With two gold medals in hand, Diamond Peak Ski Team’s J4 racer, Lila Lapanja, summed up last weekend’s “Fred’s Freebie” Super-G at Mammoth Mountain with a big smile: “I was inspired by (Olympic gold medalist) Julia Mancuso and just wanted to have as much fun as possible and to have that kind of fun on this kind of course, you had to go straight…so I went straight.” Read the rest of this entry »

After enduring and mastering a series of qualifying races and time trials, a trio of skiers from Diamond Peak Ski Team has earned top spots for a trip to the J3/4 Western Region Junior Olympics. J3 racer, Luca Genasi, and J4 teammates, Ty Sprock and Lila Lapanja, are poised to step it up again and go against the top J3s and J4s in the entire Western United States. Diamond Peak’s Alex Tanner also secured an alternate spot for the J3 men. The Western J3 Junior Olympics/J4 Festival is an annual event where the very best 12 - 14 year old USSA competitors from the five (5) Western divisions compete in Super G, Giant Slalom and Slalom over four (4) days. This year’s event will be held at Mammoth Mountain from Thursday, March 22 to Sunday March 25, 2007. Read the rest of this entry »

Local J4/5 racers from the Diamond Peak Ski Team showed up en force for two days of excellent slalom racing at Sugar Bowl over the weekend, capturing podium spots, top-tens, and front-page results both days. Read the rest of this entry »

Limited training due to the Tahoe Basin’s lack of snow and a very short, no-room-for-error course did not stop the Diamond Peak Ski Team’s J4s and J5s from impressive podium and top-ten finishes over the weekend at the annual Lynn Payne Memorial giant slalom races at Kirkwood on Saturday and Sunday, December 16 and 17. Read the rest of this entry »

A Talent Squad family member put together this short clip to share the moments from a previous year. We think you’ll enjoy.

The J5 skiers headed over to Boreal last weekend to get a little ’snow-time’ prior to Diamond Peak opening up. Drills, drills, drills. It was good to get back on the snow!

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Mother Nature showed up in full force at the Far West J4/J5 Championships, held March 30 through April 2 at Mammoth Mountain, creating extremely challenging course conditions for the 400 racers participating. The Diamond Peak Ski Team converged on the mountain from all over California and Nevada to race in the season finale. Read the rest of this entry »

The third annual Diamond Cup Challenge, sponsored by The Menning Family, enjoyed a day of sunshine and great competition on Sunday, March 26, at Diamond Peak Ski Resort. Read the rest of this entry »

A weekend away from chasing his brother, some new video software and some warm Tahoe sun.