Blue Mountain, January 18th
Race Report:

January 18th - Giant Slalom: 
Men 
The Stevens men's division put up a great performance on the first day at Blue Mountain. Coming in 23rd overall with a combined time of 1:23.80 was Brian Williams. Not far behind in 25th place was Conor Magee. Next for Stevens were Ashton Merkert-Kuzman, Roy Tas, Pavel Ryutov, and Alex Coroian coming in 31st, 34th, 42nd, and 48th respectively. Noah Czuj placed 52nd, Miguel Aguirre placed 54th, and Micheal Former placed 55th. Finally, Brian Galasso and Gabriel Malek were placed 59th and 64th for Stevens. 
Women 
The women also put up a good performance with Viktoria Matysiak placing 26th with a combined time of 1:47.03 and Aliona Heitz placing 33rd with a combined time of 2:01.10. 

Snowboarders 
Rounding out the day of Giant Slalom were our snowboard racers. Our very own Jenn Alexander placed 3rd in the women's division with a combined time of 2:26.65. Christopher Bartell put up a blazing-fast time of 1:04.06 on his first run but was unfortunately disqualified on his second run in part due to icy conditions. 

Freestyle, Railjam:

Skiers 
The Stevens athletes came out with a great performance for the first rail jam of the season. With 15 minutes to perform the best freestyle trick they could, both Lucas Hope and Isabella Vena of our skiers impressed judges enough to make it to the finals. They placed 12th for men and 15th for women respectively. Nicolas Plaskon, Logan Hickey, and Aidan Giordano all tied for 30th, as they unfortunately did not make finals. Snowboarders 
The snowboarders also performed exceptionally well at the rail jam, with many athletes making finals. This was Christopher Bartel for our men and Julia Reznik and Eva Baker for our women. All athletes performed well. In the men's division, Christopher placed 6th, and in the women's division Eva placed 4th and Julia secured 2nd place for Stevens. Unfortunately, William Bany did not make it to the finals and placed 20th.