CSU was everywhere in today's Boston Globe All Scholastic nordic awards, which can be found here:
http://www.boston.com/sports/special/schools/201213-winter-all-scholastics/skiing.html
Skiers of the year were Eli Hoenig and Sonya Jampel and All Scholastics included Lewis Nottonson, Sean Skahen, Charlotte Cole, Clara Cousins, Julia Schiantarelli and Rebecca Smith. All Stars included Max LaChance, Jacob Meyerson, Hank Yoder, Eli Bucher, Mary Lagunowich, Liza Dawley, Meg Yoder, Haley Colpitts, Phoebe Seltzer, Claire Telfer, Elizabeth Karpacz, Carina Wallack, Olivia Cannon and Sophie MacArthur. Sorry if I missed anyone in my quick scan.
Coaches of the year included Pat Garrison and Graham Taylor!
Congratulations to all!
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Why We Train All Winter!
It won't be long before we get back to what we really love and why we endure 4 months of winter skiing in the dark and cold with no cars:
Friday, March 29, 2013
New CSU member, Jake Brennan
Here is the newest member of CSU, my grandson Jake Patrick Brennan.
Rob Bradlee
Rob Bradlee
Jake like napping just like grandpa
Jake is hoping to someday have as much hair as I do
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Lost and Found
Nadja Kern visits from UCSD and brings along a friend and teammate Emily from the UCSD basketball team; Emily XC skiing for the first time
we are just trying to figure out that new olympic ball game on skis
haha very funny Nadja says!
All the lost talent. See how a basketball player skates after her first hour of practice on skis ever
Emily Osga, guard UCSD Basketball team
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The Last Dance?
What do you do if there is still a full loop at Weston on a Tuesday evening in the spring? You race on it of course! 30+ die-hards showed up for one more race on dirty, goose poopy corn snow that was actually remarkably good skiing over the full course. It was nice to race in full daylight with a beautiful sunset on one side and a beautiful full moon rise on the other. What's not to love about a race on 3/26. We think this is the latest Tuesday night race ever.
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| The Tuesday Night Die-Hards getting in one last chance to go head to head for the season. |
Saturday, March 23, 2013
A Parent's View of the JN Experience
Elizabeth Wilcox, mom of Zoe Snow, sent in this perspective on being a CSU parent:
For most club sports, being the parent of an athlete does little to enrich your life. I have a clear memory of one eighth-grade club soccer practice. It was raining and I had just driven 45 minutes through traffic to a field with five girls on it, too few to scrimmage three-on-three. Having played soccer in college and a member of a year-round adult team, I offered to be the sixth. I was dressed for a run and given the girls were only 14, I thought I might, dare I say it, be able to offer some help. Zoe’s coach refused. Parents in club soccer were relegated to the sidelines, or in the case of inclement weather, their cars. So I sat for 45 minutes inside my car ruing the day she signed up, while the girls floundered about on a soggy, wet field.
Fast forward four years. Something Zach Caldwell wrote last year has stuck with me. CSU has found a way, he suggested, to capitalize on the energy of all its helicopter parents, harnessing their energy and involvement to create a stronger, more successful club. I might argue the reverse. The energy of the club and the people involved has enriched my life far more than what I’ve brought to it. Take the recent Junior Nationals. We did not accompany Zoe to Fairbanks, Alaska. Instead, we were compelled to watch results online. Like Nathan, I developed a race strategy of my own. Not one for suspense (full disclosure: I sometimes read the back page of a book), I decided throughout the duration of the race, I would lay in a hot tub relaxing, reading, or if nerves necessitated it, playing words-with-friends, while Lucian would watch the results stream live downstairs. Needless to say, a few words spelled (sadly, low scoring ones) and I was calling Lucian from the cell in the tub to the home line downstairs. Of course, the trouble came when Zoe made it through to the next round, scheduled for three hours later. I rationally decided that for Zoe to ski well, I had to get back into the tub, but how? The tub would be either stone cold or drained. And that’s when Zoe’s younger brother Oliver stepped in (it takes a village), running his own tub, which I later climbed in. But then I got to thinking, what if she went forward from there, could I lie in cold water? If I did it two more times, might hypothermia set in? Or if I laid fully clothed in an empty tub, would that have the same positive effect on Zoe’s race? And would Oliver ever be able to look me straight in the eye again having known his mother lay, fully clothed with a cell phone, pretending to play words with friends, in a tub, twice, while his sister raced?
Zoe did go on and now prune-like and chastened by Oliver’s disapproving glances, I decided I really couldn’t get back in. And that’s where the CSU parents came in. Peter Hoenig had been talking to Lucian, working out how to best track results. Dave Brams and Alan McEwen, both on location in Fairbanks, had been calling in. We had our support team in place. Come the final race, Alan got on the phone with Lucian while Dave called me on the cell downstairs, providing skate-by-skate live narration of the race. Zoe finished. She was smiling. We’d all survived.
