Maja Turns 13

Maja turned 13 on the 7th of January. Maja's homework requires more and more computer time these days it seems. She's routinely bumping the adults off the computer both at home and at her Grandparents home to do schoolwork. She's also keeping up with schoolwork when she's on the road skiing so we thought it made sense for her to have her own. Both sets of Grandparents and Mama and Pappa chipped in to get her a little notebook to fill all these needs. We knew she would be excited but we didn't expect any tears. Here's a slightly long video clip of Maja opening up her supercool gift.

Report cards and Training Days

The Mt.Washington Alpine team trains every weekend, some Fridays and the odd Monday. Maja's been feeling the workload of her first year at junior high and the French Immersion program. She impressed everyone with all A's on her last report card. We're all very proud of her. Of course her little sister Sylvi is every bit as amazing and is also up on the hill training every weekend with the K-Star pre-competitive program and sometimes with Maja's group as well.

Giant Slalom Training

Sylvi gets some GS Turn Tips from Maja

Whistler! First Race of the Season

The Mt. Washington team was in Whistler Dec 18-19 for the first race of the season. Unfortunately due to the number of competitors it was decided the skiers would only get one run for each event, slalom and giant slalom. Normally there would be two runs for each event. Maja had two good results even though she was not satisfied with anything less than a podium. Pappa had promised he would take care of all her ski tuning for the season if she finished in the top ten and now Pappa spends his evenings tuning Maja's race skis.

In the GS Maja placed 11th at 43.79 sec and her team mate Keegan McCooey came in 12th at 44.63 sec.

In the slalom Maja placed 9th at 50.74, edged out by Keegan by 3/10 of a second at 50.47 for 8th place.

The boys also had excellent results.

Kole Harle placed 3rd in GS and 5th in slalom.

Logan Frame placed 4th in GS and skied out in his slalom run.

Liam Gilchrist placed 8th in GS and 4th in slalom.

Robbie Yelland placed 11th in GS and 14th in slalom.

There were 42 boys and 39 girls competing at the K1 level.

Awards!



Apex Training week Nov 25-Dec 1

The entire Mt. Washington Alpine Ski Team was at Apex Resort for training the week of Nov 25th to Dec 1st. The resort is essentially closed except for one run and a T-bar which is open only to teams for race training. This provides early season training in an environment that allows for focused training without the distractions of a resort with public on the hill. Maja was lucky enough to have her Grandpa along with her again this year. Enjoy the video clip with the ultimate training soundtrack of course.

Dryland Training

The team has been taking part in dryland training on a weekly basis since early September. Dryland training consists of cardio, core and some strength training. Here's a small video clip of one of their more specific ski focused excercises.