhill.

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PARK CITY, Utah — The Junior Championship Qualifications were held in Park City, Utah, this past weekend, and Ski & Snowboard Club Vail trounced the competition.

The magnitude of this race for the U14 racers is large, and their accomplishments were certainly no small feat. The racers were out there competing against the best Intermountain Division USSA racers.

Teams from Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Romark Academy, Bogus Basin Beaver Mountain, Snowbird, Ogden Valley, McCall and multiple others were present at the race. There were more than 100 boys competing in the race, and SSCV had eight boys in the top 10.

After watching the SSCV boys come down the hill, coaches from other teams told Brett Borgard, SSCV’s head boys coach, “that is how you are supposed to race.”

By competing so well in an out-of-division race, these athletes discovered that they are part of the talent in the Rocky Mountain Division.

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Park City, and they allowed us to race against their best,” Borgard said. “We had a qualification race to pick the kids who would travel to this race. The qualification process had been season long, and the kids proved that they deserved to be out there.

“They selected the top six girls and top six boys from a slalom time trial that was held at the end of December on Golden Peak.

The second way racers qualified was by landing in the top six at the Bolle Age Class Race in early January at Beaver Creek.

Finally, there were three more spots for the girls and the boys judged by coach’s discretion. It is really great to see how the SSCV kids stand against the best of the Intermountain Division racers.”

The course out at Park City was the longest giant-slalom course the racers had skied all season, at 300 meters of vertical drop and 45 gates. The girls skied well at the race, but the boys didn’t miss a beat. SSCV’s Bridger Gile had two aggressive and fast runs, landing him in first place with a combined time of 2:20.77. Behind Gile were teammates Colby Lange in second, Jacob Dilling in third, Brendan Keane in third, SSCV, page A14

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Day 2 proved just as successful for both the boys and the girls. Lange bumped up his ranking from the day before and ended in first, followed by Dilling in second, Keane in third, Gile in fourth, Patrick Ottley in sixth, Koolman in seventh, Carnes in ninth and Mathew Macaluso in 10th. On the girls’ end, Gretchen Pavelich ended in fourth place, followed by Zoey Livran in eighth and Michaela Strizencova in 10th.

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Ski & Snowboard Club Vail Nordic coach Eric Pepper prepped the athletes he brought to the Soldier Hollow Junior National Qualifier by waxing skis and giving pep talks. It must have been a combination of the perfectly tuned skis, the low elevation and the impeccable course conditions that propelled the entire team to outstanding finishes.

The SSCV Nordic team went out to Utah last week and raced into the weekend in a dozen different events. Roughly 650 nordic racers showed up for the important qualifier event.

These nordic athletes are looking to establish enough points in the next month to qualify for the Rocky Mountain Junior National team. The team takes the 12 best OJs as well as the 12 best J1s and J2s in the region. The OJ-level athletes are those who are 18 and 19, and the J1s are 16 and 17.

There are four races, this being the first, where these juniors will earn the necessary points to qualify them for the team. Since there was a multitude of other athletes from the Rocky Mountain Division at the competition, they had to prove themselves among those athletes in particular.

“They were racing really well; the whole west coast was out there,” Pepper said. “There were teams from Idaho, California, Colorado, Utah, Oregon and Wyoming, among others. This is by far the biggest contingent of athletes we’ve ever brought from Vail, and we had great results from both older and younger kids. It’s great to compete at such a big, well-run and well-attended event and also really cool to get to ski at the 2002 Olympic venue.”

Ian Boucher a student at Vail Ski & Snowboard Academy, who also raced exceptionally well at the last Junior National Qualifier here in Vail just two weeks ago, outperformed other racers in the J1/OJ men’s skate sprint competition. In fact, the SSCV team had four athletes in the top 10 of the sprint.

Boucher qualified in first for the competition out of a field of 115 racers. Cal Deline, also from SSCV, had qualified third for the sprint. During the finals, Boucher raced well and landed in second place. Following Boucher there was Deline in third, Christian Shanley in fifth and Max Scrimgeour in seventh. Scrimgeour had a stand-out performance across the board and raced well all weekend.

On the women’s side of the J1/J0 sprint skate, Hannah Hardenbergh placed fourth out of a field of 91 racers. Hardenbergh attends Vail Mountain School and races for them, as well. The Hardenbergh family had quite the performance in Utah, with wins and podium results in many different races.

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Ski & Snowboard Club Vail racers Ian Boucher, second, and Cal Deline, third, celebrate on the podium at the Soldier Hollow Junior National Qualifier in Midway, Utah.

On Saturday, during the J1/OJ male 15-kilometer, the four men did it again, with Scrimgeour placing second, Shanley placing third, Deline placing sixth and Boucher placing eighth. This time, the field was composed of 115 other racers.

The younger SSCV racers also performed well amongst an experienced race field. In the J3 boys’ 3K individual skate, Christian Wilson placed fourth on Friday and second on Saturday. Following Wilson was teammate Patrick Scruggs, who placed fifth on Friday and eighth on Saturday.

Nolan Herzog improved on his time, going from 22nd place on Friday in the 3K to seventh on Saturday.

In the J3 female 3K individual skate, Maddie Donavan placed third, followed by Gracie Shanley in 11th. On Saturday, Donavan placed fourth in the 3K race and Shanley placed 12th. Ian Hardenbergh raced well in the J4 3K and 2K individual skate races, winning the events on both Friday and Saturday. Bridget Donovan placed third in the J4 girls’ 3K individual skate and fourth in the 2K race. In the J5 class, Katy Hardenbergh placed third in the 1K race on Friday and fourth on Saturday. Conner Wilson placed first for the J6 males on both Friday and Saturday in the 1K races.

Based on their stellar performance in Utah, these upand-coming nordic stars will have the chance to land on the coveted Rocky Mountain Division Junior National Team. Keep an eye out for these athletes training in and around Vail.

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DENVER — Danilo Gallinari and Ty Lawson each scored 22 points and the Denver Nuggets rallied past the Milwaukee Bucks 112-104 on Tuesday night for their seventh straight victory.

The Nuggets withstood Samuel Dalembert’s career-high 35 points and trailed by 17 points in the first half before coming back to beat the Bucks for the fifth time in a row and get their longest winning streak overall in more than two years.

Corey Brewer added 20 points and Kenneth Faried 13 points and rebounds for the Nuggets, who didn’t lead in the game until late in the fourth quarter.

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Nor-Ams at Golden Peak, hosted by Ski & Snowboard Club Vail, wrapped Tuesday. Local athletes vied against U.S. and Canadian national teams for World Cup start spots.

Kieffer Christianson, from the U.S. Ski Team, landed in first place on Day 1 of the giant slalom event.

Day 2 of the race proved successful for team Canada with Ford Swette clinching the GS win followed by teammate Sasha Zaitsoff in second and Christianson in third. SSCV had a clear presence in the second day of the race with alumnus Will Gregorak placing fifth and current SSCV athlete Seppi Stiegler placing in sixth.

“I did four years at DU where I skied for them. Last year, I skied for the national team and this year I moved out here.

Now, I’m skiing with SSCV’s Nor-Am team. In order to solidify a World Cup start, you have to be first in the overall ranking. Currently, I’m sitting around 10th,” Stiegler said. The top two North American finishers in each event also earn World Cup starts. After men’s GS, the racers moved into the weekend with two days of slalom for both the men and the women.

On Saturday, the Canadians crushed the competition in slalom with Paul Stutz in first, Michael Janyk in second and Phil Brown in third. SSCV’s Stiegler held in there against huge competition and landed in fifth place. Anna Goodman, from the Canadian National Team, crushed the competition by 1.5 seconds on Saturday winning the overall event.

Day 2 of the slalom event proved good for Goodman again. By winning two days in a row by an incredible point margin, Goodman was guaranteed a position for every World Cup race next season.

Monday and Tuesday was all about the ladies with women’s giant slalom. Canadian National Team member Mikaela Tommy, who is only 17, skied well to her first ever Nor-Am win. On Day 2 of the women’s GS event, Gjelsten Haugen, of Norway, put down two clean and beautiful runs for the win. Following Gjelsten was Mateja Robnik and rounding out third was U.S. Ski Team member Megan McJames. SSCV’s alumna Abby Ghent ended up in 11th place.

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VAIL — Within an hour of a roughly 70 mph crash that caused Lindsey Vonn to tear two knee ligaments and fracture part of her tibia, the reigning alpine skiing World Cup champion wanted to know how long it would be before she could get back on her skis.

U.S. Ski Team physician Dr. Bill Sterett was by Vonn’s side after her super-G crash at the World Alpine Ski Championships in Schladming, Austria. He told the Vail Daily on Wednesday that journalists aren’t the only ones who want to know when the champion will race again.

“She’s asking the same thing,” Sterett said, adding that Vonn’s spirits are “really, really good.”

“Everyone’s been happy to see how upbeat she is through all this,” Sterett said.

“The best way to describe it is that she’s determined — she’s extremely determined and very focused.”

Sterett, a surgeon with Vail-Summit Orthopaedics, plans to fly back to the United States with Vonn and said he will operate on her knee next week in Vail.

Sterett, the head team physician for the U.S. Women’s Alpine Team, has been treating Vonn since she was a child, according to a statement released by Vail-

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Vonn tore the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) in her right knee, both of which require surgery, and she also suffered an impaction fracture of the tibial plateau, which Sterett said should not require surgery.

The fracture, however, means Vonn will not be able to bear weight on that leg until the fracture heals.

Vonn’s right leg apparently buckled as she landed a jump in Tuesday’s race. She was airlifted to a BILL STERETT nearby hospital and was released later in the day.

In a statement released through her publicist Wednesday morning, Vonn was already talking about training for the Olympics.

“First off, I want to say thank you to the amazing medical staff that cared for me. I plan on returning to Vail as soon as I can to have the necessary surgeries. I am also grateful to my fans for the outpouring of support, which has really helped me stay positive,” Vonn said. “I can assure you that I will work as hard as humanly possible to be ready to represent my country next year in Sochi.”

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Vonn’s injuries mean she’ll be out for the remainder of the World Cup season but is expected to return for the 2013-14 World Cup season, which begins in October, and 2014 Olympics, according to the U.S. Ski Team.

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Sterett said Vonn is focused on her recovery and is already looking toward next season.

“Absolutely that’s her focus at this point,” Sterett said.

Focus has never been a weakness for Vonn. Her former coach John Cole, the human performance director at Ski & Snowboard Club Vail, calls Vonn’s determination and athletic ability “freakish.”

Cole worked with Vonn when he was the on-hill coach at Ski Club Vail, and he also directly coached Vonn when she was a J2- and J3-level athlete. Vonn has continued to occasionally work out with Ski Club Vail and has remained in touch with Cole.

Cole, a strength and conditioning specialist, knows as well as anyone what kind of mindset Vonn has when she trains. As media reports since the crash have questioned whether Vonn will be ready for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Cole has little doubt.

“I wouldn’t count her out at all,” he said.

“I think she’ll be an excellent patient, and she’s certainly in good hands with Bill (Sterett).”

Cole said recovery comes down to two things: how fast the human body can heal and a patient’s ability to suffer.

As for the body’s ability to heal, everyone’s different. But a patient’s ability to suffer comes down to work ethic and desire, Cole said, something he said Vonn has in spades.

“She already works out like an animal,” Cole said. “It’s freakish, in a good way.

This is her world — this is her life.”

When Vonn crashed during the World

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Championships in 2011 and suffered a concussion, she rested for just 10 days before she raced again. She did say watching the World Championships on TV was awful, though.

“I trained one day in slalom to see if the concentration was still there, and it was right back where it was, just like before,” she told the Vail Daily in April 2011. “Then I went to Sweden for the races and it was no problem.”

Bouncing back from her current injuries will take hard work and a lot of physical therapy — therapy that’s often excruciating, Cole said.

“It’s a painful process — it’s certainly not what I would consider fun,” Cole said.

Cole has a feeling he knows what the outcome of this story will be: Vonn will be back, and she’ll be as strong, if not stronger, than ever.

All of the media reports questioning whether this could be it for Vonn’s career — that kind of talk is only going to fuel the fire for Vonn, Cole said.

“She’ll prove the doubters wrong,” he said.

Assistant Managing Editor Lauren Glendenning can be reached at 970-748-2983 or lglendenning@vaildaily.com.

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BOSTON — Paul Pierce scored 24 points and led a third-quarter surge as the Boston Celtics routed the Los Angeles Lakers 11695 on Thursday night, improving to 6-0 since losing point guard Rajon Rondo for the season with a torn knee ligament.

The Lakers had cut a 58-44 halftime deficit to 72-61 with 5:07 left in the third quarter.

Then the Celtics went on a 23-8 run and led 95-69 going into the fourth. Pierce started the surge with a three-point play and ended it with a 3-pointer with 41 seconds left, giving him 12 points in the period.

Kobe Bryant scored 27 to lead the Lakers, who suffered their worst loss of the season despite the return of Dwight Howard after he missed three games with a sore right shoulder.

The win was Boston’s biggest of the season so far.

The Lakers had won six of their previous seven games, including all three without Howard, and had moved three games behind the Houston Rockets for the eighth and final playoff spot in the West.

But they trailed by at least 11 points throughout the second half.

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Kevin Garnett had 15 points and became the 16th player in NBA history to score 25,000 when he hit an 11-foot turnaround jumper that gave him six for the game and put the Celtics ahead 39-29 with 8:08 left in the half. Jeff Green had 19 points and Jason Terry added 15.

Howard had nine points and nine rebounds in 28 minutes before fouling out with 5:07 left. Metta World Peace also was back after a one-game suspension for grabbing Detroit’s Brandon Knight around the neck and striking him in the jaw with the knuckles of his mostly open hand in the Lakers’ 98-97 win Sunday.

But Pau Gasol missed his first game since being sidelined indefinitely with a torn plantar fascia in his right foot.

Besides Rondo, rookie forward Jared Sullinger also is out for the season after undergoing back surgery and sat out his fourth game.

Just three years ago, the teams met in the NBA Finals with the Lakers winning in seven games. Only four players on those teams were active Thursday — Bryant and World Peace for Los Angeles and Pierce and Garnett for Boston. Gasol and Rondo also played in that series.

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Vonn undergoes surgery on right knee Sterett ‘optimistic for a full recovery’

By Pat Graham AP SPORTS WRITER

The surgeon who operated on Lindsey Vonn’s right knee was “optimistic for a full recovery” after she shredded two ligaments during a crash last week at the world championships.

Dr. Bill Sterett, a physician for the U.S. Ski Team, performed the procedure on the four-time overall World Cup champion Sunday morning in Vail, Colo. In a release issued by the ski team, Sterett said the surgery went well and that she was resting comfortably.

“The overall success LINDSEY rate for ACL/MCL surgery VONN is very good. Modern surgical techniques combined with aggressive rehabilitation will help Lindsey make a full recovery,” said Sterett, who’s also a surgeon at Vail-Summit Orthopaedics. “She will do everything in her power to return as quickly as possible to competitive skiing.”

Vonn tore her anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments last week during the super-G in Schladming, Austria. She also broke a bone in her lower leg.

Sterett said it was too early to issue a specific prognosis and didn’t have a return date to skiing for Vonn. But other doctors believe she could be sidelined for up to eight months.

That would give her time to get back to the slopes for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, which are a year away. Shortly after her accident, Vonn said she fully intended to be in the starting gate for Sochi to defend her Olympic downhill title from the 2010 Vancouver Games.

The 28-year-old Vonn was hurt last Tuesday when she was lifted into the air off a jump in the opening race at the championships. Upon landing, her right leg gave

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Lindsey Vonn is airlifted after crashing during the women’s super-G race at the alpine skiing world championships in Schladming, Austria, on Tuesday. Dr. Bill Sterett, a physician for the U.S. Ski Team who operated on Vonn’s right knee, is “optimistic for a full recovery” after she shredded two ligaments during the crash. way and she spun down face first, throwing an arm out to protect herself. Vonn ended up on her back as she smashed through a gate.

