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Checking out Vermont's ski areas

By Brighton Luke

Bolton Valley Resort, Bolton

TRAILS: 64

LIFTS: 6

SNOWFALL: 312 inches annually.

TERRAIN PARKS: Three, including a Burton progression park.

TICKET PRICES: $39-64 full day; $29-59 half day.

Building your own backyard terrain park

By Brighton Luke

Featured Athletes: Christopher Hango and Devon Rollins

By Stephanie Choate

Christopher Hango

Richford Junior/Senior High School

Grade: 12

Sports: Soccer

Position: Striker.

What were your best and worst moments of the season: Best: scoring our first goal of the season. Worst: losing to Winooski.

Featured Athletes: Katja Langmaid and William Gleason

By Stephanie Choate

As the fall sports season wraps up, we’ll be profiling two standout athletes from schools in the area, nominated by their athletic directors. Today's athletes are from Enosburg High School.

Katja Langmaid

Grade: 12

Sport: Soccer.

Position: Goalkeeper.

Featured Athletes: Kaitlyn Boudah and Tucker Angier

By Stephanie Choate

Kaitlyn Boudah

Colchester High School

Grade: 12

Sport: Field Hockey

Position: Forward, right wing

Featured Athletes: Summer Spillane and Matthew Bauer

By Stephanie Choate

As the fall sports season wraps up, we’ll be profiling two standout athletes from schools in the area, nominated by their athletic directors. Today's athletes are from Champlain Valley Union High School.

Summer Spillane

Grade: 12

Sport: Cross-country

Featured athletes: Hillary Turner and Dino Georgakis

By Stephanie Choate

As the fall sports season wraps up, we’ll be profiling two standout athletes from schools in the area, nominated by their athletic directors. Today's athletes are from Milton High School.

Hillary Turner

Grade: 12

Sport: Soccer

Position: Goalkeeper

What were your best and worst moments of the season?

Featured athletes: Ashley McDonald and Josh Cassarino

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As the fall sports season wraps up, we’ll be profiling two standout athletes from schools in the area, nominated by their athletic directors. Today's athletes are from South Burlington High School.

Ashley McDonald

Grade: 12th

Sport: Field Hockey

Position: Left Inner (Forward)

Featured Athletes: Michael DiMambro and Markie Palermo

By Stephanie Choate

As the fall sports season wraps up, we’ll be profiling two standout athletes from schools in the area, nominated by their athletic directors. Today's athletes are from Essex High School.

Michael DiMambro

Grade: 12

Sport: Football

What were your best and worst moments of the season? Worst: struggling in the decathlon in shot put, and discus. Best: Coming in eighth place in the National Junior Olympic decathlon.

Sportsmanship is key in Ultimate Frisbee

By Stephanie Choate

Ultimate Frisbee might be the only sport where players get a score for their spirit.

“A huge part of the sport is sportsmanship and spirit between the teams,” said Daniel Lyons, who coaches the Champlain Valley Union High School team. “It’s about being really competitive and playing hard, but being honest and respecting the other players and teams.”

The sport is self-officiated, leaving control of the game in the hands of the players. Often, there aren’t even coaches. After each game, players rank the other team’s spirit on a one to five scale.

Sports radio show uses humor to draw listeners

By Stephanie Choate

The idea for EveryMorning Quarterback Radio started when Anthony Spagnolo and his friends were students at Rice Memorial High School.

“We would sit around the table and just talk sports,” said Spagnolo, now a junior at the University of Vermont. “Now, we basically do the same thing, except more people hear it.”

Spagnolo hosts the popular radio sports program, broadcast by ESPN, every Saturday morning, along with several regular co-hosts. EMQ Radio covers local and national sports, as well as a bit of entertainment and weird news.

Vermont rider wins national championship

By Stephanie Choate

Champlain Valley Union High School student Dylan Peters spent more than 100 days on his snowboard this winter, and it paid off.

Earlier this month, Peters, 17, won the junior men’s slopestyle competition at the USA Snowboarding Association national championship, held at Copper Mountain, Colo.

“It was crazy,” said Peters, a Williston resident. “It was pretty amazing because I didn’t really know what to expect when I went out there.”

Peters said he almost broke his ankle while practicing a jump before his run.

Vermonters help U.S. win silver medal

By Stephanie Choate

Four high school students from a Stowe hockey school—two of them native Vermonters—wore United States jerseys in an international tournament earlier in April.

The U.S. team won silver medals in the International Ice Hockey Federation World Women’s Under-18 tournament, losing to Canada 5-4 in an overtime game April 3.

“It was definitely one of the best experiences I have ever had and been a part of,” said Amanda Pelkey, who also played on the team last winter. “Wearing the jersey again this year, it felt really good.”

Vermonters represent U.S. in tournament

By Stephanie Choate

Four teens from a Stowe hockey school—two of them native Vermonters—will represent the United States tonight (April 2) in an international tournament in Chicago.

The game, set for Friday at 6:30 p.m., is a semi-final match against Sweden in the International Ice Hockey Federation World Women’s Under-18 tournament.

The U.S. team has won the tournament since it was established three years ago. Captain Brittany Ammerman, a senior at North American Hockey Academy in Stowe, said she thinks the team’s chances of winning are good.

Community gathers for good cause

Stephanie Choate

Bluebird skies, warm weather, and a great cause drew nearly 300 people to the second Molly Rowlee Rail Jam at Smuggler’s Notch Resort.

“It was awesome,” said organizer Paige Manning. “The response was just incredible.”

Molly Rowlee, an avid snowboarder, was five years old when she was diagnosed with lymphoma last winter. Five months later, her parents had lost her.

The Molly Fund raises money for the families of children with cancer, helping to ease some of the financial burden that comes with the disease.

Spaulding bests CVU for hockey title

Mal Boright

It was the defending Division 1 champions against a team making its first trip to the crowning contest in 13 years.

In the end, it was a deep and talented Spaulding High of Barre team that bumped the Champlain Valley Union High 2009 titleholders from their position. The Crimson Tide put together a late-blooming 4-1 victory at the University of Vermont’s Gutterson Fieldhouse on the evening of March 2.

Battle for Burlington draws local talent

Stephanie Choate

More than 15 skiers and snowboarders turned out for the Battle for Burlington High School Throwdown at Bolton on Feb. 20, despite a freezing rain that covered everything with an icy crust in minutes.

This year’s winner in the snowboard competition was TJ King, from BFA-St. Albans. Will Hibbs from CVU won in the skiing category.

“It was pretty sweet,” King said. “It’s a great event to compete in. Every year I do a little better.”

King took home a 2010 Burton Snowboard.

Williston brothers succeed at unique sport

By Tim Simard

Trail runners enjoy quick jogs down root- and rock-laden paths. Mappers like using compasses and maps to chart interesting routes through different terrain. Orienteering competitors combine both in strategy-filled endurance races that require participants to think on their toes while watching where they put their feet.
It’s like trying to read a book while running a five-minute mile,” said Andrew Childs, a 17-year-old Williston resident and Champlain Valley Union High School senior.

Checking out Vermont's ski areas

Bolton Valley Resort, Bolton

Building your own backyard terrain park

Featured Athletes: Christopher Hango and Devon Rollins

Christopher Hango

Richford Junior/Senior High School

Katja Langmaid

Kaitlyn Boudah

Colchester High School

Summer Spillane

Hillary Turner

Ashley McDonald

Michael DiMambro

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