{"id":2455184,"date":"2020-02-28T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T05:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/seeing-double-aspen-high-school-ski-teams-sweep-state-championsips-behind-weiss-siblings\/"},"modified":"2020-02-28T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T05:56:00","slug":"seeing-double-aspen-high-school-ski-teams-sweep-state-championsips-behind-weiss-siblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/seeing-double-aspen-high-school-ski-teams-sweep-state-championsips-behind-weiss-siblings\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing double: Aspen High School ski teams sweep state championsips behind Weiss siblings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aspen’s Lauren Haerter competes in the girls giant slalom at the state skiing championships on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, at Beaver Creek. (Photo by Rex Keep Photography)<\/strong>
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Some of the spectators might have thought they were seeing double, and they were. The Weiss siblings stole the show for the Aspen High School ski teams at the state championships Thursday and Friday, sweeping the Nordic races to lead AHS to a sweep of the team titles for the second time in three years.<\/p>\n

The Alpine events were held at Beaver Creek, while Maloit Park in Minturn hosted the Nordic races.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty awesome,\u201d AHS Nordic coach Travis Moore said. \u201cThey just dominated. They both had just awesome days. I don\u2019t know what got into them, but today and yesterday were their days. They were super motivated and skied excellently. Nothing could stop them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Aspen boys finished the two day combined Alpine-Nordic event with 667 points for their third straight state championship. Battle Mountain finished second with 620 points and Middle Park third with 579 points. AHS and Battle Mountain tied with 161 points each in Thursday\u2019s giant slalom, while the Skiers had a slight edge (163-150) in Thursday\u2019s classic race.<\/p>\n

But Friday belonged to the Aspen boys, as they dominated both the slalom and skate races.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a real team effort. I thought we all did well. The first GS day was a little bit rough, but it came together in the slalom,\u201d AHS junior Alpine specialist Charlie Olsen said. \u201cThere was definitely some pressure coming into the second slalom day to keep the three-peat alive. And we came together really well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Olsen won Friday\u2019s slalom, edging out Battle Mountain\u2019s Will Bettenhausen and Durango\u2019s Toby Scarpella. In fourth was Aspen\u2019s Davis Colon and in fifth Aspen\u2019s James Kelly. Scarpella won Thursday\u2019s GS, with Vail Mountain\u2019s Cole Pattison taking second and Olsen third.<\/p>\n

AHS sophomore Anders Weiss owned the boys cross-country races, winning both Thursday\u2019s classic and Friday\u2019s skate. AHS junior Taiga Moore, son of coach Travis Moore, came in second in both races.<\/p>\n

While Anders dominated on the boys side, his sister, AHS freshman Elsie Weiss, won both Nordic races on the girls\u2019 side for the sibling sweep.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe both just had really, really good days,\u201d said Anders Weiss, who won his first races of the season at state. \u201cI\u2019ve been sick for a lot of the season and I\u2019m just getting over it now. Now I\u2019m starting to perform better.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Aspen girls finished with 674 points as a team, outdistancing runner-up Battle Mountain (607.5) and third-place finisher Summit (561) by a good margin. The Skiers scored the most points in the GS and both Nordic events, while only Summit did better than them in the slalom.<\/p>\n

The AHS girls were particularly impressive in the Nordic skate race, with four finishing in the top five. Led by Elsie Weiss\u2019 victory, Emma Barsness was third, Elizabeth Barnsess fourth and Jordan Miner fifth. Colorado Rocky Mountain School\u2019s Lola Villafranco was second for a Roaring Fork Valley sweep.<\/p>\n

The highlight for the AHS girls Alpine team came from freshman Samantha Edelman, who won Thursday\u2019s giant slalom. Stella Sherlock was the top AHS finisher in Friday\u2019s slalom, taking third.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year I think we were working together a lot better, so I think we were ready,\u201d sophomore Emma Barsness said. \u201cI\u2019m so excited. I was holding the trophy on the bus just to keep me warm. It was so great.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the second state title in three years for the Aspen girls, who finished as state runner-up in 2019. It was the ninth state championship in skiing for the AHS girls, second most all-time to Summit\u2019s 21 (they last won in 2015). For the AHS boys, it was their 10th championship in program history, putting them into second place all-time ahead of Durango, which has nine. Summit\u2019s 18 also leads the boys\u2019 side (they last won in 2013).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we are thinking about takeaways, it was all about the team these last two days. Our unity and our spirit and all of our athletes were on point \u2014 we are so proud of them,\u201d AHS Alpine coach Jennifer Morandi-Benson said. \u201cThey just care about how each other did, and that\u2019s rare in a sport that emphasizes individual times. So we were just blown away by the team aspect.\u201d<\/p>\n

acolbert@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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