For the week of January 7 - 13, 2004

Brown earns
Topolino nod

Wins Brundage slalom

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Sun Valley Ski Team second-year J3 Tristan "Teton" Brown, 14, last week earned a spot on the Intermountain Division’s eight-member team headed to the Western Region J3 Topolino Shootout scheduled for Jan. 3-5 at Sugar Bowl, Ca.

To make the team, Brown had a great series of races in the Hinson Power Sports Intermountain J3 Qualifier Dec. 29-30 at Brundage Mountain in McCall. His torrid first run gave Brown a .80-second victory in the Dec. 30 slalom in which there were 55 finishers.

Brown, Christopher Dancy of Park City, William Stewart of Bogus Basin and Nikolai Dziezyc of Jackson Hole were the J3 boys chosen for Sugar Bowl. The girls were Kiley Staples, Jennifer VanWagner and Laurie Huff of Rowmark, and Melissa Gill of Jackson Hole.

Sunday’s slalom and Monday’s giant slalom were the two Topolino races scheduled.

At Brundage Mountain, the Sun Valley or Hailey ski teamers didn’t have any other podiums in the tech races—but Soren Ireland (SL) and Teton Brown (GS) had fourths, and Calley Brown (GS) was fifth.

There were 65 boys and 58 girls from Idaho, Utah and Wyoming at Brundage. Results for the 26 Sun Valley and Hailey ski teamers at McCall:

J3 men: Tristan Brown 4-GS/1-SL; Soren Ireland 8-GS/4-SL; Barrett Cincotta 14-GS/10-SL; Casey Bennett 19-GS/9-SL; Ryon Campbell 16-GS/7-SL; Travis Stone 22-GS/37-SL; Ben Gourlay 23-GS/34-SL; Axel Peterson 26-GS/51-SL; Scott Isaacs 27-GS/21-SL; Michael Greer 38-GS; Max Monahan 49-GS/43-SL; Quinn Baser 50-GS/30-SL; Nicholas Peterson 52-GS/47-SL; and Wiley Chubb 53-GS/33-SL.

J3 women: Calley Brown 5-GS; Shanny Cohen 10-GS/9-SL; Katie Rothgeb 15-GS/12-SL; Alexis duPont 16-GS/15-SL; Meghan Luck 17-GS/45-SL; Natalie Hague 18-GS/27-SL; Alisa Durkheimer 21-GS/16-SL; Grayson Palmer 24-GS/19-SL; Ali Maricich 27-GS/18-SL; Ainsley Gourlay 33-GS/22-SL; Marissa Dreyer 34-GS/34-SL; and Allison Rust 36-SL.

 

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