She received medical treatment on the snow before being airlifted by helicopter to a hospital in Schladming. A few days, later she flew home to Vail.

This has been an injury- and illnessriddled season for Vonn. She took a monthlong break from the World Cup circuit to regain her strength after an intestinal illness that struck in November.

When she returned, she looked like the Vonn of old as she steadily regained her form and won two races last month. Her win in the giant slalom at Maribor, Slovenia, on Jan. 26 was the 59th victory of her career. She’s three away from tying the women’s record held by Annemarie Moser-Proell of Austria.

While her primary goal is to be ready for Sochi, Vonn ideally wants to be back for the World Cup speed races in Lake Louise, Alberta, in late November or early December. She’s been so successful there — win-

ning 14 times — that it’s become known as “Lake Lindsey.”

Comebacks are hardly new for Vonn, who has been plagued by injuries at her last six major championships — from a thumb she sliced on a champagne bottle at the 2009 worlds in Val d’Isere, France, to a bruised shin that she treated with the unorthodox remedy of Austrian cheese at the Vancouver Olympics.

AP Sports Writer Andrew Dampf in Schladming, Austria, contributed.

With a closing birdie, Brandt Snedeker finally gets a win

By Doug Ferguson AP GOLF WRITER

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — With one last birdie, Brandt Snedeker finally had a chance to catch his breath at one of the best places in golf.

He was on the 18th tee at Pebble Beach with a three-shot lead Sunday as he gazed into the sun at an endless ocean and tried to grasp just how far he has come in the past few months.

There was that big win at the Tour Championship to claim the $10 million prize as the FedEx Cup champion.

He played in his first Ryder Cup. In his past nine tournaments, he has six finishes in the top three, including back-to-back weeks as the runner-up to Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.

Snedeker wasn’t about to let anyone get in his way at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. “Just hard to put into words, to have a stretch of golf like I had the last couple of months,” Snedeker said after his two-shot win.

“Something you dream about.

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Brandt Snedeker follows his shot on the ninth fairway of the Pebble Beach Golf Course during the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament Sunday in Pebble Beach, Calif. you actually put it together. And I have.

“I’m really enjoying this, and hopefully can parlay this into the best year of my career.”

He was the best all week at Pebble Beach, finishing at 19-under 267 to break by one shot the tournament record. Mickelson (2007) and Mark O’Meara (1997) each had a 20-under 268 when Poppy

Hills was still in the rotation.

Snedeker built his lead in the final round by playing the opening seven holes in 5 under, fired at the flag on the par-3 17th to set up his last birdie and closed with a 7under 65, his 10th consecutive round in the 60s.

A tap-in par on the 18th gave him a two-shot win over Chris Kirk, who stayed in the hunt all

day without ever putting too much pressure on Snedeker.

The hottest player in golf, Snedeker finally has a trophy to show for it.

“The last two weeks, playing great but running into two Hall of Famers, really motivated me to go out and prove that I can handle the lead,” he said.

With his fifth career win — and fourth over the past 22 months — Snedeker improved to a careerbest No. 4 in the world, making him the second-highest American in the world ranking behind Woods.

“Sneds is officially the best golfer on the planet right now,” Ian Poulter tweeted from home in Orlando, Fla. “Some serious golf he is playing.”

In five starts this year, the 32year-old from Nashville already has a win, two second-place finishes and a third. He never had much of a chance against Woods at Torrey Pines or Mickelson at the Phoenix Open, who each had big leads going into the final round.

Snedeker was tied with James Hahn, a 31-year-old rookie from the Bay Area, and seized control with an eagle and three birdies

on the opening seven holes.

Snedeker responded to his only bogey, a three-putt at No. 9, by rolling in birdie putts on the next two holes.

Hahn was looking forward to learning something from his debut in the final group, and he saw Snedeker put on a clinic.

“I learned that he is a better guy than he is a golfer. The dude is world class,” Hahn said. “He’s obviously one of the best, if not the best golfer right now, and possibly for the last year. But how he conducts himself as a person on an off the golf course, that’s also world class. He deserved to win today. ... I’m sure if you ask him, it was never a doubt that he was going to win the golf tournament.”

Snedeker concurred.

“I definitely didn’t want to do anything but win today,” he said.

“I was out there for one purpose and one purpose only, and I was extremely focused all day. I did a great job of staying patient and I did a great job of playing the golf course the way you’re supposed to play it.”

He now heads off to a vacation on Maui before returning for the stretch run leading to the Masters.

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Public Announcements Community Open House to Review Ford Park Phase 2 Concepts An update on current construction work at Ford Park and concepts for future improvements will be presented at a community open house from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12. The session will be held in the Grand View on the third level of the Lionshead Welcome Center and will include representatives from the town, Vail Valley Foundation and Betty Ford Alpine Gardens. Phase 1 improvements to the park, which were made possible by the voter approved reallocation of the Conference Center Fund dollars, are well underway, while an application for phase 2 improvements has recently been submitted to the town for development review and will be the primary focus of the open house. The first review, a work session, is scheduled for Feb. 11 with the Planning and Environmental Commission. The park’s phase 2 projects have been submitted jointly by the town, Vail Valley Foundation and Alpine Gardens and require an amendment to the conditional use permit for “public and private parks and active outdoor recreation areas, facilities and uses.” Specifically, the Vail Valley Foundation is pursuing approvals to construct a covered social courtyard and a ticket office expansion at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, plus upgrades to the central portion of the service drive as well as improvements to the Nature Center bridge and a tribute area to recognize the contributions of the Ford family. The Betty Ford Alpine Gardens is requesting permission to construct an education center, as well as improvements to the Gore Creek Nature Trail.

Completing the phase 2 projects is a filing by the town to replace a public restroom near the existing playground. Updated drawings and plans will be presented at the open house with representatives and design consultants on hand to answer questions from the community and collect comments.

911 Subscription Service Available To accommodate changing technology and the expanded use of wireless devices, Eagle County’s 911 call back system is now equipped to add cell phone numbers and other alternate numbers that can be tied to a specific address for emergency notification. The service is especially useful for part-time residents, commuters and others who spend time away from their homes on a regular basis. The automated voice notification system is used to disseminate emergency information over the phone, such as evacuation notices and public safety alerts, to neighborhoods and other geographical areas. For details, visit ecalert.org.

Library News "Vail: The First 50 Years" @ your library Join local author Shirley Welch for a book talk and signing at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12 in the Vail Public Library’s newly renovated Community Room. Welch is the author of “Vail: The First 50 Years,” a pictorial history of Vail. A longtime resident of the valley, Welch collaborated with the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Museum and private collections to select some of the 200 vintage images used in the book. The event is free, books will be available for purchase and light refreshments will be served. For more information, contact the library at 479-2187.

Vail History DVD Available @ your library If you missed the debut of Roger Cotton Brown’s documentary on the history of Vail, the library has copies of the DVD available for checkout. The documentary, “Vail, the Rise of America’s Iconic Ski Resort,” premiered during Vail’s 50th anniversary week. It is also available for sale at the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Museum.

Save the Date for Friends of Vail Public Library Book Sale The Friends of Vail Public Library will be sponsoring its 3rd annual Presidents Day Book Sale, Feb. 15-18. In preparation for the sale, the library is seeking donations of books, DVDs and CDs. Donations may be dropped off at the library during normal business hours. Donations are tax deductible; just ask for a receipt for your taxes when dropping off materials. For more information, or to volunteer, contact Lori Barnes at lbarnes@vailgov.com or call 479-2194. You may also wish to consider joining the Friends of Vail Public Library.

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Ski & Snowboard Club Vail’s U14 boys’ slalom racers celebrate at the Bolle Age Class race in Eldora during the weekend.

SSCV alpine racers sweep at the Bolle Age Class races Second podium sweep in a row for Vail racers

By Michael Suleiman SPECIAL TO THE DAILY

Fresh off of their podium sweep last weekend in Park City, Utah, Ski & Snowboard Club Vail’s U14 team headed down to Eldora to compete in the Bolle Age Class race. SSCV’s U10 through U14 racers also headed down to Eldora to compete in the two-day Bolle Age Class.

“It started out bright and beautiful for the first race of the Age Class race in Eldora,” said Brett Borgard, SSCV’s head U14 coach.

“Soon after the first run, the sky opened up and started snowing heavily and the winds picked up, but that didn’t stop the SSCV racers from dominating.”

Race 1 proved successful for both the boys and the girls. The girls’ race kicked off first. With more than 100 racers in the event, SSCV did well, taking the top eight out of 10 spots. Coming off of a first-place win in New Mexico in a Rocky Mountain Division race, Dylan Fiore won race No. 1 of the day. In second, beating numerous old-

er racers, was SSCV’s U12 racer Allie Resnick. Following Resnick were teammates Cleo Braun in third, Gretchen Pavelich in fourth, Kendra Hoyt in fifth, Kaitlyn Harsch in sixth, Caroline Jones in seventh and Emma Hall in eighth.

The boys proved to be just as successful for SSCV in Race 1 and also took the top eight, with Flinn Lazier winning, followed

by Brendan Keane in second, Benjamin Kooiman in third, Max Bervy in fourth, Henry Heaydon in fifth, Fletcher Holm in sixth, Michael Resnick in seventh and Burke Francher in eighth.

Race 2 brought more dominant results, with the Vail girls taking the top 11 places and the boys taking the top 15 places. Cleo Braun was the real winner in Saturday’s second race. As a U12 racer, Braun outskied all of the older U14 racers. Following Braun were teammates Pavelich in second, Fiore in third, Hoyt in fourth, Samantha Trudeau in fifth, Hall in sixth, Taylor Brandt in seventh, Zoe Braun in eighth, Anneli Holm in ninth, Zoey Livran in 10th and Elise Viola in 11th.

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quick times in the second slalom race of the day. Jacob Dilling skied to a first-place win, matching his win in Park City last weekend. Colby Lange raced to second, Brendan Keane was third, Gus Leblanc was fourth, Benjamin Kooiman was fifth, Henry Heaydon was sixth, Tucker Strauch was seventh, Preston Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien was eighth, Max Bervy was ninth, Peer Carnes was 10th, Keelan Woodard was 11th, Mathew Macaluso was 12th, Michael Resnick was 13th, Chadwick Mulligan was 14th and Peter Littman was 15th.

The results from Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s races can be seen on live-timing.com. While these athletes were down on the Front Range, the other half of the team was racing a bit closer to home. The Youth Ski League slalom race took place on Sunday, with athletes from U8 through U16 racing. It was SSCVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s U12 athlete Jack Lewis who outperformed the rest of the field. Brody Cyphers, from SSCV, placed second, followed by teammate Tyler Webert in third on the boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; side of the slalom competition. The girls almost had the podium sweep, with Campbell Sullivan in first and Bloem Van Den Berg in third.

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SSCV Nordic athletes crush competition worldwide A group of seasoned racers headed to Aspen, while a few others headed to Europe, this past weekend to compete in one of the biggest Nordic events in Colorado. Deemed the Owl Creek Chase, the event is one of Coloradoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest premier cross-country ski races. Synonymous with an alpine Nor-Am, the super tour races provide athletes the chance to earn World Cup starts for the following season.

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Club Vail had a distinct advantage at the Aspen race. The high-altitude training in Vail helps local athletes prepare for races with similar altitudes. Other athletes from Utah, Wyoming and other low-elevation states came out early to acclimate before the race.

SSCVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sylvan Ellefson had a big weekend, racing in the Vail Winter Mountain Games 10-kilometer freestyle on Friday and then racing in the Super Tour in Aspen on Saturday. Ellefson, who has said he is â&#x20AC;&#x153;typically not a sprinter,â&#x20AC;? raced his way to a second-place finish in the 1.4K sprint qualifiers in Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Super Tour.

SSCVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ryan Scott also performed well in the sprint, finishing fourth overall.

Immediately after the sprint was the 10K individual start. Ellefson again finished second after coming back from fourth place halfway through the race. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was pretty tired from the sprint,â&#x20AC;?

Ellefson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just because all of the snow we got, the sprint felt like I was going 10K pace, so it was a little bit confusing out there.â&#x20AC;?

Sunday kicked off the big 24K race from Snowmass all the way into Aspen. Ellefson again finished strong in second place.

Cal Deline, from SSCV, raced well and placed 10th overall and was the top junior at the race.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, SSCVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nordic teammates Noah Hoffman and Tad Elliot competed in the Swiss National Championships. In the 15K individual start on Sunday, Hoffman won by an unbelievable 1 minute and 20 seconds. Elliot also raced well in the 15K race on Sunday and ended in fifth. The two athletes are on the U.S. Ski Team but also train with SSCVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nordic program.

They were also just named to the team for the U.S. World Championships, which is coming up in two weeks.

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RFTA SOLICITATION NO. 13-003 RECOMMISSIONING OF THE ASPEN MAINTENANCE FACILITY The Roaring Fork Transportation Authority (RFTA) is soliciting proposals for the improvement and recommissioning of its Aspen Maintenance Facility (â&#x20AC;&#x153;AMFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;) located in Aspen, Colorado. This will involve a two-step procurement process: Step 1: Step 2:

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Proposal documents and all associated plans/reports will be available by 12:00 PM (MT) on Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

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TOWN TALK VSSA AND SSCV PODIUM FINISHES Sean Roley and Isabelle Deforest were among the VSSA students and SSCV athletes that were on the podium at last weekend’s USASA Boardercross and Skiercross race at Copper Mountain. A huge thanks goes out to their coach, MacKenzie Ryan!

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Celebrate Valentine’s Day with three of Vail’s most iconic couples and support the Vail Symposium and the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum. “As Vail Turns” honors the colorful personalities of Rose and George Gillett, Sheika and Pepi Gramshammer and Janet and Paul Testwuide in a 45-minute play written and performed by Denver’s Curious Theater. The evening starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Vail Marriott Mountain Resort & Spa. Theater food and libations will be served. Visit www.vailsymposium.org or www.skimuseum.net to purchase tickets.

CONGRATULATIONS, GEORGE Congratulations to George Ogden, from Red Sandstone Elementary School, for his winning Safety Week poster, “Don’t Ride the Lift By Yourself.” A big thanks to Bobby Cox and Bro for the celebration cake for all the winners.

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Local skiers, snowboarders dominate at USASA events Daily staff report

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EAGLE COUNTY — USASA competitions serve as the upper echelon for up and coming slopestyle and halfpipe competitors. Local skiers, as well as snowboarders, have been dominating the USASA scene and will be clear favorites for the nationals being held in Copper at the end of the season. Athletes from Ski & Snowboard Club Vail headed out in numerous directions last Saturday and Sunday to compete in a multitude of USASA series events. They headed to Breckenridge on Saturday to compete in slopestyle and then headed to Aspen on Sunday to compete in the Aspen series halfpipe competition. With a rail jam in Frisco thrown in the mix, it was quite a busy weekend.

“All of the riders had fun under the lights at the rail jam and threw down the whole night. Numerous athletes landed first time tricks on the rail setup. Needless to say, we brought home the hardware this weekend,” said Ski & Snowboard Club Vail’s snowboard coach William Rivera in reference to the medals they won.

The snowboarders that ride for Ski & Snowboard Club Vail have been taking the scene by storm with dozens of top-10 finishes this season. With 145 competitors in the slopestyle event at Breckenridge on Saturday, it was a large field. Ryan Wachendorfer, who snowboards for Salomon, Bonfire and Nike 6.0, placed well in the open class men’s competition and ended in fourth.

Mary Prantis rode well in the breaker girls category and ended in second at the slopestyle competition and also placed second at the rail jam. Kierra Brandenburg rode well at the rail jam and placed third behind Prantis. In the breaker boys catego-

ry, Dylan Okurowski showcased his rail skills placing third for the breaker boys in the rail jam and placing fifth in the slopestyle event.

