{"id":17731,"date":"2022-04-06T01:38:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T01:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=17731"},"modified":"2022-04-05T19:43:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T19:43:58","slug":"sv-skiers-take-on-national-competitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/06\/sv-skiers-take-on-national-competitors\/","title":{"rendered":"SV Skiers Take On National Competitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seven members of the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation Freestyle Team competed at the 2022 USSA Junior Nationals. Sylas Barrett, Erik Babcock, Tillie Babcock, Will Hausmann, Drake Lo<\/span><b>4<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vlien, Nic Rubenstein and Marek Ruttler all made the trip to Utah Olympic Park to compete amongst the top U18s in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI was really happy to see everything come together for our athletes to qualify and compete at this level of competition,\u201d said John Grigsby, SVSEF Freestyle head coach and program director. \u201cThey worked incredibly hard all season and to have the opportunity to go up against the best is so great for their growth as athletes and competitors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SVSEF&#8217;s Erik Babcock and Nic Rubenstein posted some of the highest air scores in the competition and missed the final by just 6 points. Teammates Will Hausman and Drake Lovlien were the two youngest competitors to rank within the top 80 men in the country and qualify for the Junior Nationals at just 13 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having won every dual he\u2019s entered this season, Erik Babcock was once again primed to podium in Sunday&#8217;s Duals event when, with 32 duals to go, strong winds estimated at 55-60 mph forced cancellation for the safety of the athletes. Babcock is undefeated in Duals this season.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven members of the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation Freestyle Team competed at the 2022 USSA Junior Nationals. Sylas Barrett, Erik Babcock, Tillie Babcock, Will Hausmann, Drake Lo4 vlien, Nic Rubenstein and Marek Ruttler all made the trip to Utah Olympic Park to compete amongst the top U18s in the country. \u201cI was really happy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,18,39,42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-news","9":"category-sport","10":"category-sun-valley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17732,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17731\/revisions\/17732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}