More News Alpine and Nordic

At Giants Ridge on Wednesday, the Southwest Girls Alpine Team took 3rd Place

• Molly Carolan 12th- All-state
• Annika Hager 16th- All-state
• Andrea Savage
• Mackenna Savage
• Ellie Kirkpatrick
• Eleanor Goodnow

Side notes of interest:

• Before the season Annika broke her back training and was not allowed to ski for most of the season.  It was only 1 month ago when she was cleared to start participating.  And only a few weeks ago she got to start racing.
• Molly tore her ACL at this same meet last year and was not allowed to train fully until after the season started.

 

Alpine Skier Morgan Shields breaks SW's record for State:
Senior Morgan Shields competed at Wednesday's Alpine Skiing State Finals at Giants Ridge in Biwabik and came back with a record. Morgan has participated in five straight Alpine State Championships-more than any other racer in Southwest's Alpine Skiing history. (Alpine skiing is a sport which allows racers to start competing in 7th and 8th grade.) In 2009 and 2010 Morgan competed as a part of Southwest's qualifying team...the last three years he qualified as an individual through a difficult sections elimination. While Morgan did not place this year, last year he did qualify for the "All State" honor.
Morgan was joined by junior Christian Hedrick who qualified for his first State Championship. Congratulations to both skiers for their accomplishment and to Morgan for being the most prolific Alpine State qualifier Southwest has ever had!

 

At Giants Ridge Thursday for Nordic Skiing

Nordic Boys:

·         Sam Sinkier took 20th, and all-state honors

·         Sam Shaheen 34th 

Nordic Girls:

·         Anna Ryden took 31st

·         Marie Michl 42nd

·         Daisy Richmond 46th

They all preformed great, and had the opportunity to participate and represent SW in the state meet and many of them will be back next year to try it again.