Ian Kalapos has been on a roll this season with some outstanding results. Kalapos placed second in the slopestyle event for the breaker boys and then headed up to Aspen on Sunday and placed third in the halfpipe competition. Cameron Chaney, also in the breaker boys category, rode consistently all weekend and placed third in the slopestyle event and fifth in the rail jam.

Jack Coyne, riding with the younger guys, had a great weekend and ended in fourth at the slopestyle competition as well as fourth in the rail jam.

The slopestyle skiers were also out at Breckenridge showcasing their talent.

Mitchell Lee, from Ski & Snowboard Club Vail, skied clean runs and landed in second place in the open men’s category. John Leonard, who has been on the podium all season, claimed a nice third-place finish behind Lee. Leonard still insists that it’s his music choice that is making him ski so well.

Maybe by the end of the season he will reveal his secret weapon — his playlist. Cole Pates, whose brother just qualified for the Burton U.S. Open, showed that talent runs in the family and claimed a fourth place finish.

“Despite the enveloping snow, everyone did really well. These guys are good at skiing whatever conditions are thrown their way,” said Ski & Snowboard Club Vail’s head freeskiing coach Peter O’Brien.

With nationals around the corner, and prize money on the line, these athletes continue to learn new and progressive tricks.

Nationals in April will be composed of the top two skiers and snowboarders in every age class from every division across the country.

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TELLURIDE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Ski & Snowboard Club Vail freestyle team is at it again. Local Vail athletes headed down to Telluride this past weekend to compete in the first Nor-Am of the year. Hunter Bailey, 16, made a big name for himself at the event by outperforming dozens of veteran athletes as well as all other skiers in his age class. Bailey placed 11th in the NorAm with the highest scoring trick of the day.

The North America competition is one level below the World Cup. Rising stars showcase their abilities and duke it out for World Cup starts.

SSCVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head freestyle program director John Dowling is no slouch when it comes to mogul skiing. Dowling has coached dozens of elite-level athletes to World Cup competitions and the U.S. Ski Team spots. Dowling took a pre-qualified crew of four down to the Nor-Am with the clear goal of great performance.

Unfortunately, the sport of freestyle skiing isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always the kindest to the body. Erin Coyne didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the best luck at the Nor-Am and blew out her knee. Hopefully, it will be a quick recovery and she will be back at it in no time.

Kaitlyn Harrell, 15, held it down for the girls and had a good weekend of mogul skiing placing 10th overall in the open moguls competition and second in her

age division. Harrell has had a tremendous year already and was one spot out from earning herself a World Cup start at the U.S. Freestyle Selections earlier this season.

Bailey was the big story at the NorAmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s by throwing a huge cork 1080 on the bottom of his run. The Vail Mountain School student has been skiing unbelievably well this season with great finishes across the board. Baileyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1080 gave him the highest trick score at the event and he placed first out of any of the J2s at the competition. Bailey skied clean and successfully during Day 2 of dual moguls and wound up in 12th place overall.

These athletes are off to the next NorAm in Apex, which starts Thursday.

Registration begins for spring youth soccer Daily staff report

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VAIL â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Registration for the Vail Recreation Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spring youth soccer program is underway until April 1.

Age groups range from 4 to 9 and teams are coordinated geographically via residence and where players attend school. The soccer programs begin in April and are played on various fields in Vail, Eagle-Vail and Avon through June. The youth soccer programs are as follows (practice schedules are subject to change):

â&#x20AC;˘ Micro Soccer, for ages 4 to 5, practice from 5 to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays, April 30 to June 4 in Eagle-Vail. Cost is $60 and includes a T-shirt. â&#x20AC;˘ U8 Soccer, for ages 6 to 7, practice after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays, April 23 to June 2 in Vail, EagleVail and Avon with Saturday games.

Cost is $60 and includes a uniform. â&#x20AC;˘ U10 Soccer, for ages 8 to 9, practice after school on Mondays and Wednesdays, April 24 to June 2 in Vail, EagleVail and Avon with Saturday games.

Cost is $65 and includes a uniform.

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focus on smaller team concepts known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;small-sided games.â&#x20AC;? The smaller team play allows participants to play more and gain better knowledge and skills of the sport.

The VRD is seeking volunteer coaches and referees for the spring program. Fees are waived for children whose parents volunteer. Additionally, VRD youth soccer sponsors are being sought and will join current program supporters Vail Daily and American National Bank.

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A victory lap for a personal mission Sandra Legg, operations supervisor of Alpine Bankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fraud department, started walking in the Grand Junction Relay for Life with the Alpine Bank team 14 years ago. The experience was so meaningful to her that she has walked each year since and now helps with many of the eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s organizational details.

Supporting the American Cancer Society is a deeply personal mission for Sandra. The disease affected her

grandfather, and Sandra herself was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011. â&#x20AC;&#x153;ACS does amazing work. They give you tips on how to feel pretty while you heal, transport people to and from treatments, and they finance accommodations for patients, families and caregivers,â&#x20AC;? says Sandra. Now that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s battled cancer and won, Sandra looks forward to the Relayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s survivor lap each year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I look at the survivor lap as a victory; a celebration. I think, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Wow! Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all here.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

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Brian Gregg sprints through the final section of the 10K Nordic freestyle during the Winter Mountain Games on Friday at the Vail Nordic Center in East Vail. Gregg finished first in the men’s competition.

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Nordic sprint tests endurance Athletes race in 10K at i Nordic freestyle 10K the Vail Nordic Center

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VAIL — At more than 8,000 feet, a tiny hill on what appears to be a totally flat race course feels like a mountain.

Athletes tested their endurance on the 10K Nordic freestyle ski race Friday morning at the Vail Nordic Center — and even these insanely fit athletes crossed the finish line huffing and puffing.

Some fell to their knees and others on their backs after the finish — it had been more than 20 minutes of an all-out sprint — skate-skiing across a deceivingly flat course that presented some twists and turns with its deceivingly small hills.

Husband-and-wife team Brian and Caitlin Gregg won the men’s and women’s race, respectively. The couple traveled to Vail from Minneapolis, about two weeks ago to get acclimated before Friday’s event.

Back in the Midwest, Nordic ski races are commonplace and there could be 500 competitors on any given weekend, Brian said. While the start list Friday was a fraction of that, the couple was impressed with the Nordic community they found in Vail — especially the hospitality here.

“The Ski & Snowboard Club Vail group — they’ve been helping us out all week here with wax, etc.,” Brian said. “They’re a very classy group to allow their competitors

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Sam Elias, center, celebrated his mixed climbing win Friday night at Golden Peak. Scott Adamson, left, took second place and Will Mayo took third.

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just haven’t latched onto the sport. She tries to encourage other women to enter competitions, but some women just don’t feel they’re up to the level of competing yet, she said.

“I always say every year, ‘Let’s see you out there,’” Glanc said. “All you have to do is get out there and try.”

It’s easy to see why there’s an intimidation factor with this sport — maybe it’s the axes, or the totally vertical wall or the inhuman bending and twisting seen in the inverted moves known as figure-fours and figure-nines.

“Sometimes when routes are so steep and there’s no where to put your feet, you have to do those moves — it’s just showcasing the diversity of movements that you have to do in mixed climbing,” Elias said. “They’re wild moves, but fun — really physically taxing. It’s cool they incorporated that this year.”

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level to more than 8,000 is tough work just for the average person, never mind an athlete sprinting on Nordic skis for 10km. Caitlin said the course was surprisingly hard.

“You’re always working. You don’t get a lot of rest out there,” she said. “Any little downhill, I thought, ‘Oh, thank goodness.’”

Dan Weiland, Ski & Snowboard Club Vail’s Nordic program director and the chief of course for Friday’s race, loves seeing elite Nordic racers in his backyard. He grew up skiing in Vail and said it’s slowly getting on the map when it comes to Nordic skiing. An event like the Winter Mountain Games certainly helps give the sport more exposure, he said.

Some of the athletes took the time to cool down with the young Ski Club athletes after Friday’s race, too, which Weiland said means a lot to young racers who look up to these athletes.

Sylvan Ellefson, 26, of Vail, was once one of those athletes. He was born and raised in Vail and went to the Vail Mountain School.

“This is actually the biggest — in terms of size and prize money — race I’ve ever done at Vail,” Ellefson said. “It’s nice being able to come out in front of the home crowd and try to show off.”

Ultimate Mountain Challenge

Friday’s Nordic 10K was the first of three events in the Ultimate Mountain Challenge — today’s Ski Mountaineering race and Sunday’s Vail Uphill are the remaining two.

Reigning Ultimate Mountain Challenge men’s champion Brian Smith, of Gunnison, hadn’t raced anything short like a 10K in a long time until Friday. He said the race was intense.

“I tried to stay with the front guys and it kind of blew me up after the first five to 10 minutes,” Smith said. “I had to settle and get my own pace. I was definitely struggling a little bit out there.”

Smith came in about a half-minute behind Stephen White, of Eagle-Vail — plenty close to keep his confidence going into the rest of the weekend.

White wants a little redemption from last year, though, after barely cracking the top 10 in the Winter Mountain Games’ inaugural event. Coming out of the Nordic race in the lead for the Ultimate Mountain Challenge, White is now focused on a podium finish on Sunday. He hopes being the hometown guy gives him an edge in today’s ski mountaineering race.

On the ladies’ side, Inge Perkins heads into ski mountaineering with the Ultimate Mountain Challenge lead.

Perkins, who is from Bozeman, Mont., but lives in Durango, wants to get ski mountaineering out of the way before she gains too much confidence. She said the Nordic event was definitely a strong event for her, even though there were challenges on the course.

“It was really fun. It’s just so pretty here,” Perkins said. “I just look up at the mountains and enjoy myself.”

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As you know, the U.S. Congress has rely on bonds to provide a source of adopted some measures to help avoid the income, be aware that your interest paymuch-feared “fiscal cliff.” At this point, ments — taxed at your marginal tax rate — important spending decisions have been will now be taxed more heavily. As for capput off, but new tax laws are in place — ital gains, the slightly higher rates now give and, as an investor, you’ll want to know you even more incentive to be a “buy-andjust how this legislation will affect you. hold” investor, which is usually a good Let’s look at the impact of the tax laws strategy for most people. And the increase on three different income levels: in dividend taxes doesn’t detract from the • Up to key benefit of dividends $200,000/$250,000 — — namely the ability to If you earn less than provide a potential $200,000 (if you’re source of rising income single) or $250,000 (if that can help keep you you’re married and ahead of inflation. Keep file jointly), your in mind that dividends income tax bracket can be increased, will not change, nor decreased or eliminated will the tax rates at anytime without assessed on divinotice.

TINA DeWITT, CHARLIE WICK dends you receive Overall, the changes AND KEVIN BRUBECK from stocks or longin investment-related term capital gains taxes are probably less you receive from selling investments that substantial than many people had anticihave appreciated in value. However, a 3.8 pated. And in any case, taxes are but a sinpercent Medicare tax will apply to the gle component of investment decisions — lesser of your net investment income or and usually not the most important one. your modified adjusted gross income in Rather than let taxes drive your investexcess of the $200,000 or $250,000 levels, ment choices, focus instead on whether a respectively. particular investment is appropriate for • $250,000-$400,000 — If your adjusted your individual situation, and if it fits your gross income is at or more than $250,000 risk tolerance and if it helps you diversify (for single filers) or $300,000 (for married your portfolio. Diversification can help couples), your itemized deductions will you reduce the effects of market volatility, begin to phase out, as will your personal though it can’t guarantee profits or protect exemption deductions, possibly resulting against loss. in higher effective tax rates. And the 3.8 Still, the new tax legislation is signifipercent Medicare tax will apply to part, or cant, so you should consult with your all, of your investment income. But your financial adviser and tax professional to tax bracket stays the same, as do the tax determine what moves, if any, you may rates on dividends and capital gains. want to make. It’s always wise to be up-to• $400,000/$450,000 — If you earn at date on what’s happening in Washington least $400,000 (if you’re single) or $450,000 — especially when lawmakers’ decisions (if you’re married), you will be subject to can affect your ability to achieve your the phase-out of deductions described important financial goals. above. More importantly, however, your marginal tax rate will increase from 35 to This article was written by Edward Jones 39.6 percent. Plus, taxes on qualified divi- for use by your local Edward Jones finandends and long-term capital gains will rise cial adviser. Edward Jones and its associfrom 15 to 20 percent — or, actually, 23.8 ates and financial advisers do not provide percent, when the 3.8 percent Medicare tax or legal advice. Tina DeWitt, Charlie tax is added in. Consequently, you may Wick and Kevin Brubeck are financial have some decisions to make; at a mini- advisers with Edward Jones Investments. mum, you’ll need to know how the new They can be reached in Edwards at 970rates might — or might not — affect your 926-1728 or in Eagle at 970-328-4959 or investment choices. For example, if you 970-328-0361.

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WINTER PARK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; This just in: the Vail Mountain School girls Nordic team is actually mortal.

The Gore Rangers finished second at Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state freestyle race, falling just four points short of Aspen, 169-165, in Winter Park on Day 1 of the state meet, ending a streak of four years of Nordic state titles.

This is not noted as a criticism. No school can own the title forever. It is noted because of VMSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ability, as the second-smallest school in the state to field a ski team (Colorado Rocky Mountain School is the smallest), to dominate year after year.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like anything went â&#x20AC;&#x153;wrongâ&#x20AC;?

Thursday for the Gore Rangers. Katie Scruggs flew to third place in 16 minutes, 44.8 seconds. Annie Blakslee punched in at sixth with a time of 18:09.1. Clare Baker cracked the top 10 in ninth (18:23.1). Finishing 2-6-9 is only a problem when Aspen goes 15-8.

No matter. VMS gets another crack at it today with classic.

In the meantime, Summit Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boys lead the overall with 328 points.

Evergreen is technically second (304) but is not strong enough on the Nordic side to compete for a state title. Aspen holds down third with 297. The girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; race is tighter, with Aspen leading Summit, 316-303.

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Eagle Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Matt Genelin, shown here at a previous competition, raced to a 25th-place finish Thursday during Day 1 of the state meet in Winter Park.

Hee, took fifth in GS on Thursday. She helped the Huskies girls to take third in alpine on Day 1. Caroline Byrne took 12th and Allie Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien was 20th.

Ella Guzik led Eagle Valley in 36th.

In the boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; GS, the Huskies were fifth, led By Kevan Aubel (16th), Stefan Sortland (24th) and Umberto Ricci (28th). For VMS, Harrison Alonzo was 20th; Billy Mitchell, 30th; and Caleb Chicoine, 33rd. Eagle Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lone state qualifier, Matt Genelin, finished 25th.

The Eagle Valley boys finished third as a team on the Nordic side.

Michael Niemeyer, Nathan Maddox

and William Thrasher did the damage, going 11-12-13. Battle Mountainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cameron Moore made it a local affair, finishing 14th. But the Huskiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Joe Barrett bested them all, with a fourth-place finish (14:53.2).

The Devils girls took fifth, led by Samantha Maddox in 13th and Nikki Cunning in 18th. Battle Mountainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top performers were Delaney McCabe (17th) and Emily Cope (22nd).

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WINTER PARK — Battle Mountain’s Brinton Barry and the Vail Mountain School’s Katie Scruggs headlined Day 2 of the state skiing championship for the local squads with third-place finishes in slalom and Nordic classic Friday in Winter Park.

Barry finished in 1 minute, 34.04 seconds, behind Evergreen’s Jake Bender and Summit County’s Daniel McFadden.

Barry, Kevan Aubel (13th) and Quin Davis (15th) were the scorers for the Huskies boys, who finished third.

VMS’ Harrison Alonzo punched in at 17th, while teammate Billy Mitchell was 26th.

Eagle Valley’s Matt Genelin slid into 25th.

On the girls’ side of alpine, Kendall VanHee busted gates to finish ninth. She had the fastest second-run time. Nicole Affleck was 22nd and Allie O’Brien rounded out the scoring in 31st.

