Athlete Corner

Topic: LTSCF Catches up with Travis Ganong and Marie-Michele GagnonStart Time : Jun 1, 2020 05:30 PM https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/1MZxIIPd3V9LUJHRr2bxXPAcRNu-X6a82iVLr6dZzUiShhALfMjV8hEA-JbhxyYr

Some of this years' scholarship recipients from the annual Asado Fundraiser include: AJ Hurt: Sully Scholarship   Cheyenne Brown     Drew Wingard   Jason Roth   Sofia Studenmayer   Zach Studenmayer Ryan Herhusky (Sully Scholarship)  

Hi, my name is Cheyenne Brown I am 18 years old from Donner Summit, California. I grew up skiing all around Lake Tahoe chasing my brother down the slopes, which is where my love for speed skiing started. This last season I raced the FIS/ Nor Am circuit and had a fairly successful season, winning a super G and a Downhill, which secured my spot into US Senior Nationals, as well as getting 9th in the JR Nationals Super G. This upcoming season I will be travelling the FIS/ NorAm Circuit with the squaw valley ski team in pursuit of the US Ski Team. In the future, it is my dream to represent USA on the World Cup circuit. I have quite a few goals but I’m willing and excited to start working towards them. I would like to be top 5 in the NorAm rankings for speed, as well as going to US Nationals and podiuming in the downhill. I would like to stay consistent all season and be top 20 every race! Skiing is my passion and I know what steps I must take to ski fast and I am willing to work hard on and off the…

Hi LTSC, I wanted to share another small update on the happenings of Luca’s ski season. Last weekend we had our final qualifying races with some Super G races. Of course when speed events occur so does the snowfall apparently:) With Friday’s race cancellation, the postponed on Saturday they finally ran 2 races back to back on sunday. As Luca calls it revenge of the Smalls ( 125 pounds wet) he ended up in 3rd position and 7th for the 2nd race. This concludes our qualifying portion for the division and he accomplished his 1st goal of the season of getting top 3 and qualifying for regionals in the top skiers. Now we try to round up funds for the trip at end of month to Alaska. He wants to do well with the best of the Western Region, who knows Nationals in his age group?  I tell him to keep realistic goals but he is still very much fired up. onward. I sent him to the east coast this week with my dad who is a coach.  He will train with a couple of ski academies, KMS and GMVS and will get to race Slalom there in an open…

Lake Tahoe Ski Club Foundation, Thank you very much for granting me the financial assistance, I am so grateful. So far this ski season I have traveled to Colorado twice, then I went to the east coast and raced at Sugar Loaf. The next weekend I went to Mammoth for some races, and I just got back from Minnesota where I raced three slaloms there. On Wednesday, I make my way back out to the east coat again for a week of training, because unfortunately there is not enough snow to get good training here at Sugar Bowl. Thank you again so much for your support, and because I missed the Assado, please let me know if there is anything I can do to help. Best, Isaac Mozen

Luca has been training on and off the slopes and getting stronger. committed He had good results in GS open Mammoth race in December with a 4th and 3rd place for u16’s. It was not a qualifying race but good for his moral. early january back to mammoth with SL qualifier DNF, bad fall and ER visit. All good now , no broken bones, 2 weeks off snow and back this weekend for SL qualifier for our regionals in Alaska in March. we had a pack of 111 boys open race (mid pack start) he ended up 7th or 8th on saturday and 5th u16 on sunday , making the podium and a high five from Mark Engels. This week team switches gear for GS and speed to get ready for next races. If he keeps up school work he will get to spend a week in VT and train with GMVS and KMS? will see. 1st week of march. including some images from this weekend thank you! I just wanted you to know that your support is appreciated:)