{"id":2447693,"date":"2019-08-18T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/ott-geankoplis-win-bme-titles\/"},"modified":"2019-08-18T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T04:24:00","slug":"ott-geankoplis-win-big-mountain-enduro-titles-at-season-finale-in-snowmass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/ott-geankoplis-win-big-mountain-enduro-titles-at-season-finale-in-snowmass\/","title":{"rendered":"Ott, Geankoplis win Big Mountain Enduro titles at season finale in Snowmass"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.787134502924\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-311425-750\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/enduro-atd-081919-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/enduro-atd-081919.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Maddie Vincent\/The Aspen Times | Stefanie McDaniel showers Cooper Ott and Lia Westermann on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019, with champagne during the BME finals award ceremony in Snowmass Base Village. Lauren Bingham, right, placed fifth in the women's pro division for the whole BME race series, McDaniel placed third, Westermann placed second and Ott placed first. Zephyr Sylvester placed fourth overall but was not present at the awards ceremony.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"3\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"17\">\n<p><strong>Stefanie McDaniel showers Cooper Ott and Lia Westermann on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019, with champagne during the BME finals award ceremony in Snowmass Base Village. Lauren Bingham, right, placed fifth in the women&#8217;s pro division for the whole BME race series, McDaniel placed third, Westermann placed second and Ott placed first. Zephyr Sylvester placed fourth overall but was not present at the awards ceremony.<\/strong><br \/>Maddie Vincent\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/enduro-atd-081919.jpg\" alt=\"Stefanie McDaniel showers Cooper Ott and Lia Westermann on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019, with champagne during the BME finals award ceremony in Snowmass Base Village. Lauren Bingham, right, placed fifth in the women's pro division for the whole BME race series, McDaniel placed third, Westermann placed second and Ott placed first. Zephyr Sylvester placed fourth overall but was not present at the awards ceremony.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/enduro-atd-081919-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/enduro-atd-081919-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Maddie Vincent\/The Aspen Times | Tanner Spung, 1, rides her strider bike on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019, outside of The Collective building in Snowmass Base Village. While adults were taking on the BME Finals, toddlers like Spung were racing strider bikes.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"15\">\n<p><strong>Tanner Spung, 1, rides her strider bike on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019, outside of The Collective building in Snowmass Base Village. While adults were taking on the BME Finals, toddlers like Spung were racing strider bikes.<\/strong><br \/>Maddie Vincent\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/enduro-atd-081919-1.jpg\" alt=\"Tanner Spung, 1, rides her strider bike on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019, outside of The Collective building in Snowmass Base Village. While adults were taking on the BME Finals, toddlers like Spung were racing strider bikes.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/enduro-atd-081919-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/enduro-atd-081919-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Maddie Vincent\/The Aspen Times | Mountain bikers gather for the Big Mountain Enduro series on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019, in Snowmass Base Village.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>Mountain bikers gather for the Big Mountain Enduro series on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019, in Snowmass Base Village.<\/strong><br \/>Maddie Vincent\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/enduro-atd-081919-2.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain bikers gather for the Big Mountain Enduro series on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019, in Snowmass Base Village.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/ott-geankoplis-win-bme-titles\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/ott-geankoplis-win-bme-titles\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">The Big Mountain Enduro Aspen Snowmass races, and final BME competitions of the season, concluded Sunday after two days of racing in Snowmass and Aspen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cLet\u2019s give a big round of applause to all of the racers,\u201d a BME announcer said at the awards ceremony from Snowmass Base Village. \u201cI love this series. It\u2019s such a great community to be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Starting with the winners of the weekend races and ending with the overall champions of the summer-long BME series, which consists of five races across the western U.S., dozens of athletes stepped up to the podium Sunday evening to be recognized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Each BME race features courses with timed downhill stages coupled with non-timed traverses between the stages. The descent times are added up for an overall time and score for the series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Some of this year\u2019s standouts included Roaring Fork Valley locals Erik Obermeyer, winner of the weekend BME race in the amateur men\u2019s 21 to 39 division, and Megan Cerise, the weekend winner in the amateur women\u2019s 21 to 39 division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Both amateurs won all six stages of the weekend, which included riding on the Valhalla, Animal Crackers and Sam\u2019s Knobs trails on Saturday, along with the Powerline, Aspen Mountain and Banzai trails on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">At the pro level for both the weekend and overall enduro series, many of the same racers took to the podium, including Cooper Ott, 27, of Gunnison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">After being showered with champagne from her teammates and competitors, Ott acknowledged it was a privilege to take part in such tight racing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt was a great weekend and this definitely wasn\u2019t handed to me,\u201d Ott said. \u201cIt was hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Ott, who also won the overall women\u2019s pro title last season with a finish in Snowmass, won three of the five BME races this summer. She finished with 1,550 points to hold off runner-up Lia Westermann (1,420) and third-place finisher Stefanie McDaniel (1,340) for the season\u2019s crown. Ott and Westermann went 1-2 in the Snowmass stop, with each woman winning exactly half the stages. Ott took the Snowmass win by less than a second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Ott explained that she didn\u2019t \u201cseal the deal\u201d her first day of racing, putting the pressure on her second-half performance. Westermann won two of the three stages Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A big wreck Sunday during Stage 5 on Aspen Mountain made Ott rethink taking on the final stage of the race, but she came back to win both the weekend and the overall BME series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cGoing downhill is just as hard as going up,\u201d Ott said, laughing. \u201cIt was super fun to hit the descents in my sister hometown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">California\u2019s Evan Geankoplis held on to win the overall BME title for the pro men despite not competing this weekend. His 1,260 points held off season runner-up Scott Countryman (1,110) and third-place finisher Quinn Reece (1,100).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Carson Lange of Texas won the pro men\u2019s race in Snowmass to finish second in the overall season standings behind Geankoplis. Countryman was third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:mvincent@aspentimes.com\">mvincent@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/ott-geankoplis-win-bme-titles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefanie McDaniel showers Cooper Ott and Lia Westermann on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019, with champagne during the BME finals award ceremony in Snowmass Base Village. Lauren Bingham, right, placed fifth in the women&#8217;s pro division for the whole BME race series, McDaniel placed third, Westermann placed second and Ott placed first. 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