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The cycling team will be racing at the 18th Annual Sterling Classic Road Race in Sterling, Mass., this Saturday and will then be shifting their attention to the Killington Stage Race over Memorial Day Weekend. Come out and cheer on KMS cyclists as they compete against some of the top junior racers in the country!
Kelly Brush will be speaking to KMS student-athletes and staff at 3 p.m. on Friday, May 18. As a result of sliding off a trail and into a lift tower during the 2006 Williams Carnival, Kelly suffered a paralyzing spine injury. However, she returned to snow as an active supporter of the Middlebury Ski Team, forerunning the 2008 Middlebury Carnival GS in a monoski before graduating with her class that May and receiving an NCAA Inspiration Award in 2009. She is now studying to become a nurse practitioner while also serving as a board member of the Kelly Brush Foundation.
The inaugural KMS Graduation and Awards program for our nine-month students will be on Friday, June 1; although the schedule is not final, the program will probably begin in the early afternoon and finish in the early evening.
Summer-camp season is rapidly approaching; each student-athlete should have heard from his or her coach about both conditioning and training opportunities throughout the prep season. Parents, please remember to register for the summer camps that your child or children will attend.
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The teaching faculty prepared pancakes, fresh fruit salad, bacon and sausage to kick off the spring's community breakfasts. |
Find the KMS Freeskiing Team on Facebook and check out the edits posted earlier this week featuring 2011-12 action from various members of the KMS and KSC-KMS squads.
The cycling team began its prep-school season on Wednesday, racing at Holderness; prep-school racing continues Saturday at Maine's Gould Academy and then comes to Killington on Wednesday, May 2 for the KMS Hill Climb Time Trial. The KMS Cycling Team will also race in this coming Sunday's Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference Criterium Championship; check out the KMS Cycling Team blog for the full schedule and don't forget to visit the KMS Cycling Team Facebook page for more photos!
The KMS class of 2012 has been accepted into over 40 colleges and universities including American University, Bates College, Boston College, Brigham Young University, Clarkson University, Colby-Sawyer College, East Stroudsberg University, Endicott College, Gettysburg College, Hofstra University, Ithaca College, Johnson & Wales, Lafayette College, Northeastern University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Saint John's University, Saint Lawrence University, Saint Michael's College, Union College, University of Denver, University of New Hampshire, University of Richmond, University of Utah, University of Vermont, and University of Washington.
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To celebrate the last week of school, the all-dorm activity on Tuesday night was a trip to the Rutland Ben & Jerry's store for Free Cone Day. |
Matt Price wrapped up the J4 season with a 13th-place finish in the Can-Am giant slalom at Maine's Sugaloaf Resort. The Can-Am event brings together the top J4 athletes from the Eastern and Rocky Mountain regions of the United States as well as the top Ontario and Quebec racers of the same age group.
KMS will formally open the new Action Sports Training Center this Saturday at 3:00 p.m. with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, sparkling cider toast and a short trampoline demonstration. The annual all-school awards and senior recognition ceremony will follow, with the light reception beginning at 5:00 p.m.
Heidi Robbins '07 is one of the Purple Knight student-athletes recognized by Saint Michael's College for National Student-Athlete Day. National Student-Athlete Day honors student-athletes nationwide for achieving excellence in the classroom and on the field, while making significant contributions to their schools and communities. At Saint Michael's, Heidi was one of the student-athletes recognized for maintaining a GPA above 3.7 while also competing in NCAA athletics.
USASA Nationals are ongoing at Copper Mountain, Colo.; KMS and KSC/KMS snowboarders have already captured a number of strong finishes, and the freeride team will be competing as the events switch to skiing. FIS racing is still underway at Panorama, British Columbia, with strong results from the KMS Men's Team, as well. Watch the snowboard, freeride and men's alpine Facebook pages for updates.
The annual all-school awards and senior recognition ceremony is on Saturday, April 7, will commence following a five o'clock reception in the Revelon Dining Hall and is a required event for KMS student-athletes not out of state for competitions; please also consider joining us for the 3:00 dedication of our new Action Sports Training Center, also on April 7. RSVP to Lori Hong—lhong@killingtonmountainschool.org—if you will be joining us for the dedication.
Cycling season is once again underway; visit the KMS Cycling Team blog to check their schedule for the upcoming weeks.
