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Summit High School Alpine ski assistant coaches John McMurtry and Dylan Nicoletti heard the chatter among the 70-plus high school boys skiers, who were getting ready to race on a menacing 62-gate slalom course Thursday at Loveland Valley Ski Area.
It was a course McMurtry, a former U.S. Alpine Ski Team coach, said was “like a World Cup” with “really hard turns” where “you don’t feel good going down.”
“It seemed like the attitude up top was, ‘We’re cranking it out,’” Nicoletti said. “You’re not going to like it. It’s not going to feel good. But if you can crank it out back and forth, you have to be ready to fight all the way down.”