Alpine Ski at West Mountain
Saturday-Sunday, February 1-2 | 9 a.m.
Queensbury, N.Y.
WHAT TO KNOW
• The Babson men's and women's alpine ski teams travel to West Mountain for the fourth of five weekends of MacConnell Division regular season competition.
• The Beavers and their league rivals will wrap up the giant slalom portion of their schedule with races on Saturday and Sunday.
LAST TIME AT WEST MOUNTAIN
• Both the Babson men and women finished second in all three GS races at West Mountain on February 3-4 of last year.
•
Ryan Beardsley '24 recorded a trio of top-10 results (9th, 4th, 6th), while senior
Zach Carpenter opened the weekend with his highest finish of the season (8th) and added 10th and 11th place finishes for the Babson men.
• Sophomore
Sonnie Travis recorded a pair of podium finishes by placing second and third on day one, classmate
Julia Wiacek capped the weekend with a fourth-place showing and
Caroline Haaijer came sixth, fourth and 11th for the Babson women.
ABOUT THE BABSON WOMEN
• The Beavers bounced back from a fifth-place finish that saw only three of seven competitors complete two runs in last Friday's giant slalom to come in second in the GS on Saturday at Whiteface Mountain.
• Senior
Alli Messier (7th) and sophomores
Ava Butler (9th) and
Riley Jerome (10th) all recorded top-10 results to open the weekend, while Wiacek (3rd), Travis (7th), senior
Amelie Alkier (8th) and first-year
Camryn Knowlton (9th) placed among the top 10 on Saturday to help the team post its fourth runner-up showing in six races.
• Wiacek leads the Green and White with a pair of podium finishes and is fourth in the MacConnell Division standings, while Knowlton enters the weekend in sixth place with five top-10 showings in six starts.
• Alkier (9th) has recorded four top-10 finishes, Messier (10th) has come in no lower than 12th in four consecutive races, and Jerome (12th) has posted four top-15 results in six races this winter.
ABOUT THE BABSON MEN
• The Beavers continued their dominant start to the season by taking first place in both giant slalom races at Whiteface to make it six wins in six races to begin the season.
• Sophomore
Mads Fondevik Syversen finished atop the podium on both days and first-year
James Rosenbloom (4th, 2nd) and junior
Elliot Perretta (5th, 4th) both recorded a pair of top-five results as the Green and White moved one step closer to its first division title since 1993.
• Syversen has finished first in five of six races and is sitting atop the MacConnell Division individual standings, Rosenbloom is currently second thanks to four podium finishes and Perretta sits in third place thanks to one victory and six top-five results.
• First-year
Connor Roy (10th) boasts four top-10 finishes, classmate
Moksh Patel (11th) recorded a pair of top-10 results at Whiteface and junior
Sebastian Sheppard (12th) has finished no worse than 17th in any of his last four races.
UNCHARTED TERRITORY
• The Babson men, which won three races in 2013, 2014, 2019 and 2022, have already doubled that total in their first six races this winter.
• The last MacConnell Division men's squad to win seven races in a row was Castleton on the way to sweeping the entire league schedule in 2023.
WHAT TO KNOW
• Alkier has recorded five top-20 finishes in five career GS races at West Mountain.
• Junior
Finn Horsley finished among the top 15 in all three giant slalom races at West Mountain last winter and has five top-20 results in six career starts there, while Sheppard placed 15th, 17th and 14th in three starts last February.
• The Babson men can secure their first division title since 1993 with two more first-place finishes.
• The Babson women enter the final four races of the season trailing first-place Castleton by three points in the team standings.
UP NEXT
• The Beavers will conclude their MacConnell Division regular season schedule with slalom races in western Massachusetts at Berkshire East Mountain next Saturday and Catamount Mountain on Sunday.
