{"id":794237,"date":"2019-03-27T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/in-banner-year-for-program-team-summit-qualifies-11-skiers-to-junior-nationals-for-moguls\/"},"modified":"2019-03-27T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T01:04:00","slug":"in-banner-year-for-program-team-summit-qualifies-11-skiers-to-junior-nationals-for-moguls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/in-banner-year-for-program-team-summit-qualifies-11-skiers-to-junior-nationals-for-moguls\/","title":{"rendered":"In banner year for program, Team Summit qualifies 11 skiers to junior nationals for moguls"},"content":{"rendered":"
Members of the Team Summit moguls program pose for a group photo earlier this season. The 2018-19 campaign was a banner one for the program, as 11 skiers qualified for junior nationals.<\/strong>
Courtesy Team Summit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A trip to Chile in late August set the tone for a season that will go down as one of the most successful for Team Summit\u2019s moguls program.<\/p>\n

In August, Team Summit moguls head coach Paul Walker coached four Team Summit athletes on the South American snow: 17-year-olds Chase Barros and Char Campbell and 14-year-olds Evelyn Harris and Collin Hassel. The trip was part of a prep camp for some of Team Summit\u2019s best moguls skiers. Seven months later, earlier this month that quartet and seven more Team Summit moguls skiers qualified and competed at the 2019 Freestyle Mogul Junior Championships at Snowbird Resort in Park City, Utah. At 11 skiers, it\u2019s more Team Summit skiers than have ever qualified in Walker\u2019s eight years with the program.<\/p>\n

Along with Barros, Campbell, Harris and Hassel, the other Team Summit moguls athletes who qualified for junior nationals included established, elite 18-year-olds in Max Duxbury and Tori Ware, 17-year-olds Magnus Crone and Lily Koren, 16-year-old Roxy Patnode and eighth-grade skiers Jackson True and Nicole Caves.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal coming into the season was for nine,\u201d Walker said of junior nationals qualifiers, \u201cand we far exceeded that expectation. We were really excited to see it and the kids were really excited because this is a good thing for the whole team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walker credited Team Summit\u2019s culture of positivity and hard work for the program\u2019s success this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s instilled into our older athletes who instill that into the younger athletes,\u201d Walker said. \u201cEveryone on the team is rooting for each other, and everyone is working to support everyone\u2019s goals. It\u2019s great. The kids work very hard, they are very disciplined, very goal oriented. If they set their mind to something, there\u2019s nothing they can\u2019t do. And I think they truly believe that.\u201d<\/p>\n

A pair of skiers who were not at the Chilean camp, Duxbury and Patnode, were actually at separate camps last August in Summit County. Duxbury was busy prepping to star for the Summit Tigers varsity football team in his senior season while Patnode trained with Coach Karl Barth\u2019s juggernaut state-championship girls rugby team. Walker said all of Duxbury\u2019s time spent with football and lacrosse helped to benefit his strength and conditioning heading into this season with Team Summit. Duxbury finished in 22nd this year at the single moguls competition at junior nationals, just outside of finals, after failing to land a run last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s one of the strongest skiers I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d Walker said. \u201cIn the weight room three to four days a week, he really takes care of his body. He has a mindset for athletics. Transitioning from football to skiing, I think it did nothing but help. He came in, had a really strong core. Very flexible and very strong, cardiovascular-wise, he was probably in the best shape of anyone on our team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walker also noted that Patnode\u2019s commitment to rugby didn\u2019t affect her moguls preparation, as the 16-year-old routinely attended the mogul team\u2019s summer sessions before rugby started.<\/p>\n

As for Ware, this season was her best yet. After a successful campaign on the North American Cup circuit, where she made finals at three Nor Am events, Ware podiumed twice at junior nationals, taking third in single moguls and second in dual moguls.<\/p>\n

The 2018-19 season was a bounceback campaign for Koren after last season when a torn ACL forced her out of a junior nationals competition she previously qualified for.<\/p>\n

\u201cA great kid with a great attitude,\u201d Walker said, \u201cshe put her mind to rehab and it paid off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walker also commended the youngsters True and Caves for their commitment to improving their skiing. He described them as \u201clike sponges\u201d when talking their penchant to soak up knowledge. True finished in third place in singles moguls within the U-15 age group division at junior nationals in Park City while Caves this year was named the Rocky Mountain rookie of the year.<\/p>\n

As for the team overall, Walker said each individual\u2019s commitment to year-round training led to the program\u2019s success this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey all significantly improved their jumping,\u201d Walker said. \u201cThat was a big goal of their\u2019s last summer and the end of last summer, to come into the season and jump at a higher level than they had been. And I definitely think they accomplished that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Members of the Team Summit moguls program pose for a group photo earlier this season. The 2018-19 campaign was a banner one for the program, as 11 skiers qualified for junior nationals.Courtesy Team Summit A trip to Chile in late August set the tone for a season that will go down as one of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 03:31:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}