Table of Contents

• CEO Corner
• Academy Corner
• Alpine Corner
• Snowboard Corner
• Freestyle Corner
• Development & Communications Corner
• Upcoming Events and Competitions at Waterville Valley
   

CEO Corner-From the Desk of Peter Stokloza

• Many thanks to our coaches, faculty and staff for stepping up to continue to provide great programming for our athletes despite challenging snow conditions.  I also want to thank the mountain for continuing to provide our athletes with training venues and thank the parents for their ongoing support.
• In spite of difficult snow conditions, our athletes continue to perform well in competitions in difficult terrain.
• We look forward to a great rest of the season!

Pete

Academy Corner-From the Desk of Gary Benedix

• Enrollment is full with 71 students presently attending classes.  Inquiries for next year from potential new students have already started to come in and we have begun the process of setting up interviews for new applicants.
• Parent Teacher Night is this Friday from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM in the academic buildings on the Snows Mountain Campus.  This get-together is set up to give parents a chance to meet their child’s WVA teachers as well as other parents in the program.
• We will be celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday.  There will be no classes but students are to attend any scheduled training.
• Grades close on Friday the 19^th of January and report cards will be mailed out the middle of the next week.  The students that began their WVA program in January will not receive a report card at this time but will be receiving a progress report in each class.
• It is great to be back to classes after the Holiday break and a pleasure to have the additional new students who have just begun their program.  We will miss those who finished their programs in December and wish them well.

Alpine Corner-From the Desk of Tom Barbeau

• Last Saturday night I watched a Ladies’ World Cup Race from Slovenia and listened to the announcers talk about the water injected course and how difficult it was for the racers. So maybe it would be very nice to be skiing in the big Colorado mountains with the deep soft snow, but it would only make us soft. Because on Sunday I watched our J3/4/5’s on our own mini High Country glacier train on solid ice water injected courses and thought how this will make these athletes tough and excellent skiers. The last course of the day for the J3’s and 5’s was tightly set with 4 straight gates into 1 turn and 4 more straight gates. The racers were having troubles in the 1 turny gate and I was wondering why they weren’t up to par. I understood when I saw the trouble spot up close. There was a roll before the gate with blue ice on the back side, then 3 ruts, an early turn rut, a well placed rut and a late rut, then as they exited the gate there were some ripples and old cross ruts from the morning’s courses. Boy, was I impressed with our toughness and our great skiing. I don’t think we want this type of snow year every season, but we are making the best if it and it will pay off.

• J1/2’s RACE RESULTS:
  • NHARA Wildcat Slalom: Neil Hansen 7^th.
  • NHARA Cannon Women’s Slalom: Abby Fucigna 1^st and a 46 point result, Amy McLaughlin and Mandy Packard tied for 5^th.
  • NHARA Cannon Men’s Slalom: Drew Quinn 5^th, Nate Bryant 6^th and Neil Hansen 8^th
  • NHARA Wildcat Giant Slalom: Todd Thibodeau USST and BBTS alum 1^st, Nate Bryant 2^nd and Ethan Romagnoli 7^th.
  • FIS Sunday River Women’s Giant Slalom: Amy McLaughlin 9^th with a 56 point race.
  • FIS Sunday River Women’s Slalom: Erin Fucigna 19^th and a 57 point race.
  • FIS Sunday River Men’s Slalom: Kamden Burke 19^th and Nick Baker 20^th.

