Over spring break, the 5C Ski and Snowboard Team brought home two trophies from the U.S. Collegiate Ski and Snowboard National Championships that took place at Lake Placid, New York. On March 19, the women’s team placed first in slopestyle, and on March 21, they earned third overall for freeski.
“Our women’s freestyle team always has success every year because they really push themselves and they do great,” captain Asher Wolf PZ ’28 said. “Lanie Pidwell [PZ ’27] has been doing great; she’s one of our best freestyle athletes, and she got fifth overall at nationals for freestyle. She did a backflip in big air, which is crazy.”
As a West Coast team, entirely student-run, traveling to New York for nationals posed a number of difficulties, from booking flights to adapting to new snow styles. It is the constant adaptation and malleability required that make skiing such a joy for captain Will Sedo HM ’26.
“One of the things that keeps ski racing so interesting, in my mind, is that every day is a new condition on the hill,” Sedo said. “Every single day and every single hour you’re out there, it changes a little bit, and you have new conditions to have to respond to almost simultaneously as you’re racing down the hill. That’s what makes it such an intellectually interesting sport for me.”
Words by Anne Reardon | Photo courtesy of Claremont Ski & Snowboard Team
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