2009-2010 Season Wrap Up

Apr 10, 2010  |  Posted by: Jeremy Gasowski

It has been an exciting snowsports season here at WVBBTS! Peter Stokloza, WVBBTS
CEO and Executive Director shared with us, “BBTS was so proud to have been selected
this season by the US Ski and Snowboard Association to host the Freestyle Junior
Olympics [top 275 youth freestylers in the country], the NORAM Cup Finals [top 160+
US and Canadian National Team alpine racers competing just below the World Cup level
along with other qualifying US and international racers] and the J4 Alpine Junior
Olympics aka Future Stars [the top 160 eleven and twelve year old male and female
alpine racers from up and down the east coast]. These Waterville Valley based
championship competitions provided some exciting results for current and alumni
WVBBTS athletes.”
WVBBTS athletes Jamie Crane-Mauzy and Scott Nelson reigned as Freestyle Junior
Olympics Overall Champions. Recent WVBBTS alumni Maddie Packard and Abigail
Fucigna qualified to compete at NORAM Cup Finals here in Waterville with Abigail
taking 3rd place in the GS Junior category. WVBBTS athletes AJ Barry, Pate
Campbell, Jill Salvucci and Ryan Schmidt qualified to compete in J4 Future Stars with
Pate taking 3rd in GS, with AJ taking 8th in Slalom, and with AJ, Pate and Ryan
qualifying for the CANAMS, a championship event held at Sugarloaf for the top 120
eleven and twelve year old male and female alpine racers from the Eastern US and
Eastern Canada.
“These home town championship results just scratched the surface of a season filled with
major accomplishments for WVBBTS current and alumni athletes, individually and as a
team, and WVBBTS as an organization”, noted Stokloza.
• WVBBTS current athlete and US Freestyle Team member Hannah Kearney
winning Olympic Gold in Vancouver
• One current WVBBTS Freestyle athlete and five WVBBTS Freestyle alumni
qualifying to compete in the Vancouver Olympic Games-Hannah Kearney,
Dylan Ferguson, Michelle Gorgone, Matt DePeters, Ashley Caldwell,
Chemmy Alcott
• US Freestyle Team Members and WVBBTS alumni Matt DePeters, Dylan
Ferguson, and Nevin Brown finishing 1,2,3, respectively, at US
Championships in Aerials on March 26th
• USFST Aerialist and BBTS alumna Ashley Caldwell, 16, named to the FIS
World Cup Rookie of the Year 2010
• Our Alpine J3’s (ages 13 and 14) winning the team title in the NHARA
Regional Series and taking the second place trophy in the NHARA State
Series
• J1/J2 alpine athletes qualifying to compete at the J2 Nationals (ages 15 and
16)-Brian McLaughlin, Drew Stefanic, Garrett Quimby, and Alexander
Julian (GBR)
• Eric Coffin and Nicole Taylor winning the Lafoley Spring Series overall titles
• WVBBTS Alpine J3’s having the highest number of competitors of any club
or academy in east at the Alpine J3 Junior Olympics at Sunday River with
Jeremy Epstein finishing 6th and Steve Bouzianis finishing 9th in Mens