Update: SMARL Races for Monday Cancelled

Editor’s Note: Monday’s SMARL races have been cancelled due to the subzero temperatures forecasted. The races will be made up towards the end of the season.

By Jesse Wood

Jan. 3, 2013. The first race of the 2013-14 Sugar Mountain Adult Race League (SMARL) takes place on Monday, which happens to be about the same time the temperatures will drop an astounding amount.

While subzero temps aren’t exactly prime conditions for skiing and snowboarding, at least snow is on the ground for another season of SMARL.

“It’s going to be freezing that night. I think we should put it off a night. We need a warmer day,” Bill Leonard, owner of Ski Country Sports, one of the main sponsors of the league, quipped albeit seriously when asked about his thoughts heading into another year of beer league racing.

Leonard added that the season is starting with “a lot of momentum” with the league roster filled to capacity since Thanksgiving, the earliest that as occurred in the nine-year history of the league. SMARL is limited to 100 participants.

Leonard said that on average 80 of the 100 people who registered “are pretty dedicated” and compete and have fun every night of the week.

Held on Monday nights in January and February, the race league features friendly competition, sort of an after work beer league for locals where competitors meet for food and drinks after the races, and it’s become so popular that the league sells out before winter begins – even without any promotion whatsoever.

“It’s definitely an underground community series,” Kim Jochl of Sugar Mountain Resort, the league’s host, said last year. “It doesn’t need to be promoted. Everyone knows about it and is excited every year to get on a team and participate.”

The teams are as follows: Team Sugar, Ski Country A, Ski Country D, Banner Elk Café, The Lodge, Modern Rustic, Edge of the World, Bellas, Ski Patrol, First Tracks, Sugar Ski School. Flatlanders and The Good Ole Boys.

Check out the listing of racers below and photos from last year’s SMARL.

