Recap: USCSA Week 5 Racing

By: Emma Logan

Featured Image: Katie Bervy skiing for Colorado State University. Credit: Matan Coll, https://mcp.pic-time.com/portfolio @matancoll 

Week 5 results include races held on Feb 9-11, which marked the conclusion of the regular season races for numerous conferences and divisions.

For complete results, visit uscsa.org. 

Atlantic Highlands Conference

The Atlantic Highlands Conference hosted a giant slalom race on Saturday and a slalom race on Sunday. Both races took place at Hunter Mountain in New York. These were the final conference races for the 2024 season. 

Aaron Martin from Lehigh University led the men’s giant slalom field with the fastest combined time of the day. Sebastian Bjorkeson of Lafayette followed by 0.42 seconds to finish in second place, and James Lahrman from the United States Marine Academy followed Bjorkeson by 0.04 seconds to finish in third place. Bjorkeson and the Lafayette men’s team defeated Lehigh in the team competition by 0.10 seconds for the combined team time. 

On Sunday, Douglas Phillips from the University of Pennsylvania took first place with the fastest combined time in another close race. Lahrman trailed by only 0.22 seconds to finish in second place. Ian Kenyon from Lehigh followed the competition closely to finish in third. The Fairfield men’s team placed first in the team competition. 

Erika Wiebe of Fairfield University led the women’s giant slalom on Saturday with the fastest two times of the day. Abu Masillo from Lehigh followed and finished with a second-place result, while Lindsay Correll from Lafayette finished third. Wiebe led the Fairfield women’s team to a first-place combined time by over 10 seconds. 

On Sunday, Abi Masillo from Lehigh had the fastest combined time of the day, achieving victory. Following by 0.19 seconds, Wiebe finished in second place. A few seconds behind, Sloane Goldberg from Columbia University finished in third. The Fairfield women’s team placed first. 

Eastern Conference

MacConnell Division 

The MacConnell Division hosted two slalom races Saturday and Sunday at Pats Peak in New Hampshire. These were the final division races for the 2024 season. 

Aksel Marinius Stroem-Hansen from the Vermont State University Castleton finished in first place with the two fastest times of the day. His teammate Lorezno Mencaccini followed closely by 0.31 seconds to

finish in second place. Ryan Beardsley from Babson University finished in third place. Beardsley led the Babson men’s team to a victory over the University of Connecticut. 

In Sunday’s race, Marin Vigneras from the University of Massachusetts had the fastest combined time. Trailing by 0.03 seconds, Beardsley placed second, and Raphael Fischer of VTSU Castleton finished in third. The VTSU Castleton men’s team took the team title in the final race of the conference season. 

In a slalom race on Saturday, the Babson women’s team swept the podium: Julia Wiacek achieved first, Morrison Travis in second, and Caroline Haaijer in third. The Babson team placed first over the UCONN team. 

On Sunday, the VTSU Castleton women’s team completed the podium sweep. Ginevra Trevisan finished first, leading her teammates Emilie Marie Stene in second and Petra Veljkovic in third. The women’s team placed first over UCONN in second place and Babson in third place. 

McBrine Division

The McBrine Division hosted its final two division races at Magic Mountain, Vermont. Both the men and women completed a slalom race on Saturday and a giant slalom race on Sunday. These were the final division races for the 2024 season. 

Eli Seaver of Wesleyan University led the men’s slalom field with the fastest combined time of the day. Chase Muller of Marist College finished just behind Seaver for second place, and Nicholas Vajtay of Marist finished in third. Muller and Vajtay led the Marist men’s team to victory over Wesleyan in the team times. 

Seaver had a successful weekend with his second victory on Sunday. He led the field by almost a full second ahead of Muller in second place and Brennan Chuang of the University of Rhode Island in third. Muller led the men’s team to another team title in giant slalom ahead of URI. 

Anna Erb of the University of Rhode Island led the women’s field in Saturday’s slalom race. Iris Boerman of the United States Coast Guard Academy trailed Erb by 0.09 seconds to finish in second place, and Alessandra Kim-Panero of Yale University finished in third. Kim-Panero led the Yale women’s team to a first-place finish in the team competition. 

In giant slalom, Erb finished first, and Boerman followed by 0.39 seconds to finish in second place. Ava Symons of Wesleyan finished in third place. The Marist women’s team had the fastest team combined time, led by Drew Taylor, who finished in fifth place.

Reynolds Division

The Reynolds Division hosted a slalom race on Saturday at Lost Valley in Maine and a slalom race at Titcomb Mountain on Sunday. These were the final division races for the 2024 season. 

William Strobeck of St. Joseph’s College of Maine finished first place in Saturday’s slalom race with the fastest combined time. His teammate Caleb Gorton closely followed to finish in second place, and Jack AbuHaidar of CSC finished in third. Strobeck and Gorton led the SJCM men’s team to the fastest team time, less than two seconds ahead of the University of Maine at Farmington. 

On Sunday, the University of Maine at Farmington swept the podium. Lake Lindelof led the field with the fastest combined time. Sam Roy finished in second place, and Jacob Roy finished in third place, which assisted in the men’s UMF team placing first in the team competition. 