The Battle Mountain girls were sixth as a team in the slalom.

Megan Muehlathaler topped the Devils on the slopes in 40th.

She also finished third in the Skimeister competition, which determines the best high school skier in both alpine and Nordic.

Speaking of Nordic, Scruggs took third in the classic for the Gore Rangers and was followed by Clare Baker (11th) and Annie Blakslee (12th). That helped VMS finish third in classic with 157 points, behind Aspen (172) and Summit (168). Samantha Maddux

was the top Devil in 15th, while Val Constien led the Huskies in 23rd.

The Eagle Valley boys Nordic team ended up third as a team in classic, paced by Nathan Maddox (12th), Will Thrasher (15th) and Michael Niemeyer (26th). For the second straight day, Battle Mountain’s Joe Barrett logged into the top 10 with a seventh-place finish Friday.

Summit County ended up sweeping both overall state team titles.

State awards Classic League Champs Boys 1 Summit 488 2 Aspen 471 3 Evergreen 449 Classic League Champs Girls 1 Summit 495 2 Aspen 471 3 Steamboat 467 GS League Champs Boys 1 Evergreen 515 2 Battle Mtn 482 3 Steamboat 466 GS League Champs Girls 1 Nederland 496 2 Battle Mtn 492 3 Summit 489 Skate League Champs Boys 1 Summit 525 2 Aspen 484 3 Middle Park 446 Skate League Champs Girls 1 Summit 502 2 Vail Mtn School 480 Aspen 480 Slalom League Champs Boys 1 Evergreen 518.5 2 Steamboat 499 3 Summit 485 Slalom League Champs Girls 1 Steamboat 521 2 Nederland 501 3 Summit 496 Classic All-State Boys 1 Cameron Bobb, Summit 2 Sam Piehl, Summit 3 Jackson Hill, Summit 4 Keegan Swirbul, Aspnen 5 Henry Trowbridge, Summit

Classic All-State Girls 1 Hailey Swirbul, Aspen 2 Katie Scruggs, Vail Mtn School 2 Taeler McCrerey, Summit 4 Gabriel Bohlmann, Steamboat 5 Meg O'Connell, Steamboat GS All-State Boys 1 Jake Bender, Evergreen 2 Patrick Gruber, Summit 3 Nick Bailey, Platte Canyon 4 Christopher Morrison, Evergreen 5 Grant Ellwood, Nederland 6 Peter White, Steamboat 7 Michael Skladanowski, Battle Mtn 8 Andreas Foulk, Steamboat GS All-State Girls 1 Katy Harris, Summit 2 Kendall VanHee, Battle Mtn 3 Dayna Larsen, Nederland 4 Maggie Cleaver, Evergreen 5 Kelie Kropf, Nederland 6 Clara Hathorne, Evergreen 7 Suzanne Lyon, Steamboat 8 Lilly McSwain, Aspen Skate All-State Boys 1 Jackson Hill, Summit 2 Cameron Bobb, Summit 3 Hentry Trowbridge, Summit 4 Nic Reitman, CRMS 5 Keegan Swirbul, Aspen Skate All-State Girls 1 Taeler McCreary, Summit 2 Hailey Swirbul, Aspen 3 Katie Scruggs, Vail Mtn School 4 Ruthie Boyd, Summit 5 Nina Beidlemen, Aspen Slalom All-State Boys 1 Jake Bender, Evergreen 2 Daniel McFadden, Summit 3 Brinton Barry, Battle Mtn 4 Peter White, Battle Mtn 5 Christopher Morrison, Steamboat 6 Nicholas Bailey, Platte Canyon 7 Patrick Gruber, Summit 8 Luke Prosence, Aspen Slalom All-State Girls 1 Suzanne Lyon, Steamboat 2 Dayna Larsen, Nederland 3 Anne Parker, Summit 4 Katy Harris, Summit 5 Kellie Kropf, Nederland 6 Ali Pougalis, Steamboat 7 Kendall VanHee, Battle Mtn 8 Maggie Cleaver, Evergreen

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Maryland upsets Duke No. 2-ranked Blue Devils fall, 83-81

By David Ginsburg AP SPORTS WRITER

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — As the final horn sounded and Maryland fans rushed the court to celebrate a rare victory over its bitter rival, weary Duke had just enough energy left to escape the mayhem for the safety of its locker room.

Seth Allen broke a tie by making two free throws with 2.8 seconds left, and the Terrapins stunned the second-ranked Blue Devils 83-81 Saturday night to end a six-game skid in the series.

Coming off a five-day break, Maryland notched its most significant win of the season at the expense of a tired Duke playing its fourth game in 10 days.

The Blue Devils were worn out, and it showed.

Duke was outrebounded 40-20, and never led in the second half.

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Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates winning gold after her second run in the women’s slalom at the alpine skiing world championships in Schladming, Austria, on Saturday.

and on top of the world Shiffrin gets gold in Austria

By Andrew Dampf AP SPORTS WRITER

SCHLADMING, Austria — Mikaela Shiffrin might as well be dancing or flying.

That’s what skiing is like for the American teenager these days. The victories and milestones keep piling up, fortifying a U.S. team that is without Lindsey Vonn and Bode Miller.

A day after Ted Ligety became the first man to win three gold medals at a world championships

in 45 years, Shiffrin became the youngest woman in 39 years to win the slalom title Saturday.

At the age of 17 years, 340 days, Shiffrin shook off a serious bout of nerves to edge local hope Michaela Kirchgasser from the lead before a crowd of 30,000 fans who were nearly all supporting the Austrian.

“Doing what I did on the hill today, especially in the second run, just skiing, is like dancing or flying,” Shiffrin said. “There’s so many ways that I can describe it. But it just is, and it works for me.

“It’s been 17 years in the making and everybody says that it comes do fast but it seems like it’s been forever for me. ... I am just doing

what I do and I don’t want to wait.”

The only slalom world champions younger than Shiffrin were Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein in 1974 and Esme Mackinnon of Britain in 1931. Overall, Shiffrin is the youngest women’s world champion since American Diann Roffe-Steinrotter, who was 21 days younger when she won the giant slalom title in 1985.

Shiffrin won her first three races this season to lead the World Cup slalom standings and set up big expectations for her first major championship. That explains the jitters before the opening run.

“My muscles just all morning felt so sluggish and tired like I was still

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sleeping,” she said. “I just couldn’t move my feet fast enough. As I got down the run my legs started to wake up.”

Between runs, Shiffrin had a hot chocolate and ran around to get the blood flowing.

“And all of sudden two minutes before start I felt my muscles, they were alive,” she said. “And my head cleared and all of a sudden it was like a whole new day.”

For Shiffrin’s mother, Eileen, who was watching from the stands, it wasn’t that simple.

“I was nervous because I knew that she said that she couldn’t feel her legs before the run,” Eileen Shiffrin said. “I am really proud of

her. For all the kids out there, here is a lesson — you can (do) something good even if you are really, really nervous.”

After taking the lead in the second run, Shiffrin watched Tanja Poutiainen of Finland and Frida Hansdotter of Sweden fail to match her time. Shiffrin finished in a combined time of 1 minute, 39.85, with Kirchgasser 0.22 behind in second and Hansdotter third, 0.26 back.

After Hansdotter crossed the finish and Shiffrin realized she had won, the American looked around in disbelief before hugging Kirchgasser several times. Shiffrin’s parents, Jeff and Eileen, tearfully embraced in the stands.

Devils take down Sailors in overtime Teams await seeding

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GYPSUM — So, think everyone involved in basketball on the Western Slope will be on their computers at midnight Sunday evening/Monday morning?

“Absolutely not,” Eagle Valley boys basketball coach Jim Bair said. “I can’t control it. If I found out at on Monday at 6 a.m. or at 10 a.m. before practice, I’m not losing any sleep over it.”

OK, the Bair family will be getting some sleep, but maybe not many others. That’s when maxpreps.com spits out the rankings for seed Nos. 1-11 for the Western Slope district tournament — the eight league teams, plus Durango, Montrose and MontezumaCortez.

And the Eagle Valley and Steamboat boys basketball teams went to overtime Saturday to plead their case to the computer, with the Devils eking out a 43-40 win.

“I felt pretty good going into overtime,” Bair said. “We were in a good position with lots of timeouts in the bank and we were not in foul trouble. We had to be almost perfect in our defense and

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Eagle Valley honored its seniors Saturday before its games against Steamboat.

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we had to make each possession count.”

Knotted at 37 after 32 minutes, Steamboat’s Zach Dunklin hit a three to start the overtime period.

Eagle Valley came back with a jumper from Travis Edgar and two free throws from Juan Baca for a 41-40 lead.

The Devils should have put it away with their chances at the free-throw line, but were only 2for-6 from there as the seconds ticked down. The Sailors’ Carter Kounovsky threw up a three as time expired.

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Got seniors? Eagle Valley boys basketball certainly does — 10 in all, all of whom were honored before Saturday’s game against Steamboat Springs in Gypsum.

Steamboat and its fans for pulling their hair out — the Sailors lost Friday night on a tipin at the buzzer to Battle Mountain — coach Luke DeWolfe was philosophical.

“We’re competing well,” he said. “We had opportunities to win games against good teams.

We’re a young team without much experience. All you can ask

is for the guys to get better as the season goes on. In these types of games, you have to get the breaks.

We beat Palisade and Delta last weekend in close games. The breaks didn’t go our way this weekend.”

After maxpreps.com crunches the numbers, bringing in Durango, Montrose and Cortez, the top five teams in the Slope region get

a bye to the round of eight, starting Thursday at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, with the top seven teams advancing to the state playoffs.

Meanwhile, seed Nos. 6-11 get paired off for play-in games.

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Beaver Creek is the host of the U16 Regional Championships, which are two weeks away, and last weekend, there was a technical qualifying event at Winter Park for the championships.

The technical aspect meant that the weekend consisted of two combined slalom events and two giant slalom events.

On top of the technical event, the U18 racers were competing at the event to earn spots for their national competition. With more than 200 athletes competing from all across Colorado, the deep field of Ski & Snowboard Club Vail exceeded expectations and came away with top-10 finishes across the board. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was proud of all my athletes this weekend to perform so well under pressure,â&#x20AC;? said SSCVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability coach Ben Babbitt.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is really the pinnacle of this season and the last opportunity to earn spots for the big races coming up. The conditions out here were pretty good, but the snowfall slowed things down a little bit on Monday,â&#x20AC;?

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Sunday, Bailey had a great second day of racing, winning the event. SSCVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s River Radamus followed Bailey on Sunday, placing third. In fifth was Nick Santaniello, Logan Martin in eighth, and Keane rounded out the top 10 for SSCV, placing ninth.

Sands Simonton had a great race and tied for 12th, followed by Luke Vickerman in 14th and Tagert Mueller in 15th.

The SSCV girls placed respectively well in Day 2 of the technical event, with Montana Marzario placing in third. Marzario is no stranger to the podium but skied much better on the second day of the event compared with the first. Marzario is actually coming back from an injury where she sustained a broken leg during a race last season. She has been skiing very well this season, despite the setbacks she has had.

Desrochers showed her consistency as a skier and placed in fourth. Heidi Livran made it to the top 10 after skiing a quick, well-executed run and finished in seventh.

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SSCVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Merriman placed 11th, followed by Camilla Trapness in 13th and Anna Martin in 14th.

Presidents Day started the two days of slalom racing, with more decent finishes from the Vail team. Due to the snowfall on Sunday night, Winter Park had slower racing conditions than the previous days of giant slalom. The SSCV men crushed the competition at the slalom race, earning numerous spots for nationals. Florian Szwebel skied to a great first-place win, followed by Santaniello in second, Bailey in fourth and Keane in sixth. On the ladiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; side, Desrochers placed eighth, followed by Merriman in ninth.

Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final race day came and went, with more local racers placing in the top 10. Bailey skied well in every race of the weekend, and it was no surprise when he ended in second place on Tuesday. Keane also held his ground, ending in seventh place. The ladies did better on Day 2 of the slalom race, with Merriman placing sixth, followed by Desrochers in seventh, Jennie Symons in ninth and Genevieve Soden in 10th.

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LEFT: Ted Ligety celebrates winning gold in the men’s giant slalom at the alpine skiing world championships in Schladming, Austria, on Friday. Ligety won three golds at the event. RIGHT: Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates winning a gold medal in the women’s slalom at the alpine skiing world championships in Schladming, Austria, on Saturday.

U.S. strikes gold at ski worlds

With wins by Ligety and Shiffrin, American skiers took home the most golds

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SCHLADMING, Austria — Julia Mancuso got the ball rolling with an almost forgotten bronze medal on the same day Lindsey Vonn had a season-ending crash.

Ted Ligety followed with three golds to earn the title from local media of “Der Koenig von Schladming” — “The King of Schladming.”

And 17-year-old Mikaela Shiffrin capped a historic world championships for the U.S. Ski Team by fighting off a serious case of nerves to win the slalom title.

In the end, even without Vonn and Bode Miller — who is sitting out this season to recover from left knee surgery — the U.S. had the most golds at worlds — the first non-European nation to achieve the feat.

“It’s been incredible — hot and cold,” U.S. Alpine director Patrick Riml said Sunday. “The rest of our team is stepping up so big.”

The showing was even more impressive considering the scene, with huge crowds in this ski-crazy nation averaging 30,000 fans, and nearly all of them pulling for Austrian skiers.

While the Austrians led in total medals with eight, the U.S. topped the International Ski Fed-

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eration’s table with four golds.

Austria and France were next with two golds each.

“It’s nice being in Austria and beating up on the Austrians on their home turf,” said Ligety, who won in super-G, super-combined and giant slalom. “They always dominate the sport and they always kind of seem like they should be dominating the sport so it makes it all the more satisfying to beat them.”

But Peter Schroecksnadel, the powerful president of the Austrian ski federation, didn’t see it as a loss.

“In the U.S., they don’t count golds, they count the overall number of medals,” Schroecksnadel said. “So there we are as No. 1.”

Riml, who is Austrian, wasn’t surprised by Schroecksnadel’s comments.

“He just turns it the way he wants it,” Riml said. “That’s OK. We won the most World Cup races this year and we’ll lead that when we leave the World Cup finals and we got the most gold medals at the world championships. That’s pretty good.”

Indeed, the U.S. has 14 wins between men and women on this season’s World Cup circuit to Austria’s nine.

Also, at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, Germany led with three golds to the Americans’

two but the U.S. had the most overall medals with eight. “(We’re) best in the world for sure,” Riml said. “We saw it three years ago. We saw it this year on the World Cup.” If Vonn and Miller come back fully healthy next season, there’s no telling how strong the U.S. might be at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

“Potentially we have a very, very good team,” Ligety said. “If Bode gets fully healthy and motivated he has a really good chance of winning medals in the speed disciplines, and then Lindsey can win whatever she wants, basically, if she’s healthy and feeling good again. And I’m sure Mikaela will be close to being a contender in the giant slalom as well, so we have a lot of good medal chances.”

Indeed, Shiffrin finished sixth in the giant slalom here for her top career result in that discipline, and she has plenty of room for improvement, according to her coaches.

Besides Vonn, three other U.S. women finished on the podium this season in downhill — Stacey Cook, Leanne Smith and Alice McKennis — to go along with Marco Sullivan and Steven Nyman on the men’s side.

“Our goal is not to have just one (contender) per event,” Riml said. “We got to have two and

three.”

Entering the 2006 Turin Olympics, the American spotlight was largely on Miller, while in Vancouver it was almost entirely on Vonn. This time, maybe it will be on the entire team.

“There is so much pressure on those athletes already, and if you strengthen our team that takes away a lot of pressure from everybody,” Riml said.

One key to strengthening the team has been the opening of two key facilities in recent years: the Center of Excellence at the team’s home base in Park City, Utah, an ultra-modern physical training and education facility; and a speed training center for downhill and super-G at Copper Mountain, Colo.

