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The second blog for The Yorker from the University of York Riding Club
Steph Campbell-Woodward was York’s only competitor in the first event of the day - the ladies ski slalom. Unfortunately her time was not good enough to qualify for a second run.
The next event was the male ski slalom, where Mike Perkins and Dave Tee were competing. Tee made a mistake early on in his run and was unable to recover, so as a result he registered a DNF. Perkins was able to finish, but like Campbell-Woodward earlier, he wasn’t quick enough to qualify for a second race.
Having won her race at BUISC north by almost three seconds, Neuner was expected to do well in the female snowboard slalom. She didn’t disappoint, winning the event and yet another medal for York.
The male snowboard slalom followed, where Tom Farrow and Paul James Oates competed. Farrow followed his second place in BUISC north with a bronze medal and the second podium finish of the day for York.
Having qualified for the dual slalom event in the lowest seed category, the odds were against York’s ski first team (Tee, Perkins, Campbell-Woodward, Matt Cooke and Ieva Drulyte) - a point proven when they were drawn against Loughborough’s first team in their first race. Despite being up against the champions of the Midlands region, York managed to stay in contact throughout the race, and, although they lost the race, there wasn’t that much in it.
York’s snowboard team (Neuner, Farrow, Oates and Rhys Oakley) managed to go one better than the skiers, reaching the second round of their races. After winning their first-round race, York were drawn against Manchester firsts, the same team that beat them in their semi-final at BUISC north. The race was an extremely close affair, with Manchester trailing for most of the race. However Manchester pulled back their deficit in the last leg to cross the line neck-and-neck with York. After this all eyes were on the line judges, who decided that Manchester had just beaten York.
Unfortunately for York the event didn’t qualify for BUCS points; the 18 points York would have earned would have more than doubled their current tally for the year. However YUsnow will be competing in the British Universities Alpine Championships from the 2nd-9th of April, where they will have a chance to add to their BUCS points.
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