Although Killington will not be holding a pond-skimming event this year, the Development and Communications Teams at KMS are hard at work to find a suitable alternative for Tao to celebrate 100% participation in the Annual Fund by current KMS families. Donate online today so we can get to full participation and then email Lori Hong (lhong@killingtonmountainschool.org) with your [mostly] reasonable alternative suggestions to pond skimming.
Members of the alpine men's team and alpine women's team will be headed to Panorama, British Columbia, and to Stoneham, Quebec, in the coming week for a few more FIS races to wrap up the season, while top J4 athletes will be racing at Sugarloaf Resort from March 30 – April 2.
The Annual Fund needs your support! The KMS Annual Fund provides critical operational support that keeps tuition manageable and allows KMS student-athletes to have the resources they need in the classroom, in the gym and on the hill. Visit our secure giving site and make your donation today!
Competition in U.S. National Championships and Junior World Championships begins tomorrow; watch the KMS Mogul Team page for more information. The freeskiing team is currently in Maine for the annual Dumont Cup before heading to USASA Nationals in Colorado, where they will join the snowboard team; watch the KMS Freeskiing and Snowboard Facebook pages for more information as events unfold.
The alpine teams will be targetting races in Maine, Vermont, Quebec and British Columbia over the next two weeks as they begin to move forward into the 2012-13 prep period. Parents should keep an eye out for updates from the coaching staff as we adjust to the record-shattering weather.
The annual KMS Senior Recognition and Awards ceremony will take place on Saturday, April 7. Please mark your calendars; all current KMS student-athletes not at a competition are required to attend, and all current KMS families are encouraged to join us as we recognize the academic, athletic and community successes from the 2011-12 school year.
All student-athletes and staff are encouraged to come to gym night on Tuesday, March 27. With a narrow range of scores between the teams as the third chess tournament wraps up, this will be one of the chances to put your team in the lead! (Readers who are not members of the Purple People-Eaters may disregard this message.)
J4 states continue this weekend, with both slalom and giant slalom scheduled for Pico. J3 racers left yesterday for Maine's Sugarloaf Resort, where they will race in Eastern J3 Championships and compete for the opportunity to race at the Am-Can races that will bring together the top J3 racers from race clubs and ski academies across the eastern United States and Canada.
The alpine men and women have a whirlwind tour of the northeast scheduled over the next two weeks, with races in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. This weekend's highlights include FIS Devo finals at Sunday River and women's Eastern Cup Finals at Waterville Valley.
The freeride team is currently at the Mount Snow Rev Tour stop, while mogul competiton for EQS competitors wraps up with this weekend's EQS Championships at Waterville Valley. Upper-level freestyle competition continues at Mègeve, France, as Bryan Zemba '10 competes at World Cup Finals, and then moves to Valmalenco, Italy, from March 20-24 as Nick Keating '10 and Allison Benedict compete against the world's top junior mogul skiers for the title of Junior World Champion. Meanwhile, many of Nick and Allison's teammates will be competing at the U.S. National Freestyle Championships, hosted again by Stratton Mountain.
Killington Ski Club will hold its annual fundraiser on Saturday, March 24, 2012 from 5:30-9:30 at The Woods. Admission will be $20 and a cash bar will be available. Proceeds from both admission and the auction, which will include ski equipment, gift certificates, Reed & Barton crystal from Pearsons, Dior for women sunglasses, Carrera men's sunglasses and much more. Please direct all questions to Andrea Stolar at dr.andreastolar@gmail.com or Johnny O at johnnyo@killingtonskiclub.com.
Ongoing competition includes the Hole Shot Tour, a skier- and boardercross event that aims to bridge the gap between regional competition and the World Cup. Competition was underway at press time, while Super-G training and racing is on the docket for J3 Finals at Killington. J2 Nationals for alpine racing and Junior National Championships for freestyle are also underway in Mammoth, Calif., and in Steamboat, Colorado.
Josh Bullock, former head strength and conditioning coach at the University of Redlands, will be working with KMS mogul competitors this March as they compete in championship-level events and then look to prepare for further success in the 2012-13 season. Josh is a certified strength and conditioning coach and is finishing up a master's degree in kinesiology from Fresno Pacific University.
Vermont Adaptive, a local organization that empowers individuals with disabilities through year-round, statewide sports and recreation, is working in conjunction with Pico Ski Education Foundation to build a new facility at Pico. To support this project, Sushi Yoshi is hosting a fundraiser with live entertainment, raffle prizes and hors d'oeuvres included in the $100 admission, 100% of which will support the PEAK Lodge project. Email Erin Fernandez at Vermont Adaptive—director@vermontadaptive.org—for tickets.
