Dear Interweb,

I could write my own report, but my coach Trennon put it so nicely that I’m just going to use his for now:

Northstar at Tahoe, CA
Sunday marked the end of the inaugural Winter Dew Tour season, with the final day of competition.  Sunday’s events were the snowboarding Mens and Womens Superpipe, as well as the final event for our team, the Womens Ski Superpipe.

Unlike the perfect weather that we had been treated to earlier, we woke up Sunday morning to the sound of rain coming down, and when we arrived at the hill we were greeted with more of the same, mixed with some very wet snow.  This did not seem to deter either the competitors, or the crowds, who showed up ready to brave the weather for a chance to watch the best in the World perform.

Team member Rosalind Groenewoud was on her game from the moment the pipe opened for training, and did not let the conditions slow her down one bit.  If anything, she was launching higher out of the pipe than ever before.  In her first run she put down the most technical run of the competition, spinning both left and right 540s, and adding switch landings as well as switch spins to her run.  Her score came in just under Mirjam Jager of Switzerland, and at the end of the first run she was sitting in 2nd place.

I'm going to say that this is 13-14 feet out...

On the second run Roz went even bigger, but had a bit of a washout on one of her 540s, so it was her first run score that held through.  While the other women put down some great runs, nobody but Mirjam Jager was able to eclipse Roz’s first run score, giving Roz 2nd place, and her first Dew Tour podium!

The podium was an international affair, with Switzerland, Canada, and France taking the top 3 positions.

Myself, Mirjam and Anais

Top 5 results:

1 - Mirjam Jager (SUI)
2 - Rosalind Groenewoud (CAN)
3 - Anais Caradeux (FRA)
4 - Jessica Cumming (USA)
5 - Angelie Van Laanen (USA)

The top 3 runs were shown later in the day on NBC’s Sunday Afternoon Sports Update. I’m going to try to track down the show to post here!

Sincerely,

RozG