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12.21.07

Mountain Creek Ski Racign

Author: Shannon McSweeney

The start of the Ski Racing season is here, and Mountain Creek has a full schedule of racing development and training programs, and competitions for this season.  Race gate training and competition have been relocated to Vernon Peak, and will take place on Zero G, Lower Eagle and Doe Run, with additional skills training across the entire resort.  Awards will be held right in the main Plaza, allowing everyone to celebrate our local athletes successes.

Friday and Saturday, December 28^th and 29^th will mark the official start to the Mountain Creek race season, with the Alumni Giant Slalom and Slalom, drawing competitors from across New Jersey and New York, as well as Burlington, Vermont and Boston.  Competition will be from 9:30am – 3pm on Zero G.  

Mountain Creek’s racing program has already celebrated its first major success of the season.  On Wednesday, December 19^th, the Mid Atlantic Regional Nastar Pacesetting Trials were held at Hunter Mountain.  There were 23 teams at this event.  Joe Scarpone, Steve Aspinall and Kevin Sensbach, representing Mountain Creek Racing, placed 2^nd only 6/100s of a point behind Hunter Mountain.  

The schedule for the upcoming season includes the ever-popular Wednesday night Adult Race league which is open to everyone and begins January 9^th; other highlights of this season’s schedule include (the full race schedule is available upon request):

December

28^th              Alumni Giant Slalom (J1, 2, 2^nd yr 3)

29^th              Alumni Slalom (J1, 2, 2^nd yr 3)

January

11^th              Steven Petro Memorial Giant Slalom

February

19^th              Chad Eyster Memorial Race

20^th              Western Prep Festival Race

21^st               Sussex County Inter-Scholastic Festival Race

22^nd              West Milford Giant Slalom Invitational

28^th              High School State Giant Slalom Championships

March

1^st                High School State Slalom Championships

For more information, please visit /lessonsandrentals/Racing/index.htm