June 28, 2007
Troja (Prague) CZE

www.slalomtroja.cz
www.results.cz

2007 World Cup competition starts tomorrow on the Troja course in Prague with C1 qualification runs beginning at 9:00 am. American Tad Dennis is early off the line at 9:01:40, followed by Benn Fraker and Jeff Larimer at 9:28 and 9:29 respectively. US K1 women Ashley Nee, Zuzana Vanha and Caroline Queen also race in tomorrow morning's qualifier.

Qualification rounds consist of two combined runs, with the top 20 C2 and top 40 K1, C1 and K1W finishers progressing to the Semifinals. K1 and C2 men race the qualifier on Friday afternoon, followed by demonstration runs on the newly designed course for the Semifinal and Finals. US K1 men include Brett Heyl, Scott Parsons and Jim Wade. C2 men racing for the US are Rick Powell and Casey Eichfeld (both Junior athletes) and Scott McCleskey and Austin Crane (US Team veterans in C2 and C1 respectively).

Tamara Christopherson, USACK Director of Marketing and Communications announced today the broadcast of the 2007 USACK Slalom Team Trials on www.usolympicteam.com

Check it out and forward it with high recommendations to all of your supporters and fans!

Thanks to all participants and supporters, and a special thanks to Shiels Productions for such great work!

For more information, contact
Tamara Christopherson
Marketing-Communications Director
USA Canoe/Kayak
www.usack.org

May 20, 2007
Wausau, WI

Competitors aged 11-18 braved cool, cloudy and breezy conditions today in the final competition to determine USACK's 2007 Junior National Slalom Team, and the selection of some of the 2007 US Development Team.

Top placing athletes by category:

C2
Rick Powell + Casey Eichfeld

C1
Zach Lokken (Cadet)
Tyler Hinton (Cadet)

K1W
Caroline Queen
Ashley Nee
Rachel Thomas

K1
Isaac Levinson
Austin Kieffer
Jeff Gette

for photos from today's Junior Trials competition, go to the gallery
for final athlete rankings, see attached
for more info, including

For final results see attachments below.

May 19, 2007
Wausau, WI

Keen young American slalomists demonstrated the results of their hard training on the whitewater of the Wisconsin River today in the first of two races which will determine the 2007 USACK Junior National Slalom Team.

There were few clean runs on a course which tested paddlers' technical precision and strategic planning and execution as well as fitness.

Top placing athletes from today's racing are:

K1
Isaac Levinson
Austin Kieffer
Jeff Gette

K1W
Caroline Queen
Rachel Thomas
Ashley Nee

C1
Tyler Hinton
Zach Lokken

C2
Rick Powell + Casey Eichfeld

May 19, 2007
Breaking news: USACK Carrie Johnson won the Gold Medal in the K-1 Women's 1000 in World Cup #2 in Szeged, Hungary, beating 22 time World Champion Katalin Kovacs!
for more information, go to www.usack.org

May 17, 2007

Athletes from age 11-18 are training on the Wisconsin River in downtown Wausau, WI this week in preparation for the 2007 US Junior Whitewater Slalom Team selection races scheduled for Saturday and Sunday.

May 6, 2007

Sprint event results combine with yesterday's classic results to determine West Team Trials results for the 2007 Junior Wildwater World Championships contested on the Animas River, Durango, CO.

Sarah Kunz and Anna Pierotti (K1W) and Lucas Palko-Schraa and Alex Dodge (K1) have qualified to represent the US at the 2007 Junior Wildwater World Championships to be held on the Saluda River, SC and at the US National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, NC in July.

go to the gallery for photos of this event
go to www.usack.org for full results

May 5, 2007
El Rio de los Animas Perdidas
Durango,CO

Junior wildwater racers braved windy and snowy conditions with air temperatures in the 30's during midday competition in the Classic event of the 2007 Western USACK Wildwater Team Trials in Durango, Colorado.

The Animas River was running at 2080 cfs, with water temperatures in the just-more-liquid-than-snow range. Against a backdrop of local Cinco de Mayo celebrations, paddlers from pre-teen to 18 years old tested their downriver racing skills against the rest of the field of western US juniors.

For photos of today's action, go to the gallery.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

The 2007 USACK Slalom Team was named this afternoon at the USNWC in Charlotte, NC.
During three days of exciting racing, the following athletes earned the right to compete for the US during the 2007 international season.
C1
Benn Fraker
Jeff Larimer
Tad Dennis

K1W
Ashley Nee
Zuzana Vanha
Caroline Queen

C2
Rick Powell/Casey Eichfeld
Scott McClesky/Austin Crane

K1
Scott Parsons
Brett Heyl
Jim Wade

for photos, go to the gallery
for more information, go to www.usack.org
for video, go to www.performancepaddlesport.com