KAST K2 ATHLETES COMPETE AT JAY CUP

KAST athletes were pushing it at the K2 Jay Cup (Alberta provincial finals for the K2 CresnaPartners Series races) at Nakiska from March 4-6. Up to 57 women and 74 men competed each day throughout the weekend.

On Friday March 4^th, both men and women competed in Super G, with the following top 30 results:

In the Women’s competition Georgia Willinger placed 10^th (only 2.5 seconds off the leader)!

In the Men’s competition Drew Cornell placed 17^th, Marko Bozinovski placed 18^th, Brendan Villeneuve placed 21^st, Jared Topham placed 24^th, and Tyler Brosha placed 28^th. Aaron Smith narrowly missed the top 30 by 2/10^ths of a second (he placed 32^nd) but took home the Most Improved medal for the men!

On Saturday March 5^th, the athletes competed in a 2 run Giant Slalom, with the following top 30 results:

In the Women’s competition Georgia Willinger placed 7^th (less than 4 seconds combined time off the leader)!

In the Men’s competition Tyler Brosha placed 18^th, and Alex Lake placed 22^nd (Both Tyler and Alex had an identical time on their 2^nd run which was less than 4 seconds off the leader’s time). Alex Lake also took home the Most Improved medal for the men on Saturday!

On Sunday March 6^th, the athletes faced off in a 2 run Slalom event, with the following results:

In the Women’s competition Sophie Ordman placed 16^th and Emma Wood placed 32^nd.

In the Men’s competition Jared Topham placed 17^th (averaging 3 seconds off the leader’s time for each run), Moritz Reinders placed 25^th, Tyler Brosha placed 27^th, and Conor Clearsky placed 39^th. Moritz concluded the KAST clean sweep by taking home the Most Improved medal for the men on Sunday!

We have a young K2 team this year (10 out of our 13 athletes are all in their first year of K2), and they all performed very well!  Congratulations to all our K2 athletes and be sure to keep an eye out for those that go on to compete at the K2 Western Championships at the end of the month!