The Center of Excellence was designed to replicate the style and feel of a college campus and includes strength-training areas, ski ramps, a nutrition center, rehabilitation facilities and a sport science lab.

Sounds like a great place for Vonn to use as she recovers from surgery to repair two torn tendons in her right knee.

Besides allowing its own athletes optimal training before the North American speed races at the start of each World Cup season, the Copper facility has enabled the U.S. to arrange key

deals with other federations by allowing teams such as Austria, Italy and Russia to use it, too.

In exchange, the Austrians allowed the Americans to train on the worlds’ courses in Schladming on several different occasions earlier this season; the Italians opened up several of their training sites — perfect when the weather is bad in Austria and Switzerland but sunny on the southern side of the Alps; and perhaps most valuable of all, the Russians have given the U.S. free access to the Olympic slopes in Sochi — something no other team besides Russia has.

“With that venue we’re in the driver’s seat and we can choose and pick who we want to work with,” Riml said. “Obviously we want something in return.”

Over the next couple of weeks, a group of about 10 Americans led by Ligety and Shiffrin will fly to Sochi for an in-season training camp.

“It is preparation for the next chapter,” Riml said. “To have the opportunity to be on that hill it’s priceless. That’s why we try to build those relationships all over the world.”

As for the next worlds, the U.S. won’t need to build any partnerships. That’s because they’ll be held on home snow in VailBeaver Creek, Colo., in 2015.

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Score 9.20 9.00 8.90 8.30 8.20 8.00 8.00 7.20 7.00 7.00 6.30 6.20 6.10 6.00 6.00 5.00

U8 boys 1 Boden Salani 2 Benno Scheidegger 3 Erik Jaerbyn 4 Step Van den berg 5 Cooper Shonk 6 Andrew Forstl 7 Stewie Bruce 8 Jameson Kust 9 Remy Guillot 9 Cooper Skidmore 11 Brandon Lorenti 12 Steven Kelso 13 Enzo Sink 13 Charlie Strauch 15 Brady Malboeuf 16 Ryan Stockton 16 Bode Owens 18 Lukas Jaerbyn 19 carter shonk 20 Blake Roberts 21 Evan Sapp 22 Teddy Bruno 23 Colin Glackin 24 Hunter Iverson

12.30 11.10 10.30 10.20 10.10 9.40 9.30 9.20 8.60 8.60 8.50 8.40 8.20 8.20 8.10 8.00 8.00 7.70 7.60 7.40 7.30 7.20 7.00 6.00

U10 girls 1 Kai Owens 2 Emma Reeder 3 Kjersti Moritz 4 Ava Surridge 5 Kaitlin Keane 6 Dylan Dodds 7 Elle Young 7 Dana Addis 9 Liv Moritz 10 Carey Salvin 11 Ava Ballinger 12 Caroline Ungar 13 Ella McGuffin 13 Zoie Palmer 13 Leyden Games 16 Bella Shay 16 Kassie Karas 16 Quinn Kelley 19 Bayli McSpadden 19 Reese Harnick 21 Lizzy Trombly 22 Robin Pavelich 23 Emily Fenstermacher 23 Amanda Stevens 25 Olivia Leoni 25 Emma Kate Burns 27 Brooke Marx 27 Pixie Alfond

14.40 13.30 11.20 10.50 10.20 9.10 9.00 9.00 8.50 8.40 8.20 8.20 8.10 8.10 8.10 8.00 8.00 8.00 7.40 7.40 7.30 7.20 7.10 7.10 7.00 7.00 6.00 6.00

U10 boys snowboard 1 Ferguson St John 2 Boet Van den berg U10 boys 1 Tanner Roberts 2 Adam Eisenhauer 3 Joey Leonardo 4 Xander Kostick 5 Dirkson Brinkerhoff 6 Nicky Kamper 7 Landon Cunningham 8 Wyatt Horn 9 Dylan Boyes 9 Alex Meza 11 Tanner Grant 12 Owen Grimmer

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U12 girls 1 Maggie Skidmore 2 Chloe Young 3 Alex Carey 4 Tessa Chelain 5 Samantha Lindall 6 Emily Creek 7 Scout Mattison 8 Caroline Dewell

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U12 boys 1 Casy Cope 2 Finn Sapp 3 Maddux Rose 3 Rory Swimm 5 Wyatt Hall 6 John Leseur 7 Emiliano Urrea 8 Cade Cyphers 9 Wyatt Cunningham 10 Edwin Kust 11 Alden Kostick 12 Brody Cyphers 13 Aaron Kust 14 Henry Strauch 15 Benjamin Kust 16 Bode Kostick 17 Liam Mattison 18 Jose Antonio Ascencio 19 Will Brown 20 Mackay Pattison 21 Trey Kelsey 22 Luke Berger 22 William Leoni 24 Reagan Wallis 25 Nash Lucas 25 Alfonso Urrea

18.20 18.10 17.10 17.10 13.60 13.20 12.40 12.30 12.20 12.10 12.00 11.30 11.20 11.00 10.30 10.20 10.10 10.00 9.20 9.10 9.00 8.10 8.10 8.00 7.00 7.00

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Score 19.70 17.90 17.50 17.10 17.10 12.30 12.20 11.30 10.50 10.10 10.10 8.20 8.20 6.10 4.20 4.10

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18.60 17.20 16.50 15.90 15.50 15.40 15.30 14.70 14.60 13.00 12.90 12.70 12.30 11.70 11.70 11.50 11.00 10.70 10.00 9.80 9.80 9.00 8.10 8.00 7.00

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U10 boys 1 Xander Kostick 2 Adam Eisenhauer 3 Tanner Roberts 4 Finn Griffith 5 Lachlan Crick 6 Joey Leonardo 6 Patrick Kean 8 Owen Grimmer 9 Alec Bruno 10 Dirkson Brinkerhoff 11 Maddox Fitzgerald 12 Will Bettenhauser 13 Nicklas Eggebrecht 14 Hunter Roach 15 Thomas Rodney 16 Cricket Byrne 17 Tanner Grant 18 Wyatt Horn 19 Nicklas Eggebrechat 20 Owen Diessenhuss 21 Landon Cunningham 22 TJ Soulakis 23 Spencer Peterson 24 Nicky Kamper

29.70 26.90 26.70 22.40 22.30 21.10 21.10 19.90 19.30 17.50 17.40 17.30 16.60 15.70 15.60 15.20 15.10 14.40 13.80 13.60 13.50 11.30 10.50 10.30

U12 girls 1 Natalie Berger 2 Maggie Skidmore 3 Alex Carey 4 Emily Creek 5 Tessa Chelain 6 Scout Mattison 7 Chloe Young 8 Samantha Lindall 9 Caroline Dewell

39.70 36.10 30.10 29.10 25.50 22.40 21.20 20.70 18.10

U12 boys 1 Rory Swimm 2 Finn Sapp 3 Luke Berger 4 Maddux Rose 5 Wyatt Cunningham 6 Nash Lucas 7 Reagan Wallis 8 Benjamin Kust 9 Cade Cyphers 10 Casy Cope 11 Brody Cyphers 12 Mackay Pattison 13 Alfonso Urrea 14 Edwin Kust 15 Marc Phillippon 16 Henry Strauch 17 Jordan Harrisson 18 Alden Kostick 19 Emiliano Urrea 20 Aaron Kust 21 Wyatt Hall 22 Liam Clevenger 23 Bode Kostick 24 John Leseur 25 Simon Diesenhaus 25 Will Brown

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Vail Town Council Agendas Work Session Discussion Topics 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 19 – Vail Town Council Chambers Ɣ Site Visit, re: Tivoli Lodge Special Development District (30 min.) Ɣ DRB/PEC Update (10 min.) Ɣ Interview Davy Ratchford as Vail Resorts representative on Vail Local Marketing District Advisory Council (10 min.) Ɣ Information Updates and Attachments (15 min.) Ɣ Matters from Mayor and Council (15 min.) Ɣ Executive Session, pursuant to: C.R.S. §24-6-402(4)(b) - to receive legal advice on special legal questions, Re: Marijuana laws (10 min.)

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Mitchell Lee, of Ski & Snowboard Club Vail, grabs a high mute at competition in Winter Park this past weekend.

SSCV racers are on a roll Local skiers and snowboarders vie for national spots

By Michael Suleiman SPECIAL TO THE DAILY

WINTER PARK — Winter Park saw all the snowsports action this past weekend. A major alpine qualification race took place and will continue to run through Tuesday.

At the same time as the alpine race, the USASA Rocky Mountain Series made a stop in Winter Park, and athletes from all over made their way to the competition.

Ski & Snowboard Club Vail athletes were part of the mini pilgrimage to the other side of the divide. They packed up their park skis and snowboards and headed to the event to land some tricks.

“In particular, Mitchell Lee had a great day,” said Peter O’Brien, SSCV’s freeski

coach. “We were missing a few of the regular SSCV athletes at this competition, but the ones that were here skied really well.”

Lee has made his way to the podium in almost every USASA slopestyle event he has competed in this season. Following Lee in the open skier men’s category was Cole Pates in fourth place. In the 13-15 division, SSCV’s Aaron Milligan had a tremendous day and placed second in the largest field with a technical and clean run. Colin Gitchell, also from SSCV, had a solid day and ended in fourth for the boys’ 10-12 group.

On the snowboard side of the event, Travis Tafoya was the big winner, placing second in the challenging 16-17 age class.

The USASA Nationals are around the corner, and only the top two athletes from each age class in the Rocky Division will be eligible. As the skiers and snowboarders look toward the future, they think about what they need to do now in order to land one of the coveted national spots.

Evening Session Discussion Topics 6 p.m. Tuesday, February 19 - Vail Town Council Chambers Ɣ Proclamation No. 1, Series of 2013, Re: One Book One Valley, “Into the Beautiful North” (5 min.) Ɣ Citizen Participation (15 min.) Ɣ Consent Agenda (5 min.)

--Appointment of Davy Ratchford as Vail Resorts representative on Vail Local Marketing District Advisory Council Ɣ Town Manager’s Report (15 min.)

--Timber Ridge Discussion --Synthetic Infields at Ford Park Ɣ Request for Town Council Reconsideration of Encroachment into Existing View Corridor, re: Lionshead Centre Building (10 min.) Ɣ Resolution No. 3, Re: Encroachment into Existing View Corridor for Lionshead Centre Building, 520 East Lionshead Circle (15 min.) Ɣ Resolution No. 4, Re: Amending Lionshead Redevelopment Master Plan to Accommodate Renovation of Sundial Plaza (20 min.) Ɣ 1st Reading, Ord. No. 5, Re: Special Development District No. 37, Tivoli Lodge, 386 Hanson Ranch Road (20 min.)

All council agendas, ordinances, resolutions, staff memos and other materials are available on line at agenda.vailgov.com. Watch the meeting via web streaming at www.publicaccess5.org.

Public Announcements Presidents Day Parking Restrictions The last peak season parking restriction of the season will be in place for one day only today during Presidents Day. The restriction means Blue Parking Pass holders will be directed to the Lionshead parking structure and Green Parking Pass holders will use the Ford Park and Soccer Field lots. In addition, Value Card holders will be charged the peak rate. Free skier parking will be available at Donovan Pavilion, 1600 S. Frontage Rd. W., on Presidents Day as no events have been scheduled. The spaces are available from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. on a firstcome, first-served basis. Note: skier parking will be unavailable on Presidents Day at the Nordic Center. Visit www.vaileventparking.com.

Applicants Sought for Board Openings The Town of Vail is seeking community members to fill vacancies on four citizen boards: Planning and Environmental Commission, Design Review Board, Building and Fire Codes Appeals Board and the Art in Public Places Board. Applications are due to the town by 5 p.m. on March 12. The Vail Town Council will conduct interviews during its work session on March 19, with appointments to follow at its evening meeting. Send letters of interest and experience to: Vail Town Council, Attn. Lorelei Donaldson, Town Clerk, 75 S. Frontage Rd., Vail, Colo.

81657, or e-mail to ldonaldson@vailgov.com. Visit the town’s website at vailgov.com for a description of each of the boards.

Town of Vail Welcomes Burton US Open This year marks the 31st anniversary of “The World's Greatest Snowboard Event” and a new chapter in US Open history. Beginning Feb. 25, over 100 of the world's best riders will make their way to Vail, the new home of the US Open, for four days of intense competition and progressive riding. For more information go to www.Burton.com/ USO. Vail Offers News You Can Use ! " www.vailgov.com offers information on Council agendas, town projects, news

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Local skiers dominate Sunlight competition Nichols, Glendining are big winners of the day

By Michael Suleiman SPECIAL TO THE DAILY

GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Skiers and snowboarders rejoice when the snow starts to fall. However, big mountain skiers are the ones that truly rely on great conditions. Halfpipe riders, racers and even the mogul skiers are able to compete and train with minimal man-made snow. Since the season is really just now coming to fruition, the big mountain competitors finally had their turn at the Sunlight regional competition earlier this month. The skiers from Ski & Snowboard Club Vail put down clean, aggressive runs and landed numerous podium spots.

Big mountain events have been cancelled all over the state this season and last due to stubborn storm cycles, or lack thereof. The International Free Skiers Association hosts most of the big mountain competitions across the state and country. With a bit of help from the Junior Events Tour of the Americas and the International Free Skiers Association, the regional competition brought kids from dozens of locations to come out and throw down. In total there were 101 skiers ranging in ages from 8 to 18. The local Vail skiers put down clean and technical runs at the competition and placed well.

The competition was a great event for new, as well as established skiers to earn big points.

“Being a regional comp, it’s a great way for kids new to the sport or competition to ease in,” said Ski Club Vail’s head big mountain coach Garrett Scahill. “Those athletes who do well will accumulate

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Kevin Nichols jumps down the course at Sunlight. points at regional- and nationallevel comps in hopes of qualifying for North American Championships in Revelstoke, B.C.” The Ski Club Vail athletes impressed everyone at the event with how well they could ski.

Since the Ski Club Vail athletes aren’t allowed to train out of bounds in places such as East Vail, they are restricted to the smaller, inbounds cliffs at Vail and Beaver Creek. With that in mind, teams from Crested Butte and Taos have a distinct geographical training advantage. Where topography is everything for big mountain skiers, it is a daunting task to go up against skiers from places like Crested Butte or Jackson Hole.

“We did an early season train-

ing trip to Silverton this year, but we mostly train on Vail Mountain,” Scahill said. “We spent most of the early season working on ski drills of all types. Once open, our training grounds include Prima Cornice, Rasputins Revenge, Steep and Deep, as well as some other secret stashes. Big mountain events are based mainly on a top to bottom run skied with good technique, fluidity, control and taking advantage of natural features to bump up your aggression and style points.”

The conditions were not optimal and the winning runs came from the skiers that skied fast and aggressively.

“It was tough out there, not many big tricks were thrown due

to the fact that the snow was chunky and a bit firm,” said Ski Club Vail big mountain coach Nick Courtens. “The competitors only got one run, so they really had to go for it and make it count. All of the kids from SSCV skied well on Saturday and we had numerous athletes on the podium,” Ski Club Vail’s Kevin Nichols and Jordan Glendining were the big winners of the day. Nichols skied a clean, aggressive run and landed in first place for the boys 12-14. Just behind Nichols was teammates Philippe Verkin in second and Finn Andersson in fourth. Glendining had a great run despite the conditions and placed first among the girls 1214. Linea Anderson placed third

in the girls 12-14 category behind Glendining.

“Kevin skied really strong,” Courtens said. “He went huge off the presented natural terrain and skied a great line.”

Among the older group, Ski Club Vail had clean runs and placed almost all of the athletes in top-ten positions. Ragan Anthony had a great run and placed third in the 15-18 female class. Kevin Gillie placed fourth in the male 15-18 class followed by Gabe Suczynski in sixth, Jack Nichols in seventh, Erik Hilb in eighth and Aidan Stege in ninth.

