Alpine Skiing

Monks Win Three Slalom Events with Four Individual Triumphs

Monks Win Three Slalom Events with Four Individual Triumphs
Posted: Jan 23, 2022

AUBURN, Maine – The Saint Joseph's College alpine ski teams enjoyed a remarkable day in United States Collegiate Ski & Snowboard Association (USCSA) Reynolds Division action at Lost Valley on Sunday. With both teams competing in two slalom races, the women earned a pair of convincing victories while the men notched one win and a fourth-place finish.

The SJC women won the first race with seven place points and a 3:30.62 composite time – well ahead of runner-up UMaine-Orono (18 points, 3:55.79) – and completed the sweep with six place points and a 3:39.60 total time in the second race. UMaine-Orono finished in a distant second with 35 points and a 5:24.25 time.

The Monks' men topped UMaine-Farmington in the first slalom race with nine place points and a 3:03.76 aggregate time compared to the Beavers' 18 points and 3:09.21 effort. In the nightcap, Saint Joseph's finished fourth with 43 points and a 4:09.87 performance.

Sophomores Courtney Pingree (Marblehead, Mass.) and Liam Strobeck (Charlotte, Vt.) highlighted the day with two individual wins apiece while freshman Madelyn Zordan (New Hartford, Conn.) and sophomore Caleb Gorton (Goffstown, N.H.) both found the podium for the first time in their collegiate careers after posting third-place finishes in the day's first race.

THE RUNDOWN – MEN (RACE 1)

  • Strobeck won his first of two races with a 59.09 collective time
  • Gorton placed third with a 1:01.36 effort
  • Sophomore Aidan Wolfinger (Bedford, N.H.) finished fifth (1:03.31)

THE RUNDOWN – MEN (RACE 2)

  • Strobeck picked up his second win of the day with a 1:02.89 performance
  • Gorton finished 12th (1:10.13)
  • Wolfinger posted a DNF on both runs

THE RUNDOWN – WOMEN (RACE 1)

  • Pingree placed first with a 1:06.18 time
  • Zordan was third with a 1:10.09 effort
  • Sophomore Maeghan Perkins (Turner, Maine) placed fifth (1:14.35)
  • Senior Sarah Hotchkiss (New Durham, N.H.) finished 10th (1:18.42)
  • Freshman Lilly Souweine (Bangor, Maine) was 13th (1:22.99)
  • Sophomore Erica Irvin (Windham, N.H.) placed 15th (1:24.22)

THE RUNDOWN – WOMEN (RACE 2)

  • Pingree won yet again with a 1:07.91 effort
  • Irvin finished fourth with a 1:13.73 composite time
  • Perkins placed fifth with a 1:17.96 performance
  • Hotchkiss was 10th (1:19.84)
  • Souweine finished 12th (1:27.94)
  • Zordan placed 14th (1:35.10)

NEXT!

The Monks will host a pair of giant slalom events at Shawnee Peak on Sunday. The opening race is set to begin at 9:30 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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