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Much like the Summit High School Nordic ski team, the Alpine ski team is patiently awaiting more snow in order to start on-snow training for the 2021-22 season. For now, both teams are stuck doing. ....
Short on numbers, the Summit boys lacrosse program combined junior-varsity and varsity players from the ninth through 12th grades on Thursday in a 15-1 loss to Steamboat Springs (6-3) at Tiger Stadium. The Tigers’ lone. ....
Photo by Joel Wexler / Rocky Mountain.Photography Summit High School varsity boys lacrosse coach Matty Marks is used to prom coming near the end of the season, not five days before the season-opener. Such is the situation for an atypical 10-game boys lacrosse season that will stretch beyond Summit High School’s graduation. Thursday’s Summit season-opener at Vail Mountain School comes a month later than the typical start date for spring sports like lacrosse in Colorado. Lacrosse is one of several sports to have its season condensed and pushed back as part of the Colorado High School Activities Association’s four-season calendar in response to the pandemic. ....
Photo by Jason Connolly / Jason Connolly Photography 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.” ....
Photo by Jason Connolly / Jason Connolly Photography Michael Cheek and Victoria Uglyar raced to the best finishes for the Summit High School Alpine ski team at the Friday, March 5, meet in Beaver Creek. Racing on a warm day on the long Bear Trap giant slalom course at Beaver Creek Resort, Cheek finished in fifth place, followed by Tiger teammates Gavin Masters (13th), Jackson Campbell (20th) and Wyatt Huston (21st). Uglyar’s ninth-place finish led a shorthanded, young girls team on the day, ahead of Lucia Hoffman (18th), Bryton Ferrari (20th) and Sophia Henry (22nd). Summit head coach Karl Barth described the races as a good tuneup for next week’s state championships at Loveland Ski Area, with giant slalom scheduled for Thursday and slalom Friday. Barth said several of the Tigers’ top skiers didn’t race in the morning event at Beaver Creek because of scholastic commitments, as all of the Tigers skiers are expected to race during school hours next week at L ....