U16 Nationals - GS Day

 It was a perfect day for GS - bluebird skies and hard(ish) snow

 Olivia and Fredi during inspection

Eastern Team coaches had the assembly line going juicing for second run

 Anna

 Sophie

Eastern Pride  - U16 Overall Jimmy Krupka 2nd (GMVS), Tim Gavett 3rd (GMVS) 

YOB 1999 Champ - Matt Price 1st (KMS) (yeah Price family!)

Also Cecily Decker from Whiteface won overall for girls

More Eastern Cup Racing...

The E-Cup fun continued on Friday and Saturday with the men's GS on Dippers.  The weather wasn't as cooperative as it had been the previous two days but DI, the coaches and a team of volunteers managed to make it all come together.

Great to see so many BMA alumni and family members!

Andy and Hunter '13 Lord

Philip and Charlie '13 Harrison

Kris, Henry '14 and Jim Tomlinson

Jenny, Jake and baby on the way Fisher

The McKenna Brothers- Chris '12 and Matt '09

Alumni-Rob Cone '10, Matt McKenna '09, Kieffer Christianson '10, Chris McKenna '12, Jack Auty '13, Sam Macomber '12, Dom Garand '10, Mike Boardman '12, Charlie Harrison '13 and Hunter Lord '13, there were a few more but they  missed the photo!

U18  Friday 1. Charlie Raposo 2.Jake Gougeon '14 BMA 3. Christian Gallagher GMVS

Overall Friday 1.Jonathan Nordbotten UVM 2. Chris McKenna Midd, BMA 3. Charlie Raposo GBR

Saturday U18 1. Harry Laidlaw BMA '13 2. James Ferri KMS 3. Ryan Mooney GMVS

Saturday Overall 1. Kieffer Christianson-USST , BMA 2. Rob Cone USST, BMA 3. Robby Kelley-USST

E Cups

Here's Darrell and JD discussing the course conditions, which anyone who raced knows were challenging.

There are friends on a rain day...

Slush Cup Chemistry Challenge

Chemistry Challenge for a slushy morning:

This is a difficult challenge, so I am going to up the ante considerably. The BMA math/science department is offering a $100 cash prize for a mathematically and scientifically correct answer that is reasonable given real-world uncertainties.

As I wait for Eastern Cups to happen, I'm looking up at Nolan Kasper's slalom course. They placed salt-bags every seven gates. Each bag is 50 pounds of Sodium Chloride. Make assumptions about some unknown information and calculate the temperature of the snow that is treated in this manner.

The depth, detail, quality and presentation of your solution matters much more than the actual answer you come up with.

This contest is open to students, alums, parents, faculty, everybody. It's an open challenge.

Deadline for submission of solutions is 5pm, April 15th.

Submissions must be emailed to diverson@burkemtnacademy.org

EC Candids

A few shots of the rainy scene on Dippers today! Thanks to all everyone for their enthusiasm and effort!! 

Max, Aleck, Chris McKenna, Jake getting a report from Kraig

Teacher Power at the start!! Brandon, Lindley, Chambo and Viv

The Walking Wounded even came out! Jack and Ryan 

A winner in the classroom, too

Fredrik was stoked to be chosen by his peers as having the best answers to questions posed during an in-class activity in Literature 12.

Getting "Civilized"

We did our best to take advantage of Salt Lake City's urban and cultural sights this afternoon. 

The Mormon Temple

Hail! And flowers!

Learning about the Mormon religion and history

Like real city types, we took the light-rail into downtown. And here some show off their new shades. 

Shelley Glover Memorial Eastern Cup Super G's

Today we completed two great days of Super G on Dippers. The sun was shining and warmed us up a bit from yesterday. Many thanks to all of our volunteers for making sure everything went off without a hitch!  Support from the Mountain was also much appreciated with President Ary Quiros even handing out the awards today. 

Wednesday U18  1. Christian Gallagher GMVS 2. Sven Von Appen BMA 3. Sam Morse CVA

Wednesday Overall 1. Fredrik Maurstad BMA 2. Christian Gallagher 3.Sven Von Appen 

Ary congratulating winner Fredrik Maurstad

BMA women sweep the podium Wednesday 1. Dani Brownell-Patty 2. Alli Price 3. Bridget Currier

Thursday  U18 1. Sam Morse 2. Sven Von Appen 3. Aleck Sullivan BMA

Thursday Overall 1. Duffy Drew USST 2. Sam Morse 3. Missing from photo BMA alumnus Rob Cone USST

BMA women take it again Thursday 1. Dani Brownell-Patty 2. Moriah Wilson 3. Alli Price

Shot of the day-Sven kicks off

Start volunteers Lizzy, Paige, McKenna and Parker enjoying lunch atop the mountain

Sarah and Brandon holding down the finish

The morning commute

A very old sliver of moon, rising with Venus over Willoughby Dorm at 6am this morning.

BMA U16s at U16 CANAM, Mont Tremblant, Québec March 20 - 23

Despite challenging weather (which resulted in the cancellation of the men's GS), challenging course conditions and an interesting approach to race organization that can only be characterized by the oxymoronic "Québecois logic", it was a very fun and successful 4 days at the U16 CANAM Intersport series.  Organizers were grateful for the show of support from Vermont programs, and USA athletes garnered many of the top spots.  Some photos of BMA athletes at the awards ceremonies:

 Bart and Sophie

 Shamus, Fredi, Gigi (front), Matt, Kai, Abby, and Will

 Men's Super G podium (Matt Wilson 3rd)

 The women's GS podium (Lizzy Williams, 4th overall, 4th from right), Sophie Sherman (7th overall, 2nd from right)

 Men's slalom podium - Liam McKim 1st, Chris Jones (GMVS and Québec) 2nd, to Liam's right.

Congratulations to GMVS athletes Chris Jones (from Québec) and Alli Nullmeyer (from Ontario) for taking the overall awards.

The Ferry to Whiteface

For some of the last few races of the season, the FIS girls took off for Whiteface for the weekend. Despite some disbelief from the whole crew that a ferry ride was required, we did take a windy ride from Vermont to New York.

Here's proof!-

Super People

Parker and Ronnie wearing matching Superman shirts. Ronnie Berlack ('12), who had a successful year with the US Ski Team and racing Nor-ams and in Europe, came back to BMA to rehab his knee. It's been nice having him around again. I'm pretty sure every one who passes through the gym has seen him there!

Well, the sun is shining, even if it's not warm!

Nordic team visits the training hill! L-R Ava Kate, Carter (admissions visitor) and Warren

Jennette and Sophie BOTH took crashes today that put their braces through their lips. There was a lot of bloody guaze in the warming hut and somewhere some unhappy orthodontists. Eww.

Fredi

Ba-RUUUUCE