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Freestyle Team
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Freestyle Team
FREESTYLE NEWS
Bill Murdy
Hunter Freestyle Team Invitational results- 07
Hunter Freestyle had a phenomenal season, placing an unprecedented number of our young athletes into post season competitions. The depth of the current team is only starting to show at the upper level events and I can only expect it to grow as our younger athletes mature.
This year I'd like to start at the top and the present; we currently have four athletes invited to the US Team Selection Event to be held in Park City this December. Deirdre Murdy, Tucker Warman, Anthony Cigna, and Ray Cigna have all been invited to this prestigious event, not bad for a small mountain in the Catskills! Good luck to all.
Rewinding back to last season in the A Division, we had Deirdre Murdy and Anthony Cigna qualifying and competing at the U.S. Freestyle Championships at Killington. At the Eastern A Championships we placed Ray Cigna, Anthony Cigna, Pete Ciarlante, Deirdre Murdy, Chris Picano, Thomas Rowley, Adam Schnider, and Tucker Warman. Our best showing yet!
Our up and comers in the B division also had great success with Colin Lang, Julia Luebs, Ryan Long, Geoff Nugent, Tom Scaccianoce, and Zach, Derek and Laurel Schnider competing at EQS B Championships. We're looking forward to seeing some of these skiers move up to our A Team this season. In addition, attending our B Regional's, we had Ryan Long, Austin and Tom Scaccinoce, and Eddie Spychalsky. Great job to everyone who worked so hard all year, and I mean all year, as the team continued practicing into the summer with water ramps, and some of the more fortunate, getting out to Whistler for even more!
Even our coaches can't get enough, with Greg Isola, Phil Landin and Rob Schnider taking days of from work to go to Killington and get their accreditations as mogul and aerialist coaches.
It's only going to get better and I can't wait to see what we'll do this season as we expand the focus to compete more at Slopestyle and hopefully skiercross.
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