US team trials Day 2 – July 1
The Quarter Finals start at 2pm Mountain time tomorrow, July 1, with strong competition across the board after day one at the US team trials in Missoula, Montana! The C1ers will lead off tomorrow whti two stacked heats featuring EJ, Dane Jackson as well as mainstay’s Seth Chapelle, Jake Ament, Jeff Campbell and others making this a well rounded comp. Following them will be the JR Women’s competition with 5 up-n-comers ready to take it to Europe in 2011. Emery Tillman lead the charge off the water showing super initiative in volunteering all day today… WK would like to recognize that she was awesome in her helping out! Once the Jrs are done, the OC1 finals happens with a classic battle on a very tough wave/hole for these gents. Eli Helbert sporting the ZZ top style beard will need to kick it in big time as Dane Jackson looks to retain his top spot after prelims. Two JR Men’s K1 heats happen after that again pitting Dane Jackson vs 9 other kids ready to dethrown him. The day will end with an amazing showdown of the US’s top paddlers … a mix of legends like Clay Wright, EJ, Jud Keiser and Dustin Urban versus the young’n Jason Craig, the hungry Stephen Wright and a few of the local Montana boyz making it into the top 10 after prelims. Bryan Kirk, the National Points leader will not be competing tomorrow, but has made the team spot and is destined to be this year’s National Champ!
The World Kayak coverage was blemmed a bit by a faulty wifi router and a better quality camera that refused to cooperate, but by the end of the day the wifi was good to go and the cam will be fixed for tomorrow’s action.
Starts at 2 pm Mountain time… live at worldkayak.com
US Team Trials Day 1 Prelim Results
OC1
- Dane Jackson – 105 points
- Jordan Poffenberger – 80 points
- Brad McMillian – 45 points
- Jeremy Laucks – 35 points
- Eli Helbert – 25 points
- Jeff Campbell – 10 points
- Jake Ament – 0 points
Women’s K1
- Emily Jackson – 600 points
- Devon Barker – 470 points
- Jessie Stone – 460 points
- Erin Clancey – 335 points
- Haley Mills – 300 points
- Kat Levitt 295 points
- Alley Fontenot – 260 points
- Nicole Mansfield – 250 points
- Amy Jimmerson – 200 points
- Jessica Yurtinus – 190 points
- Elaine Campbell – 190 points
- Cheyenne Rogers – 75 points
- Nathalie Kramer – 50 points
- Karen Mann – 15 points
Mens’ K1
- Eric Jackson – 1825 points
- Bryan Kirk, 1500 points
- Dustin Urban, 1460 points
- Stephen Wright, 1300 points
- Clay Wright, 1160 points
- Jason Craig, 965 points
- Jud Keiser, 960 points
- Michael Patterson, 815 points
- Shawn Byron, 780 points
- Craig Kleckner, 780 points
- Shane Groves, 600 points
- Karl Moser, 550 points
- Scott Dougherty, 550 points
- Quinton Barnett, 530 points
- Ben Kinsella, 520 points
- KB Kevin Brown 520 points
- Chris Wing, 480 points
- Jones Cochran, 445 points
- Luke Reiker, 430 points
- Dave Fusilli, 425
- Jason Shreder, 410 points
- Eli Spiegel, 385points
- David Levitt, 380 points
- Jared Seiler 355 points
- David Gorski 340 points
- Jeremy Laucks 330 points
- Leif Anderson 330 points
- Billy Malesky, 320 points
- Tommy Hehnen 320 points
- chad Addleman 240 points
- Graham Seiler 200 points
- Eddie Hake 160 points
- Drew Classon 120 points
- Doug Shapee 60 points
- Jack Pickhardt 55 points
Idaho’s Hometown Throwdown #1
Idaho’s first Hometown Throwdown of 2010 was held Thursday 5/20 at the Gutter in Horseshoe Bend. We were greeted with mostly cloudy skies and temps in the mid-60’s. Been on the cool side here in Idaho this year….
Water level for the evening was proving difficult for the competitors. The fourth drop was washed out and the 3rd drop was in between a hole and wave with a marginal eddy. Everyone was tired by the end of the night!
We ran 2 hole runs and then had a boater-x comp.
Results:
Mens K-1
- Tyler Wilson
- Phil Bellan
Youth
- Alec Voohees
- Tie – Mychal Hayes and Troy Wilson
- Ethan McLeod
- Connor McLeod
- Connor Jackson
- Hayden Voorhees
Come see us on June 12 at Kelly’s Whitewater Park in beautiful Cascade Idaho – this event should be a blast! Action starts at 11am.
Reno Slalom Survivor #1 2010
Once again we got terrible weather for our Slalom Survivor race. Despite the weather we had 13 frosty boaters brave enough to get wet. We set up a super fun course, and we had people racing in everything from play boats to creek boats. The course contained sections were boaters were required to hand paddle, paddle backwards, shoot a throw rope, and work on taking fewer strokes to get the job done. There were time bonuses for great throw rope shots and time penalties for excessive stroke work through one section of the course.
Jessie and Kyle both got a jump ahead of Blaine, who was not even present. Sage, just fresh off of some great race finishes in Kernville, raced well. Scott gave his new Villain a great test run. Noah managed to get a second place finish in a play boat. I am looking forward to our next pre Reno River Festival throwdown
1. Nick
2.Noah
3.Pete
4.Matt
5.Scott
6.Jesse
7.Dirk
8.Brian
9.Justin
10.Drew
11.Kyle
12.Mary
13.Sage
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