LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – January 11, 2019 – The Colby-Sawyer women's alpine ski team began the 2019 Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA) season with slalom racing at Whiteface Mountain on a cold and blustery Friday.

The first carnival of the season was hosted by Saint Lawrence. Today was originally scheduled to be giant slalom, but due to the conditions the racers competed in slalom racing. The race occurred on Draper's Drop, on Little Whiteface, under cloudy skies and temperatures hovering around zero with wind-chills well into the negatives. The day began with 75 racers, but 23 did not finish. The Chargers finished in 13th place with 12 points.

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS

TEAM RESULTS

Junior Sarah Auer (Big Bear Lake, Calif.) led four Charger finishers in 45th place. She had run times of 55.48 and 1:00.48 for a total of 1:55.96.

Right behind Auer was junior Courtney Couture (Lyme, N.H.). She came away with 46th place with a combined time of 1:56.02. Her first run was 52.38 followed by a time of 1:03.64 in run two.

In her first EISA appearance, first-year Hayley Kingman (South Glens Falls, N.Y.) finished in 47th with a two-run time of 2:01.21. She covered the course the first time through in 58.79 and followed with a second run of 1:02.42.

Also competing in the EISA for the first time with the Chargers was first-year Ashley Humphreys (Lyndeborough, N.H.). She placed 49th with run times of 56.83 and 1:13.79 for a total of 2:10.62.

Junior Katy Harris (Breckenridge, Colo.) was in 29th after a first run of 49.71, but did not finish the second run.

The Chargers will compete in the giant slalom tomorrow.  

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