Ski Team 2004-2005: Onekama/Brethren/BearLake

Snow or lack of it should I say, has played a nasty role in the ski season this year, but with the approaching Flushing Invitational the team knew the weather would change. After all, it has snowed and snowed hard for every Flushing Invitational since they have been attending. Team members went to bed confident that when they arose for the race in the morning, there would be new falling snow. Snow it did, and the race went on as scheduled. The boy's finished the meet as a team in 2nd place. The ladies finished the day as a team in 3rd place.

Girls Slalom:
Monika Higley led the girls team to a 4th place team finish with her 8th place finish in Slalom with times of :34.65 and :37.83. Emily Harwell of Brethren racing with OHS placed 11th with times of :35.49 and :39.11. Kelli Waligorski came in 19th for the day in slalom with times of :41.48 and :46.52. Dani Olson experienced some troubles in this event coming in 22nd with times of :47.91 and 1:28.02. Erika Jach's first run was a fast run of :30.50, but she too experienced problems on her second run giving her a DNF.

Girls GS:
The ladies went on to place 3rd as a team with 46 points in Giant Slalom giving them 3rd place overall for the Invitational. Dani Olson led the team with her 7th place finish and times of :23.19 and :23.75. Erika Jach placed 9th with her times of :23.56 and :24.02 and Emily Harwell finished 13th with :27.19 and :26.94. Monika Higley placed 17th with :27.08 and :28.52 while Kelli Waligorski came in 22nd with times of :36.71 and :36.84.

Thank you Dawn Johnson for braving the weather to take these photos of our racers. Dawn will be back to capture the rest of the team members at future
races!

Coach Dale Miller

The next race for the teams will be Wednesday 1-26-05 at Crystal Mt. with a start time of 5pm.

Boy's GS:
In the boys morning GS ,the boys finished solidly in 2nd place going into the afternoon's Slalom event in a good position to have a good result overall for the day. Jackson Carter won the GS event with his first place finish & times of :19.63 and :19.80. Chris Smith snatched up the 5th place medal with his times of :21.22 and :20.71. Just 2 seconds behind, Garret Samsal slid into 12th with his times of :22.37 and :22.90. Jesse Ketchum placed 17th with :25.12 and :25 flat. BJ Jobbins took 19th with :25.72 and :26.27 while David Fisher nailed 23rd with his times of :36.54 and :25.07 respectively.

Boy's Slalom:
Chris Smith led the team effort with his 3rd place finish and medal in Slalom with times of :25.92 and :25.26. Garret Samsal placed 9th to help
the team effort with his times of :29.15 and :29.03. Placing 11th was David Fisher with his times of :29.57 and :29.33 and placing 21st was BJ Jobbins
with :35.19 and :33.68 both helping the team score. Jesse had a binding release giving him a DNF, but the team managed to hang on for second place overall for the days events with the help of the lower seeds. David Fisher, Garret Samsal, and BJ
Jobbins all finished with career high results to back up Chris Smith's 3rd place medal finish to lock up 2nd place overall for the Invitational.

Garret Samsal	Chris Smith	Kelli Waligorski
BJ Jobbins	Monika Higley	Dani Olson
BJ Jobbins	The next race for the teams will be Wednesday 1-26-05 at Crystal Mt. with a start time of 5pm. Main Ski Page for 2005	Jackson Carter