The Alpine Ski Team is used to second billing. As SPA’s lesser-known ski team, they often don’t get the attention they deserve. Junior co-captains Jonathan Sogin, Chris Gast and sophomore Julia Hansen aim to change that. The team is on a steady upward slope in competition, and hope to capitalize. “That’s our general trend: improvement,” Sogin said. “We’re definitely not the best in the conference,” but those tables show signs of turning. “It’s a young team,” Sogin said. “There’s definitely about as many middle schooler as high schoolers.” This young team leaves room for plenty of growth.

In the meantime, Sogin and his co-captains are focusing on improving the team’s presence in the school. “We’re trying to get more people to come to captains’ practices, and we’re having more meetings and informational things.” He hopes this will expand the team, whose members currently number in the early teens.  The team has dry-land and captain’s practice at school and will begin practicing at Buck Hill ski hill in December.