Snow pounded down during the second run of the women’s GS
and the visibility was low enough for race director Igor Vanovac to put the
race on hold after 25 racers. It was about 45 minutes until the top racers from
the first run skied the course and during the hold plenty of snow had
accumulated on the track.
Caroline Bartlett pulled away from the day winning her
second GS race of the season. Bartlett won the season opening GS and failed to
finish the second run of the UNH carnival on January 28. She sat in fifth after
the first run and she was flagged down while skiing her second run just before
the race was put on hold.
Bartlett won the second run by 0.63 seconds to take the lead
with an overall time of 2:21.62. Anna Willassen of St. Michaels College came in
second 0.76 seconds behind and Dartmouth’s Audrey O’Brien skied into third in
her first carnival start ever, 0.81 seconds back.
Despite missing two of their top skiers, the Dartmouth women
took the won for the women with 107 points, followed by St. Michaels College
with 100 points and Middlebury College came in third with 97 points.
The men’s rave was not affected by the snowstorm but the course
still provided enough of a challenge as the three fastest skiers from the first
run failed to finish the second run, the top two of them, Colin Hayes and
Robert Cone ski for Middlebury.
The University of Vermont’s Gabriel Coulet won his teams home
GS with a time of 2:16.61. Middlebury’s Devon Cardamone skied into second; 0.08
seconds back and Dartmouth’s Thomas Woolson finished third, 0.12 seconds back.
Coulet said that he does not consider himself to be a GS
skier, and his best result prior to winning on Friday was in 2014 when he came
in ninth at the Bates Carnival in Sunday River.
The University of Vermont skied without William St. Germain,
Max Roeisland and Sandy Veitze, but they still managed to win the men’s GS with
116 points. Dartmouth, missing crucial skiers of its own, Tanguy Nef and Brian
McLaughlin placed second with 104 points and St. Michaels College finished
third with 89 points.
The Dartmouth women’s team dominated the slalom on Saturday,
taking four of the top five spots. Alexa Dlouhy won the event with a time of
1:55.30. Mardene Haskell from Colby College place second 1.32 seconds behind
and Kelly Moore from Dartmouth came in third, 1.85 seconds back.
Dlouhy said that her slalom is where it should be right now but
right now. She said she is trying to ski more aggressively at the top of the
turn, and she is usually able to watch some of the other top slalom skiers on
the circuit in order to improve. Unfortunately many of the top athletes
traveled to Colorado to compete in a NorAm Series.
Dartmouth’s Tomas Woolson won the men’s race, putting St.
Michael’s College Athlete Guilaume Grand into second for the third time this
season. Woolson had a combined time of 1:54.70, 0.38 seconds ahead of Grand.
The University of New Hampshire’s Chris Steinke finished third, 1.59 seconds
back.
Woolson said that consistency has been important for
Dartmouth and it shows both individually and as a team as Dartmouth has taken
first place in over half of this year’s races. Woolson said that even though
they were missing athletes there was no added pressure. “Every week the goal is
to win the carnival, so there wasn’t more pressure but it shifted a bit,” to
the other athletes on the team, he said.
Dartmouth also won the overall even with 923 points. The
University of New Hampshire placed second with 728 points and the University of
Vermont finished third with 696 points.
