{"id":7661,"date":"2016-05-11T18:27:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T18:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idsunmedia.com\/?p=7661"},"modified":"2016-05-11T18:27:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T18:27:07","slug":"peter-wolter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/11\/peter-wolter\/","title":{"rendered":"PETER WOLTER"},"content":{"rendered":"

Avid cross-country skier<\/i><\/span><\/h2>\n

BY JONATHAN KANE<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Peter
Community School junior Peter Wolter excels at Nordic skiing. Courtesy photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Peter Wolter loves Nordic skiing and excels at the sport. The Community School junior, carrying a 3.9 grade point average and a member of the school\u2019s Outdoor Leadership Academy, is also carrying a heavy course load, including Honors Physics, American History, Precalculus, Spanish V, Twentieth Century American Literature and Expedition, Planning and Leadership.<\/p>\n

He also believes in minimizing stress in his life when possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to make everything in life as fun as possible,\u201d Wolter said. \u201cI really don\u2019t like being stressed because it brings down all aspects of life and makes things not enjoyable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wolter is a longtime Community School student, having started as a preschooler and now enrolled in his 15th year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI describe having fun in my life as trying to be lighthearted about every situation and, if something is bad, turn it into something good and don\u2019t let it faze you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, if I get a bad grade on a test, there is nothing I can do about that now so I resolve to study harder and improve. This attitude works out pretty well. For one thing, I wasn\u2019t stressed at all this winter and I didn\u2019t get sick.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wolter started Nordic skiing with his family at the age of 2 and has been participating with the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation team since elementary school. He has progressed from the Devo team to the Middle School prep team to the High School comp team.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy earliest memory, besides being with my family, was being with my friend Zach Williams and we would hide in the snow so we wouldn\u2019t have to ski with the team in elementary school because we wanted to ski off jumps into the powder on our Nordic skis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wolter\u2019s father grew up in Minnesota and introduced him to the sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll my friends were doing it and I took to it right away,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Wolter said he prefers classic skiing to skate skiing because \u201cit\u2019s more relaxing because it\u2019s more of a natural movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the sport because of the team bonding and the amazing trips we get to go on,\u201d he said. \u201cIt has individual aspects and team aspects, which I really like. You get the chance to compete against teammates, but you push them and they push you. Also, the feeling you get after a race is indescribable, and it\u2019s similar to a runner\u2019s high, whether you win or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

This winter Wolter had the thrill of competing in the U18 Nation\u2019s Cup in Estonia near the Russian border. First, he had to qualify in Michigan at the U.S. Senior Nationals. He was only one of six boys that qualified and the only one from the Wood River Valley.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was three days of training and three days of races,\u201d Wolter said. \u201cIt was the best racing experience that I have ever had and I was able to learn a lot about the way they ski in Europe. The Norwegians and the Swedes are much better, but I learned a lot from them and got motivation from them. I learned that their mental and physical drive is unstoppable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Avid cross-country skier BY JONATHAN KANE Peter Wolter loves Nordic skiing and excels at the sport. The Community School junior, carrying a 3.9 grade point average and a member of the school\u2019s Outdoor Leadership Academy, is also carrying a heavy course load, including Honors Physics, American History, Precalculus, Spanish V, Twentieth Century American Literature and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7662,"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":[38,41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sponsored","8":"category-student-spotlight"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}