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Great news for all who love Alpine Snowboard racing. The PGS will be eturning to the 2008 World Cup being held at Lake Placid. Story found at link below. http://www.nessg.com/wcreturnstony2008.shtml For those who want to keep it coming back you may want to consider sending a thank you e-mail to Marcel Looze FIS Snowboard Race Director looze@fisski.ch, Juliann Fritz, USSA Public Relations Director jfritz@ussa.org, and Jim Goff, ORDA Director of Events jgoff@orda.org If nothing else, if enough of us let them know we support the move, it may help encourage all involved to continue the practice beyond 2008.

For those of you who are not familiar with Bud Keene, he was the 2006 Olympic U.S. Snowboarding Halfpipe Head Coach. Granted this is a site focused on Alpine style riding, but I think Bud getting the USOC Coach of the Year award is important to everyone who loves snowboarding. In the PR that can be found at: http://www.nessg.com/coachofyear06.shtml Bud says, "'This is a big honor,' said Keene. 'But this is more of a recognition for the sport of snowboarding. It's a big deal for the USOC to recognize the sport and truly shows how far it's come. It's easy to just look at the Olympics, but this was a four-year effort that I'll never forget. I'm the recipient, but snowboarding deserves the honor.'" I met Bud earlier this year while racing at a USASA Northern Vermont Giant Slalom event at Stowe. Here's a guy who less than a year earlier was working with big names like Shaune White... at the Olympics. A year later, he's at Stowe helping to set up a USASA GS course, and later awarded us our medals. Bud was very down to earth and approachable. Seemed like a great guy. Guys like Bud Keene is what has helped move our sport along so quickly. The former Olympic HP Head Coach did not have to be out there with a bunch of kids and old guys on a very cold winters day. He did not have to stick around to personally put medals around our necks--but he did. I'm not friends with the guy. I only met him that one time. But I was impressed--not by the fact that he was the former Olympic HP Head Coach, but that the former Olympic HP Head Coach loved the sport enough to do whatever he could do to help advance it--even if it meant hanging out with amateur Alpine racers on a cold winter day. Congrats to Bud Keene the 2006 USOC Coach of the Year and to all the other folks who give of their time to help kids and yes even some of us old guys advance our skills in the sport we love!

Final Bracketed Results and Final Results List For P Slalom and Big Air http://www.nessg.com/jrworlds07_daily_results.shtml All results for SBX, PGS, PS, and Big Air.

PGS Race Bracket and Final Results (including individual course times) http://www.nessg.com/jrworlds07_daily_results.shtml

Detailed Junior Worlds SBX Results - Including brackets with results http://www.nessg.com/jrworlds07_daily_results.shtml

The links for the detailed results can be found below the write-up on the championship event. http://www.nessg.com/us_snowboard_championships07_gssl.shtml Great outing for Chris Klug.

The sport of SBX is clearly growing. Seth Wescott and Sugarloaf holding the first Champion's Cross this weekend. Winner takes home $10,000. The stated goal is to "create the premiere boardercross tour in North America." Good or bad for snowboard racing in general? Will this help create more interest in alpine style racing? http://www.nessg.com/championscross07.shtml

2007 Race To the Cup Official Results - Bromley PGS/SL The results are far more extensive than those found on the FIS site, including such things as individual times for each course. Men PGS http://www.nessg.com/mpgs_bromley2007_results.shtml Ladies PGS http://www.nessg.com/wpgs_bromley2007_results.shtml Ladies PSL http://www.nessg.com/wpsl_bromley2007_results.shtml Men PSL Not Included Due To Errors In Record. Will Provide If Correct Record Can Be Obtained.

The US Snowboarding released the Junior World Team today. Congrats to everyone on the team. Many familiar names of those who have competed in the USASA regionals and Nationals. Special congrats to Phil being named a coach on the team. http://www.nessg.com/jrworlds07.shtml

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