Parker Crawford of CSC led the women’s field in Saturday’s race. Madelyn Zordan of St. Joseph’s College of Maine followed by 0.12 seconds to finish in second place. Hokulani Caroselli of the University of Maine at Farmington finished in third. Zordan led the SJCM women’s team to the fastest team combined time. 

On Sunday, Zordan found herself at the top of the podium after having the two fastest runs of the day. Elanore Robb of UMF finished second place, and Courtney Pingree of SJCM finished third. The SJCM women’s team had the fastest team time for the second day in a row, finishing 10 seconds ahead of UMF in second place. 

Midwest Conference

The races at Chestnut Mountain, including the Lake Superior and Chicago Division races, had to be canceled as a result of insufficient snowfall.

The Michigan and Ohio Divisions hosted five total races. On Saturday, the athletes competed in a slalom and giant slalom race at Otsego Club in Michigan. On Sunday, they competed in two slalom races and one giant slalom race at Snow Trails in Ohio. 

In Saturday’s slalom race at Otsego Club, the Michigan State University men’s team swept the podium. Aidan Lewandowski finished in first place, Nolan Walkerdine in second place, and Hunter Halstead achieved third. These three led the team to the fastest combined time of the day. 

In Sunday’s giant slalom race at Otsego Club, Wyatt Mattson from the University of Michigan finished first with the fastest combined time. Lewandowski trailed by 0.10 seconds to finish in second place, and Halstead trailed his teammate by 0.30 seconds to place third. A total of 0.40 seconds separated first and third place. 

Michigan State had the fastest team time of the day, leading the University of Michigan by 0.24 seconds.

Lauren Carlson of the University of Michigan finished in first place in Saturday’s slalom race. Her teammate, Kristen Gresla, finished in second place, and Remington Robel of Michigan State University finished in third place. Carlson led the University of Michigan women’s team to the fastest team time. 

On Sunday, the podium looked exactly the same. Carlson in first, Gresla in second, and Robel in third. The University of Michigan women’s team finished first in the team competition for the second consecutive day. 

Northwest Conference

The Northwest Conference hosted its last 2024 conference races, concluding with two slalom races on Saturday and Sunday at Summit at Snoqualmie in Washington. These were the final conference races for the 2024 season. 

On Saturday, the College of Idaho men’s team swept the podium. Carson Parco finished in first place with the fastest combined time of the day. William Paquette finished in second place, and Benjamin Troyer finished in third. The College of Idaho men’s team finished ahead of Oregon State University by 17 seconds combined.

Parco found himself at the top of the podium for the second day in a row, leading the field by 0.26 seconds. Demitri Panos of the University of Idaho finished in second place, and Paquette finished in third place. Parco led the College of Idaho men’s team to the fastest combined team time for the second consecutive day. 

The College of Idaho women’s team followed a similar lead, finishing with another podium sweep in Saturday’s race. Isabelle Gustafsson led the field by over three seconds with the two fastest runs of the day. Sasha Mueller finished in second place, and Caitlyn Bumpers finished in third. The College of Idaho women’s team had the fastest team time by over 38 seconds and had five finishers in the top 10. 

For the second day in a row, the College of Idaho swept the podium in Sunday’s race. Gustafsson led the field again, Taylor Watkins finished second place, and Bumpers finished third place. The College of Idaho women’s team finished first, ahead of the University of Washington by 39 seconds. 

Southeast Conference

The Southeast Conference hosted a giant slalom race on Saturday and a slalom race on Sunday. Both races were at Wintergreen in Virginia. 

Derin Berkin from Georgia Institute of Technology led the field in Saturday’s giant slalom race with the two fastest times. University of Virginia athletes Charlie Olsen and Thomas Johnson finished in second and third place. Olsen and Johnson led the UVA men’s team to the fastest combined time. 

Sunday’s slalom race included one total run. Berkin ended with the fastest one-run time by over two seconds. Jack Allison from UVA finished second place, and his teammate Tyler Jensen finished third. The UVA men’s team finished first in the team competition. 

Logan Lindstrom from the University of Virginia led the women’s field in Saturday’s giant slalom race. Megan Ryan from Georgetown University finished in second place, and Mia Lossius from Georgetown University finished in third place. Ryan and Lossius led the women’s team to the fastest time of the day, leading the University of Virginia by less than a second. 

In Sunday’s one-run slalom race, Lossius led the field ahead of Ryan in second place and Aimee Ramsey from James Madison University in third place. Ryan led the Georgetown women’s team to the fastest tram time for the second consecutive day. 

About USCSA 

USCSA is the sports federation for collegiate team ski and snowboard competitions in America. The organization believes that student-athletes of all levels and abilities should have access to quality and exciting venues for competition. Our athletes agree that our team orientation fosters a collaborative approach across their collegiate athletic and academic careers, and often, mentality proves indispensable in their adult lives and careers. USCSA includes over 175 institutions from coast to coast, fielding over 5,000 female and male alpine, freestyle, nordic, and snowboarding athletes participating in more than 300 events annually. 

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