Michael Suleiman is the marketing and communications manager for Ski & Snowboard Club Vail.

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Vonn seeing progress in knee recovery World champion ski racer talks with reporters for the first time since crashing Feb. 5

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VAIL — Lindsey Vonn knew the moment she landed that she was in trouble — she had come into the jump fast and flew farther than her competitors had in the Feb. 5 super-G race at the 2013 World Alpine Ski Championships in Schladming, Austria.

Vonn talked with reporters on a conference call Friday afternoon, breaking a more than two-week silence with the media since suffering a torn ACL, MCL and tibial plateau fracture.

Vonn didn’t sound like her usual energetic self — she sounded obviously, understandably disappointed and guarded — but she was very clear about her will to come back.

She said she has no doubt that she’ll be able to race in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

“In some ways, I’m the underdog now — that’ll help ease the pressure a little bit,” Vonn said.

While being injured isn’t a new challenge for Vonn, this time the injuries are more severe, she said.

“I’ve definitely had a lot of injuries in my career — it’s kind of part of the job description,” she said, adding that this is the first

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time she’s needed major surgery, though.

“That’s not to say it’s going to set me back beyond missing the season.”

Vonn already has her sights set on walking without crutches in six weeks. She was careful not to give reporters a date when she thought she’d be back. She said the tentative plan is to “try to ski by November — could be a month or two earlier, could be a month later.” She added that she doesn’t necessarily need a lot of on-snow training to be ready to race again.

Vonn didn’t hesitate when a reporter asked whether the jury in Schladming made the right call about holding the Feb. 5 super-G. Her answer was no.

The ladies waited on the edges of their seats for hours, and every 15 minutes they’d learn of a new delay. Vonn said she inspected the course at 8 a.m., but it was 3:15 p.m. or so before her race. The change in conditions was huge, she said.

Vonn could see when she landed her jump that the snow was different. It was softer and had not been slipped.

“When I landed, my right ski completely stopped and that’s when my knee buckled and I flipped right over my tips,” Vonn said.

“My line was perfect — I just flew farther and landed where no one had skied before and it wasn’t slipped. I feel that loose snow is 100 percent why I crashed.”

As medics attended to the injured Vonn on the snow, she said she immediately reported that they should stop the race — she didn’t think it was safe to run, but the jury obviously disagreed, she said.

The World Cup season begins in October, and the women are scheduled for a test race on the new downhill course in Beaver Creek in late November. The Winter Olympics in Sochi begin Feb. 7, 2014. When Vonn talked

about her comeback, she focused on Sochi.

“No doubt I’ll be ready for Sochi,” she said.

Her workout and training regiment is already under way. Vonn has two physical therapy sessions seven days a week. The first session is at 8:30 a.m., and for now she can’t do a whole lot beyond patella therapy — essentially moving the kneecaps around — as well as range of motion and quad therapy.

After therapy, Vonn heads to the gym for about a 11⁄2 hour workout focusing mainly on upper body and core exercises. After a break and some lunch, she’s back in physical therapy.

“It’s pretty boring stuff, but therapy at this point is really important,” she said.

Vonn already sees progress. She said there was nothing unexpected in surgery, and the tibial plateau fracture was a hairline fracture — “it should heal up absolutely no problem.”

Vonn knows she faces an uphill battle, but she points out the countless other athletes who have overcome injuries much worse than hers. She knows Sochi will feel a lot different than the Vancouver Olympic Games, when she was the woman to beat. But that’s the kind of thing that pushes a competitor like Vonn.

“I will do everything I can to be stronger than I was before,” she said.

U.S. Ski Team Dr. Bill Sterett, of Vail Summit Orthopedics, said Vonn was asking when she could get back on her skis just moments after her crash. She has learned patience, though, since that day.

“I’m taking it one day at a time,” she said.

“It’s important for me to be really patient — it’s going to be a long process.”

There’s a mental price to pay with that patience, though. She enjoys watching movies with family members who have been in Vail to support her, but sitting around isn’t

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“It’s pretty hard, honestly, for me to just sit around,” she said. “I feel pretty helpless sometimes.”

But Vonn is far from helpless. Two days after surgery, she tweeted a picture of herself doing a core exercise in bed, seemingly unaffected by the massive brace encompassing her entire right leg.

The message with the photo read: “When you fall, get back up.”

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WASHINGTON — The Washington Wizards put on one of their best offensive shows of the season Friday night, putting seven players in double figures while taking down another contending team with a 119-113 win over the Denver Nuggets.

Emeka Okafor had 17 points and 13 rebounds for the Wizards, who never trailed but had an 18-point fourth-quarter lead cut to two in the final minute. Bradley Beal had 17 points and a career-high 12 boards, Trevor Ariza scored 16 points and Martell Webster had 15.

Washington broke a two-game losing streak and added another example to its knack for knocking off top teams while sitting near the bottom of the NBA standings.

Ty Lawson had 27 points and 12 assists, Wilson Chandler had 22 points, and Andre Miller scored a season-high 19 for the Nuggets, who have lost four straight on the road as they jostle for playoff seeding as the fifth-place team in the Western Conference. They also have the dubious distinction of getting swept by the Wizards, having lost at home to Washington 112108 on Jan. 18.

The Nuggets cut the Wizards’ lead to three on Andre Iguodala’s baseline 3pointer with 4:02 remaining and pulled within two after John Wall fancy-dribbled himself into a turnover that led to a Nuggets fast break, with Lawson hitting a pair of free throws with 1:07 remaining to make it 113-111.

Wall missed a floater with under a minute to play, but Nene blocked Lawson’s layup with 33 seconds to go to keep the margin at two. Wall then got open to hit a 19-footer that put the Wizards ahead 115111 with 14 seconds left, and Miller then missed a driving layup in a crowd that essentially ended Denver’s last threat.

The Nuggets shot 48 percent from the

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Nene and Wall had 14 points apiece, and A.J. Price scored 12 for the Wizards.

JaVale McGee, traded from the Wizards to the Nuggets at last year’s trade deadline, made in his first return visit to Washington.

McGee heard some boos and a few claps as he entered the game in the first quarter, and his foul on Garrett Temple’s 14-foot jumper allowed Washington to convert a momentum-sustaining three-point play at the end of the third quarter.

The Wizards led by as many as 10 in the first half before the visitors finally caught up just before the break, tying it at 64. It was the most points both scored and allowed

by Washington in a first half this season.

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Armstrong savors a title Check those goals off

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DENVER — Mom gets the medal.

That would be Jean Armstrong, mother of the newly crowned 4A 220-pound state wrestling champion, Eagle Valley’s Andy Armstrong.

“I think I’ll let Mom hold onto it,” Armstrong said late Saturday night from a pizza joint in Denver. “She gets really excited when I wrestle. She got nervous a couple of times at state, but, overall, she’s excited.”

While the unknown 27th Amendment to the Constitution is that mothers will always worry about their sons, not much worrying needed to be done — Andy seemed to have this one all the way.

He is the 16th state champion in school history after pounding Canon City’s Garrett Benell, 14-3, in Saturday night’s final.

He’s the first from Eagle Valley since Chris Harvey did it at 160 pounds back in 2006. At 40-0, Armstrong is the school’s first undefeated state champ since heavyweight Mike Long turned the trick in 2000, said to Devils wrestling coach Ron Beard.

And as simple as it sounds, that was the game plan from the moment he took fifth place just about one year ago at the state tourney at the Pepsi Center — win the state title and go undefeated this season.

“I had a lot of motivation after last year,” Armstrong said. “I wanted to do better than fifth. I worked hard to improve and feel like I did it.”

He did.

Trite as it is, it’s true — champions are built in the offseason. After taking fifth at state last year, Armstrong started another wrestling season — freestyle. He said that experience helped him helped him learn how to move on the mat and stay focused because, against the elite wrestlers, it takes only the slightest miscue for everything to go sour.

Armstrong’s summer home was the weight room — it worked both for wrestling and football. The Eagle Valley senior was a big part of the Devils turning it around on the gridiron, going from 1-8

in 2011 to 8-4 and state quarterfinalists last fall.

And a winning environment is contagious. It really isn’t a coincidence that Armstrong, an all-state tackle in football, was at state wrestling with his former football teammates — Cole Nielsen (running back and 170 pounds), Ty LaFramboise (linebacker-offensive line and 182 pounds) and Joey Sanchez (nose guardoffensive line and 195 pounds).

Armstrong won the Warrior Classic in Grand Junction, generally the closest thing to a state tournament during the regular season, in December for the second year in a row.

The work continued in the wrestling room, where his name goes up on the wall with the school’s other state champions.

Yes, there were a lot of tournaments and meets this year, but the room is where the real work is done — pounding and getting pounded on by your teammates.

“They’re all really good wrestlers,” Armstrong said. “They help push me everyday. They push me. I’m pushing them. It’s really a family-friendship thing.”

Armstrong made it back-to-back regional championships about a week ago in Montrose and then arrived in Denver with four matches to go to achieve his goal.

Remember, the state tournament is not an average meet in January. Everyone’s good. The four opponents he defeated this weekend finished the 2012-13 season with a combined record of 128-40.

Though he won’t say it because he’s a quiet guy to most, Armstrong made it look easy.

Having been to the state meet last year, he knew how to handle the massive gaps between matches. It’s not easy to wait 24 hours to wrestle all of six minutes with your goal in sight.

Eagle Valley’s Beard, assistant coach Luke Cross and the Devils’ entourage didn’t know a thing about Canon City’s Benell.

“Andy just did his thing,” Beard said. “It was Andy having fun and going out and destroying.”

Don’t forget that Beard won the 167pound title state title in 1986 when he was a senior at Fruita Monument. He knows of what he speaks.

“It’s really neat as a coach,” Beard said.

“It’s knowing the feeling and trying to get

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Eagle Valley’s Andy Armstrong holds up his bracket after winning the Class 4A 220pound state wrestling championship late Saturday night at the Pepsi Center in Denver. Armstrong completed the season with a perfect 40-0 record. that kid to that feeling. It’s so exciting that I got to be a part of it and have him beat on me in practice. All the kids share in it.”

There was no jumping or mad celebration after Armstrong won. He simply pointed to his family — Armstrongs of all

generations and links were in the stands, including his parents, Bob and Jean.

“It’s amazing to be able to have them there, supporting me through everything,” Armstrong said. “It’s great. All this hard work finally paid off.”

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FRISCO — Nordic athletes from Ski & Snowboard Club Vail (SSCV) headed over Vail Pass to compete at the third junior national qualifier (JNQ) race in Frisco last weekend and promptly swamped the podium.

The four JNQs during the season offer on Rocky Mountain Nordic Division Junior National Team, and so this weekend’s races drew more than 225 racers.

“Most of our athletes are in for the RMN junior nationals team already and we have a few that are on the bubble,” said SSCV’s nordic coach, Eric Pepper.

Friday was the classic mass start 10K race for the men’s seniors, open JOs, juniors and J1s.

SSCV had four out of the top five racers. Cal Deline placed first in the race, followed by Cully Brown in third, Christian Shanley in fourth and Ian Boucher in fifth.

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placing fifth. Katie Scruggs followed directly behind Hardenbergh, placing sixth.

The J3 boys skied well in the 3K classic mass start and had three racers in the top four spots with Nolan Herzog winning the competition by almost 30 seconds, Christian Wilson in third place and Patrick Scruggs in fourth.

SSCV also won the J4 boys category, with Ian Harderbergh placing first and Andrew Rogers placing fifth. Katy Hardenbergh held it down for the J5 girls, winning the 1K classic race by just 3 seconds.

Saturday was another successful day for the team. With Deline in first, Parker McDonald in second, Brown in third, Shanley in fourth and Boucher in eighth, it is easy to see that the team is fast.

“To be second behind Cal today is huge for Parker,” said Pepper. “Parker has been training with Cal, Cully and Christian, which has helped him get better and better.”

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proved successful for J1 racer Hannah Hardenbergh, who placed fourth, followed by Katie Scruggs in fifth. Cameron Moore did well for the J2 boys on Saturday and placed fourth.

The J3 boys were just as fast on day two, with Herzog winning again, followed by Wilson in second and Patrick Scruggs in third.

The SSCV J4 boys improved a bit in day two of the competition with Andrew Rogers in second, Zane Worrell in third and Ian Hardenbergh in fourth.

The last opportunity to gain the necessary points for the RMN Junior National Team is in Durango this weekend.

This lineup on the podium became a familiar sight this weekend for Ski & Snowboard Club Vail at the junior national qualifier races in Frisco.

Pictured are Cal Deline, center, in first; Parker McDonald, right, in second; and Cully Brown in third.

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‘Seeing the sport progress in front of you’ U.S. Open’s evolution has mirrored that of snowboarding

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VAIL — In examining the history of a sport, one of the best places to start will always be with its early competitions.

Snowboarding, while it is a highly evolved sport, is not an old sport, and its oldest competition is still alive and well.

Indeed, the history of snowboarding has been written with the same pen that signed off on the Burton U.S. Open, in all its various incarnations dating back to 1982, when it was called the National Snowboarding Championships.

Over the years, the event has featured racing in slalom, GS and even downhill and super-G, not to mention the Olympic sport of snowboard cross. It saw one of the first halfpipe competitions in 1988, setting the standard for halfpipe comps to follow, but also featured a highly competitive and progressive quarterpipe event for many years.

After the International Olympic Committee announced in 1996 halfpipe snowboarding would be an Olympic sport, the Burton U.S. Open halfpipe comp began attracting an average of 10,000 spectators. Big air came along in 1995, and rail jams and slopestyle followed in the aughts.

These days, it’s been paired down to the bare essentials — halfpipe and slopestyle — the most high-flying of the Olympic snowboarding sports.

Elijah Teter has been on the front lines throughout a large period of the evolution, both snowboarding’s and the Burton U.S. Open.

Part of the Teter family of snowboarding royalty here in the U.S., he’s from Vermont and grew up with the Open in his backyard.

For the past few years, he’s been the halfpipe coach for Ski & Snowboard Club Vail’s highly respected program, which seeks to qualify athletes to events such as the Burton U.S. Open.

Now that the U.S. Open is in his backyard once again, he can’t help but reminisce on the good old days.

“It was the best crowd that I can remember,” Teter said. “It was always the last contest of the year, you’re usually riding your best because you’ve been training all year, and you definitely want to put on a good show because all your friends were there.”

In 2005, Elijah Teter made halfpipe finals along with his siblings, Abe (older brother) and Hannah (younger sister) — a history-making moment as no family had ever gone that deep in a snowboarding comp before. A year later, Hannah would win gold in halfpipe at the 2006 Olympics.

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In 1999, Ross Powers won the halfpipe competition with his huge “McTwist” off-axis spins. watching,” Hannah Teter said of the U.S. Open, speaking from Vail on Sunday. “Before I even started snowboarding, I’d go up and watch my big brother Abe compete and think that he was so cool, and that sprouted a dream of mine to one day compete at the Open and be that good.”

Abe Teter had a lot of good years at the Open, nearly winning a few times.

“He would go there and try so hard to do well that he would fall,” Elijah Teter said. “So then he’d just poach the finals and go bigger than everybody, doing straight airs with grabs you don’t see anymore. He’d always be there, but he’d always be poaching afterwards or even during he’d jump in there in between the runs and go huge.”

In 2001, Abe Teter took second in halfpipe by two-tenths of a point to

Danny Kass. The following year, in 2002, the event would draw more than 30,000 people. This led to the event being televised live for the first time in 2003, when Hannah Teter won best overall rider, driving away in a brand new Jeep Wrangler Rubicon. The following year, snowboarding legend Terje Haakonsen, who wasn’t competing in halfpipe finals, took a page out of Abe Teter’s playbook and treated the fans to some huge poached runs during finals. A U.S. Open regular and fan favorite, Terje had been attending since 1990.

