{"id":804744,"date":"2020-02-28T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=379754"},"modified":"2020-02-28T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T03:30:00","slug":"summit-high-girls-win-slalom-title-at-colorado-state-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-high-girls-win-slalom-title-at-colorado-state-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit High girls win slalom title at Colorado state championship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Summit High School sophomore Olyvia Snyder skis her way to a state championship in the Colorado High School Ski League slalom competition at Beaver Creek Resort on Friday. Snyder’s win spearheaded a dominant slalom title performance by the Tigers girls.<\/strong>
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FRISCO \u2014 What a Friday for the Summit High School Alpine skiing program.<\/p>\n

After local top club skiers \u2014 including sophomore Olyvia Snyder \u2014 opted to ski at this year\u2019s Colorado High School Ski League state championship rather than rest up before and after major club competitions, the Tiger girls dominated at Beaver Creek Friday. On a fast slalom course under pristine clear-sky conditions, Summit\u2019s girls took home five top-15 places, racing to first-, sixth-, seventh-, 11th- and 14th-place finishes and winning the state championship slalom competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur girls are awesome,\u201d head coach Karl Barth said. \u201c\u2026Way back in the early 2000s we had a group that was kind of like this group \u2014 bunch of young kids that came up and stamped their mark for a bit. This reminds me of that team.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Tigers were paced on Friday by Snyder, who chose to race with her high school teammates and friends on Friday after racing back and recovering from a 15th-place finish for Team Summit on Thursday at the International Ski Federation slalom competition at Snowbird Ski Resort in Utah.<\/p>\n

All season long the accomplished Team Summit skier struggled to put down two full slalom runs in her high school races, unable to officially qualify for states until two weeks ago when she won the Loveland Valley slalom competition. Snyder followed that up on Friday with a first run time of 40.26 seconds and a blazing second run time of 41.86 to post a combined official time of 1:22.12. Her time was nearly a half-second faster than runner-up Berit Frischholz (1:22.61), a senior racing on her home hill at Beaver Creek.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe had an awesome second run,\u201d Barth said of Snyder. \u201cBut for her and the older girls, probably the team victory meant just as much if not more. They were having a lot of fun at the bottom. And I think a lot of the girls have struggled to put together two good runs consistently this season. Olyvia skied four slaloms this year, won two and didn\u2019t finish the other two. Camille (Thompson) hadn\u2019t put together two runs all year, and today she decided would be a good day to do it. Jenna (Sheldon) is skiing on a bad wheel and took third on her second run, which was awesome, to move up to sixth. It was definitely a group effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

After mastering the Beaver Creek slalom course \u2014 which Barth said had great visibility over the pitch and a good, hard underfoot \u2014 Snyder was joined in the state slalom championship top-10 by the fellow Summit sophomore speedster Sheldon (sixth place, 41.83, 42.34, 1:24.17) and junior Thompson (seventh place, 41.58, 43.02, 1:24.60). Those three top times earned the Tigers their 169 total team points to run away with the slalom competition, over runner-up Aspen (157).<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t stop at seventh place for the Tigers. Sophomore Paige Petersen raced to 11th place with a total combined time of 1:25.52 while senior Abby Schierholz\u2019s time of 1:27.74 earned her 14th place. In a sign of Summit\u2019s depth on Friday, no other school had more than two skiers finish in the top 15 while Summit had five.<\/p>\n

With their slalom results, combined with their giant slalom showing from the day prior, Summit was the second-best girls team in the overall Alpine ski competition at state, finishing not too far behind Aspen. In giant slalom, Summit finished in third place \u2014 just a point behind runner-up Evergreen \u2014 powered by a trio of top-15 finishes. Petersen led the way, her combined time of 2:18.80 earning her ninth place. That earned the team 53 points which combined with 51 points from Thompson (2:20.15) and 49 points from Schierholz (2:20.96) for Summit\u2019s total of 153.<\/p>\n

As for the Tiger boys, Summit freshman Michael Cheek raced to the best individual finish of any Summit skier on Thursday, with his sixth-place time of 2:15.08. Cheek contributed 55 points for the boys team in the giant slalom competition with that run, which combined with 39 points from sophomore Gavin Masters (36th place, 2:24.49) and 33 points from River Mentch (63rd place, 2:32.165) to give the boys a seventh-place showing out of 13 teams.<\/p>\n

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