The St. Lawrence University Alpine ski team is set to open the 2025 EISA carnival season at the Bates College Carnival at Sunday River in Newry, Maine, this Friday and Saturday, January 10-11.

"We had a great training trip to Colorado over Thanksgiving and after some challenging weather to start 2024, we've had some great conditions to open the 2025 season and have had some early success outside of the EISA competition. I think we're all excited to get the season started," said head coach Willi Steinrotter.

In 2024, the Saints combined for 15 top-20 EISA finishes, including a season-best sixth-place finish by now junior Audrey Higgins-Lopez at the Colby Carnival. Other top performances from Higgins-Lopez last season include – 22nd in the slalom at Dartmouth and 23rd in the giant slalom at UVM.

Also on the women's side, Benni Caloro skied to a 19th-place finish in the slalom at Dartmouth. The squad started out the season with a fifth-place result at Colby, which was their best performance of the season.

On the men's side, now senior Mitch Sampson skied a career-best 11th-place finish in the giant slalom at UVM and also recorded a 20th-place finish in the giant slalom at Dartmouth.

Alec Nolan placed 19th in the giant slalom at Dartmouth, while Aidan Marler placed 25th in the slalom at Dartmouth. Simon Trudeau skied a career-best 13th-place finish in the giant slalom at Dartmouth, while Charlie Welch finished 25th in giant slalom at Williams. The men matched their season-best ninth-place performance three times throughout the season.

Seniors for the Scarlet and Brown this season include Kennedy Bier, Lauren Cahill, Caloro, Hugh Dempsey, Paige Doyle, Marler, Jake Reynolds, Sampson and Kobe Villeneuve.

Mayson Blondek, Nora Dempsey, Higgins-Lopez, Nolan, Cordelia Sherwood, Bobby Stevenish, and Andrew Van Slyke return for their junior campaigns.

Back for their sophomore season with the Saints are Emma Gatcliffe, Lauren Haerter, Hazel Howard, Jakob Rogers, Trudeau, and Welch.

The Saints strong group of returners will be joined by seven new members of the Class of 2028, Stefan Brennwald, Anna Dunham, Jacob Foote, Cora Hanson, Colin Kagan, Charlotte Lehr and Kaiden Villeneuve.

The season opens at the Bates this weekend and then the Scarlet and Brown will return to their home base and host the St. Lawrence Carnival on January 16 and 17 at Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid, N.Y.

Following a weekend at home, the Saints will travel to Smugglers Notch for the Saint Michael's Carnival, the Dartmouth Skiway for the Dartmouth Carnival and the Middlebury Snowbowl for the Middlebury Carnival. The University of New Hampshire will host the NCAA Eastern Regionals on February 21 and 22 at Cannon Mountain in Mittersill, N.H.

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