Holiday Break Update

After a few days off for the Holiday's, we returned to training on Tuesday afternoon starting up a SL block.  The athletes have been working hard over the last 3 days and are ready for the Cochran's Holiday Night SL tomorrow!  For many of our athletes, this will be their first start of the season.  Having coached J3's the last couple of years, we always started our season off at Cochran's.  It is such a great place to begin your season with the easy to moderate terrain.  Athletes are able to continue with their focus from training without having to worry about skiing an aggressive pitch.  Everyone should be fired up for tomorrow as we have had a great block of SL and despite the weather, we have had a solid start to the season in terms of development.  On top of that, Cochran's is a sweet place to race!

I do have a set of competition results to report from yesterday's jump rope contest.  We had three athletes jumping at once for a 1 minute time period.  All athletes were given two opportunities to set a personal best for seeding purposes and then the top 7 were put into a single bracket elimination.  The athlete champion then moved on to face 1991 World Jump Rope Champion (8 - 10 yrs old) Erin Mascolino.  We saw many personal best records shattered, even in the bracket tournament!

Athlete Podium

Courtney Hayden - Gold Medalist

Hayley Armbruster - Silver Medalist

Kelsey Chenoweth - Bronze Medalist

World Champion Showdown

Erin Mascolino (new MMSC record 199) defeats Courtney Hayden

Athlete Records

Courtney Hayden - 188

Hayley Armbruster - 174

Kelsey Chenoweth - 172

Molly Danzig - 163

Alita Rogers - 156

Caroline Armbruster - 151

Michelle Connacher - 143

Denali Balser - 134

Emma Sahn - 132

Lucy Merriam - 112

Linley Shaw 110

Colleen Cataldo - 106

Sarah Reilly - 106

Sophie Leiter - 105

Sloane Ross - 94

We are ready for Cochran's tomorrow, I know you will all represent MMSC well!