Sarah Williams is a fifteen year old sophomore at Truckee High School and Squaw Valley Big Mountain Team member.  Sarah competes in the 15-17 year old girls big mountain competition and has three victories this season.  Sarah took first at Alpine Meadows on the Junior Tahoe Freeride Series, the Crested Butte Extremes on the Junior Freeskiing Tour, and Crystal Mountain Junior Freeskiing championships.

In her own words:

“Day one of the of the (Crystal Mountain) JFT was held in the Elk Chutes venue.  It was a foggy, snowy day and visibility was less than ideal.  My run consisted of mostly open skiing up top which led into a very icy entrance into a fall line air out the bottom.  I felt like my skiing wasn’t up to its usual pace and I ended the day in second, trailing Perry Martin from Alta/Snowbird by 2.5 points.” Read the rest of this entry »

Granite Chief athlete and Squaw Valley Big Mountain team member Sarah Williams won the Crested Butte Junior National Freeski Tour event last week. The Truckee sophomore won the girls age 15-17 category beating out a competitive field in a tough venue in the Western Colorado resort. The Junior National Freeski Tour consists of four stops, Crested Butte, CO,Crystal Mountain, WA, Kirkwood, CA, and the finals at Snowbird, UT. Miss Williams adds first place at Crested Butte to her first at Alpine Meadows on the Junior Tahoe Freeride Series, great job Sarah! Sarah got the job done on a pair of K2 Missdemeanors, Marker Bindings, and Nordica ski boots.

Granite Chief athletes Drew Hartley and Sarah Williams both won their age groups at the first stop of the Junior Tahoe Freeride Series.  The Junior Tahoe Freeride Series is a big mountain skiing competition coming to several Lake Tahoe ski areas.  Keep up the awesome work guys!

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Sugar Bowl Ski Team memeber and Granite Chief Athelete Drew Hartley gets after it at Sugar Bowl December 2010.