FARMINGTON, Maine - The University of Maine at Farmington snowsports program returned to Maine a week ago after another successful showing at the USCSA National Championship. This year's championship events took place in Lake Placid, New York.
The Beavers had an impressive performance, finishing the week with 27 All-American awards and 12 Academic All-American honors.
All-American Awards
1st Team All-Americans:
Lance Dolan - Alpine Giant Slalom
Rosie St. Cyr - Alpine Slalom, Dual Slalom
Max Labonte - Freeski Rail Jam
Maxwell Hamilton - Freeski Rail Jam, Combined
Arden Weaver - Freeski Slopestyle, Combined, Big Air
Ezra Mathieu - Snowboard Rail Jam, Slopestyle
Caelan Billings - Snowboard Slalom, Snowboard Giant Slalom
Ayla Bodach-Turner - 15k Freestyle
2nd Team All-Americans:Lance Dolan - Alpine Combined
Sam Roy - Alpine Slalom
Rosie St. Cyr - Alpine Combined
Arden Weaver - Freeski Rail Jam
Logan Dube - Freeski Rail Jam
Max Labonte - Freeski Combined
Maxwell Hamilton - Freeski Slopestyle
Ezra Mathieu - Snowboard Freestyle Combined
Caelan Billings - Snowboard Alpine Combined
Tucker Boudreau - Snowboard Rail Jam
Jackson Boudreau - Snowboard Slopestyle
Ayla Bodach-Turner - Nordic Combined, Freestyle Sprint
Scholar All-Americans:
Caelan Billings, Ayla Bodach-Turner, Jackson Boudreau, Hokulani Caroselli, Logan Dube, Abigail Dumont, Dylan Gagnon, Maxwell Hamilton, Kyle Ingalls, Kelsey McCrum, Rosie St. Cyr, Arden Weaver
Team and Individual Results
Men's Alpine (8th Place)
The men's alpine National Championship consisted of three separate events: giant slalom, slalom, and dual slalom. The giant slalom opened the week of competition. Battling soft snow and difficult course conditions, Farmington had two skiers complete both runs, with Lance Dolan (Coplin Plantation, Maine) leading the way. Dolan finished his two runs in 2:05.32, placing seventh overall and earning 1st Team All-American honors. Senior Lake Lindelof (Belfast, Maine) also completed both runs, finishing in 2:15.13 to place 31st overall. With Dolan and Lindelof as the only two finishers, Farmington used a ghost time for its third score and posted a total time of 7:32.47, finishing 13th overall in the event.
In the slalom National Championship, the Beavers were led by senior Sam Roy (Frenchville, Maine), who posted a combined two-run time of 1:34.21 to finish 12th overall and earn 2nd Team All-American honors. Dolan and first-year Magnus Riggs (Fletcher, Vt.) also placed inside the top 30, finishing 26th and 30th, respectively. Junior Chase Raven (Hudson, Wis.) competed as well, placing 46th overall. Combining the times of Roy, Dolan, and Riggs, Farmington posted a total time of 4:52.57 to earn seventh place as a team.
The men's alpine competition concluded with the dual slalom National Championship. The event seeded the 23 competing teams based on results from the giant slalom and slalom, then placed them into a head-to-head bracket. Each matchup featured a best-of-five format, with skiers racing head-to-head against opponents from the opposing institution. Farmington entered as the 12th seed and faced 21st-seeded Clermont Colleges in the opening round. The Beavers advanced quickly, with Dolan, Roy, and Riggs each winning their matchups. In the second round, Farmington faced eventual champion Central Michigan University. The matchup went to all five skiers, with the Beavers narrowly falling in the final race.
Overall, Farmington finished eighth at the USCSA National Championship in men's alpine.
Women's Alpine - Individual Results based on Rosie St. Cyr
St. Cyr qualified for the USCSA National Championship as an individual and was the lone Beaver competing in the alpine events. She delivered an outstanding performance throughout the week, returning to campus with multiple honors.
St. Cyr opened her week in the giant slalom, placing 36th overall in a field of 89 finishers with a combined time of 2:28.12.
She followed with a standout performance in the slalom, finishing eighth overall to earn 1st Team All-American honors. St. Cyr placed inside the top 10 in both runs, including the fourth-fastest second run, finishing with a combined time of 1:41.72—less than 2.5 seconds out of first place.
Competing as an individual, St. Cyr raced in the dual slalom against other individual qualifiers. Seeded fourth based on her combined alpine results, she received a bye into the quarterfinals. She defeated Charlotte Courtois of Stanford to advance to the semifinals, where she overcame top seed Paige Barta of the U.S. Military Academy. In the finals, St. Cyr defeated Paige Petersen of the University of Utah to claim the national title.
Across all three events, St. Cyr placed 15th overall individually, earning Combined 2nd Team All-American honors.
Women's Nordic (6th Place)
The USCSA women's nordic National Championship consisted of four events: the 7.5K Classic, Freestyle Sprint, 15K Freestyle, and Classic Team Sprint.
The 7.5K Classic was the first event of the week. Farmington's top three skiers combined for a total time of 1:26:53, placing sixth overall as a team. The Beavers were led by senior Ayla Bodach-Turner (East Montpelier, Vt.), who finished 17th in 27:32.3. Cora Treiss (Berlin, N.H.) placed 21st with a time of 28:24.1, while Hokulani Caroselli (Temple, Maine) made her USCSA National Championship debut, finishing 32nd in 30:57.2.
