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Sturgeon Bay High School

Clippers Ski Team compete in Bayfield County

When you wake up in Washburn, Wisconsin, and Conway Twitty is playing on the radio, that's your first indication that it's going to be a great day of skiing and snowboarding.  This past Tuesday, the Clipper Ski and Snowboard Team rode that wave of Classic Country excitement to a fantastic showing at their second Northern Conference event of the season at Mt. Ashwabay in Bayfield County.  

 

Junior Tristan Brilla returned to his first action of the season this year, finishing second amongst all snowboarders and picking up where he left off last year as a State qualifier.  Brilla competed in the Boardercross, Slalom, and Giant Slalom and posted solid second-place times in all three events.  

 

In the skiing events, Junior Captain Tori Alger once again led the Lady Clippers, this time to a 4th place team finish ahead of their Northern Conference rivals, the Rhinelander Lady Hodags.  Alger placed 14th overall in the meet, and every girl on the team improved from the first meet at Snowriver.  Freshmen Jordis Brilla and June VanLieshout improved their times by 21% and 17%, respectively.  Junior Julia Gregory and Senior Lilly Cihlar also posted improved times, and Junior Maddie Propsom competed well in her first racing event of the season.  

 

Junior Ben Stephens posted the best Clipper times on the boys' side in his first racing action of the season, finishing 21st overall in the meet.  Junior Captain Xavier Jandrin and Freshman Levi Ullman also posted improved times over their first meet two weeks ago, but the highlight of the meet for the Clipper boys was hearing the PA announcer pronounce Jandrin's name as "HA-vee-air Jzahn-DREEN," which definitely sounds like an Argentine downhiller.  We will all tell our grandkids someday that we skied with the great HA-vee-air Jzahn-DREEN.

 

The Clippers compete closer to home next week in the third conference event, which will be held at Granite Peak in Wausau on Thursday, February 2nd.