Being a CSU parent can be demanding. We wax, we drive long distances, we bring food to races, we spend hard-earned money on equipment. But what I relish most about CSU is that Rob and the other coaches never relegate anyone to the sidelines. Come inclement weather, we never sit in our cars. Unlike those soccer parents, we are encouraged to ski, to coach or, if we’re feeling really brave, race. We stand together, supporting our kids and each other, sharing our joys and disappointments. I feel so fortunate to be able to enjoy the friendship and camaraderie of so many engaged, down-to-earth, and kind-hearted adults. When Zoe joined CSU freshmen year, Jim Stock said to me that the people whom she would really come to value and from whom she would learn so much would be the CSU community. I never thought the same would be said of me.
For most club sports, being the parent of an athlete does little to enrich your life. I have a clear memory of one eighth-grade club soccer practice. It was raining and I had just driven 45 minutes through traffic to a field with five girls on it, too few to scrimmage three-on-three. Having played soccer in college and a member of a year-round adult team, I offered to be the sixth. I was dressed for a run and given the girls were only 14, I thought I might, dare I say it, be able to offer some help. Zoe’s coach refused. Parents in club soccer were relegated to the sidelines, or in the case of inclement weather, their cars. So I sat for 45 minutes inside my car ruing the day she signed up, while the girls floundered about on a soggy, wet field.
Fast forward four years. Something Zach Caldwell wrote last year has stuck with me. CSU has found a way, he suggested, to capitalize on the energy of all its helicopter parents, harnessing their energy and involvement to create a stronger, more successful club. I might argue the reverse. The energy of the club and the people involved has enriched my life far more than what I’ve brought to it. Take the recent Junior Nationals. We did not accompany Zoe to Fairbanks, Alaska. Instead, we were compelled to watch results online. Like Nathan, I developed a race strategy of my own. Not one for suspense (full disclosure: I sometimes read the back page of a book), I decided throughout the duration of the race, I would lay in a hot tub relaxing, reading, or if nerves necessitated it, playing words-with-friends, while Lucian would watch the results stream live downstairs. Needless to say, a few words spelled (sadly, low scoring ones) and I was calling Lucian from the cell in the tub to the home line downstairs. Of course, the trouble came when Zoe made it through to the next round, scheduled for three hours later. I rationally decided that for Zoe to ski well, I had to get back into the tub, but how? The tub would be either stone cold or drained. And that’s when Zoe’s younger brother Oliver stepped in (it takes a village), running his own tub, which I later climbed in. But then I got to thinking, what if she went forward from there, could I lie in cold water? If I did it two more times, might hypothermia set in? Or if I laid fully clothed in an empty tub, would that have the same positive effect on Zoe’s race? And would Oliver ever be able to look me straight in the eye again having known his mother lay, fully clothed with a cell phone, pretending to play words with friends, in a tub, twice, while his sister raced?
Zoe did go on and now prune-like and chastened by Oliver’s disapproving glances, I decided I really couldn’t get back in. And that’s where the CSU parents came in. Peter Hoenig had been talking to Lucian, working out how to best track results. Dave Brams and Alan McEwen, both on location in Fairbanks, had been calling in. We had our support team in place. Come the final race, Alan got on the phone with Lucian while Dave called me on the cell downstairs, providing skate-by-skate live narration of the race. Zoe finished. She was smiling. We’d all survived.
Being a CSU parent can be demanding. We wax, we drive long distances, we bring food to races, we spend hard-earned money on equipment. But what I relish most about CSU is that Rob and the other coaches never relegate anyone to the sidelines. Come inclement weather, we never sit in our cars. Unlike those soccer parents, we are encouraged to ski, to coach or, if we’re feeling really brave, race. We stand together, supporting our kids and each other, sharing our joys and disappointments. I feel so fortunate to be able to enjoy the friendship and camaraderie of so many engaged, down-to-earth, and kind-hearted adults. When Zoe joined CSU freshmen year, Jim Stock said to me that the people whom she would really come to value and from whom she would learn so much would be the CSU community. I never thought the same would be said of me.
Lots of EHS Photos
Here are some photos from EHS last weekend. As Alex reported, CSU kids did great! Congrats to all on an excellent season!
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| Trevor, skate race |
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| Will, skate race |
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| Olivia making her hair fly |
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| Eli, skate race |
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| Clara on her way to a great result |
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| Claire, skate race |
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| Carina, skate race |
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| Talia, skate race |
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| Sophie in the skate race |
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| Max controlling the pace in the mass start |
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| Ian at the top of one of the downhills |
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| Sean looking fierce |
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| Lewis looking great on the big uphill |
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| Max and Lewis after the classic race |
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| Chris, 3rd leg of the relay over the bumps |
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| Jacob in the classic race |
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| Rebecca dueling for the lead! |
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| Talia and Meg in the classic race |
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| Rosie in the classic race |
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| Julia in the sprint |
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| Liza in the classic race |
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| Mary in the sprint |
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| Phoebe takes the hairpin in the sprint |
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| Ian leads out part of the relay field |
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