Louison Accambray (CU). Photograph courtesy of Colorado Athletics.
Colorado, Denver, and Utah Commerce Blows at Loveland FISU Slalom Races
Two days of FISU slalom racing at Loveland Ski Space, CO produced elite collegiate snowboarding, razor-thin margins, and a transparent early-season takeaway: the RMISA alpine race is already a three-team battle.
Throughout males’s and ladies’s slaloms on Jan. 12 and Jan. 13, the College of Utah, College of Denver, and College of Colorado every stamped authority in numerous methods. Utah delivered race-winning precision, Denver owned the ladies’s hill, and Colorado piled up factors with unmatched depth.
Males: Herland Sweeps, Colorado Stacks the Podium
Utah’s Johs Braathen Herland was untouchable at Loveland. The Norwegian swept each males’s slaloms, pairing technical self-discipline with managed aggression to win on consecutive days and set up himself because the early normal in collegiate slalom.
Colorado repeatedly closed in behind him, inserting three skiers inside the highest 4 on Jan. 13 and denying Utah any probability at a podium sweep. The Buffaloes’ depth proved decisive within the staff standings and signaled critical early-season energy.
Males’s Slalom — Jan. 12
1. Johs Braathen Herland — College of Utah — 1:29.59
2. Stanley Buzek — College of Colorado — +0.70
3. Fabio Allasina — College of Colorado — +1.41
4. Lucas Ellis — Colorado Mountain School — +1.46
5. Pierick Charest — College of Utah — +1.75
Males’s Slalom — Jan. 13
1. Johs Braathen Herland — College of Utah — 1:25.12
2. Stanley Buzek — College of Colorado — +0.03
3. Filip Wahlqvist — College of Colorado — +0.26
4. Fabio Allasina — College of Colorado — +0.78
5. Lucas Ellis — Colorado Mountain School — +0.95
Buzek opened his collegiate profession with back-to-back runner-up finishes, whereas Wahlqvist rebounded from a crash on the opening day to publish the quickest first run on Tuesday. Allasina added two top-five outcomes to start his NCAA profession, reinforcing Colorado’s early depth benefit.
Girls: Denver Owns the Hill
If Utah managed the lads’s races, the College of Denver dominated the ladies’s slaloms.
Sara Rask swept each races with composed, mistake-free snowboarding, whereas Mia Hunt and Elisabeth Creighton added podium and near-podium outcomes that powered Denver’s staff scoring and stored the Pioneers locked in a good battle with Colorado.
Girls’s Slalom — Jan. 12
1. Sara Rask — College of Denver — 1:29.20
2. Louison Accambray — College of Colorado — +0.46
3. Elisabeth Creighton — College of Denver — +0.85
3. Mia Hunt — College of Denver — +0.85
5. Ella Bromee — College of Alaska Anchorage — +0.91
Girls’s Slalom — Jan. 13
1. Sara Rask — College of Denver — 1:29.70
2. Mia Hunt — College of Denver — +0.51
3. Louison Accambray — College of Colorado — +0.94
4. Ella Bromee — College of Alaska Anchorage — +1.13
5. Erica Lynch — College of Nevada — +1.91
Colorado countered Denver’s wins with consistency. Louison Accambray earned podium finishes on each days, whereas Paige DeHart and Alexa Brownlie added key scoring performances deeper within the discipline.
Staff Image: Margins Already Razor Skinny
By means of 4 alpine races, the standings underline simply how shut the early RMISA race has grow to be:
Colorado leaned on males’s depth and constant girls’s scoring
Denver managed the ladies’s races and stayed inside placing distance
Utah delivered probably the most dominant males’s particular person efficiency of the week
The opening slalom block ended with Colorado and Denver separated by a single level general, with Utah firmly within the combine behind Herland’s sweep.
What’s Subsequent
The RMISA circuit shifts to Aspen Highlands for big slalom races on Wednesday and Thursday, break up between the Denver and Colorado Invitationals. With Denver’s girls, Colorado’s depth, and Utah’s race-winning type, the GS races loom as the primary main separator of the collegiate season.
