Local roundup: Team Summit girls dominate at freestyle Junior Olympics

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS - Whitney Henceroth capped off last weekend's freestyle Junior Olympics at Steamboat Springs with a win over teammate Jordan Poyfair in the dual moguls on Sunday. The Voodoo mogul course grew some teeth over five days of training and competition and the bumps were big and hard, Team Summit freestyle coach John Dowling said. For Henceroth, the win was vindication after Friday's fourth-place finish in the single moguls event.

With Henceroth on top, Poyfair in second, Lane Stoltzner from Telluride (who also trains part time with Team Summit) in third, Becky Miller in sixth and Kiki Adams in seventh, the Team Summit girls dominated the junior national scene.

Annie Serra of Wasatch, Utah, won Friday's single moguls event. She was followed by Team Summit's Mikaela Matthews in second and Miller in third. Henceroth was fourth and Adams took sixth. Poyfair, who led the competition after the first run, finished 20th.

In Friday's boys competition, Team Summit's Dylan Walczyk won the J3 division ahead of runner-up Michael DeGrandis (Steamboat) and third-place finisher Nicholas Dziemian (Waterville Valley, New Hampshire). Huntington Adams was fifth. Walczyk also tied for 17th in Sunday's dual moguls and was Team Summit's only junior male skier to qualify in the event.

Local skier Bruce Perry took second in the J4 category behind Squaw Valley's Trevor Semmons.

Kaitlyn Harrell collected top honors in girls J5 moguls and Alisha Scheifley was 15th among J3s after crashing in her competition run.

In Saturday's JO aerials comp, Ian Borgeson took fourth place.

U.S. Nationals will be held at Park City Utah later this month. Team Summit girls Whitney Henceroth, Jordan Poyfair, Mikaela Matthews, Kiersten 'Kiki' Adams and men John Eaton, Justin Henceroth, Brandon Denker and David Degol will compete there.

Brown victorious at Big Bear Open

Big Bear Lake, Calif. - Summit High School student Bobby Brown won the slopestyle skiing event at last weekend's Big Bear Open in California.

The Big Bear Open was the second stop in the North American Freeskiing Open, which began last month in Breckenridge, where Brown took fourth.

Perry Jr. receives rookie of the year honors

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS - Local freeskier Bruce Perry Jr. was recently named the J4 rookie of the year in moguls and finished the season out as the top-ranked, 12-year-old mogul skier in the nation.



Black wins overall pipe title in Revolution Tour

SUMMIT COUNTY - Zack Black was recently crowned the overall halfpipe winner in the Chevrolet Revolution Tour. Black will soon be departing for Europe for the Jr. Worlds competition in Valmalenco, Italy.