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Yesterday was the arrival day for all first year students. There were plenty of parents around helping unpack and get their sons/daughters moved into the dorms. Among the new Middlebury first years are five alpine skiers.

Welcome Hig Roberts, Steamboat Springs Co/BMA, Nick Bailey, Boise Id/McCall/BMA, Robert Cone, Killington, Vt/BMA, Liam Mulhern, Long Meadow Ma/BMA and Emma Kitchen, Ontario, Canada/Alpine Ontario Provincial Team.

More to come on these new fresh and fast members of the team.

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Here is an update from Jake and I with a couple pictures:

A couple days of overall crushing started with me taking the GRE down in Denver, followed by a trip to DIA to pick up Jake. Once we reached Vail, we tried our best to support the Shpall family as much as possible. Far too soon the next morning, I dropped groggy Jake at his grandpa's condo and went to work my magic healing people. Needless to say, I didn't do a whole lot of healing, but met up with Jake and his Grandpa and his Aunt at noon. They dropped Jake and I off on the side of the interstate halfway up Vail Pass and we took off up the East Vail Chutes on the Two Elk Trail. After about an hour of serious crushing, we stopped to take these epic panoramic pictures of the Gore Range in the background. We continued on trekking through Outer and Inner Mongolia Bowls where we ran into a bit of rain but some amazing views of the back bowls of Vail with some clouds rolling in. We continued our hike across the entire Vail Ski Area to the gondola and began our descent. It took us about 30 minutes to descend 3450 ft. I think that is how fast some people ski it, but oh well. It only involved a small amount of me rolling down the mountain drawing a bit of blood. Jake fared much better, but by the end, his knees were a bit sore. In the end, it was about a 14 mile hike with about 4000 ft of ascending. I crawled home, meanwhile, Jake set off the very next day to conquer the Gore Range. Hope everyone is having a good end to the summer and we will see everyone far too shortly.

Bobby and Jake

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20010-2011 EASTERN REGIONAL FIS AND CHAMPIONSHIP CALENDAR(7/21)
DATE LOCATION GENDER EVENTS NOTES
Dec. 11-12, 2010 Sunday River, ME Men & Women 2SL Open FIS
Dec. 16-19, 2010 Sugarloaf, ME. Men 2GS, 2SL TD Bank Eastern Cup
Dec. 16-19, 2010 Sunday River, ME. Women 2GS, 2SL TD Bank Eastern Cup
Dec. 16-19, 2010 Attitash, NH. Men 2GS, 2SL Development FIS
Jan. 9-12, 2011 Okemo, VT. Women 2GS,2SG TD Bank Eastern Cup
Jan. 9-10, 2011 Sugarbush, VT. Men 2GS Development FIS
Jan. 10-13, 2011 Sugarloaf, ME. Men 2GS,2SG TD Bank Eastern Cup
Jan. 24-25, 2011 Waterville, NH. Men 2SL Development FIS
Jan. 24-25, 2011 Sunday River, ME. Men 2SL TD Bank Eastern Cup
Jan. 24-25, 2011 Cranmore, NH. Women 2SL TD Bank Eastern Cup
Jan. 31-Feb. 4, 2011 Sugarloaf, ME. Men & Women 2DH, 1SG TD Bank Eastern Cup
Feb. 6, 2011 Suicide Six, VT Men SL TD Bank Eastern Cup
Feb. 6-7, 2011 TBA Women SL, GS TD Bank Eastern Cup
Feb. 7, 2010 Stowe, VT. Men GS TD Bank Eastern Cup
Feb. 10-11, 2011 Mount Sunapee, NH Women 2GS NJR FIS
Feb. 10-11, 2011 Whiteface, NY. Men 2GS NJR FIS
Feb. 13-14, 2011 Smuggler's Notch Men 2SL TD Bank Eastern Cup
Feb. 13-14, 2011 Stowe, VT. Women 2SL TD Bank Eastern Cup
Feb. 17-18, 2011 Stratton, VT. Men 2SL NJR FIS
Feb. 17-18, 2011 Blackwater, NH. Women 2SL NJR FIS
Feb. 21, 2011 West Mtn, NY Men & Women 1SL Open FIS
Feb. 27-Mar. 3, 2011 TBA Men & Women SL,GS,SC,2SG TD Bank Alpine Champs
Mar. 3-6, 2011 Sunday River, ME. Men & Women SG,GS, SL Jr 3 Finals
Mar. 7-11, 2011 Gore, NY Men & Women SG tra,SG,GS,SL Eastern USSA Finals
Mar. 9-13, 2011 Whiteface, NY. Men & Women 2SG,SC,GS,SL Eastern Junior Finals (FIS)
Mar. 11-14, 2011 Okemo, VT. Men & Women SL, GS, SG Jr 3 Olympics
Mar. 20-22, 2010 Waterville, NH. Men & Women Camp/Races Jr 4 Future Stars
Mar. 20-23, 2011 Stratton, VT. Men 2SL,2GS Development FIS
Mar. 22-23, 2011 Sugarbush, VT. Women 2GS TD Bank Eastern Cup
Mar. 22-23, 2011 Stowe, VT. Men 2GS TD Bank Eastern Cup
Mar. 24-25, 2011 Burke, VT. Men & Women 2SG TD Bank Eastern Cup
Mar. 27-28, 2011 TBA Men & Women 2SL TD Bank Eastern Cup
Jan. 14-15, 2011 Whiteface, NY. Men & Women GS,SL St. Lawrence Carnival
Jan. 21-22, 2011 Sugarloaf, ME Men & Women GS,SL Colby Carnival
Feb. 4-5, 2011 Stowe, VT. Men & Women GS,SL UVM Carnival
Feb. 11-12, 2011 Dartmouth, NH. Men & Women GS,SL(2GS W) Dartmouth Carnival
Feb. 18-19, 2011 Middlebury, VT. Men & Women GS, SL Middlebury Carnival
Mar. 17-18, 2011 Dartmouth, NH. Men & Women GS Open FIS-U
Mar. 17, 2011 Middlebury, VT. Men SL Open FIS-U
Mar. 18, 2011 TBA Women SL Open FIS-U

