MI Cup Individual Champions for 2005!

Mon, Apr  4, 2005 - By Ken Dawson

Seniors Andy Triebold and Tracy Hardin take top honors as the overall Michigan Cup Individual Champions for 2005. Kyle Endicott and Cassidy Edwards are the Junior Individual Champions. Kyle narrowly beat out Elliot Puttman for the title in a points tie-breaker.

Andy and Tracy also reign as this year's Freestyle Champions, based on their best four freestyle races. Denny Paull and Julie Houle are the 2005 Classic Champions, based on their best three classic races. Milan Baic and Tracy Hardin take the Combined Championship, based on their best classic, freestyle, and marathon.

Many of the same names show up as Age Class Champions as well. Overall Champions Kyle Endicott, Cassidy Edwards, Andy Triebold, Tracy Hardin, Julie Houle, and Denny Paull all won their age classes, along with Christian Byar, Cliff Onthank, Carole Mueller-Brumbaugh, Marvin Mendyk, Jean Murray, and Tenho Tikka.

Through great placement and skiing an awfully large number of races, Tracy Hardin and Michael Seaman accumulated more points than any other skiers with seasons!

658 skiers raced in the Michigan Cup this year. Ken Dawson did a little analysis showing how many skiers did how many races. 73% of the men and 78% of the women do 2 or fewer races. 19% of the men and 13% of the women do 4 or more. Overall, men tend to participate in greater numbers (496 vs. 161) and race more often than women.