“The magnitude of professional riders that trained and came to Vermont season after season was incredible,” said Michael Cohen, who has attended every Burton U.S. Open since 1995. “People starting going from 360 spins to 540s, 7s, 9s, to 10s, to 12s and now back-to-back

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12s. Going every year, you were seeing the sport progress right in front of you.”

While the double invert is now the trick driving the sport of halfpipe snowboarding, it’s nothing new to fans such as Cohen who have been attending the U.S. Open every year. In 1998, Mike Michalchuk landed a double backflip in the halfpipe, and this was back when the pipe only had 12foot walls. The following year was Cohen’s favorite year, when home-

town hero Ross Powers won the halfpipe competition with his huge “McTwist” off-axis spins. A decade later, Shaun White would unveil the Double McTwist, and last year, he used that trick to win his fourth U.S. Open halfpipe comp.

“I have high hopes for this year’s event,” said Cohen, who will be attending the U.S. Open this week for the 18th consecutive year. “Stratton couldn’t support it anymore, and Vail seems like the perfect place to keep it moving forward.”

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Competitor Stefi Luxton, center, and Method Snowboard Academy coach Cameron Hunter, left, watch and gauge as people fly over the second booter of the slopestyle course on the first day of training for the Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Champions on Monday in Vail.

Slopestyle and superpipe are neighbors on Vail Mountain

Venues are side by side, providing a new layout to go along with the Burton U.S. Open’s new venue

By Lauren Glendenning

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VAIL — Olympic halfpipe gold and silver medalist Hannah Teter said the Vail superpipe is a seven-hitter, meaning athletes can fit in one more trick during a run than the typical six tricks they’re used to throwing in events such as the X Games.

It’s because Vail’s pipe is 600 feet long — roughly 25 feet longer than the typical competition pipe.

The pipe was built and designed by Snow Park Technologies, the company that builds the pipes at the X Games, Dew Tour and other major events. The company’s crew arrived in Vail about two weeks ago to work the mounds of snow into a venue suitable for riders such as Shaun White and Kelly Clark, and the initial reaction after Monday’s practice was good.

“I like it,” Teter said.

Snow Park Technologies owner Chris Gunnarson knew right away when he saw the layout at Golden Peak last summer that the venue would be perfect for the U.S. Open.

“Here, you’ve got this awesome spectating amphitheater at the bottom, the proximity to the pipe is incredibly close, (and Vail has) a phenomenal snowmaking system right there,” Gunnarson told

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Kaitlyn Farrington and Zack Black, right, watch competitors roll through the halfpipe and slopestyle course while taking a lift back up to the top of Golden Peak terrain park Monday in Vail. the Vail Daily in July. “It’s got some really good pitch changes. It’s a little shorter than some of the other courses, but we have some creative ways because of how wide it is at the top that we’re going to get wide before we get narrow. It’s all part of the creative process, and I think it’s going to be incredible — such a great venue.”

Athletes hit the slopestyle course and the pipe Monday for the first of two scheduled practices before competition begins Wednesday. Clark, Teter, Iouri Podladtchikov, Gretchen Bleiler and 14year-old Japanese sensation Ayumu Hirano — who won the Burton European Open earlier this month and picked up a silver medal at the X Games in superpipe — were among the riders who arrived in Vail on Monday.

The Burton U.S. Open has been a long time coming. While the announcement was only made in July that the event would be moving to Vail from Vermont, where it had been held for 30 years, the planning has actually been going on for a few years, said Bryan Rooney, senior

manager of Vail Mountain Operations.

The physical labor to build the courses and features began more recently. Snow Park Technologies built features at its headquarters outside of Reno, Nev., while Vail Mountain started making snow for the event around the beginning of the year, Rooney said.

Vail Mountain also got major support from Ski & Snowboard Club Vail, which helped the resort get a 22-foot cutter for the pipe. Because of that support, the pipe was able to open to the public in January and will be open to the public all season — except during the Burton U.S. Open — every year.

A big difference about the layout of the slopestyle and superpipe venues between Vail and Stratton, Vt., is that Vail’s venues are side by side. Rooney thinks it will create a much more spectator-friendly event.

But there’s also a difference between the superpipe and the slopestyle course in that the latter was not, is not and will not be open to the public — ever.

“Once the Open is over, we’ll dismantle it,” Rooney said. “No one gets to train on it or utilize these features except for these athletes competing here.”

Those athletes will be going big. Some of the practice runs Monday afternoon looked more like the final competition runs. Their energy is likely to be contagious this week. Rooney said that for Vail Mountain, and for the town, the energy is already high.

“The vibe has been so great — really positive,” Rooney said. “Everyone has been extremely excited to have a largescale event like this back in Vail.”

Assistant Managing Editor Lauren Glendenning can be reached at 970-748-2983 or lglendenning@vaildaily.com.

Monday 10 a.m. to noon Halfpipe and slopestyle practice at Golden Peak.

1 to 3 p.m. Halfpipe and slopestyle practice at Golden Peak.

Tuesday 10 a.m. to noon Halfpipe and slopestyle Practice at Golden Peak.

1 to 3 p.m. Halfpipe and slopestyle practice at Golden Peak.

3 to 5 p.m. Vail Village apres at Vail Village Burton Store.

Wednesday 9 to 10:20 a.m. Women’s slopestyle semifinal at Golden Peak (live feed at Solaris and Arrabelle).

11:20 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. Men’s slopestyle semifinals (Heat 1) at Golden Peak (live feed at Solaris and Arrabelle).

1:40 to 3 p.m. Men’s slopestyle semifinals (Heat 2) at Golden Peak (live feed at Solaris and Arrabelle).

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sponsor village at Solaris.

11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sponsor village at Golden Peak.

10 a.m. to noon Riglet Park at Solaris.

2 to 4 p.m. Riglet Park at Solaris.

3 to 5 p.m. Vail Village Apres at Vail Village Burton Store.

Thursday 9 a.m. to 10:20 a.m. Woman’s halfpipe semifinal at Golden Peak (live feed at Solaris and Arrabelle).

11:20 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. Men’s halfpipe semifinals (Heat 1) at Golden Peak (live feed at Solaris and Arrabelle).

1:40 to 3 p.m. Men’s halfpipe semifinals (Heat 2) at Golden Peak (live feed at Solaris and Arrabelle).

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sponsor Village at Golden Peak.

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sponsor Village at Solaris.

10 a.m. to noon Riglet Park at Solaris.

2 to 4 p.m. Riglet Park at Solaris.

3 to 5 p.m. Vail Village apres at Vail Village Burton Store.

Friday 9:50 a.m. to noon Men’s Slopestyle Finals at Golden Peak (live feed at Solaris and Arrabelle).

1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Women’s Slopestyle Finals at Golden Peak (live feed at Solaris and Arrabelle).

2:45 to 3:15 p.m. Slopestyle Awards Ceremony at Golden Peak.

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sponsor Village at Golden Peak.

9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sponsor Village at Solaris.

10 a.m. to noon Riglet Park at Solaris.

1 to 3 p.m. Riglet Park at Solaris.

4 to 6 p.m. Riglet Park at Solaris.

3 to 5 p.m. Vail Village Apres & Burton Rider Signing at Vail Village Burton Store.

6 to 9:30 p.m. Free Concert — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis at Solaris.

Saturday 9:50 a.m. to noon Men’s halfpipe finals at Golden Peak (live feed at Solaris and Arrabelle).

1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Women’s halfpipe finals at Golden Peak (live feed at Solaris and Arrabelle).

2:45 to 3:15 p.m. Slopestyle Awards Ceremony at Golden Peak.

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sponsor Village at Golden Peak.

9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sponsor Village at Solaris.

10 a.m. to noon Riglet Park at Solaris.

1 to 3 p.m. Riglet Park at Solaris.

4 to 6 p.m. Riglet Park at Solaris.

3 to 5 p.m. Vail Village Apres & Burton Rider Signing at Vail Village Burton Store.

6 to 9:30 p.m. Free concert — Santigold at Solaris.

10 p.m. to 1 a.m. USO After Party — Skratch Bastid + Cosmo Baker at Dobson Ice Arena.

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Ski & Snowboard Club Vail’s Colby Lange rips it up at last weekend’s Prater Cup in Crested Butte.

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Ski & Snowboard Club’s U-14 racers headed down to Crested Butte to compete in the Prater Cup, the main qualifier for the junior championships. The young racers once again came away with incredible results, and dozens of athletes qualified for the championships.

Day 1 was the super-G race. For the boys, Bridger Gile skied his way to a second-place finish. Following Gile there was Colby Lange in third, Brendan Keane in fifth, Jacob Dilling in sixth, Patrick Ottley in ninth and Reese Irwin in 10th. On the girls’ side, SSCV’s Sylka Snyder took the win by onetenth of a second. Following Snyder for the SSCV team was Haley Frischholz in third and Zoey Livran in sixth.

The SSCV boys team crushed the competition in Saturday’s giant slalom races.

Seven Vail racers skied their way to the top 10 in race No. 1, and six local racers placed in the top 10 in the second race of the day.

Dilling won the race by just a little less than one-tenth of a second. SSCV’s Lange placed in second during the first race of the day, followed by Gile in fourth, Keane in sixth, Reese Irwin in seventh, Max Bervy in ninth and Ottley in 10th. Race No. 2 had Lange in first, Gile in second, Dilling in fourth, Keane in fifth, Ottley in eighth and Irwin in 10th.

The SSCV girls team skied well on Saturday, with five skiers in the top 10 in both races. Jessica McMurtry held it down in race No. 1 placing third, followed by Livran in fourth, Frischholz in fifth, Lily Dines in eighth and Michaela Strizencova

in 10th. Race No. 2 had Livran in second, Elise Viola in fifth, Gretchen Pavelich in sixth, Dines in ninth and McMurtry in 10th.

The final day was slalom. Gile won the first slalom race of the day. Following Gile were his teammates Dilling in third, Lange in fourth, Keane in fifth, Ottley in sixth, Irwin in seventh and Lazier in 10th. Race No. 2 had Dilling in second, Lazier in fourth, Lange in fifth, Ottley in sixth, Benjamin Kooiman in eighth and Mathew Macaluso in 10th.

For the girls, McMurtry skied well and won the first slalom race of the day, followed by Taylor Brandt in seventh. Race No. 2 was a little more successful, as McMurtry finished second with Pavelich in fourth, Dylan Fiore in seventh and Dines in ninth.

U-12s in Utah and Cooper

Over in Snowbird, Utah, the SSCV U-12 alpine skiers competed in the Snowbird IMD South Series GS and slalom events.

Henry Heaydon skied well in both events, placing second in both GS and slalom. SSCV racer Kellen Kinsella raced well in the slalom event, placing fifth. On the girls’ side, Pheobe Heaydon skied well in both the GS and the slalom races and ended in third on both days. In the slalom race on Sunday, Meriel Upton placed fourth, followed by Kaitlyn Harsch in fifth.

To top the weekend off, the teammates of the racers out in Snowbird headed over to Ski Cooper on Sunday to win every race in the dual-slalom event. Caroline Jones won the U12 girls race, followed by Bayli McSpadden winning the U-10 division. Dominik Lettovsky won the U-12 division race for the boys.

Youth Ski league results from Sunday at the Beav’ Girls Race 1 (Please note finishes listed are for Ski & Snowboard Club Vail and the Vail Devo Team) U-8s 2 Marston, Frankie 3 Matthews, Taylor 4 Lathram, Kyleena 5 Avery, Shu 7 Cavataio, Ava 8 Keenan, Elle U8 U-10s 1 Young, Elle 2 Sullivan, Adalie 4 Ballinger, Ava 5 Ungar, Caroline 6 Kelley, Quinn 7 Pavelich, Robin 8 Moritz, Liv 9 Matthews, Ashley 11 Rounds, Callie 12 Millett, Grace 13 Brausch, Kamryn 14 Moritz, Kjersti 20 Grube, Sarah 21 Jones, Olivia U-12s

1 Sullivan, Campbell 2 Driscoll, Georgia 3 Young, Chloe 4 Smith, Heather 5 Lathram, Samantha 6 Jemison, Ava 7 Mayer, Alexandra 8 Van den Berg, Mess Bleom 9 Creek, Emily 11 Dewell, Caroline 12 Millett, Rosemary 13 Lindall, Samantha 15 Ford, Abigail 17 Levine, Josie 18 Linafelter, Lexi 19 Rounds, Gracie 21 Anderson, Alexa 22 Meza, Lorenza U-14s 2 Anderson, Kristen 3 Geisman, Jane Race 2 U-8s 1 Marston, Frankie 3 Lathram, Kyleena 4 Avery, Shu 5 Matthews, Taylor 6 Keenan, Kenna

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8 Cavataio, Ava 9 Valent, Alexandra 10 Keenan, Elle U-10s 1 Young, Elle 2 Sullivan, Adalie 4 Ballinger, Ava 5 Kelley, Quinn 6 Guiza, Daniela 7 Ungar, Caroline 8 Pavelich, Robin 11 Millett, Grace 12 Gonzalez, Alexandra 13 Rounds, Callie 14 Moritz, Kjersti 15 Moritz, Liv 16 Brausch, Kamryn 17 Alfond, Pixie 18 Matthews, Ashley 22 Grube, Sarah 25 Linafelter, Grace 28 Jones, Olivia U-12s 1 Sullivan, Campbell 2 Driscoll, Georgia 3 Van den Berg, Mees Bloem 4 Smith, Heather 5 Lathram, Samantha

6 Jemison, Ava 7 Dewell, Caroline 8 Mayer, Alexandra 9 Creek, Emily 11 Millett, Rosemary 12 Ford, Abigail 15 Lindall, Samantha 16 Levine, Josie 17 Anderson, Alexa 18 Meza, Lorenza 19 Linafelter, Lexi 20 Rounds, Gracie U-14s 2 Anderson, Kristen 3 Geisman, Jane Boys Race 1 U-8s 1 Malboeuf, Brady 2 Boyer, Jonathan 4 Van den Berg, Siebe U-10s 1 Frenz, Marius 2 Geiman, William 3 Judge, Thomas 4 Frenz, Fabian 5 Reese, Brody

6 Peterson, Spencer 7 Eggebrecht, Nicklas 8 Roach, Hunter 9 Rodney, Thomas 11 Armistead, Xander 12 1Decker, Charlie 15 Ballinger, Craig U-12s 1 Cyphers, Cade 2 Cyphers, Brody 3 Kelsey, Trey 4 Marston, Max 5 Brown, Will 6 Goss, Jack 7 Mayer, Nicholas 8 Mayer, Justin 9 Papadopoulos, John U-14s 1 Marston, Theo 2 Guiza, Enrique Race 2 U-8s 1 Malboeuf, Brady 2 Boyer, Jonathan 3 Skok, Charlie 6 Peterson, Hunter 10 Rounds, Christopher U-10s

1 Webert, Tyler 2 Judge, Thomas 3 Frenz, Marius 4 Reese, Brody 5 Geiman, William 6 Roach, Hunter 7 Peterson, Spencer 8 Rodney, Thomas 9 Eggebrecht, Nicklas 11 Ballinger, Craig 12 Decker, Charlie 13 Armistead, Xander U-12s 2 Lewis, Jack 3 Cyphers, Brody 4 Kelsey, Trey 5 Cyphers, Cade 6 Marston, Max 7 Skok, Paul 8 Brown, Will 9 Mayer, Nicholas 10 Mayer, Justin 11 Dines, Linc U-14s 1 Marston, Theo 2 Guiza, Enrique

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Jake Pates: The other 14-year-old Along with Hirano, local snowboarder is youngest in U.S. Open

By John LaConte SPECIAL TO THE DAILY

VAIL — When Jake Pates was in second grade, he was given the honor of forerunning the men’s superpipe finals event at the X Games.

It was his first season on a snowboard; he was 8.

Shaun White went on to win the event, and in the years that followed, both Pates and White kept getting better at snowboarding — Pates on a sharper curve.

