JN RECAP

  Well another Junior National Championship has come and gone and once again team EAST killed it!!
The veteran's of the team Miles Lussi, Luke Daniels, and Matt Doyle capped of their winter with some hardware and the rookies Karl Schulz and Trent White had solid performances and good results for their first JN.

Medal count
SJ Ind. Silver- Miles Lussi
Elimination Jump Gold- Matt Doyle
Team NC Bronze- Miles Lussi and Luke Daniels

Some other Cool things that happened off the podium

Karl Schulz had the fastest cross country time by 26 seconds with a fall on the coarse and skied from 22nd place up to 14!!

The team event saw EAST team 1 finish a solid 5th with rookie Trent White on the team.

No one got lost at the Mall of America.

Trent White in the elimination jump was so excited to jump he was a meter early on the take-off and coach Bliss caught it on video and it is amazing!!

East team 2 which was Matt Doyle and Karl Schulz turned in the 2nd fastest XC time and moved from 9th to 6th.

Coach Bliss only forgot to bring the ESJNC banner to one place this year.

There were a total of 136 coaches meetings a new record for JNC.

All in all I am very pleased with how the kids did this year and how they represented the Eastern ski jumping and nordic combined on and off the hill.

Thanks again to Minneapolis ski club for holding an amazing JNC and all the hard work their volunteer's did to make this happen.

Next year we will be heading to Alaska for JNC so we hope to field another strong team!!

Coach Bliss

JN special jumping

The individual competitions for special jumping and nordic combined have come to an end and some great results from team East! Thursday night we got to see Miles Lussi put two solid jumps together to grab 2nd place on the K-70 meter hill here in Minneapolis for his first ind. podium spot at JN. Luke Daniels turned in a solid result in 12th followed by Matt Doyle in 25th and our two rookies Trent White and Karl Schulz placing 31st and 34th respectively.

Full results can be found at www.nordicskichampionships.com under the schedule on Thursday.

The ind. cross country was held this morning at Hyland Lake Park under cold and fast conditions for all the racers. Miles who went out first just missed the podium in 4th while Luke Daniels came in a solid 8th. Karl Schulz was the man of the day with the fastest time on the coarse and making everyone ask "who is that kid"? 

Results are not posted yet but can be found later at www.nordicskichampionships.com under the schedule for Friday.

We have a short break today and then we will head back to the hill for tonight's elimination jump which should be a fun competition for all!

Junior Nationals Minneapolis

After two solid days of training on the K-70 meter hill and on the cross country coarse and a great opening ceremonies at the Mall of America we are ready to have official training under the lights. All the kids are up beat and really like the hill so it should be interesting to see where they stack up with the 50 plus kids here from IMD, RMD, Central, East and Alaska.

Weather should not be an issue the whole week as it will be in the 20's and low 30's for all events. Stay tuned for Official training results and remember you can watch all competitions on USTREAM!!

Schedule changes and other news can be found at www.nordicskichampionships.com

Salisbury

Well mother nature tried her hardest to cancel this weekends Eastern championships with the winter storm Nemo but we just didn't let that happen!

Friday nights target jump was moved to Sunday afternoon along with Saturdays K64 comp and the small hills were held on Sunday. Tons of new Personal Records from Trent White, Karl Schulz, Beckett Ledger, Landon Livreri, and Sam Shapiro. We had athletes,judges,coaches, and volunteers out Saturday to shovel out all the hills and once they were dialed in they skied great!

Results can be found here- www.skijumpeast.com

Our Junior National team was named in Salisbury going off the two comps in Chicago and also the two events held in Salisbury. This years team is pictured below.