• J3/4/5’s RACE RESULTS:
  • NHARA - Waterville - Dan Cardillo - Giant Slalom:
    • J3 Men – Adam Dropkin 1^st, Garrett Quimby 3^rd, Thomas Joy 6^th, Ian Harris 8^th and Zach Ziolkowski 9^th
    • J4 Men – Mike Sampson 1^st, Mike Bancroft 2^nd, Chase Ennis 3^rd, Peter French 4^th, Alexander Katz 5^th and Henry Tomlinson 7^th
    • J5 Men – Daniel Lannan 2^nd, Clark Macomber 4^th, Andrew McCrossan 6^th, Max Lash 7^th, Ryan Schmidt 9^th and John Moore 10^th
    • J3 Women – Nika Mosenthal 1^st, Kerry Daigle 2^nd, Jamie Crane-Mauzy 4^th, Kali St. Laurent 5^th, Chelsea Stevens 7^th, Amanda Englehardt 9^th and Shannon Quinn 10^th
    • J4 Women – Annie D’Elia 1^st, Eliza Cowie 2^nd, Alice Anastasia 3^rd, Macaela Wright 4^th, Grace Glennon 7^th and Jamie Lynne McBournie 10^th
    • J5 Women – Elena Tomlinson 2^nd, Jeanee Crane-Mauzy 3^rd, Teagan Mosenthal 8^th and Nicola Katz 10^th
  • NHARA - Bretton Woods – John Minahan Memorial – Giant Slalom:
    • J4 Men – Mike Sampson 1^st
    • J4 Women – Lindsay Todaro 2^nd
    • J3 Women – Jordan McSherry 2^nd
  • Congratulations to Kali St. Laurent for coming in 1^st place in the Krantz Open GS at Pat’s Peak.

• NOTE: Please discuss this with your children. The Mountain management has asked us to make sure we slow down through all the SLOW SKIING ZONES on the mountain. Also, at the J-bar they have asked that we don’t cut lines, nor do we get on the lift anywhere but at the bottom loading area, nor do we ski in any of the Ski School’s brush courses. The coaches have mentioned these points to all the athletes, but please reinforce them with your children. We don’t want our racers to lose their passes and we don’t want to lose our training space on the mountain. Thanks.

Tom Barbeau

WVBBTS Athletic Director

Snowboard Corner-From the Desk of Sam Harding

• The talk of the Northeast continues to be the unusually warm weather that has persistently blanketed the White Mountains. The odd weather has been the cause of many cancelled competitions, difficult training conditions, and the dampening of spirits among winter sports enthusiasts. However, despite the conditions, the WVBBTS Snowboard team continues to thrive, and push forward. The Mountain, and our coaching staff have put forth extra efforts to provide challenging training facilities for our riders, and have done whatever they can to make the most of the prevailing conditions.

• The efforts put forth by our coaching staff paid off as our athletes performed very well in Saturday’s Slope Style competition at Loon Mountain. Our male and female riders placed very well in their age groups, taking home most of the top 5 spots in each division. Exact results can be found here on the USASA website: http://www.usasa.org/series/newhampshire/files/R17_SS142_18.html .  Congrats to those who won their division, we tip our hats to you, and we’d like to congratulate everyone else who competed for their efforts, and great sportsmanship while at the competition. We are very proud of all our athletes, and look forward to next week’s Slope Style at Cranmore.

• And so I conclude with a big thanks to all the BBTS parents for being very patient, and supportive of our staff, and our teams during these warm weather times. Your optimism, and good nature have truly helped us along.

Happy New Year to all, and to all a very snowy January-February-March.

With Best Regards,

Sam Harding

Snowboard Program Director

Freestyle Corner-From the Desk of Nick Preston

• The US Selections events were held in Park City, December 18-22. World Cup starts and FIS Nor-Am invitations are determined by this event.  Three WVBBTS freestyle alumni and ten WVBBTS current freestyle athletes competed with the following results.

• Deer Valley and Lake Placid World Cup Starts for WVBBTS alumni:
  • Kayla Snyderman, US Ski Team : 2^nd place overall in moguls
  • Tim Preston, US Ski Team, 5^th place overall in moguls
  • Dylan Ferguson (named to the US Aerial Ski Team)

• Nor-Am Selected Skiers:
  • Sophia Schwartz: 4^th  US Skier overall in moguls
  • Allie Lee, 4^th US Skier overall in aerials
  • Reed Snyderman, moguls and dual moguls
  • Hans Gardner, aerials
  • PJ Beauregard, aerials
  • Alissa Pinkoski, aerials and dual moguls
  • Paul Sullivan, aerials
  • Andrew Hathaway, aerials
  • Alicia Cavanaugh, aerials
  • Billy Edwards, aerials

• Congratulations to the outstanding performances of the Waterville US Selections athletes.

