The Ski Season Winds Down

The ski season is drifting to an end - and what an end!

Last Sunday in a nail biting finish Julia's Hershey Alpine team lost the finals by 1 point - it was so close only three pomints covered the three teams! So disappointing but the usual mix of things broke against them - age, experience, accidents etc

Then on the Monday and Tuesday Julia and the High School Boys team went to OFSAA - the Provincial high school championships

Julia came 16th in each of her races, which is good racing against the best in the Province including some international skiers - her hope was top 20 this year. At 15 she has time and size on her side - she is still growing and in a sport dominated by gravity, size counts

The boy's team, meanwhile, did the unprecedented and won the Gold in the Slalom - a first for a Huntsville Boys team - and they won by a point! Sports-mad Huntsville will be thrilled and they get to ride on the firetruck through town - aren't small towns great!?

The next day they won bronze on the Giant Slalom another first - winning in both categories in the same year

Great excitement

Now we just have the Club Championship and some odd races and winter is over