Eagles Head West for Williams Carnival at Jiminy Peak

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – In the penultimate event of the EISA season, the Boston College alpine ski team heads to western Massachusetts for the Williams Carnival at Jiminy Peak this weekend on Feb. 14-15. The giant slalom begins at 9:15 a.m. on Friday, while the slalom follows on Saturday at 9:15 a.m.

BATES RECAP
• The Eagles competed at the Bates Carnival last weekend at Sunday River in Newry, Maine
• Sophomore Trent Gutstein led the way for the men with the 10th-fastest time in the second slalom run and moved up to finish 18th overall
• Co-captain Chris Bertram fought through the ruts and weather and moved up from 40th to finish 24th
• Parker Biele blazed down the giant slalom course for sixth place and held onto that spot in the second run
• Teammate Sophia Staudenmayer also got into the scoring and finished 29th among college racers in the GS

TOP-10 FOR BIELE
• Parker Biele currently ranks 10th in the EISA giant slalom rankings with 110 points
• 90 of those points have come in her last two carnivals with a pair of top-10 finishes
• Biele broke the program record with fourth place overall at the Colby Carnival two weeks ago
• It was the highest finish for a female skier since Jessica Hult took sixth in the slalom at the 1995 EISA Championships

GUTSTEIN SHINES
• Trent Gutstein has registered three consecutive top-20 finishes in the slalom for the BC men's squad
• He sits 18th in the EISA slalom rankings with 46 points and has scored in all four carnivals this season
• Gutstein finished 15th overall on his home hill at Stowe Mountain Resort at the UVM Carnival
• The Stowe native's second run in the slalom was the sixth-fastest overall

UP NEXT
• The EISA Championships will be contested at the Middlebury Carnival in Vermont in two weeks (Feb. 28-29)

Eagles Head West for Williams Carnival at Jiminy Peak

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Players Mentioned

Chris Bertram

Parker Biele

Trent Gutstein

Sophia Staudenmayer