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2016-2017 Racing Team Photos Foggy Goggles |
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Coordinator: Brian Johnson |
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 2017 Team Photo: Foggy Goggles |
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| Left to Right: Ryan Long, Alyson Gamble, Elliot Swiss, Lezley Johansen, Sandy Powell, Gene Kath, Darin Long, Grant Lambert Missing: Mandie Swiss | ||||
| Photos by: Brian Johnson | ||||
570 Sandy Powell | 571 Captain Alyson Gamble | 571½ Associate Capt. Amara Gamble | ||
| Sandy
is by far the most intense racer on our team, and likely the most
intense in the entire league. She's always self-analyzing herself
to see where she can be better. But, when you're very good to
start with, it can be difficult to find ways to improve. | Being
a new mom hasn't slowed her down, she's one of the fastest on the
Hill. It was a difficult labor and delivery, complicated by the
fact that Amara was born already wearing her baby ski boots. | Amara
has already outgrown her first pair of baby ski boots, which meant a
trip to Pierce’s with mom and dad. Unfortunately for dad, mom
liked Amara's new ski boots so well, she had to have the same boot in
ladies grown-up size. Poor dad, not only was his Visa card
smoking, it was actually warped when they left the store. | ||
572 Lezley Johansen | 573 Elliot Swiss | 574 Mandie Swiss | ||
| She
was the most improved racer on our team, which says a lot because we
have some excellent racers on the team. She worked hard all
season long to improve her times, and it really paid off for her and
the team. | Elliot
comes to us from Michigan, where he and daughter Mandie both
raced. Right now he and Brian are trying to figure out a way to
use Mandie's snowboard as firewood, but that might be a little bit
tricky. | Unfortunately Mandie committed blasphemy. She decided to self-educate herself on snowboard riding. It didn't work out well, and even though she was wearing her helmet, she suffered a severe concussion and we lost her for the last half of the season. If her dad and Brian can't use the snowboard as firewood, maybe they can make a bench out of it. Even today Mandie is in physical therapy for her concussion. | ||
575 Gene Kath |
576 Scott Shields |
577 Co-captain Ryan Long |
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| This is Gene and his wife Marsha. They only have Sunday to ski together, and try to spend as much time on the Hill as they can. Gene’s a very modest person with many great accomplishments in his life. He's competed in Nationals many times and has been National champion in his age group more than once. But, he’s so modest he never shared any of that with us until this year. | Scott is in charge of developing a mascot for our table and has been working on it both this season and last. He and Brian thought they had it perfected, but when they try to put everything together the parts wouldn’t fit. This immediately drove Scott to find a restorative. They will work on it over the summer. | This is Ryan with his daughter Stella. Skiing runs in the family; next year Stella will be racing at Trollhaugen, and their son is on the Wild Mountain developmental team and races somewhere every Sunday. Needless to say mom will be somewhere else cheering every Sunday. | ||
578 Darin Long |
579 Grant Lambert |
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| Darren is Ryan's younger brother, and joined the team this year. He’s still getting the feeling of how everything works, but made steady improvements all year long. Very definitely he’s getting into the spirit of things. | Grant
is the owner of HeavyGlare.com, one of the league's sponsors.
They make custom sunglasses, both prescription and standard. We
asked him to join our team this year, and we’re very thankful he
did. If you look at Ryan's race bib you can see the
HeavyGlare.com sponsor's logo. | |||