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U14 Qualifier

U14 Rocky/Central Region Junior Championship Selections

The Rocky/Central U14 Junior Championships is open to qualified U14 RMD and Central competitors and will be held at Vail, CO March 13-17, 2022. Events contested are 1 SG, 1 Duals, 2 one-run GS, 2 one-run SL.

  1. The Central Division will have the opportunity to fill 50% of the field at the Junior Championship with the Rocky Mountain Division filling the remaining 50%.
  2. The Age Class Subcommittee will fill the Central Division quota by identifying 95 RMD male and female competitors.

Selection Criteria:

  1. Boys and girls will be selected based on their performance in the U14 qualifying events.
    1. The are three qualifying events,  –
      1. U14 GS's at Steamboat - Sunday, Jan 30th
      2. U14 Open SG's at Breckenridge –  The race on Sunday, Feb 13th
      3. Aspen – SG and SL's - Feb 25th - 27th
    2. Only the best Super G result from either the Feb 13th U14 SG open or Aspen SG on Feb 26th is eligible to be considered for qualifying purposes.
    3. A modified World Cup point system using the best 3 of 6 races.  Only one SG result is eligible to use towards qualifying and ranking. 
    4. Athletes will be ranked in ascending order of their accumulated modified World Cup points in their best three (3) races, only one SG result is eligible to use towards qualifying and ranking. If needed, ties will be broken using the best result(s). All races are available for tie-breaking purposes, the second SG will count as the last result used to break a tie.  An athlete would not need to finish all three races to qualify as it would be a sum of their best 3 results. 
    5. Final quotas for boys and girls will be established based on athletes who competed on the first day of races at the Prater Cup.
  2. Two (2) boys’ and two (2) girls’ quota positions will be reserved for discretionary consideration to be filled by the Competition Manager and Age Class Committee. The Committee may also consider an athlete's seeding as a part of the discretion discussion.
  3. Once the quota has been filled, no alternates should be considered.
  4. Foreign USSA members athletes (X license) who are training and competing in Rocky or Central may qualify for the Rocky/Central U14 Junior Olympics through the respective division’s quota. RMD and CEN will each have 4 quota spots total (men and women) for foreign athletes.