BIB	TEAM	NAME	SKI	BOARD
1	TEAM SUGAR	GUNTHER JOCHL
4	TEAM SUGAR	KIM JOCHL
3	TEAM SUGAR	SEAN MCKEE
5	TEAM SUGAR	ERICH SCHMIDINGER
2	TEAM SUGAR	DAVE MCMANUS
8	TEAM SUGAR	LEE ALMAN
6	TEAM SUGAR	WES ALDRIDGE
7	TEAM SUGAR	GJ MENNEN
9	SKI COUNTRY -A	CHRIS LEONARD	X
11	SKI COUNTRY -A	MATT LEONARD	X
12	SKI COUNTRY -A	CARRIE SMITHEY	X
13	SKI COUNTRY -A	CAILA HALL	X
14	SKI COUNTRY -A	LAWSON FIELDS	X
15	SKI COUNTRY -A	EVAN MERRILL	X
16	SKI COUNTRY -A	MARK RUSS	X
10	SKI COUNTRY -A	DAVID BUMGARNER	X
17	SKI COUNTRY -D	BILL LEONARD	X
18	SKI COUNTRY -D	ALEX DALE		X
19	SKI COUNTRY -D	ADAM BERK	X
20	SKI COUNTRY -D	MIKE DOWNING	X
21	SKI COUNTRY -D	MATT LAMBERT	X
22	SKI COUNTRY -D	STEPHEN CARROLL		X
23	SKI COUNTRY -D	TYLER RUDD		X
24	BANNER ELK CAFÉ	LES BROUSSARD	X
25	BANNER ELK CAFÉ	CLINT HENDRICKS	X
26	BANNER ELK CAFÉ	MIKE MILLIGAN	X
27	BANNER ELK CAFÉ	JAY DAVIS	X
28	BANNER ELK CAFÉ	JACOB DAVIS	X
29	BANNER ELK CAFÉ	BOBBY ROLAND	X
30	BANNER ELK CAFÉ	DON SHULLES	X
31	BANNER ELK CAFÉ	ELIZABETH BEATLE	X
32	THE LODGE	CINDY BROUSSARD	X
33	THE LODGE	VAN LECKA	X
34	THE LODGE	GINA FARFOUR	X
35	THE LODGE	CHRIS AUSTIN		X
36	THE LODGE	NICK WESTVEER	X
37	THE LODGE	JP COGDILL		X
38	THE LODGE	BRIAN WEBB	TELE
39	THE LODGE	CASEY GWYN	X
40	MODERN RUSTIC	ANDY MCDANIEL		X
41	MODERN RUSTIC	ED WINEBARGER		X
42	MODERN RUSTIC	EVE PARSONS		X
43	MODERN RUSTIC	SAMANTHA MAHONEY		X
44	MODERN RUSTIC	SCOTT THOMAS		X
45	MODERN RUSTIC	ALLEN DAWSON		X
46	MODERN RUSTIC	TREY MORRISON		X
47	EDGE OF THE WORLD	JEFF JOHNSON		X
48	EDGE OF THE WORLD	TIM OLLIS		X
49	EDGE OF THE WORLD	MIKE SINGLETON		X
50	EDGE OF THE WORLD	PETE JANNOTTI		X
51	EDGE OF THE WORLD	LAUREN PANDOLTI		X
52	EDGE OF THE WORLD	PATRICK BAGBEY		X
53	EDGE OF THE WORLD	ALLEN YAWN		X
54	EDGE OF THE WORLD	RAYMIE BARTLETT		X
55	BELLAS	JESSICA HENDRICKS	X
56	BELLAS	CHAD STRONG		X
57	BELLAS	BUSTER HENDRICKS	X
58	BELLAS	DANA SIMMONS		X
59	BELLAS	RUSSELL CORRAI		X
60	BELLAS	BOBBY PINATA		X
61	BELLAS	EDDIE APPLE	X
62	BELLAS
63	SKI PATROL	FRANCES EDWARDS	X
64	SKI PATROL	RON SCOTT	X
65	SKI PATROL	BETH GOODE	X
66	SKI PATROL	TIM WESTVEER	X
67	SKI PATROL	STEVE AUFFINGER
68	SKI PATROL	RALPH POLATTIE	X
69	SKI PATROL	BLAKE JUSTICE	X
70	SKI PATROL	DON RUSSELL	X
71	FIRST TRACKS	TYLER LOMBARDI		X
72	FIRST TRACKS	JAMES NEVILLE		X
73	FIRST TRACKS	PARKER MOESSNER	X
75	FIRST TRACKS	JOSH GREEN	X
76	FIRST TRACKS	CARTER EDWARDS		X
77
78	FIRST TRACKS	BEN MILNER	X
79	FIRST TRACKS	KELBY PERRIN		X
80	SUAGR SKI SCHOOL	SHANE BRYANT		X
81	SUGAR SKI SCHOOL	ADAM THOMPSON		X
82	SUAGR SKI SCHOOL	VICTOR STROMBERG		X
83	SUGAR SKI SCHOOL	AUSTIN BURR		X
84	SUAGR SKI SCHOOL	AARON MAAS		X
85	SUGAR SKI SCHOOL	AARON KIRKLEY		X
86	SUAGR SKI SCHOOL	TROY HARSEY		X
87	SUGAR SKI SCHOOL
88	FLATLANDERS	CARL KARPINSKI	X
89	FLATLANDERS	BRYAN LOFLIN	X
90	FLATLANDERS	GARY WHITAKER	X
91	FLATLANDERS	GRANT MCALLISTER	X
92	FLATLANDERS	KYLE CARROLL	X
93	FLATLANDERS	WESLEY SNYDER	X
94	THE GOOD OLE BOYS	DANNY KIRKLAND		X
95	THE GOOD OLE BOYS	SAM PARKER		X
96	THE GOOD OLE BOYS	STAN DUNHAM		X
97	THE GOOD OLE BOYS	MICHAEL TREW	X
98	THE GOOD OLE BOYS	GAINES KIKER		X
99	THE GOOD OLE BOYS	TODD COMBS	X
100	THE GOOD OLE BOYS	JOHN PEET	X

PHOTOS FROM 2012-13 SMARL by Ken Ketchie

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