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Training has been great so far. The snow is a little thin.
Schoz almost collided with our Chilean adopted dog Mushu. It was close but both Schoz and Mushu dodged and swerved well.

click to enlarge I lit some fireworks just after this picture was taken. I love bon fires and fireworks.

This is a picture of my bonfire from the other night.

Just thought I would update you.


I now have poison ivy from gathering wood for the bonfire.

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Head Alpine Coach

Stever Bartlett

Bartlett enters his fifth season as the Head Coach of the Middlebury College Alpine Ski Team in the winter of '10-'11. In his four years as head coach, Bartlett has worked hard to continue the success of Middlebury Skiing. On the circuit this past season the team collected a handful of carnival podiums and numerous eastern cup wins. In 2008 Bartlett was awarded the EISA Coach of the Year award and led the team to a 5th place finish at the 2008 NCAA Championships. In 2010 The alpine men finished 3rd in the nation in slalom and 4th in the nation in GS at the Championships hosted by the University Colorado. In 2008 they were 2nd in the nation in slalom and 3rd in the nation in GS. Bartlett came to Middlebury after working with the U.S. Ski Team in Park City, Utah. He most recently worked as a World Cup assistant coach for the alpine women's team during the winter of 2005-2006. Bartlett has also served as the head Europa coach, a Development Team coach and as a strength and conditioning coach with the program. Bartlett was a staff member at the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics, where he worked as a coach for gold medalist Julia Mancuso. In 2002 Bartlett was awarded the VARA (Vermont Alpine Ski Racing Assoc.)"Coach of the Year" award while working as the head coach of the Killington Mountain School. Bartlett is a 1996 graduate of St. Lawrence University, where he was captain and member of the alpine team. He earned his degree in environmental biology, with a minor in sports science.

shbartle@middlebury.edu

802.443.5845

Assistant Alpine Coach

Abigail Copeland

Copeland will be entering her second season as the alpine assistant coach. Copeland was an integral part of the teams success in 2009/2010 and brought much energy and dedication to the team. As well as a valuable on hill coach she also took on many of the strength and conditioning duties. Copeland comes to Middlebury from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where she worked as the assistant men's and women's coach from 2007-2009. Copeland graduated from St. Lawrence University in 2006, where she was a four-time member of the alpine ski team and field hockey team. She graduated with a degree in Fine Arts and received her masters degree in Education Administration in the Spring of 2009. Prior to her education at St. Lawrence, she attended the Mount Mansfield Winter Academy in Stowe, Vermont.

acopeland@middlebury.edu

802 443 5270

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