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Wednesday, March 9, 2022 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Sisters skier is slalom champion
By Rongi Yost
Correspondent
Outlaws skier Bela
Chladek is the state champion
slalom skier.
Chladek9s outstanding
performance in the High
School State Championship
Alpine Ski Race at Mt. Hood
Meadows led an astonishing
Outlaws run that put the boys
team in second place for the
slalom 4 a second away from
the top of the podium.
The Outlaws skiers raced
at Mt. Hood Meadows on
Thursday and Friday, March
3-4. On Thursday, the girls
raced giant slalom and the
boys raced slalom. On Friday,
they switched events.
In Thursday9s action,
the boys raced on soften-
ing course conditions on the
first slalom run, which led
to a number of crashes and
disqualifications. Run two
hardened up as temperatures
dropped, which produced
faster racing conditions. The
level of competition was high
and athletes definitely felt the
pressure.
The boys turned in an
amazing team performance
in the slalom event, and took
second place. The team was
very close to a first-place fin-
ish, as they came in barely a
second behind Lincoln High
School.
Bela Chladek had a great
first run and an even bet-
ter second run to take first
place in the slalom event by
almost three seconds, which
made him the 2022 Oregon
high school slalom event state
champion.
Chladek is the first athlete
from Sisters High School to
take first place at a high school
ski-racing championship.
<Bela really turned some
heads at the top of the slalom
course with his second run,=
said Coach Gabe Chladek. <It
was really fun to watch.=
Corbin Fredland had two
very fast runs and finished
sixth. Styopa Myagkov and
Gus Patton suffered techni-
cal difficulties and crashed
on their first run, but the
boys team score was saved
by Emerson Backus, who
was able to hold on through
the finish and record a neces-
sary third time for the team.
Myagkov had a good sec-
ond run and also contributed
nicely to the team score.
On Friday, the giant sla-
lom (GS) course, which came
off the top of a run called
<Burial,= was challenging
and technically demanding.
Fredland and Myagkov skied
two fast, clean runs and were
the top Sisters GS scorers.
Chladek skied the fastest
first run for the Outlaws, but
crashed on his second run.
Duey and Tisdel both stepped
up and skied outstanding runs
and saved the Sisters team9s
GS score putting them in
fourth place.
The boys9 combined sla-
lom and giant Slalom score
put them in third place over-
all. Fredland had the high
combined score for the
Outlaws, which placed him
fifth overall.
Coach Chladek said,
<Especially noteworthy were
the performances of Gus
Patton and Spencer Tisdel.
They really stepped up and
showed amazing perseverance
with rough course conditions
under the pressure of the state
championship competition.=
The boys brought home
two State trophies, a second-
place trophy in the slalom
and a third-place trophy in the
combined. This accomplish-
ment is a very big deal, as the
boys had to compete against
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Skiing, unlike any other high
school sport, is not divided by
school size.
There have been only four
top-three trophies in ski racing
for Sisters in the last 20 years;
one in the early 2000s, one
two years ago when the boys
went to Ashland, and now the
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The girls team faced a
very challenging giant sla-
lom course on Thursday. The
race had several transitions
between steeper and flatter
pitches, and started and ended
on steep slopes. Almost a third
of the field didn9t finish the
first run, but the majority did
fare better on the second run.
Top seed Araiya Grummer
finished both runs, and was
able to work through the
glitches.
Coach Chladek said, <She
raced first and finished, but
did have an issue with a tricky
delay that led into the final
pitch. In the second run she
raced a rerun because she had
to avoid a racer who crashed
in front of her.=
Tallis Grummer crashed
on her first run and skied a
clean second run. Charlotte
Seymour and Ella Eby
crashed on both runs.
First-year racer Ava Riehle
and senior Piper Adelt (rac-
ing as a non-scoring alternate)
both faced a rutted course as
they skied toward the end
of the race. They completed
clean runs both times. The
Outlaws were among six of
the 15 teams at State who did
not score as a team because at
least three racers didn9t finish
each run.
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(sophomore) skied well on the
top part of the slalom course
on both runs, but crashed
at the end and did not finish
either one.
The slalom race was won
by Annie Hendrickson of
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Two Outlaw racers will
continue on and ski in the
Western States High School
Championships at Mount
Rose near Lake Tahoe in
California this week. Bela
Chladek and Corbin Fredland
will be on a team of 12 high
school athletes representing
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(OES) finished first, St.
Mary9s Academy was runner-
up, and Lincoln High School
took third.
The girls raced much bet-
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race, and placed ninth as a
team, just behind St. Mary9s
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PHOTO BY MISHA MYAGKOV
Bela Chladek shows winning form in a slalom run at the High School State
Championship Alpine Ski Race at Mt. Hood Meadows. Chladek is the first
Outlaws skier to take first place at a high school ski-racing championship.
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