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Traveling to Tahoe for collegiate competition, ski/snowboarding club puts OSU in fourth place
Nick Ngo
Issue date: 4/14/08 Section: News
Geared up and fully loaded, members of the OSU ski/snowboarding club stepped onto the snowy battlefield ready for Snow Warz, a collegiate snowboarding and skiing competition.
On April 12, at the top of the mountain peaks at Northstar-at-Tahoe Snowboarding/Skiing Resort, OSU competed against 47 teams from 33 colleges in Snow Warz III.
At the end of the event, OSU was ranked fourth out of the 48 teams that competed.
Driving for 10 hours from Corvallis, 14 members of OSU Snowboarding-Skiing club drove to northern California in order to represent OSU.
"It was fun, it was my first time competing," said Matt McKinney, a sophomore in construction engineering. "I was just trying to go out there and have fun."
In its third year, Snow Warz is an annual competition hosted by Red Bull. Prizes are given to the top three schools, male and female snowboarders and skiers, and best crash of the day.
Winning the war and taking first place was team 'Hardvert' with riders from the University of Nevada Reno and Sierra Nevada College.
In second place was team 'Eat Waffles' from UNR; and third place was Montana State University.
"The competition was off the hook, [but] Hardvert threw it down pretty hard," said Dustin Amato, the Red Bull Snow Warz MC. "Hardvert was good, once they got the right tangent up - they got the right velocity going."
Hardvert came to Snow Warz dressed in slacks, dress shirts and ties. The idea of dressing up as an Ivy League school was thought up by UNR students Brandon Cocard and Chris Basco.
"Some people were really stoked for us, but others were mad," Basco said. "We even got death threats and someone offered me a hundred dollars to throw the competition."
The idea came as a method of promoting fun.
"Me and Basco talked on the phone and decided if we do this, we would have some fun," Cocard said. "So we decided to do it as some Ivy League school and got matching slacks and ties."
On April 12, at the top of the mountain peaks at Northstar-at-Tahoe Snowboarding/Skiing Resort, OSU competed against 47 teams from 33 colleges in Snow Warz III.
At the end of the event, OSU was ranked fourth out of the 48 teams that competed.
Driving for 10 hours from Corvallis, 14 members of OSU Snowboarding-Skiing club drove to northern California in order to represent OSU.
"It was fun, it was my first time competing," said Matt McKinney, a sophomore in construction engineering. "I was just trying to go out there and have fun."
In its third year, Snow Warz is an annual competition hosted by Red Bull. Prizes are given to the top three schools, male and female snowboarders and skiers, and best crash of the day.
Winning the war and taking first place was team 'Hardvert' with riders from the University of Nevada Reno and Sierra Nevada College.
In second place was team 'Eat Waffles' from UNR; and third place was Montana State University.
"The competition was off the hook, [but] Hardvert threw it down pretty hard," said Dustin Amato, the Red Bull Snow Warz MC. "Hardvert was good, once they got the right tangent up - they got the right velocity going."
Hardvert came to Snow Warz dressed in slacks, dress shirts and ties. The idea of dressing up as an Ivy League school was thought up by UNR students Brandon Cocard and Chris Basco.
"Some people were really stoked for us, but others were mad," Basco said. "We even got death threats and someone offered me a hundred dollars to throw the competition."
The idea came as a method of promoting fun.
"Me and Basco talked on the phone and decided if we do this, we would have some fun," Cocard said. "So we decided to do it as some Ivy League school and got matching slacks and ties."
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