The Freestyle Sprint began with qualifying heats, where 66 athletes competed for a spot in the top 30 to advance. Bodach-Turner and Treiss each qualified, advancing to the quarterfinals as the sixth and 23rd seeds, respectively. Caroselli, Kelsey McCrum (Greenbush, Maine), and Abbie Dumont (Windham, Maine) also competed, placing 42nd, 57th, and 58th.
The quarterfinal round featured five heats of six skiers each. The top two finishers from each heat, along with the next two fastest overall times, advanced to the semifinals. From there, the top three finishers in each semifinal advanced to the 'A' Final, while the remaining skiers competed in the 'B' Final.
Treiss placed sixth in her quarterfinal heat and did not advance, finishing 27th overall. Bodach-Turner won her quarterfinal heat, finishing nearly four seconds ahead of the next competitor. In the semifinals, she placed fifth, moving to the 'B' Final, where she finished third to secure ninth place overall. As a team, Farmington placed sixth in the event with 69 points.
Bodach-Turner continued her strong week in the 15K Freestyle, finishing seventh with a time of 46:26.8 to earn 1st Team All-American honors. Her performance helped lead the Beavers to a fourth-place team finish.
Treiss and Caroselli also contributed to the team score, finishing 17th (51:02.7) and 36th (59:54.0), respectively. Dumont competed as well, placing 48th with a time of 1:13:47.7.
The week concluded with the Classic Team Sprint, a relay-style race consisting of nine legs. Farmington's team of McCrum, Treiss, and Bodach-Turner rotated through the legs, with McCrum skiing the first, fourth, and seventh; Treiss the second, fifth, and eighth; and Bodach-Turner anchoring the third, sixth, and ninth. The trio finished in 47:12.0, placing 10th overall.
Women's Snowboarding - Individual Results based on Sophia Scola
Sophia Scola (Portland, Maine) competed in the boardercross National Championship, finishing 23rd overall.
The event began with time trials, where competitors aimed to place in the top 32 to advance to the bracket portion. Scola completed her run in 1:04.32, entering the bracket as the 30th seed.
In the bracket, the top 32 athletes were divided into eight heats, with the top two finishers from each heat advancing through successive rounds until a champion was determined.
In her heat, Scola competed against the third-, 14th-, and 22nd-seeded athletes. She placed third, narrowly missing advancement to the quarterfinals, but moved up to 23rd overall in the final standings.
Men's Freeski (4th Place)
The freeski National Championship consisted of four events: skier cross, rail jam, slopestyle, and big air. Farmington did not have a competitor in skier cross, so its team score was based on the remaining three events.
The rail jam was the first event for the Beavers, where they placed second overall with 23 place points. The competition spanned two days, with qualifying and finals held separately. Farmington advanced four skiers to the finals, as Arden Weaver (Surry, Maine), Logan Dube (Phillips, Maine), Max Labonte (Livermore, Maine), and Maxwell Hamilton (Brunswick, Maine) all finished inside the top 15 in qualifying. Dominique Richard (Lewiston, Maine) narrowly missed qualifying, finishing 17th.
Labonte led the Beavers with a fifth-place finish, followed by Hamilton in seventh and Weaver in 11th. Dube placed 13th overall. Weaver and Dube earned 2nd Team All-American honors, while Labonte and Hamilton were named 1st Team All-Americans.
In the slopestyle event, Weaver and Hamilton advanced to the finals after strong qualifying performances. Hamilton posted the third-best qualifying score (85.33), while Weaver qualified 10th with a score of 67. In the finals, Weaver improved to fourth place with a score of 80, while Hamilton placed 10th with a score of 63. Clay Gregg (Mapleton, Maine), Labonte, and Dylan Gagnon (Hudson, N.H.) also competed but did not advance, placing 24th, 26th, and 41st, respectively.
Weaver capped his week with an eighth-place finish in the big air event, scoring 83.67 to earn 1st Team All-American honors. Hamilton placed 17th, while Dube, Labonte, and Gregg finished 24th, 26th, and 27th, respectively. As a team, the Beavers placed fifth overall in the event.
Men's Snowboard (6th Freestyle | 12th Alpine)
The men's snowboarding National Championship featured five events: three alpine and two freestyle. On the alpine side, senior Caelan Billings (Sumner, Maine) competed in boardercross, slalom, and giant slalom. On the freestyle side, Ezra Mathieu (Lewiston, Maine), Jackson Boudreau (Gardiner, Maine), and Tucker Boudreau (Gardiner, Maine) represented the Beavers.
Billings, the two-time defending boardercross champion, opened the week in that event. After finishing 39th in time trials (59.99 seconds), he did not advance to the bracket round.
He rebounded with strong performances in the remaining alpine events, finishing fifth in slalom (1:10.99) and third in giant slalom (1:32.97). Billings earned 1st Team All-American honors in both events.
On the freestyle side, the competition began with the rail jam. Mathieu led the Beavers with a second-place finish, earning a silver medal. The event featured 39 competitors, with the top 15 advancing to the finals. Mathieu and Tucker Boudreau qualified for the finals, while Jackson Boudreau placed 22nd in qualifying. Tucker Boudreau finished 15th overall. Mathieu earned 1st Team All-American honors, while Tucker Boudreau was named to the 2nd Team. Farmington placed third overall as a team.
In the slopestyle event, Mathieu and Jackson Boudreau both qualified for the finals, placing inside the top 12 in the qualifying round. Mathieu qualified 12th with a score of 53, while Boudreau qualified 11th with a 56.67. In the finals, Mathieu improved to sixth place with a score of 74. Boudreau scored 25.67 in the finals, finishing 10th overall. Tucker Boudreau placed 18th with a qualifying score of 47.67. As a team, Farmington placed third in the event.