• In other news, the weather has changed our Eastern A and B competition schedule. Please stay in touch with your emails from WVBBTS Freestyle for this important information. Present cancellations  awaiting rescheduling are:
  • Preston Cup B Meet Jan 6-7 (tentatively rescheduled for March 3-4)
  • Stratton A Moguls Jan. 6-7: not rescheduled as yet
  • Rosemary Bowl Jan 19-21: cancelled, no make up scheduled yet
  • Japril Cup Feb 2: cancelled, no make up date yet

• Please stay alert to new dates for these meets.

See you this weekend,

Nick Preston

From Dan Shuffleton

• The WVBBTS Freeriders went to Attitash for the Bud Light Rail Jam on Sunday (12/31) and cleaned up! Skiers and snowboarders competed against each other for cash prizes ranging from $1,000 to $100. Our skiers dominated the field completely and 3 of the top five finishers were WVBBTS’ freeriders carrying home a grand total of $750!
  • 2nd Place: PJ Beauregard - $500 prize
  • 4th Place: Tyler Thistle - $150 prize
  • 5th Place: Andrew Hathaway - $100 prize
• WVBBTS Team A won the no bib jib again this weekend at Sunday River and moving up the list is WVBBTS Team B to fourth place.

Development & Communications Corner-From the Desk of Sharon Schmidt

• BBTS Membership Directory-If you have not yet picked up your WVBBTS membership directory we will be handing them out on Saturday, January 13 and Sunday, January 14 in the WVBBTS Competition Center in Sharon Charron’s office.  It contains all sorts of useful information about the club and academy and our ad sponsors along with detailed contact information for Club and Academy members.
• Annual Giving Campaign-Parent volunteers are gearing up for another Annual Giving Campaign telethon as we aim for 100% participation in the WVBBTS Annual Giving Campaign.  If you have not yet had an opportunity to make your Annual Giving Campaign contribution for this season please consider doing so in the next week or two in an effort to reduce the amount of phone calls our parent volunteers need to make at the next telethon.
  • Please click here for details of how Annual Giving Campaign proceeds are being used this season to benefit our athletes http://www.wvbbts.org/proceeds_2006.html .  If you did not receive an Annual Giving Campaign card in the mail, please click here for a copy http://www.wvbbts.org/donate_card.pdf.
  • If you are interested in volunteering to make solicitation calls at the next telethon please contact me at 603-236-4612 or via e-mail at sschmidt@wvbbts.org.  These telethons are a fun way to get to know fellow parents while helping out all of our athletes this season.

Upcoming Events and Competitions in Waterville Valley

·        Friday, January 12

o       WVA - Parent Teacher Night – 7:00PM – 9:00 pm at the Snow’s Mountain Campus

·        Saturday, January 13

o       Snowboard Competition – Slopestyle – Volcom PB & Rail Jam – at WV

• Monday, January 15
  • Athlete Training
    • Freestyle Training-10:00 am-noon; 1:00 pm -3:00 pm
    • Snowboard Training-8:45 am stretch; 9:00 am start on snow
    • Alpine Training-J1-J5-8:15 am start
    • Alpine Training-Masters-8:00 am-8:30 am free ski; 8:30 am meet the coaches at the base of the Quad
    • Alpine Training-Mitey Mites-9:15 am start
  • WVA – Martin Luther King Day – NO CLASSES BUT THERE IS TRAINING ALL DAY-See above schedule

·        Saturday, January 20

o       Competition – WV Little Slammer-Ski

·        Sunday, January 21

o       Snowboard Competition – WV Little Slammer-Snowboard

·        Wednesday-Friday, February 21-23 & February 28-March 2

o       WVBBTS Snowboard Camp – Please invite friends and family to take part in the three day WVBBTS Snowboard Camp  during MA or NH School Vacation weeks.  This is a great opportunity for them to check out the WVBBTS Snowboard Program.

·        For more info and application go to: http://www.wvbbts.org/sb_camps.html .

·        Sunday, March 4

o       First Inaugural WVBBTS New Hampshire Open - Rail Jam – hosted by the WVBBTS Snowboard Team

·        Preregistration – starts February 4^th at www.snowboardwaterville.com .  Discount registration for Snowboard Team Members.

·        Prizes and Sponsorships TBA.