                       Karl Schulz, Trent White, Matt Doyle, Luke Daniels, Miles Lussi

Junior National Qualifier #1 Norge

CHICAGO DAY 1
Top Women- Ravin Yip 178.2 points  100%

          Gabby Armstrong 106.2 points 40% back

Top Men- Miles Lussi 234.7 Points  100%

               Luke Daniels 195.9 points 17% back

                Matt Doyle  167.6 points 29% back

                Karl Schulz  129.4 points 45% back

               Trent White  123.1 points 48% back

          Landon Livreri   104.2 points 56% back

         Beckett Ledger   65      points 73% back

                  AJ King     2.8     points 99% back

CHICAGO DAY 2
Top Women-Ravin Yip 151.4 points 100%
        Gabby Armstrong -6.6 points 2 falls due to binding malfunction  100% back

Top Men- Miles Lussi 207.1 points 100%
                 Matt Doyle 177.4 points 15% back
              Luke Daniels 163.9 points 21% back
                Trent White 111.3 points 47% back
           Landon Livreri    93.3 points 56% back
                  Karl Shulz    86.6 points 59% back
           Beckett Ledger   27.3 points 88% back
                      AJ King  -1.1 points   100% back


Total after 2 of 4  

Miles 441.8 p 100%
Luke 359.8 p 19%
Matt 345 p    22%
Trent 234.4 p 47%
Karl 216 p     52%
Landon 197.5 p 56%
Beckett 92.3 p 70%
AJ        1.7 p   100%

Read below for JN Qualifying rules!!!!

Minneapolis and Chicago

hey folks just a quick update from the road. Minneapolis was a great comp with wind chill reaching -30 but we all survived!

Junior comp
1. Ben Loomis 71m,77m -242.1
2. Andre Denney 69.5m,63m -200
3. Luke Daniels 59m,66m-183.5
8. Matt Doyle 54.5m,56m-145.6

Miles took the challenge of jumping with the big boys and did well while impressing some of the Euros.

US Cup
1.Sebastian Klinga 79m,81m-275.5
2.Andeas Myhre Hellerud 72.5m,72.5m-233.5
3.Jere Kykkanen 69.5m,74m-231.2
4.Miles Lussi 72.5m,66m-218.2

First Comp in Chicago Went well with blue sky, sun, and no wind. Results looked like this...

J2 Women

1.Raven Yip 64.5m,62m-178.3

2.Mahni Bruce 63m,62.5m-173.6

3.Alissa Pollard 54m,52m-126.7

Gabby Armstrong 49.5m,50m-106.4

J2 Boys

1.Kevin Bickner 72m,74m-236.2

2.Miles Lussi 72.5m,76m-234.7

3.Ben Loomis 69.5m,75.5m-230

8.Luke Daniels 65m,67m-195

12.Matt Doyle 61m,59.5m-167.6

19.Karl Schulz 51m,53.5m-129.4

21.Trent White 50m,53m-123.1

24.Landon Livreri 46m,50m-104.2

25.Beckett Ledger 40m,40m-65

27.A.J. King 26m,28m-2.8  

One more comp tomorrow so stay tuned!!!

Eau Claire/ 5 Hills Tour

Our first stop on the Mid-West tour is over with and we saw plenty of far jumps, crazy weather, and even some eagles. This summer Eau Claire did a ton of work on there k85 hill re-shaping the landing hill and dropping the take off a couple degrees to modernize the flight curve of the hill.

Friday night was the first event under the lights with a huge loud crowd cheering on the skiers at the bottom.

Junior class results
1. Miles Lussi 88m,88m 242 points
2. Ben Loomis 85m,84.5m 228 points
3. Nigel Lauchlan 80m,84m 203 points

6. Luke Daniels 78m,75m 188.5 points
19. Matt Doyle 65m,65.5m 134.5 points

                                                        

Saturday brought some warm weather and challenging tail wind for the athletes but we were able to hold a good and safe comp. With the warm weather it should be noted that all athletes were skiing from the same gate and Miles was 2nd over all out of 41 men only being edged by Sebastian Klinga of Finland!

Junior class results
1. Miles Lussi 91m,87.5m 238 points
2. Ben Loomis 87m,83.5m 225.5 points
3. Kevin Bickner 83.5m,80.5m 210.5 points
4. Koby Vargas 80m,77.5m 197.5 points
5. Casey Larson 79m,75.5m 193 points

9. Luke Daniels 73.5m,70m 164.5 points
20 .Matt Doyle 65.5m,60m 119.5 points

   Full results found here- www.ec-skiclub.com/tourney2013.htm                                                    

Next stop is Minneapolis for the K70 event on Wed.

Coach Bliss