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Bishop’s Women’s Alpine Ski Team take thrid place overall

St-Donat, March 21, 2005 – The Bishop's University Women's Alpine Ski Team completed the year in style by finishing in third place at the final ski meet this past weekend at Mont Garceau in the Lanaudiere region.

Friday in the giant slalom, Jennifer Bertram (Vancouver, B.C.) took fourth place while recruits Alicia Wood (Aurora, Ont.) and Katie Bruce (Dartmouth, N.S.) finished in tenth and twelfth place respectively.

Bertram had already won three giant slaloms this season proving her worth to the team. In finishing fourth on Friday, Bertram was able to contribute 135 points to the team out of a total of 329 points.

" I felt that my goal for the weekend was to ski for the team and not let them down. When you're skiing at a meet, of course you want to win but more importantly I wanted to make sure that I skied error free and that I could gain valuable points for the team," said bertram. " My confidence grew on Saturday and it was perhaps my best outing of the season in the slalom event.

Saturday's events saw four Bishop's skiers finish in the top sixteen out of over 43 participants.

Katie Bruce and Jennifer Bertram were fourth and fifth respectively. Mélanie Lessard (Louiseville, Qc) and Marnie Hurst (Ottawa, Ont.) were good enough for fourteenth and sixteenth place overall.

In the overall women's standings, the McGill martlets took home their sixth consecutive provincial championship while Universite de Montreal finished second and Bishop's took home the bronze in third place.

Jennifer Bertram, who was selected to the circuit's first all star team, finished the final league standings in fourth place while rookie Katie Bruce was a second team selection and finished tenth overall. Her teammate Alicia Wood completed her fine season with a thirteenth place overall.

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On the men's side, Bishop's best skier was Rob MacKay (Toronto, Ont.) who finished 23rd on Friday in the Giant Slalom then showed great improvement the next day turning in an eleventh place finish in the Slalom event.

Rob accumulated 113 points finishing in twenty fourth place individually out of 97 skiers this season.

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Team winner (Women's): McGill
Team winner (Men's): Montréal
Team winner (Combine): Montréal

Individual winner (Women's): Kaylyn Morton, McGill
Individual winner (Men's): Jocelyn Boily, Montréal

Female Rookie of the year: Stéfanie Grimard, Montréal
Male Rookie of the year: Alexandre Poulin, Montréal

1st All-Star Team (Women's)
Kaylyn Morton, McGill
Alyson Bobby, McGill
Andrée-Anne Gagnon, Laval
Jennifer Bertram, Bishop's
Stéfanie Grimard, Montréal

2nd All-Star Team (Women's)
Marie-Hél. Juneau-Voyer, Montréal
Laura Parent, Sherbrooke
Jessie Behan, McGill
Maude Latulippe, Montréal
Katie Bruce, Bishop's

1st All-Star Team (Men's)
Jocelyn Boily, Montréal
Kevin Kelly, Laval
Alexandre Poulin, Montréal
Maxime Dorval, Montréal
Jean Turmel, Laval

2nd All-Star Team (Men's)
Vincent Langevin, Montréal
Oliver Hendrick, Concordia
Vincent Van Uytfanck, Concordia
Nicolas Dorval, Laval
Sébastien Lalancette, Laval