Nicola Rountree-Williams of Tryon also recently won the High Country Junior Downhill Ski Racing Series girl’s 9 – 10 year old division. She is a member of the Beech Mountain Ski and Snowboard Race Team of Banner Elk, N.C. and the Asheville Ski Club.
The race series, which began the 2012 season in January, took place over eight weeks at Beech, Sugar and Appalachian ski resorts in western NC. Points were awarded at each race. The series champions and overall points leaders were announced after the final race held at Sugar Mountain Ski Resort on Feb. 19.
Rountree-Williams received 509 points with second and third place receiving 372 and 371 points respectively. Contributing to her overall lead in points were four first-place finishes and one second-place finish during the six-race season.
In March, Rountree-Williams traveled to Winter Park, CO for the NASTAR Nationals where she competed in the Platinum Division for her age group, the fastest of the four NASTAR divisions. This was her 4th year attending the NASTAR National Championships.
Rountree-Williams is a fourth grader at Tryon Elementary School. Her sister, Isabel Rountree-Williams, a kindergartner at Tryon Elementary, has also qualified to race in the NASTAR Championships 5-6 year old Bronze Division after her first year of racing. Nicola and Isabel are the daughters of Robert Williams and Elizabeth Rountree of Tryon.
– article submitted by Robert Williams