Afton Pictures - Maine - Here we come!

Well, we have all of the travel prep done for Maine and we'll be going out the 5th-12th of March. It's going to be a group of 17 of us, so not quite as many as last time, but that will be easier to manage, since we have 2 12 passenger vans to get us from Boston to Sugarloaf (all other options were VERY expensive).

James' mom was nice enough to take a TON of photos from the Afton race. You can view them at:

http://www.umdskiteam.com/photo.htm

Nationals --- Wahooo!

Well, it happened again at Marquette this year... Our girls just rocked and had 2 very solid, very good days and finished 2nd in both Slalom and GS, to earn one of the top 3 spots to qualify for Nationals.

Our guys on the other hand, had to make it interesting, with a tie for 3rd overall, with the UofM and then eeked out, ahead in the tie breaker, with 2 less Place Points, than the U.

Great job, to everyone!!!

Now comes the fun part of trying to determine how to make this all work with schedules, finances and all of that fun sort of stuff.

AR

It's been a while

Well, I know it's been a while since my last post, but it's been a busy season. We've had some great finishes and we are leading into our big event this weekend at Marquette, which is our Regional event.

This is where the top 3 teams from the Midwest will qualify for Nationals in early March. We are getting excited and hopefully our teams will be in those 3 that qualify.

Last weekend was Divisionals and our guys were 4th (right where we wanted to be at that race) and our Women took FIRST, after a crazy 4-way tie for first place for the overall weekend's results. We won the tiebreaker, but it just goes to show how tight this race will be at Marquette.

Hopefully we will survive the cold and wind at Marquette!!!