Now, six years later, Pates and White are set to compete against each other in both halfpipe and slopestyle at the Burton U.S. Open here in Vail, just down the road from Jake’s hometown of Eagle.

“I’ve been watching him my whole life,” said Pates of White. “It’s sort of a shocker, thinking back to watching him when I was young and thinking how cool it was to see him up there with so much exposure. Now I’ll be competing against him on the same level — it just feels awesome.”

Not unlike White, Pates has been on quite a run this year. He took third in halfpipe in the Burton U.S. Open qualifiers Feb. 3 in Seven Springs, Pa., then went over to the Burton European Open in Laax, Switzerland, winning the junior halfpipe and finishing second in the junior slopestyle there.

On Saturday, he learned that after the Burton U.S. Open he will be heading over to Erzurum, Turkey, to compete on the FIS Junior World Team where, at 14, he’ll be the youngest member of the team.

His coach, Elijah Teter, of Ski & Snowboard Club Vail, said Pates fits in well with an older crowd.

“He’s really riding at that level right now, going big enough to be competing with the big dogs,” Teter said. “He’s very mature, very receptive, very unique in that sense, being able to listen so well and pick up on what you’re trying to describe to him as a coach.”

SSCV snowboard program director Ben Boyd said Pates is the type of athlete the coaches there refer to as an “outlier.”

“That means he’s a kid that’s ahead of his years, and not just the way he snowboards but the way he handles life and coaching

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Eagle resident Jake Pates flies high out of the halfpipe on his way to winning the junior division of the Burton European Open. At the Burton U.S. Open, Pates will compete in the open division against the men. and his mental approach to everything,” Boyd said. “I’ve known him for a long time now and coached him for a couple years; he takes to coaching very well, understands the technical aspects of snowboarding, has a really good work ethic but also has that passion for it, that drive. It’s a pretty rare mix.”

And Pates also can do tricks that involve two separate inverted maneuvers in the same air, also a rare mix. But it’s becoming more and more common these days, with this feat — commonly referred to as a “double” — currently driving the sport.

“I’m working on doing a double for the Open,” Pates said. “Trying to perfect the cab double 9 in slope.”

He trains with another young gun and master of the double, 14-year-old Japanese sensation Ayumu Hirano, who is also being coached by Teter at SSCV. Hirano recently finished runner-up to White at the X Games superpipe and followed that up by winning the men’s half-

pipe open division at the Burton European Open.

“It’s super cool to just be around him because we’re the same age and he’s already at that next level, already winning the big professional competitions,” Pates said.

But Pates’ family and coaches say while the formal training has helped to drive the young athlete, it’s his big brother, 16-yearold Cole Pates, who has really pushed him along.

“Ever since he was a little guy, he had a brother who was a mentor and always someone he tried to emulate,” said Chris Pates, Jake and Cole’s father. “He was always challenged. No matter where we were or what we were doing, there was no boring day at the mountain for him because he was always trying to be as good as his brother.

Having that presence constantly there 24/7 I think has helped Jake significantly.”

An SSCV athlete along with Jake (only

Cole Pates is a freeskier), Cole recently finished 18th out of 100 at the Aspen Open, a tough slopestyle competition that takes place on the same course as the X Games.

He landed his first ever switch cork 900 in competition at that event, a similar trick to the “cab” (or switch frontside) 900 Jake is currently working on.

“It came around awesome, right to my feet,” he said.

Cole may not have a big brother to look up to, but with Jake competing at the level he is, Cole said it’s like having a brother his same age.

“My friends think he’s a sophomore,” Cole said with a laugh. “I say nope, he’s in eighth grade. ... Things are progressing so fast, we’re at the point now where we’re fighting for each other just to see who can get ahead every day. Each day we’re either learning a new trick or improving on a trick together. He’s improving at such a significant pace, I just want him to keep it going.”

Ayumu Hirano is a name you will remember Japanese sensation, 14, on track to be the next halfpipe leader

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Ayumu Hirano stands atop the podium at the Burton European Open — the European version of the event now happening in Vail.

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VAIL — For now, he’s known to many as “that 14-year-old Japanese snowboarder kid,” but make no mistake, Ayumu Hirano is well on his way to becoming a household name here in the U.S. He’s been competing against adults and reaching the podium in big comps for a little while now, but he really caught the attention of Americans in January when he finished runner-up to Shaun White at the X Games superpipe, the marquee event in the sport of halfpipe snowboarding. A few weeks later, he was able to come away with a win at the Burton European Open — the

European version of the event now happening in Vail — with Shaun White not in attendance.

“Their skills are similar,” said Hirano’s coach here in the U.S., Ski & Snowboard Club Vail’s Elijah Teter. “He likes to go big. And if you look at Shaun White, he’s a skater, too. Ayumu skates vert ramps real well. Being able to ride both well like that is typical (for halfpipe snowboarders).”

Hirano’s been living in Summit County with a manager and crew that Teter calls Hirano’s “second family in the U.S.” That family includes an actual family member, Hirano’s brother Eiju, as well as some well-known names in the world of Japanese snowboarding, including Kazu Kokubo, Kohei Kudo and Taku Hiraoka.

“It’s a cool crew, all great snowboarders who just love the sport,” Teter said.

Teter said he first took notice of Hirano at the Burton U.S. Open two

years ago.

“I was just like, ‘Holy cow, look at that kid go,’” Teter said. “He was just tiny, going so big for how tiny he was and oozing with style ... It was pretty cool to watch that a couple years ago and then have the opportunity to work with him this winter.”

Teter and Hirano have mainly been working on variations of the “double,” a trick where two off-axis inverted maneuvers are performed in the same trick. Teter said as Hirano has been learning, so has he.

“It’s been fun, working on coaching without as many words,” Teter said. “Just explaining what you mean through gestures and having him understand, you know. It’s pretty cool.”

But, Teter said, Hirano’s been learning more than just variations of the double.

“His English is getting a lot better,” he said.

Check out Hirano in the halfpipe semifinals starting at 10 a.m.

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and train with him,â&#x20AC;? she said on Sunday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very convenient to have (the Burton U.S. Open) here at Vail; this is one of the better mountains, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been super nice.â&#x20AC;?

Her brother, Elijah Teter, is the head halfpipe coach for Ski & Snowboard Club Vail and lives in the valley. In 2005, Elijah, Hannah and their brother Abe all made it to finals in the U.S. Open, the first and only time a sibling trio has ever made it to finals in a major snowboarding competition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really excited for it,â&#x20AC;? she said about this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always the big competition at the end of the year, and all the countries are here, so youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see the best from every country show up.â&#x20AC;?

She described this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s U.S. Open in Vail as an Olympic prepper. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get an idea of what you need for next year,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait to see the level of competition for this weekend.â&#x20AC;?

Her Olympic goals? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to go to the Olympics to win, not to get one of those places that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter,â&#x20AC;? she said.

One tough Teter

With the hardware sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already earned have come a few bumps and bruises.

She took the hardest fall of her career at last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s U.S. Open and had to be ushered off the course to the hospital, where they told her she suffered a concussion.

Just weeks before that fall, she received platelet-rich plasma (PRP) treatment on a nagging shoulder injury, describing it as the most painful thing she has ever experienced. The shoulder treatment was going really well, up until Teter went launching off an enormous, 22-foot quarterpipe wall into a volleyball court-sized air bag at Golden Peak in January. The practice is supposed to be among the safest options the sport provides, but Teter found some bad luck out there and dislocated her shoulder again. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was an awkward landing that totally got me,â&#x20AC;? she said.

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the snow. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She just needed a week and she was back at it,â&#x20AC;? Elijah said.

Not one to be slowed down by bodily setbacks, Teter is always working on improving her run, which is recognizable by her signature 900 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Teter was the first woman ever to land a 900 in competition way back in 2002 at the Junior World Championships. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want want to go for new tricks this summer, and this spring, to really get something going,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Olympics is going to be insane.â&#x20AC;?

The huge benefits a little bit of money can do

After achieving her first Olympic medal in â&#x20AC;&#x2122;06, Teter widened her focus to include a significant amount of charity work.

She sponsors a village in Kenya and has raised more than $300,000 for improvements there. Chief among her fundraising efforts in Africa is a website called hannahs gold.com, where you can buy maple syrup with the proceeds benefiting the small village of Kirindon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been working on bringing in clean water there,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They had no way of getting clean water before. ... Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going really well.â&#x20AC;?

The Teter family sponsored a child while Hannah was growing up, where she saw firsthand the benefits of charity work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You could see the huge benefits a little bit of money could do,â&#x20AC;? she said.

She helps other charities, as well, and while her approach to fundraising may be slightly unorthodox, she makes it easy to get involved. In an effort to bring sports to underprivileged children around the world, she sells a product that caters to women, but male readers may want to check out her website, as well â&#x20AC;&#x201D; strictly for donation purposes, of course. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We sell panties at sweetcheeks panties.com,â&#x20AC;? said Teter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The money goes to help Children International and their Game On program.â&#x20AC;?

Check out Hannah Teter in the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s halfpipe today, with semifinals starting at 10 a.m.

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Grant applications will be considered for a minimum amount of $500 up to $2,500.

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All eyes on Ayumu Hirano Catching up with one of the youngest halfpipe sensations

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This is the younger Hiranoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debut season on the elite pro circuit, and he has spent most of his winter traveling to events across the world and training in Vail with Ski and 6QRZERDUG &OXE 9DLO FRDFKHV %HQ %R\G DQG (OLMDK 7HWHU ´,W¡V OLPLWOHVV IRU KLP Âľ %R\G VD\V ´+H¡V VR \RXQJ +H just loves to snowboard and loves to go big. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really good at picking up concepts with snowboarding and putting them into practice. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot that you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t coach, to be honest.â&#x20AC;?

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Fresh off a practice session in Vailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s halfpipe earlier this week, the Japanese phenom says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got big plans for this weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s competition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to win,â&#x20AC;? he says earnestly, without any hint of arrogance and a small smile.

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Japanese snowboarder Ayumu Hirano, 14, is a rising star on the halfpipe. He comes to the Burton U.S. Open fresh off a win at the 6Star Burton European Open Halfpipe Contest in Switzerland. Watch for him training and competing in Vail with Ski and Snowboard Club Vail coaches this season. Zach Mahone photo.

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The blonde haired, bright-eyed 26-year-old is a two-time 2O\PSLF PHGDOLVW ² LQFOXGLQJ JROG DW 7RULQR ,WDO\ LQ ² DQG KDV UDFNHG XS YDULRXV PHGDOV DQG ZLQV DW WKH ; *DPHV WKH %XUWRQ 8 6 2SHQ DQG PRUH Growing up in a snowboarding family in Vermont, Teter seemed somewhat destined for amplitude greatness. Considered one of the seasoned pros on the circuit, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paved the ZD\ IRU RWKHU JLUOV EHFRPLQJ WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW IHPDOH VQRZERDUGHU to land a 900 in competition in 2011 at the age of 15, and then becoming the youngest member of the U.S. Snowboarding team the next season. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s involved in several SKLODQWKURSLF HIIRUWV LQFOXGLQJ KHU RZQ QRQSURĂ&#x20AC;W +DQQDK¡V *ROG ZKLFK UDLVHV PRQH\ IRU .HQ\DQ VFKRROV DQG ZDWHU treatment through her own Vermont maple syrup.

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Teter will be making a signing appearance at the tent of U.S. Open sponsor Shiseido during the USO weekend. The skin-care company will be giving away skin protection samples, running an interactive â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sun Barâ&#x20AC;? and holding giveaways throughout the event. Catch her Friday, March 1st from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m so excited to hang with Shiseido this week,â&#x20AC;? Teter says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love all of their sun products, but my favorites are probably the Sun Protection Stick Foundation SPF 35 and the Sun Protection Lip Treatment SPF36 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; both offer great coverage and portability.â&#x20AC;?

Hannah Teter, two time Olympic medalist, competes in Vailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s halfpipe this weekend. Adam Moran photo.

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Saturday, March 2 Santigold concert in Vail Singer, songwriter and producer Santigold takes to the stage at Solaris Plaza in Vail with her bombastic, bass-oriented songs that fuse punk, reggae, grime, and indie rock with electro. Fresh off her new album released last year, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Master of My Make-Believe,â&#x20AC;? she has been compared to MIA and known for her hits â&#x20AC;&#x153;L.E.S. Artistesâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lights Out.â&#x20AC;?

The show is part of the Burton U.S. Open and is free. Music starts at 6:30 p.m. Sean Thomas photo.

Submit your event to SneakPEAKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weekly community calendar by sending information to info@sneakpeakvail.com.

Thursday, Feb. 28 to Saturday, March 2 Burton U.S. Open in Vail 2013 marks the 31st anniversary of this long-running snowERDUG HYHQW DQG D QHZ FKDSWHU LQ 8 6 2SHQ KLVWRU\ 0RUH than 100 of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best riders will make their way to 9DLO WKH QHZ KRPH RI WKH 8 6 2SHQ IRU IRXU GD\V RI LQWHQVH FRPSHWLWLRQ DQG SURJUHVVLYH ULGLQJ %HVLGHV WKH FRPSHWLWLRQ the week will feature free concerts, parties, movie showings, expo villages and more.

Thursday, Feb. 28 Pink Vail kickoff party in Edwards &UD]\ 0RXQWDLQ %UHZHU\ LQWURGXFHV 3LQN 9DLO )UXLW $OH LQ KRQRU RI WKH 0DUFK 3LQN 9DLO HYHQW ZKLFK UDLVHV DZDUHQHVV DQG IXQGV LQ VXSSRUW RI 6KDZ 5HJLRQDO &DQFHU &HQWHU¡V QHZ VXUYLYRUVKLS SURJUDP &UD]\ 0RXQWDLQ ZLOO be pouring this beer all night long with live music from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. by Hardscrabble.

Thursday, Feb. 28 Vail Founders Forum The Vail Symposium celebrates Vailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 50th anniversary ZLWK D SDQHO WKDW WDNHV D ORRN EDFN LQWR 9DLO¡V Ă&#x20AC;UVW \HDUV 5RG 6OLIHU (ODLQH .HOWRQ DQG 0HUY /DSLQ ZLOO WHOO VWRULHV from Vailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early years and discuss some of the challenges they faced in creating a new ski area and town. There is a $10 entrance donation, and the event will be held at the Lionshead Welcome Center. See www.vailsymposium.org for more info.

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SOS Dance Party at Samana Lounge <RXWK RXWGRRU QRQSURĂ&#x20AC;W 626 2XWUHDFK NLFNV RII WKH weekend with a charity dance party starting at 9 p.m. at Vailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Samana Lounge. There is a $10 cover charge, half of ZKLFK ZLOO EH GRQDWHG WR 626 &UD]\ 0RXQWDLQ %UHZHU\ LV sponsoring the evening with beer, and music is provided by '- .RQFHSW

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10 questions with Hunter Bailey

Vailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own 16-year-old freestyle ski daredevil is on the rise

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Age: 16 School: Vail Mountain School, Junior Hometown: Vail Coach: John Dowling, Ski and Snowboard Club Vail

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5) What part did SSCV, your coach and the Vail community play in your success up to this point?

A gigantic impact. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think I would be where I am now if I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t grow up in Vail. I remember when Toby Dawson got his bronze in the Olympics. He was on the front page of the paper, and we cut it out and hung it on the fridge. I had some of the best coaching right here in Vail, and I ski on a team that I loved. I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have done what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done if I grew up anywhere else.

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cirque shows here at the Vilar Center, says Sabel of the Vilar Center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are always a hit with our crowd, and knowing the level of talent and discipline that Cirque Mechanics offers, I guarantee our audience members will be wowed and request them back for a future show.â&#x20AC;?

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Jumping certainly can be scary. And the jumps leave more of an overall impression â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the audience is not going to remember the skiing, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll remember the jumping.

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No more competitions at Vail or Beaver Creek. Next weekend I am going to Stratton, Vt. After that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be going to Park City for another competition.

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