Bergen Palmer, 17, and his younger sister Teagen Palmer, 15, of Ketchum led Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation (SVSEF) alpine racers at the Eric Hays Memorial Open Series of technical races Dec. 19-22 at Park City (Utah) Resort.
First-year J1 (ages 17-19) Bergen Palmer podiumed in his class with a third place in Saturday's two-run slalom on Payday ski run. He was seventh overall of 125 two-run finishers, just 1.59 seconds off Coley Oliver's top time for Park City.
It was a good weekend for the kids of 1972 Winter Olympic slalom star and former professional ski racer Terry Palmer, 57, the U.S. Ski Team star turner from New England.
Teagen Palmer, a first-year J2 (15-16), grabbed the slalom silver medal in her class Sunday and was fifth overall of 82 finishers just .91 seconds behind the top time of Park City's 19-year-old Jaime Dupratt.
Meanwhile, Tanner Farrow, 16, captured second place in Sunday's J2 boys' slalom, in 12th place overall of 109 finishers. In J3 (ages 13-14), Kipling Weisel and K.J. Savaria had third-place slalom class results. Also in the top five of their classes were Ben Kanellitsas and Sofia DeWolfe.
Tuesday's giant slalom finale at Park City finished after press deadline. Those results will be reported in a forthcoming Express issue.
There were 142 boys and 98 girls mainly from Utah, Wyoming and Idaho in the four-day tech series presented by the Park City Ski Team. The SVSEF sent a team of 32 racers to the Eric Hays.
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Class placings and overall distinctions for SVSEF:
J1 boys (ages 17-19): Bergen Palmer 5-SL/3-SL/8-GS (9th and 7th overall SL, 15th overall GS); Willie Adicoff 10-SL/8-SL/10-GS; and Ryan Foster 18-SL/17-SL/18-GS.
J1 girls: Nina Hirner 5-SL/7-SL/9-GS; and Karlee Stagg 10-SL/DQ-SL/11-GS.
J2 boys (ages 15-16): Tanner Farrow 2-SL/8-SL/16-GS (12th overall SL); Harlan Collins 10-SL/DNF-SL/7-GS; Miles Sweek 13-SL/12-SL/25-GS; Dylan Carroll 14-SL/25-SL/34-GS; Tanner Dirstine 21-SL/23-SL/22-GS; Jordan Levin 25-SL/33-SL/43-GS; Colin Waycott 26-SL/31-SL/37-GS; Gardner Cord 33-SL/37-SL/42-GS; Alexandre Bridgeman 35-SL/42-SL/45-GS; and Connor Farrow DNF-SL/24-SL/26-GS.
J2 girls: Teagen Palmer 4-SL/2-SL/DNF-GS (8th and 5th overall SL); Corrine Smith 23-SL/18-SL/23-GS; Natalie Vorsteveld 22-SL/DNF-SL/20-GS; and Reta Flynt 24-SL/19-SL/24-GS.
J3 boys (ages 13-14): Kipling Weisel 3-SL/4-SL/DNF-GS (27th overall SL); K.J. Savaria 4-SL/3-SL/3-GS; Ben Kanellitsas 5-SL/5-SL/4-GS; William Harder 7-SL/11-SL/13-GS; Taylor Adler 26-SL/DNF-SL/DNF-GS; Tanner Josey 31-SL/27-SL/22-GS; Lane Coulthard DQ-SL/31-SL/27-GS; and Cole Caulkins DNF-SL/DNF-SL/8-GS.
J3 girls: Sofia DeWolfe 5-SL/21-SL/11-GS; Jordan Fitzgerald 12-SL/11-SL/29-GS; Natalie Bunting 28-SL/37-SL/14-GS; Marcia Smith 34-SL/25-SL/25-GS; and Marlow Mizer DNF-SL/15-SL/19-GS.