With extra time on their hands over February break, some of the KMS skiers put together a short park-and-pipe edit. Check it out:
February Break, 2012 from Ari Schneider on Vimeo.
Congratulations to Kyle Burcin, James Ferri and Wyatt Queirolo, who have qualified to J2 Nationals, which brings together competitors from the top ski academies and race programs throughout the country.
Vermont Cup Finals are this weekend at Killington and Middlebury Snow Bowl, while J3 State Championships wrap up with another pair of slalom and giant slalom races; boys will race at Sugarbush, while girls will race at Burke. Volunteer opportunities are still open for Saturday's Vermont Cup slalom on Needles Eye; contact Nicole Kondziela—nkondziela@killingtonmountainschool.org—for more information.
Eastern Cup racing is ongoing with Super-G racing wrapping up yesterday and turning to giant slalom racing at Burke today and tomorrow.
The Hole Shot Tour comes to Killington March 6-8. This is one of three events in a tour that bridges the gap between the Revolution Tour and World Cup boardercross and skicross events, from which the top athletes can qualify for World Cup and Junior World Championship starts. Logan Farmer will be representing the KMS snowboard team in the event.
Mogul and freeride competitors will be headed to U.S. Junior Nationals at Steamboat, Colo., next week. Congratulations to Cooper Babbitt, Darius Baradaran, Allison Benedict, Kayla Burcin, Tec Calcagni, Sam Gnoza, Colin Lang, Nick Marino, Megan Moores, Thomas Rowley, Devon Savino, Ari Schneider, Hannah Soar, Kat Spillman, Abe Studler and Tyler Wadhams, who have earned start positions at the event.
J4 state championships will be held March 17-18 at Pico. Tessa Queirolo, Mikayla Stolar, Tory Dobyns, Colleen Byron, Felicia A. Ayer, Matt Price, Joseph Salisbury-Jennings and Dan Schwartz have qualified based on their regular-season results; Isabelle Jenne, Julia Martin, Macgregor Peterson, Drake Mead, Andrew Desino, John Bianchi and Matthew Zackin have qualified for the J4 Shootout, where they will each be gunning for one of 23 additional state championship quota spots.
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Zach Clayton skis to a front-page finish in the Williams Carnival slalom at Jiminy Peak (CJ Feehan photo). |
KMS alumni took five top-30 spots at the Williams Carnival this past weekend; Zach Clayton '07 led the charge in both Friday's giant slalom and in Saturday's slalom, taking 20th and 14th, respectively; Jim Ryan '09 took 26th and 22nd, while Kris Hopkins '09 took 19th in the slalom. Allison Visconti '11 just missed the top 30, taking 35th and 34th. The EISA carnival season wraps up this weekend with racing at Middlebury Snow Bowl on Friday and Saturday.
J3 State Championships resume this weekend with boys at Stratton and girls at Okemo, while Vermont Cup action resumes with races at Pico and at Sugarbush. J4 racing resumes at Pico on Sunday.
The Aspen Open is underway, and Devon Savino is representing the KMS freeride team; freeride competition in Vermont resumes at Okemo with slopestyle and halfpipe competition this weekend.
The auction is just around the corner, and if you've read this far, you probably have just enough time left to order your dinner tickets at https://kms.ejoinme.org/28auction. Register today and join us for an exciting evening with many unique auction items, a great opportunity to socialize, '70s music, and quite possibly some unique '70s-inspired outfits. Tickets are on sale through the end of the day today—Thursday, Feb. 16—so order yours now!
Jim Ryan '09 led the KMS alumni in NCAA racing this past weekend, taking tenth in the make-up UNH GS at Burke Mountain. He also had top-30 results in both Dartmouth Carnival races, as did Zach Clayton '07, while Allison Visconti '11 led her St. Lawrence University teammates with 13th in the slalom, her best NCAA finish to date.
KMS goes on winter break tomorrow (Friday, Feb. 17) at 5:00 p.m. and the dorm will open again at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 22. Please remember that campus is closed during this break.
Eastern Championship Series mogul competition wraps up this weekend with the East Coast Championships at Sugarloaf, Maine, while EQS competition continues at Okemo and Whaleback. Nor Am competition continues at Quebec's Val St. Come, while racing continues at Stratton for men's NJR action and at Sugarbush for the Vermont J3 championship Super-G. NCAA action continues at the Williams Carnival, while USASA snowboard racing resumes at Bromley.
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