SCWSF Juniors Page
June 7th Junior Development Clinic
Skiers: Scott Rogers, Daniel McEachin, Laura Lindsay, Richard Chapman, Andy Steadman, Jordan Marsh, and Thomas Marsh
Instructors: Betsy Harris, Ron Lyles, Scott Snape
Boat driver: Michael Threadgill
Lake Owners: Buzz Rogers and Ron Lyles
Head Chef: Rae Rogers
Videos
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Colin Robinson is rounding the buoys one by one and this summer hopes to ski in his first sanctioned tournament at Trophy Lakes. He also wants to compete in the SC State Tournament. Colin plays soccer and is on the basketball team for his school. He is an A honor roll student at Blessed Sacrament. Colin also enjoys snow skiing and playing baseball.
Shane Robinson entered the Boys II Division and had another great year in
the Slalom event in 2002! He placed
1st in the SC StateTournament, 2nd at the Regionals, and ended up in
14th place at the Nationals. Shane
would like to thank Seth Stisher, Richard Lacey, and his parents for their
coaching and skiing support. Shane
plays on a U-12 Classic soccer team and is the point guard on his 6th grade
basketball team. Shane also enjoys
snow skiing and skateboarding.
Scott Rogers began skiing at age 6. With coaching from his father, he learned some basic tricks as well as how to slalom. When the family lost access to the private lake they were renting, practice for competitive skiing became more difficult but Scott continued to ski. In 1999 his father, along with long-time skiing partner Ron Lyles, purchased a 115 acre tract of land just off of I-20 near Florence, S.C. which had a 16 acre spring-fed lake. The lake was drained, deepened, lengthened and transformed into an excellent ski site. The slalom course was surveyed in while the lakebed was dry.
By the year 2000 Scott was working in earnest on both tricks and slalom. It was not until the summer of 2002 during a week at April Coble’s Ski School that the “bug” really bit him. He made his first jump there and came home stoked. He announced to a proud father that he wanted to be a 3-event skier - just like dad. With the help of Scott Snape, the brand new Beemman jump was installed in October, as well as a surveyed jump course. Scott christened the jump that weekend to a large crowd of family and friends. He has since been coached in tricks by Mark Bedsole. Scott plans to enter his first tournament in June. His goals are to win the overall event at the state tournament while in Boys 3 and to be able to compete in the regionals and nationals. Scott has coerced his father to re-enter the world of competitive skiing after a 15 year absence and the two have been working out in the gym all winter to get in shape for the ski season. Just an infant when his father last competed at the nationals as a 3-event skier in 1985, Scott tells his dad,” I never got to see you ski at the nationals, so the two of us are going to train together until we can ski there together. With the excellent ski site, good coaching and hard work I don’t see why we can’t do it.”