Feb 11, 2006 SCHOENWALD GER by Casey Colby & Jessica Jerome

Casey's comments:
After another day of canceled training due to too much snow, we had 3 training jumps this morning before the comp. There was a good headwind for the entire day, probably the most fair event I have ever been a part of that had headwind. The US ladies came out of the blocks with their game-faces on. Each of the rounds everyone improved, all 6 of them. After the first round it was a really tight competition. Lindsey was 2nd, Alissa 3rd tied with Sagen, Jessica was tied for 7th, Abby was tied for 11, Brenna 15, and Elisabeth was out-styled by a young Japanese top, and just missed the cut. The Ladies made some big moves for the 2nd and final round. Brenna had a jump to the K-point and moved up 2 places. Abby had a really good jump of 88.5, Jessica had the 2nd best jump of the final round to move up, Alissa did not have a great jump, 81.5 meters, but her first jump of 88.5 was by far her best effort of the trip so far. Lindsey managed to hold onto her place with a jump of 88.5 and the best style of the competition.

Jessica's comments:
The conditions in Schoenwald were actually much better than they had been in the past years. The track was fairly smooth and the air was consistent for the most part. After the first round, the farthest jump was 92.5m, set by Julianne Seyfahrt (GER), which was a new hill record. The air for the second round was, again, pretty tame, and none of us had any problems jumping to the bottom of the hill. We finished with 4 Americans in the top 6.

Today's results:
    1. Juliane Seyfahrt GER   (first COC win)
    2. Lindsey Van USA T
    2. Anette Sagen NOR T
    4. Jessica Jerome USA
    5. Abby Hughes USA
    6. Alissa Johnson USA
  11. Atsuko Tanaka CAN
  13. Brenna Ellis USA
  17. Katie Wills CAN
  26. Nata DeLeeuw CAN

Awesome day for the USA Ladies. A lot of people come up to congratulate me for a great day. But the ladies are the ones that do the amazing stuff, but it sure feels good to hear people ask "how do you get them all to do it that well?"

Official season standings:
    1. Anette Sagen NOR
    2. Lindsey Van USA
    3. Jessica Jerome USA
    4. Line Jahr NOR
    5. Juliane Seyfahrt GER
    6. Abby Hughes USA
    7. Atsuko Tanaka CAN
  10. Alissa Johnson USA
  14. Brenna Ellis USA
  16. Katie Willis CAN
  31. Nata DeLeeuw CAN
  46. Elisabeth Anderson USA