Sam Conzelman, skiing for Carrabassett Valley Academy skis down her second run of the Ladies Giant Slalom at the US Alpine Championships at Sugarloaf on Monday. CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Sam Conzelman could be forgiven if she was a little nervous going down Sugarloaf’s Narrow Gauge trail on Monday, even though she’d skied the hill an […]
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Carrabassett Valley's Sam Morse skis his best when it matters most
Sugarloaf favorite Sam Morse gets low on a left-footed turn. CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Sam Morse chalks it up to the American Way. Morse won gold in the downhill at the Junior World Ski Championships earlier this month in Sweden while also performing well in the super-G races with what he calls some of the most […]
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Carrabassett Valley Academy captures award, gets new coach
Growing up in Carrabassett Valley was hard for Kate Webber Punderson — who couldn’t ignore the towering peak of Sugarloaf Mountain that stood above the town. So naturally she gravitated toward skiing. That pull never let her venture too far from the mountain for too long, and like many skiers and snowboarders who take to […]
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U.S. Alpine Championships: Home game for CVA grad, Casco native Leavitt
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — If Sierra Leavitt stopped skiing or studying long enough to rank the months in her 21 years of life, March 2015 would be an odds-on favorite for No. 1. Two weeks after representing Colby College with a ninth-place finish in giant slalom at the NCAA Championships in Lake Placid, N.Y., good for All-American […]
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Skiing: Morse, U.S. National team a match made at Sugarloaf
Perhaps nothing demonstrates the double meaning more graphically than Morse family photos of younger son, Sam, a month shy of his second birthday, balancing himself on skis and preparing to descend a bunny slope. “It’s definitely a significant part of our lives, as it is for every kid who lives in the Valley,” said Ben, […]