Jumping News

The Wednesday AMP is cancelled today March 12. However, if you have Ford Sayre bib, you may gain access to the mountain from 12:30 until 4:00. You can organize your own group, ski with your own kids. Kids that have a helmet sticker may ski from 12:30-4:00. Parents may purchase a ticket and ski with kids that have a helmet sticker. Unfortunately there is no access for the Kindergarten program. To be clear, the roads are treacherous, two cars off the road already this morning. There is no Ford Sayre support, either in the lodge or at the lifts. Kids with helmet stickers must ski with an adult. The Skiway expects 4-6 inches of heavy wet snow by this afternoon. This type of snow is difficult to ski at the level of most of our kids. It is not like the light fluffy snow we had earlier in the year. Other than that, have a great time!Continue reading →

All these young Ford Sayre athletes jumped on the K32 last night.

K32 is the largest of the ski jumps at Oak Hill. Ski jumps are measured from the point of entry into the air to the bottom of the landing hill where it begins to flatten out. That “critical point” on the landing hill is referred to as the “Kritische Punkt” in German, hence the “K” in the name.

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HANOVER, NH — The Ford Sayre Memorial Ski Council welcomed families from all over New England to Garipay Field, on the campus of Dartmouth College, for a full day of nordic racing on Saturday, March 1, 2014.  Races for every level between lollipoppers and masters skiers brought almost 300 skiers out to ski the expertly groomed courses, and over 160 skiers raced in the BKL events.

In the first- and second-grade girls race, Sarah Glueck of Ford Sayre (03:49), Virginia Cobb of Mansfield Nordic (03:55), and Sadie Bell of Putney Ski Club (04:00) lead the way around the 1km loop.  Alan Moody of Craftsbury Nordic (03:17), and Christian Blix (03:57) and Wyetme Murray of Ford Sayre (03:58) filled the podium for the boys race.

In freestyle races, Cormac Leahy of Craftsbury Nordic (05:54) won the boys third- and fourth-grade race, just slightly ahead of Ford Sayre’s Evan Nichols (05:55) and West River Nordic’s Finegan Bailey (06:03).  Liza Bell of the Putney Ski Club (05:58) was the first girl around the 2km loop, with Ava Thurston of Mansfield Nordic (06:01), and Elsa Bolinger of Ford Sayre (06:09) coming in second and third.

The fifth- and sixth-grade girls had a fantastic sprint to the finish as Madeline Kitch of Eastern Mass BKL (09:25) edged out Craftsbury Nordic’s Quincy Massey-Bierman (09:27), and Ford Sayre’s Lucy Glueck (09:41) finished third.  Griffin Wright of Craftsbury Nordic (09:41) set a blistering pace around the 3km loop to win the boys race, with Ford Sayre’s Daniel Bandler (10:28) and Eastern Mass BKL’s Luca Rugiero (10:54) rounding out the top three.

James Kitch of Eastern Mass BKL (10:40) finished one second ahead of West River’s Neil Thorley (10:41) in the seventh- and eighth-grade boys race, with Eastern Mass BKL’s Oliver Snow (10:45) in third.  Mansfield Nordic’s Olivia Cuneo (11:06) flew around the 4km loop to win the girls race, with Ford Sayre’s Ingrid Miller (12:23) and Perrin Milliken (12:33) finishing second and third.

In the women’s citizen race division, Ford Sayre’s Sara Spencer won the U16 race in 15:08. Hilary McNamee of the Dartmouth Outing Club/Ford Sayre BKL coach won the J1/women’s race in 12:36. Emily Hannah, Dartmouth Ski Team, came in 2nd with a time of 12:56 on the 4.7km course.

In the men’s citizen race division over 9km, Cameron Woodworth of the Dartmouth Ski Team pulled away from the field and won with a time of 21:02. Ford Sayre had a strong showing with Tucker Cadow finishing 6th in a time of 22:08. A trio of Ford Sayre skiers almost had a photo finish with Colin Pogue (13th,  23:20), Jay Davis (14th, 23:21) and Sam Gurwitt (15th, 23:22) finishing strong. Richard Powell finished 16th, in 23:29 and his son Chris Powell placed 19th in 24:28.

SFT-2014-RESULTS posted here

Some photos of the event

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The results from yesterday’s Silver Fox Trot have been posted.

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Ford Sayre is hosting a cross-country ski race tomorrow Saturday March 1 at Garipay Field in Hanover, NH.  Please come and join the race or come by to watch.

The Lollipop race starts at 10:30 for Kindergarten and younger, with grades 1 to 8 starting from 10:45 to noon.  More details here

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