Run order

Kat 13th
Lizzy 18th
Vicky 31st
Kayla 53rd
Allison 57th
Tyler 9th
Jeremy 13th
Zemba 20th
Carbonneau 45th
Sterling 61st
Keating 72nd

Top 16 make finals. Text if you can't stand it and need info! Lol!
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Experience US Selections course

Go to Mike Henitiuk's website. Click here.

Selections Webcast of Video and Scoring

For live video of all Selection events go to: http://www.urtur.com/live

For live scoring open another browser window to: http://www.urtur.com/2010/LiveScoring/index.php

Women's first run will get underway at 9:30 MST.

We gonna kick some butt!!

Final prep for tomorrow!

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Catching up with the blog from the road

Here are some more photos from training during Apex Camp.





The last day at Apex the CanWest coaches and I hosted an event to close out the camp. It was great for the athletes to get into a semi-competition (It WAS real - we even had prizes!!) prior to US Selections.

Here is a photo of the Men's Podium - Mike Henitiuk 1st, Nick Keating 2nd and Bryan Zemba 3rd.



Yesterday, some of the troops came out and trained for US Selections, but today was the official first day. It was great to see some of our former KMS teammates (Tim Chamberlain in photo with Vicky Smith and Nick Keating) out here and we had a great first day of training!

Rails 2 Riches

Killington Mountain School got back into the swing of things with the second rail jam of the season. Killington hosted the event Rails 2 Riches this past weekend. This event is becoming one of the premier rail jams for skier and snow boarders in the country. With a 1st place cash purse of $3000 dollars, pro skiers form new england, salt lake city, and Quebec came to duke it out for the cash prize. KMS Freeride contingent athletes Ben Smith, Daniel Rosenblum, and Devon Savino were a few of the athletes who competed. All three of the athletes worked very hard to get ready for the event working on switch ups, 270's, K-feds, and lipslides. The event is a jam format so there isn't a formal result list. All three of the boys skied there best and had a great time. Ben Smith had a fantastic day being of of the 10 athletes selected to ski in the finals to fight for the cash prize. Ben skied skied great in finals and even received a nick name from the judges "little buddy." The judges and event organizers were very impressed with Ben's efforts, and also being the youngest athlete to make the final by a few years.

This weekend we have another rail jam before the full competition season starts called the K-town Showdown. It is another rail jam series that is hosted by Killington with prize giveaways and for the Grom and Open categories.

Over the past week the crew has been enjoying some snow fall from Mother Nature, and snow making for the great mountain of Killington. The athletes continue to work on turn shape, bringing there skills into the moguls which were on mouse trap for most of the week. Over the weekend the athletes enjoyed some great mogul skiing on Escapade, and Cascade. On Sunday the mountain was nice enough to let us build our first jump of the season on upper High Line. It was a great first jump where the athletes worked on a lot of straight pops to focus on take offs, and then moved into 360's. We will continue to work on skiing some moguls this week, and Coach Justin and myself will be heading up in the morning to build another jump venue that we will be able to keep for an extended period of time.

Good luck to all of our Selection Event athletes out in Winter Park Colorado. You guys and girls are going to kill it, all of your hard work this summer and fall is going to pay off. We are all thinking of you and can't wait to watch the live feed.

The weather for the week looks great with snow showers just about all week. Keep bringing the snow mother nature, we love it!!!

Coach DJ

Greetings from Denver

We have arrived and we are going to the movies while we wait for jeremy and Kayla. We are staying at the iron horse condos on the Mtn that have a gym and pool and are slopeside so separate training and competition times will be managed easily. Lizzy and I are enjoying a nice lunch without the animals before we go to the movies.
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