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May 17, 2017
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Hidden Valley 2017 NASTAR champs
sports
briefs
Hidden Valley skiing
The Hidden Valley Ski Team [HVST]
held onto its continuing top tier position at
the recent 2017 NASTAR [National Standard
Race] Nationals in Steamboat Springs,
Colorado. The event brings qualified
NASTAR racers from ski resorts across
the country to race in five championship
competitions.
Hidden Valley earned 23 podium finishes
with a team of 35 competitors and sent
seven gold medalists to the 2017 NASTAR
Race of Champions, where HVST’s
own Steve Coulter won the competition,
repeating his win from the 2015 NASTAR
nationals at Snowmass. HVST champions
included Steven Coulter, David Coulter,
Keith Lage, Adam Adkins, Tom Berkeley,
Adelina Johnson and Melynda Coulter.
Despite being one of the smallest and
most southern NASTAR competition
venues in the U.S., Hidden Valley placed
eighth overall in a field of 76 competing
resorts, up from 12th place in 2016.
“We had the best cheering section, the
best-looking jackets, and our potluck dinners
are second to none,” HVST Member
Chair Annie Sloane said. “The success of
the team is the huge team spirit we have,
being from a small Midwest hill to compete
with the large resorts around the U.S.”
In the giant slalom, Melynda Coulter
took gold in the women’s Bronze Division,
and Adam Adkins won gold in the men’s
Platinum Division. Steve Coulter took gold
in the Gold Division and moved on to win
the Race of Champions the following day.
Michael Pompian won silver in the Silver
Division.
Team treasurer Keith Lage stood up to
maintain HVST’s hold on the gold medal
in the men’s Bronze Division, won by
HVST competitors in 2015 and 2016.
HVST head coach David Coulter was
in a class by himself, claiming his sixth
national title in the men’s 70-74 division.
Coach Tom Berkley, also in the 70-74 age
group, won a gold in the Silver Division in
his 19th appearance at NASTAR Nationals.
In the Friends Team race, Adeline Lage,
Adam Adkins, Steven Coulter, Skyler
Romano, Alexander Campian, David
Coulter, Harriet Sloane and Noah Kleinleher
joined together to push through the
pack and win gold in the highest division
team race.
The Race of Champions is a competition
consisting of all gold medalists from
all divisions [Platinum, Gold, Silver, and
Bronze] and age groups. Competitors race
against each other for the best handicapped
result.
High school boys track
The Marquette boys track and field team
won the recent Jim Schmuck Invitational at
Parkway South, finishing with 100 points.
Parkway North was second with 90 points.
Parkway Central came in third with 77.5
and Eureka was fourth with 63.5 points.
Senior Thomas Penny won two
races, capturing the 800 in 1 minute,
59 seconds and the 1,600 in 4:28.
Junior Nicholas Warman was second in the
3,200 with a time of 9:46. Parkway Central’s
Charlie McIntyre won the 3,200 in
9:29.
Marquette also won two relays. The
1,600-relay team finished first in 3:24 while
the 3,200-relay team won in 8:08.
Parkway North’s Jalani Williams won
the 110-meter hurdles in 14.83 seconds
and Jakeel Suber won the 300 intermediate
hurdles in 39.32.
Women’s college volleyball
Missouri State’s Lily Johnson, of Wildwood,
has been selected to the U.S. Collegiate
National Team [CNT] Thailand Tour.
USA Volleyball said the senior-to-be is
one of 12 players picked for the squad after
her recent performance at the U.S. Women’s
National Team Open Tryouts. She is
one of three players on the team that does
not play for a Power Five volleyball school.
The three-time All-American will compete
internationally for Team USA for the
second consecutive year after participating
on the CNT-Europe team that won the
Global Challenge in Croatia last summer.
Johnson’s trip will take place May 19-30
in Bangkok. The match schedule includes
contests against the Thailand National
Team, the Thailand U23 Team and Bangkok
Glass, the top team in the Thai professional
league. The CNT-Thailand team also will
play against two other teams yet to be confirmed.
The team training and competition
Lily Johnson
matches will be at the FIVB Development
Center in Bangkok, one of only four such
centers in Asia.
The Missouri Valley Conference Player
of the Year for a second consecutive season
in 2016, Johnson became the fourth player
in league history to lead the conference in
kills three times, averaging 4.54 kills, 5.12
points, 3.07 digs, 0.35 aces and 0.36 blocks
per set with a .228 hitting percentage last
year.
College golf
Lafayette graduate Dillon Eaton recently
tied a National Collegiate Club Golf Association
[NCCGA] National Championship
record with a 66 on the Park Course at
the Hot Springs [Arkansas] Country Club.
Eaton’s round ties Zac Lewis’ 66 in the
final round of last year’s championship.
Eaton, who is a sophomore, plays for the
University of Missouri Club Golf Team.
His first round in the tournament included
seven birdies, including five in his final
seven holes, and one bogey.
College baseball
Missouri State senior infielder Justin
Paulsen and Quincy University’s junior
outfielder J.C. DeMuri are showing off
their talents this spring in college action.
Paulsen, a Ballwin native who graduated
from CBC, is hitting .343 for Missouri
State, with five homers and 38 RBIs. Missouri
State has won 18 straight regularseason
Missouri Valley Conference games
and was 14-0 at presstime in league play
and 33-14 overall.
Paulsen clubbed eight homers and drove
in a CBC single-season record 48 runs
while batting .448 to earn second-team
all-state honors from the Missouri High
School Baseball Coaches Association and
helping the Cadets to a 24-9 record and a
Missouri Class 5 runner-up finish in 2013.
DeMuri, of Manchester and a Parkway
West graduate, recently was named the
Great Lakes Valley Conference Player of
the Week. The Hawks ended their regular
season at 28-20 and 17-10 in the GLVC.
DeMuri hit .354 with nine homers and a
team-high 49 RBIs.