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Purden: Temp as measured at Purden at 7:30 am (http://www.purden.com/ski/wintersetup.htm or Snow Phone250-565-7777)

Hart: Temp as measured on Environment Canada at 5:00 pm (https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-79_metric_e.html)

Kyle Balzer / Prince George Matters
January 14, 2020

Panorama Resort hosted the FIS junior BC Cup event at this past weekend and one local racer was well in contention.

Melinda Kobasiuk of the Prince George Alpine Ski Club got to wear the maple leaf with pride on the Kootenay hills at the four-day competition and managed to improve her stock with each passing day.

In the end, the 16-year-old rallied to two top-10 finishes out of nearly three dozen racers representing four different countries in her second event of the 2019-20 season.

Kobasiuk’s best race was the Sunday (Jan. 12) slalom when she claimed ninth place with a two-run combined time of 1:40.33, more than six seconds behind first.

In the same race a day earlier (Jan. 11), she finished 10th with a 1:41.32 two-run slalom final and nine clicks behind the top of the podium.

The giant slaloms on Thursday (Jan. 9) and Friday (Jan. 10) saw Kobasiuk get inside the first 15 racers, going 11th on day one (2:30.57, eight seconds back) and 14th on day two (2:25.78, seven seconds back).

Prince George had two other racers in the BC Cup FIS event and their results are as follows:

Amelie Brulotte

• DNS = Jan. 9 two-run giant slalom
• 24th = Jan. 10 two-run giant slalom
• 18th = Jan. 11 two-run slalom
• DNF = Jan. 12 two-run slalom

Charlotte Gibson

• DNS = Jan. 9 two-run giant slalom
• 13th = Jan. 10 two-run giant slalom
• DISQ = Jan. 11 two-run slalom
• DNF = Jan. 12 two-run slalom

Prince George Alpine Ski Club members Isaac Hausot and Zoe Pohl were also on Panorama’s mountains but for a different competition.

The season’s first stage of the TECK Open got underway and the two racers’ results are as follows:

Isaac Hausot

• 17th = Jan. 9 two-run giant slalom
• 20th = Jan. 10 two-run giant slalom
• DNF = Jan. 11 two-run slalom
• DNF = Jan. 12 two-run slalom

Zoe Pohl

• DNF = Jan. two-run giant slalom
• 33rd = Jan. 10 two-run giant slalom
• 23rd = Jan. 11 two-run slalom
• 21st = Jan. 12 two-run slalom

The 2020 TECK North Zones begin later this month, Jan. 25 and 26, hosted by the Lightning Creek Ski Club in Quesnel.

A special thank you to our amazing sponsors this season!

Ted Clarke / Prince George Citizen
April 17, 2019 10:41 PM

Isaac Hausot had speed to burn last weekend at the Whistler Cup.

Taking an international field of 134 skiers in the under-14 men’s slalom on Sunday, the 14-year-old Prince George Ski Team member blasted through the gates to a ninth-place finish.

Hausot dug his edges into the steep course for a two-run time of 1:35.71. That came a day after he finished 24th out of 134 skiers in the giant slalom.

“The course was very hard and icy, just the way I like it for racing,” said Hausot. “I am so excited with how I placed in both events. I have been working hard in training and in the gym, and I’m getting more confident in being able to handle the hard snow conditions.”

Hausot was the seventh-place finisher in the slalom at the under-14 provincial championships at Purden Ski Resort, March 17.

The 27th annual Whistler Cup attracted more than 400 of the top under-14 and under-16 alpine skiers from 22 countries, including Canada, the U.S., Slovakia, Norway, Korea, Japan New Zealand and Argentina.
Hausot joined forces with clubmate Jamey Bachand, two Argentinans and two Chileans for the dual slalom team relay.
Their team advanced to the B semifinal. Hausot loved the continuous action of the relay. Skiers wait at the top of a short course until the teammate who precedes them on the course crosses the finish line. Only then can each successive skier leave the gate.
“It was really cool to race with kids my age from around the world,” said Hausot. "The relay event was so fun, I had never done a relay before. It was was exciting.
“I obviously need to learn some Spanish racing with the guys from Argentina and Chile, but their English was quite good. The whole Whistler Cup event was so much fun.”

The Prince George team coached by Phil Soicher and Kali Holahan included under-16 skiers Charlotte Gibson and Melinda Kobasiuk, as well as under-14 athletes Isaac Hausot, Jamey Bachand, Gwenyth Bertucci, Adree Brulotte, Sydney Sherba and Zoe Pohl.
Brulotte finished 16th in the U-14 slalom with a two-run time of 1:24.42, while Bertucci was 95th and Sherba placed 99th. In the giant slalom, Brulotte placed 57th, Pohl was 66th, Bertucci was 107th and Sherba finished 110th. Bachand was 77th in the U-14 men’s slalom.
In the U-16 women’s slalom Kobasiuk posted a 17th-place finish out of 58. Gibson did not finish. In the super-G event, Kobasiuk was 25th and Gibson ended up 31st out of 53 entrants. Gibson placed 25th in the giant slalom, while Kobasiuk was 28th.
In other Prince George Ski Club news, Gavin Rowell won the Canadian/NorAm ski cross championship at Sunshine Village near Banff, Alta. Rowell was the silver medalist at the FIS junior world championships a few weeks ago in Reiteralm, Austria.

Adree Brulotte finishes a Ski Club-best fifth place at Under-14 event

Mar 19, 2019 10:48 AM by: Kyle Balzer
princegeorgematters.com

Despite an excellent regional run two weeks prior, Prince George Alpine Skiers could not find the podium this weekend.
The club hosted the 2019 B.C. TECK Under-14 Provincials at Purden Ski Village on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (March 15-17), which saw more than 160 athletes on the mountain from across the province.
The best finish for Prince George came from Adree Brulotte on Saturday, who crossed the Women’s Giant Slalom finish line in fifth place at 1:45.05. She missed out on the bronze medal by 0:00.19.

The top men’s racer was Isaac Hausot, who came in seventh place in the Men’s Slalom on Friday with a time of 1:39.36, missing out on the podium by nearly two whole minutes.
Provincials concluded on Sunday with 32 teams of five competing in head-to-head dual slalom; results have not been released yet.
The next event for the Prince George Alpine Ski Club is next month, April 5-7, when Hudson Bay Mountain in Smithers hosts the TECK North Zone Finals.