Kenney's First Career Victory Leads Skiing at Harvard Carnival

Saturday, January 18

Alpine - GS, Waterville | Nordic - 15K/20K Classic- Craftsbury

University of New Hampshire

Harvard Carnival

Patrick Kenney (GS) & Emma Woodhouse (SL) each earned opening-weekend wins

Kenney's First Career Victory Leads Skiing at Harvard Carnival

1/18/2020 5:39:00 PM | Men's Skiing, Women's Skiing

Junior topped podium in men’s giant slalom for first career win

Patrick Kenney finished first in the men's giant slalom

WATERVILLE VALLEY, N.H. & CRAFTSBURY, Vt. –Patrick Kenney (Hingham, Mass.) earned the first individual victory of his career and posted the University of New Hampshire ski team's second alpine triumph of the weekend with his first-place finish in the men's giant slalom at the Harvard Carnival on Saturday.

UNH, which benefitted from a women's slalom first-place finish from Emma Woodhouse (Collingwood, Ontario) on Friday, finished fourth overall with 712 points in the EISA's season-opening carnival, which Vermont won with 867 points.

Kenney scored 50 of the Wildcats' 111 points (second place) in men's GS at Waterville Valley, while Lisa Olsson (Stockholm, Sweden) highlighted the women's third-place finish (100 points) by taking fourth place in the GS.

At Craftsbury Outdoor Center, Anders Sonnesyn (Minneapolis, Minn. / seventh place) and Scott Schulz (Lake Placid, N.Y. / ninth place) each recorded a Top-10 finish in the men's 20K classic mass start to propel the Wildcats to third place (94 points) in that race.

Eleonora Olsmats (Djursholm, Sweden) was the top 'Cat in women's Nordic by virtue of her 20^th-place finish in the 15K classic.

Harvard Carnival • Jan. 18, 2020
Alpine: Waterville Valley
Nordic: Craftsbury Outdoor Center
Results

Overall Top 5 (Final)
1. Vermont, 867
2. Middlebury, 863
3. Dartmouth, 839
4. UNH, 712
5. Colby, 491

Men's GS (Top 5)
1. Dartmouth, 119
2. UNH, 111
3. Middlebury, 109
4. Vermont, 92
5. Bates, 78

Men's GS (Top Wildcats)
Patrick Kenney (Hingham, Mass.) - 1^stplace, 50 points, 1:06.30, 1:00.94, 2:07.24
Will Bruneau-Bouchard (Quebec City, Quebec) - 9^thplace, 31 points, 1:07.15, 1:02.22, 2:09.17
Crowley Gentile (Greenland, N.H.) - 10^thplace, 30 points, 1:07.45, 1:01.90

Women's GS (Top 5)
1. Vermont, 125
2. Dartmouth, 119
3. UNH, 100
4. Middlebury, 90
5. Williams, 67

Women's GS (Top Wildcats)
Lisa Olsson (Stockholm, Sweden) - 4^thplace, 41 points, 1:08.75, 1:03.91, 2:12.66
Fanny Sanderberg (Oslo, Norway) - 8^thplace, 33 points, 1:09.79, 1:03.90, 2:13.69
Rachel Nawrocki (New Castle, N.H.) - 14^thplace, 26 points, 1:10.71, 1:04.39

Men's 20K Classic (Top 5)
1. Vermont, 128
2. Bowdoin, 96
3. UNH, 94
4. Middlebury, 85
5. Harvard, 84

Men's 20K Classic (Top Wildcats)
Anders Sonnesyn (Minneapolis, Minn.) - 7^thplace, 35 points (55:37.0)
Scott Schulz (Lake Placid, N.Y.) - 9^thplace, 31 points (56:18.2)
Bryce Hartman (Saranac Lake, N.Y.) - 12^thplace, 28 points (56:31.4)

Women's 15K Classic (Top 5)
1. Dartmouth, 127
2. Middlebury, 125
3. Bowdoin, 92
4. Vermont, 91
5. Colby, 75
6. UNH, 56

Women's 15K Classic (Top Wildcats)
Eleonora Olsmats (Djursholm, Sweden) - 20^thplace, 20 points, 50:06.6
Lucinda Anderson (Golden Valley, Minn.) - 21^stplace, 19 points, 50:49.6
Dariya Kuznetsova (Pervouralsk, Russia) - 23^rdplace, 17 points, 51:03.5

LOOKING AHEAD
•Week 2 of the EISA season features the Vermont Carnival with Nordic races at Craftsbury and alpine races at Stowe Mountain Resort on Friday, Jan. 24, and Saturday, Jan. 25. Friday action consists of the men's and women's classic sprints and men's and women's giant slalom. Saturday's Nordic races are the women's 5K and men's 10K skate, and the alpine schedule includes the men's and women's slalom.