{"id":802511,"date":"2019-12-20T18:21:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T01:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=376262"},"modified":"2019-12-20T18:21:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T01:21:27","slug":"team-summit-skier-wins-world-pro-tour-junior-parallel-slalom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/team-summit-skier-wins-world-pro-tour-junior-parallel-slalom\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Summit skier wins World Pro Tour Junior parallel slalom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stella Buchheister poses for a photo after winning the girls 12-13 parallel slalom competition at the World Pro Tour Junior races in Vail this past weekend.<\/strong>
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FRISCO \u2014 Before relocating with her family to Whistler, British Columbia, accomplished youth skier Stella Buchheister won her final competition representing Team Summit at this past weekend\u2019s World Pro Tour Junior event at Vail Mountain.<\/p>\n

Buchheister advanced through the single-elimination knockout rounds in the parallel slalom competition to win the overall championship. It was a great way to start the season for Buchheister a year after she found success locally and at the International Children\u2019s Games in Lake Placid last January.<\/p>\n

Despite racing in tough visibility with snowy conditions Dec. 14 at Vail, Buchheister focused on her singular races one at a time. The parallel slalom set up consisted of 26 gates on a pair of courses side by side.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing into the day, I was really hoping to win,\u201d the 13-year-old Buchheister said. \u201cI felt I had the ability to do it. When I think about a previous race\u2019s results, or what I could get, I just kind of freeze up. So I decided instead of thinking about winning and how I wanted to win, think about skiing each race like I wanted to win it \u2014 skiing my very best.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think that\u2019s what helped me the most. Just not really focusing as much on what I thought my result was going to be but more on skiing it like I wanted that result.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said the level of competition at the race was high.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I think that was a good challenge,\u201d Buchheister said. \u201cThe highest races, it\u2019s really fun to have that big competition. You have to really go for it when you have that kind of competitiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buchheister said she particularly likes to race in the head-to-head parallel slalom format because she doesn\u2019t get to do it as much.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s more adrenaline when racing head-to-head because someone is right next to you pushing you, making you go faster,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead, Buchheister said she hopes to one day compete in the World Cup or Olympics in the more common giant slalom, Super G and slalom disciplines. As for whether she\u2019d represent the U.S. or Canada, considering she\u2019s moving to Whistler and racing for the Whistler Mountain Ski Club, she said she\u2019d hope to race for the red, white and blue. The wild card, though, is Slovenia, as that\u2019s where her mother hails from.<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely aim to make it to the World Cup or the Olympics,\u201d Buchheister said. \u201cAnd I also would like to ski for college, too. Those two would be really cool experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Stella Buchheister poses for a photo after winning the girls 12-13 parallel slalom competition at the World Pro Tour Junior races in Vail this past weekend.Courtesy Team Summit FRISCO \u2014 Before relocating with her family to Whistler, British Columbia, accomplished youth skier Stella Buchheister won her final competition representing Team Summit at this past weekend\u2019s […]<\/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-802511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-30 00:49:26","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\/802511","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=802511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}