Winter Sports

While the majority of Webster Distance Runners competed on the Indoor Track team, several went in other directions during the winter, but are back together for the outdoor season. We'll take a look at what links we can dig up for each of the sports. Today, we'll start with the Nordic Ski Team.

WDR competitors included Eric Mallery, Ben Thompson, Mike Hohl, Ray McBride, Zach Lyons, Phil LiPari, Steven Dana and Joe Hughes on the boys team, and only Amanda Paratore for the girls.

There is a nice web site for Section V Nordic, located here. It includes this link to the results from most of the season's races. The top performance of the year is not shown there: Eric placed in the top 5 at States, after qualifying by placing 7th at Sectionals. How often does someone place higher at States than at Sectionals?!? Future WDR(?), Pete Mallery also had an amazing season, capped with an 11th best split in the Skate relay at Sectionals, after placing 18th in the Classic race, splitting honors as the top freshman in the area (and state?) with Tyler Urckfitz, whose father competed in an epic race recounted here.

Amanda also had an outstanding season, as she led all Webster skiers in the Skate events, following tremendous improvement from her modified season a year ago. In Classic, she was usually second behind Jenna Bilsback (Nate says, "hi").

The rest of the boys, all relatively young and experienced, made solid showings on the Webster JV A team. And after a few days of track practice, it seems their fitness levels remained quite high, despite having wrapped up their season on Feb. 16th.