{"id":804228,"date":"2020-02-15T19:31:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T02:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=379043"},"modified":"2020-02-15T19:31:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T02:31:50","slug":"snyders-slalom-victory-leads-summit-high-girls-alpine-to-third-at-loveland-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/snyders-slalom-victory-leads-summit-high-girls-alpine-to-third-at-loveland-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Snyder\u2019s slalom victory leads Summit High girls Alpine to third at Loveland Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"
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River Mentch competes for Summit High in the Loveland Valley slalom race on Friday, Feb. 14.<\/strong>
Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

LOVELAND SKI AREA \u2014 Olyvia Snyder had no choice but to send it \u201cfull beans,\u201d as the Summit High School Alpine ski teams says, at Loveland Valley on Friday.<\/p>\n

As of Friday morning, Snyder \u2014 an accomplished club skier \u2014 had yet to qualify to the Colorado High School state meet due to DNFs (did not finish) at high school meets earlier this season. As a result, at the final slalom event of the high school season at Loveland Friday, Snyder needed to cross the finish line without a hiccup to find her way back to the state slalom competitions where she finished fifth last season in Durango.<\/p>\n

Snyder skied fast and clean when it counted Friday, winning the girls competition in a field of 96 skiers at Friday\u2019s Loveland Valley meet to earn her way to the state meet at Beaver Creek at the end of the month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI gave it full beans the whole way and made it down,\u201d Snyder said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFull beans?\u201d It\u2019s a fun-loving phrase brought to the team by senior boys team skier River Mentch, who is one of the energetic, vocal leaders of this year\u2019s Tiger bunch. Friday\u2019s bluebird conditions on what Snyder described as soft, crumbly snow on the Loveland groomer \u2014 which goes from a wide-open start to turns on a steeper pitch \u2014 were ideal to go \u201cfull beans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of space to make your turns,\u201d Snyder said of the slalom course on the Twist intermediate run at Loveland Valley, \u201cso you can really let your skis loose and go fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

Snyder combined a first-run time of 47.16 seconds with a second-run time of 49.44 for a winning total time of 1:36.60 \u2014 more than two seconds faster than runner-up Jenna Blatchford of Evergreen.<\/p>\n

The Tiger girls received top-10 times from junior Olivia Westall (54.63, 53.50, 1:48.13) and sophomore Victoria Uglyar (53.52, 55.29, 1:48.81), who finished ninth and 10th, respectively. Westall earned the team 52 points and Uglyar earned the Tigers 51 points to pair with Snyder\u2019s 60 points for a team total of 163 \u2014 just one point behind meet co-winners Evergreen and Steamboat Springs.<\/p>\n

The Tigers\u2019 other top finishers at Loveland on Friday were junior Sophia Henry (22nd, 58.64, 1:01.62, 2:00.26), senior Cydney Hurlbert (27th, 58.62, 1:05.01), 2:03.63) and senior Breanna Roach (39th, 1:06.40, 1:08.51, 2:14.91).<\/p>\n

For the boys team, Landon Cunningham \u2014 a freshman who formerly skied moguls and aerials for Ski Club Vail \u2014 has been a surprise standout for Summit in his first year competitively ski racing. On Friday, Cunningham was the second-fastest boys skier for the Tigers, finishing 15th with a total time of 2:00.83 (1:00.42, 1:00.41) on the Loveland Valley course.<\/p>\n

Members of the boys and girls team praised Cunningham for his skiing Friday a season after he \u201cretired,\u201d as he said, from moguls due to a serious injury.<\/p>\n

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Breanna Roach competes for Summit High in the Loveland Valley slalom race on Friday, Feb. 14.<\/strong>
Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cAs I kept skiing this season,\u201d Cunningham said, \u201cI kept understanding and I got to the point where everything really clicked for me and then I was able to improve much faster. Just understanding how racing works \u2014 delays and flushes and things like that. I\u2019d never heard of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, I mostly focused on finishing,\u201d Cunningham added, \u201cbecause I saw a lot of people DNF-ed and fell during the run today. I figured if I can at least finish, it\u2019ll set me up for my second run and potentially be able to do better and help the team out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cunningham\u2019s 49 points for the team combined with Mentch\u2019s 22nd-place finish and 47 points (1:07.48, 58.84, 2:06.32). The Tigers also got 56 points from their fastest male skier on the day, Gavin Masters. Masters (53.53, 53.21) finished in fifth place with a combined time of 1:46.74 that included the third-fastest time of any of the 72 boys skiers on the day on his second run.<\/p>\n

\u201cGavin has a positive attitude toward skiing,\u201d Cunningham said. \u201cHe really enjoys skiing both for fun and as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n

With their 152 points, the Summit boys finished fourth Friday, behind Aspen (177), Steamboat Springs (159), and Durango (153).<\/p>\n

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