Alpine Skiing

Women Win, Men Place Third in 2022 Alpine Ski Opener

Women Win, Men Place Third in 2022 Alpine Ski Opener
Posted: Jan 16, 2022

FARMINGTON, Maine – The Saint Joseph's College men's and women's Alpine Ski teams kicked off the 2022 season by participating in a slalom event at Titcomb Mountain in United States Collegiate Ski & Snowboard Association (USCSA) Reynolds Division action on Sunday afternoon. The SJC women won the event with a 4:14.27 total time and eight place points while the Monks' men finished third with a 3:58.04 team time and 19 place points.

All six of the SJC women finished in the top 17 overall to help the Monks cruise to a dominant season-opening victory, as Saint Joseph's outpaced runner-up UMaine-Farmington (17 points), University of Maine (39 points), and New England College (69 points) on Sunday. Individuals from the Colby College, Bates College, and Bowdoin College club programs also competed in the slalom race.

Three SJC men placed in the top 10 as the Monks finished behind UMaine-Farmington (17 points) and Bowdoin (18 points) and ahead of UMaine (26 points). The Colby, Bates, and NEC men also raced in the 2022 opener.

 THE RUNDOWN – MEN:

  • Sophomore Caleb Gorton (Goffstown, N.H.) placed fourth with a 1:16.82 (38.34 – 38.48) total time
  • Second-year Aidan Wolfinger (Bedford, N.H.) finished fifth with a 1:17.53 (38.48 – 39.05) effort
  • Sophomore Liam Strobeck (Charlotte, Vt.) was 11th (1:23.69, 47.51 – 36.18)
  • Freshman Dimitri Southworth (Biddeford, Maine) posted a DNF on his first run with a 49.51 time on the second

THE RUNDOWN – WOMEN:

  • Competing in her first event for the Monks, sophomore Courtney Pingree (Marblehead, Mass.) claimed top individual honors with a 1:21.11 (40.02 – 41.09) composite time
  • Freshman Madelyn Zordan (New Hartford, Conn.) posted a 1:26.44 (42.42 – 44.02) total time, which was good for fourth overall
  • Sophomore Erica Irvin (Windham, N.H.) finished fifth overall with a 1:26.72 (43.21 – 43.51) performance
  • Senior Sarah Hotchkiss (New Durham, N.H.) was ninth with a 1:31.33 (45.38 – 45.95) effort
  • Sophomore Maeghan Perkins (Turner, Maine) placed 10th (1:32.29, 46.28 – 46.01)
  • Freshman Lillian Souweine (Bangor, Maine) rounded out the SJC field with a 1:40.17 (49.62 – 50.55) performance and finished 17th

NEXT!

Saint Joseph's is back in action next Saturday with a Giant Slalom event at Sunday River. The races are set to start at 10:00 AM.

 

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Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy in Portland, Maine, Saint Joseph’s College is Maine’s Catholic liberal arts college in the Mercy tradition. We are inclusive of all faiths, including no faith. The 474-acre campus, located on the shore of Sebago Lake in Standish, Maine offers more than 40 undergraduate programs and a Division III athletic program to a population of approximately 1,000 on-campus students. A pioneer of distance education since the 1970s, the College also provides online certificates and undergraduate and graduate degrees for thousands more working adults who reside in more than 20 other countries. In 2015 the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions within local, regional, and global communities. In 2018, Princeton Review recognized SJC as one of its “Green Colleges” for its sustainability initiatives. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.

 

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