{"id":7404,"date":"2011-03-07T20:58:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T01:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/?p=7404"},"modified":"2011-03-07T20:59:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T01:59:26","slug":"gross-gets-the-gold-snowboarding-team-finds-success-in-first-year-of-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/2011\/03\/07\/gross-gets-the-gold-snowboarding-team-finds-success-in-first-year-of-existence\/","title":{"rendered":"Gross Gets the Gold: Snowboarding Team finds success in first year of existence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jamie Gross '14 racing at Regionals.<\/p><\/div>\n

This year, Conn welcomed a new club, the Snowboarding Team, created by Johnny Borbone \u201912. Made up of roughly ten students, the team travels to competitions, and members have the choice of either straight racing or slope-style, which includes tricks. The team is part of the New Jersey Conference of USCSA.<\/p>\n

Jamie Gross \u201914, a skilled member of the team, participates in the racing parts of the competitions. She won first place at all three races in which she competed at Hunter Mountain in New York, and to top it off, she won first place at Regionals. I sat down with Gross to discuss important snowboarding matters.<\/p>\n

How did you become interested in snowboarding? When did you begin? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I started at the age of six, so about twelve years ago. I saw it and thought it looked really fun. At first, I rented boards for the season and I got my first real board when I was twelve.<\/p>\n

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Do you do any tricks? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t do tricks. I\u2019ve tried them, but I do want to pick them up. I\u2019m thinking of competing in the trick part next year. I can do boxes.<\/p>\n

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What are boxes?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are boxes on some of the hills and you can ride up and off of them. I\u2019ve only done them a couple of times.<\/p>\n

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Do you have any advice to beginner boarders?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speed is your friend. It totally is. The slower you go, the easier it is to fall.<\/p>\n

And a lot of people are afraid to go fast, but that\u2019s where it gets fun. Oh, and wear a helmet!<\/p>\n

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Have you ever gotten injured while snowboarding? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve injured my knee snowboarding. I want to say it was my junior or senior year of high school. I wear a knee brace now and it\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n

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What was your best experience with boarding? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Winning Regionals is pretty exciting.<\/p>\n

What do you think of Shaun White? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I think he\u2019s annoying. I mean, he\u2019s good at what he does, but I\u2019ve heard that he\u2019s really cocky.<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you also ski? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I just snowboard. But I have a lot of friends who only ski.<\/p>\n

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Where\u2019s your favorite place to snowboard? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Alpine Meadows\u2014at my home mountain in Lake Tahoe, California.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s it like boarding out here? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Compared to home? Where I live, we get about five feet of snow with every snowstorm, and we have a storm like every weekend. Out here, it\u2019s a lot icier and slushier and there\u2019s not as much snow. But it\u2019s still fun.<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you have any crazy nicknames?<\/strong><\/p>\n

People call me Jaim. Wait, I have a better one\u2014Jamala. And Jammer Bammer. I like that one the best.<\/p>\n

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Favorite food. Go. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Sushi\u2019s pretty good.<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why sushi?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I just like it.<\/p>\n

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Should we expect to see you in the Olympics in the near future? <\/strong><\/p>\n

No, (laughs) I\u2019m not that good.<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pirates or ninjas? I hear there\u2019s a big debate. <\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna go with pirates. I hope people stay my friend after this one.<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

What\u2019s something you like to do that not many people know about? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I tap dance. I\u2019ve done that since seventh grade.<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

Would you ever dance at Conn?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I would, but they don\u2019t have tap dance here.<\/p>\n

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Favorite bands? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I really like Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Kooks and Vampire Weekend.<\/p>\n

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Any parting words? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Everyone who competed did really well this year. The team\u2019s really fun and everyone should join!\u00a0 \u2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year, Conn welcomed a new club, the Snowboarding Team, created by Johnny Borbone \u201912. Made up of roughly ten students, the team travels to competitions, and members have the choice of either straight racing or slope-style, which includes tricks. The team is part of the New Jersey Conference of USCSA. Jamie Gross \u201914, a …<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":926,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7410,"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions\/7410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecollegevoice.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}