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KCSS snowboarder notches strong finishes By Jeff Doner Having spent a majority of her childhood carving up the local slopes, Nobleton native Michaella Marchetta is wrapping up an incredible four years of competing on KCSS's ski and snowboard team. The 17-year-old Grade 12 student stepped it up a notch for the 2013-14 season, recently finishing second at the York Region Athletic Association championships and then notching a top 10 finish at the OFSAA championships in snowboard slalom. “I'm surprised and really happy with my season,” Marchette said. “I didn't expect myself to do as well as I did. Every race was a new race and I just took every day as a new day and I just did it. It was an awesome experience. I was really surprised to get a placing anywhere, because I had no racing experience, so it's pretty cool.” Having been just a casual snowboarder before going to KCSS four years ago, Marchette wasn't sure what to expect from trying out for the ski and snowboard team. Once she got going with the club in grade nine, she tried snowboard slalom for the first time. “I thought I would try it out just for fun and I loved it,” she said. “I kept up with it and came 14th at OFSAA and that year we had a really good girls team and we all went to YRAA championships and all went to OFSAA, so that year was really fun.” And her start with snowboarding was just as casual. “I'm just the type of person that just tries new stuff all the time,” she said. “My friend one day was just like, ‘let's try snowboarding one time,' so we tried it and I absolutely loved it. It wasn't planned out or anything. I just tried it and I loved it and it was really exciting.” Her approach to the sport seems to be catching on in the same way with youth all over North America and she is thrilled about the popularity and growth of the sport. Marchetta used the Winter Olympics in Sochi this past winter as a measuring stick to that growing popularity. “It's just incredible. It's amazing that a sport like that could just catch on so quickly and everybody wants to do it and there are so many different areas within the sport of snowboarding. There's freestyle, racing, snowboard cross, it's just amazing.” Graduating from KCSS this summer, Marchetta is moving on to Waterloo to take geological engineering in the fall and is unsure about where her snowboarding career will take her next. She admitted that school is about to come the priority, but hopes she will be able to keep up with the sport in her spare time. “I hope I can continue,” she said. “My dream would be to join a big snowboard cross team and just travel and everything, but the whole university is something I have to work on first. That's the priority. If something comes up for me then I'll just take that opportunity and go for it, but for now I'm not really looking into anything.” In the meantime, Marchetta said she is enjoying the success of her season and her last weeks as a high school student. |
| Excerpt: Having spent a majority of her childhood carving up the local slopes, Nobleton native Michaella Marchetta is wrapping up an incredible four years of competing on KCSS’s ski and snowboard team. The 17-year-old Grade 12 student stepped it up a notch for the 2013-14 season, recently finishing second at the York Region Athletic Association championships and then notching a top 10 finish at the OFSAA championships in snowboard slalom. |
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