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Photo by Chris Wellhausen Photo from Evelyn Harris Photo from Teddy Goggin Photo by Josh Underwood Photo by Chris Wellhausen Team Summit Park & Pipe Director Teddy Goggin thinks the novel coronavirus restrictions on sports have left athletes hungrier to take advantage of the opportunities they are given. Goggin and Team Summit Executive Director CB Bechtel have seen that approach and positive attitude manifest across the organization’s teams and athletes, and specifically in the freeskiers an...

Photo from Jaime Brede The inaugural ski mountaineering season for Team Summit and head coach Jaime Brede has focused primarily on training, but the team hopes to head to its first in-person competition next month. Brede and Team Summit ski mountaineers Olivia Lyman and Delilah Staberg have trained weekly on Copper Mountain Resort’s new designated uphill routes. The endurance training, interval training and ski mountaineering fundamentals — such as bootpacking, downhill skiing on skinny ski...

Photo by Hugh Carey / From Summit Daily archives While pandemic regulations canceled nationals and some other competitions, Team Summit Executive Director C.B. Bechtel said it was encouraging that Team Summit was able to host its first race series of the season at Breckenridge Ski Resort on Monday, Jan. 11 and Tuesday, Jan. 12. Bechtel described the race season as “normal, just being run a little bit different.” Bechtel said Team Summit mogul skiers were also able to compete in Aspen this w...

Summit High School seniors Will Wagner, center left, and Andrew Duxbury, center right, pose for a picture after signing on to play lacrosse in college at Adams State and Westminster College, respectively. The boys are joined by coaches Matty Marks, left, and Pat Doherty. Photo from Joanne Wagner When 2019 Summit High School graduate Max Duxbury left the Tigers lacrosse program for Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Max’s younger brother, Andrew, lost the one guy who could challenge him at...