Much has been made of the long-running rivalry between the sports teams at Peoples Academy and Stowe High School, two campuses in towns about a dozen miles apart. When it comes to spring sports, though, no such rivalry exists.
Here’s how the Raiders fared in the past week.
Here’s how the Raiders fared in the past week.
Twenty-three skiers and snowboarders from Stowe-based Green Mountain Academy competed in USASA Nationals at Copper Mountain in Colorado.
A look at this year’s final day of lift-serviced skiing at Stowe Mountain Resort.
Barry Stone of South Burlington is the 2024 David Hakins inductee to the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame, given to an individual or group for exceptional promotion of sports, athletics and recreation in the Green Mountain State.
Here’s how the Raiders fared in the past week.
Stowe ice swimmer Charlotte Brynn won gold and broke four world records at the recent U.S. National Ice Swimming Championships in Chantilly, Va.
Last weekend saw the running of the Stowe Sugar Slalom, the final race of the season at Stowe, held at Spruce. The weekend features two days of racing, with many racers in costume, and sugar on snow at the finish. The first Sugar Slalom took place in 1939.
With more than five feet of snow in the month of March, and more than 250 inches throughout the season, Stowe Mountain Resort has extended its season a week to Sunday, April 21.
The Stowe Youth 10U Tier 3 hockey team, after winning the Vermont state championship at Norwich University in February, competed at the New England Regionals in Smithfield, R.I., on March 22-24, losing a close game to a tough Ridgefield, Conn., team.
The NCAA skiing championships were held in Steamboat Springs, Colo., March 6-9 as the top 40 collegiate Nordic and alpine skiers from across the country competed for the national title.
On Saturday and Sunday, March 23 and 24, swimmers from around the U.S. participated in the 3rd Vermonster Fundraising Pool Swim both at The Swimming Hole in Stowe and virtually.
"On Snow" Snow News covers the people, trends and events of ski racing, snowboarding and free styling, plus the flavor of winter in the Stowe area.
Sunday brought an end to the lift-served portion of this year’s ski season at Stowe Mountain Resort. A sun-drenched closing day would have been the ideal final act but from The Scribe’s perspective that did not seem to be the case.
The Mountain Road in Stowe is well known for its après ski establishments. A skiing buddy of mine, the late John Fox, had been on the ski patrol at Glen Ellen before joining the Mt. Mansfield Ski Patrol. He always said his wife couldn’t understand why it took him longer to get back to his home in South Burlington from Stowe than it had from Glen Ellen!
Last week, the skiers and riders of Stowe had some significant things happen, which could constitute items of note to be added to the season’s memory bank. Earthquakes, major snowfall and a total solar eclipse.
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