{"id":807204,"date":"2020-05-07T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=382848"},"modified":"2020-05-07T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T16:15:00","slug":"team-summit-announces-gene-gillis-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/team-summit-announces-gene-gillis-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Summit announces Gene Gillis award winners"},"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 in February 2020. Snyder’s win spearheaded a dominant slalom title performance by the Tigers girls.<\/strong>
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The Team Summit youth sports club announced the three winners of this year\u2019s Gene Gillis Award, which recognizes outstanding athletic achievement in three disciplines: Alpine skiing, freeskiing and snowboarding.<\/p>\n

The Alpine winner is Olyvia Snyder<\/a>, the freeski winner is Jackson True<\/a> and the snowboard winner is Alex Strachan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Gillis Award is named in honor of Summit County legend and Peak Performers nominee Gene Gillis<\/a>, an Olympian and a founder of the Copper Mountain Race Team in the 1970s before he helped start the Summit Race Team in 1980, providing full-time Alpine ski training for the first time in Summit County.<\/p>\n

Snyder, who was nominated along with Michael Cheek and Maiween Marzin, qualified for the junior national championship as a first-year U-19 racer and won the Colorado state high school ski championship in slalom.<\/p>\n

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