There might not be any snow here at Brandeis, but there is plenty on the mountains. Brandeis’ ski and snowboard club team kicked off its season on with a race on January 10th at Magic Mountain in Vermont.
Brandeis performed well at the race with Allison Schwab ’16 finishing third in the women’s snowboarding slalom with a combined time of 1:30.54. Brandeis’ Rachel Zhu ’18 finished with a combined time of 1:40.20, Kathryn Semerau ’17 finished with a combined time of 1:51.22 and Tamar Lyssy ’16 finished with a combined 2:02.78.
In Alpine skiing, Miriam Fink ’15 finished 9th for Brandeis with a time of 58.66. Emily Caditz ’15 finished the race with 1:04.29, Evelyn Karin ’17 finished with 1:09.22, Malika Briggs ’18 finished with a 1:12.33, Ellen Parker ’16 finished with a 1:21.26 and Isabel Smith ‘18 finished with a time of 1:26.99.
In Men’s Alpine Jordan Miller ’17 finished 15th with a time of 54.63. Also, racing for Brandeis, Shi Pu ’16 finished with a time of 59.22, Corey Shapiro ’15 finished with 1:06.55, Jacob Abrams ’17 finished with a time of 1:10.55, Zachary Schwartz ’18 finished with 1:15.71 while Tianxiang Liu (GRAD) finished with a 1:21.56.
The club will compete again this weekend at the Middlebury Snow Bowl in Vermont.
