Snowbird Ski Resort staged the Trudi Bolinder Memorial super giant slaloms last week, and 156 of the Intermountain Division's best A-J1 through J3 racers took their turns speeding down White Diamonds run.
Sun Valley Ski Team racers Lauren Parsons and Lauren Eder were the only podium finishers among the 46 members of the Sun Valley and Hailey ski teams making the Utah trip for the J1-3 Junior Olympic qualifying event.
J2 runner-up Eder ended up third of 66 finishers Thursday, .87 seconds behind the winner, and J1 champion Parsons was also third overall in Friday's SG, just .32 seconds back. Among the men, J2s Tristan Brown and Corey Bellinger were 5-6 in their class in Thursday's men's SG.
Eder moved to Telluride, Colo. Saturday and placed second overall, the top American, in a women's FIS (International Ski Federation) giant slalom. Eder was only .25 seconds off the winning pace of Rowmark Ski Academy's Chirine Njeim.
The next day, Sunday, the 16-year-old Eder ended up winning the FIS giant slalom at Telluride over former Hailey racer Hailey Duke. The winning margin was .48 seconds.
Monday's slalom victory went to Duke, with Eder ninth. In another local result, Sean Higgins placed 12th in a Telluride FIS giant slalom.
Here are best-of-series class placings for the 46 local skiers in the Trudi Bolinder SGs at Snowbird last week:
Older men: Biche Rudigoz of Sun Valley 11th overall.
J1 men (ages 17-18): 8—Kristian Timmons. 10—Taylor Stoecklein. 11—Bryce Newcomb.
J1 women: 1—Lauren Parsons. 6—Laura Speck. 7—McKenna Peterson. 13—Charlie Baser.
J2 men (15-16): 5—Tristan Brown. 6—Corey Bellinger. 9—Tyler Chandler. 10—Soren Ireland. 11—Ben Luck. 19—Ben Gourlay. 22—Derek Blash. 26—Michael Greer. 27—John David Davidson. 30—Toby Eagan. 31—Ford Hebard. 32—Casey Bennett.
J2 women: 2—Lauren Eder. 4—Calley Brown. 7—Katie Rothgeb. 12—Shanny Cohen. 14—Amanda Alexander. 15—Alexis duPont and Sara Berman.
J3 men (13-14): 11—Riley Berman. 18—Gregory Roos. 22—Colter Brehmer. 33—Willie Adicoff. 34—Tanner Flanigan.
J3 women: 3—Meghan Luck. 5—Ali Maricich. 9—Ainsley Gourlay. 14—Bailey Ireland. 19—Hanna Curran. 22—Brigette Helm. 28—Madeleine duPont. 33—Emily O'Reilly.
