Updates from Rachael DesRochers

I'm so happy about our Commissioner's Cup victory....

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:47:29 GMT

I'm so happy about our Commissioner's Cup victory. After playing an earlier 50 minute game, we ended with a 0-0 tie against Temecula in the Championship Game. Which means...four five minute quarters of sudden death. After each quarter, two players are removed until, in quarter four, there are only five players remaining. Yup. Went that far. After 80 minutes, it was still a 0-0 tie. Time for a shootout. We win that, 3-2! I got the first goal of the shootout, too.

Im in Temecula for Comisioner's Cup soccer and we ...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:36:39 GMT

Im in Temecula for Comisioner's Cup soccer and we won our first two games 2-0. Now we have one more game tomorrow but we are already in the Championship game. It's suposed to snow a lot tomorrow and my dad says it's going to be a snow day. I want powder!

It's been a good weekend. Snow Summit finally ope...

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:37:19 GMT

It's been a good weekend. Snow Summit finally opened top to bottom so we can finally use the locker room. Played two games of soccer today and two more tomorrow. Then ski training on Sunday.

We're pretty lucky. There's no snow in tahoe but ...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:59:29 GMT

We're pretty lucky. There's no snow in tahoe but we've finished our third week training on snow. It's not much of a run but it's enough to get some training done. Now it's time to juggle soccer and skiing for the next two weeks.

Scrimaged a boys U14 team today in 28 degree windy...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:44:09 GMT

Scrimaged a boys U14 team today in 28 degree windy temps. We beat them 3-1. They started making snow today so I may get to ski this weekend like Sunday. Im excited!

Played soccer down the hill in Hesperia against a ...

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:18:38 GMT

Played soccer down the hill in Hesperia against a team we lost to in our first game 3-1. This time we beat them 3-2. I got the first goal and even played a little goalie. Then did some dryland training for skiing. My parents went to Mammoth and said there's snow on the ground at our condo so the season should be here soon. Can't wait.

I'm back home but haven't rested a bit. Friday I r...

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:39:12 GMT

I'm back home but haven't rested a bit. Friday I ran a x-country race at Mt. SAC in 100 degree heat. Saturday I had a soccer game and today we had fitness testing for skiing. My best result ever for beep testing was a 7.5 but today I ran a 10.7. Only two hhigh school boys went longer than me! Can't wait to get on snow. School starts tomorrow :-(

I'm getting ready to fly home from Costa Rica toda...

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:50:51 GMT

I'm getting ready to fly home from Costa Rica today. Had alot of fun in the ocean and ziplining through the jungle. I ran on the beach alot to to get ready for my xcountry run on friday at mt sac

My last day of school before fall break is tomorro...

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:41:30 GMT

My last day of school before fall break is tomorrow. I've got a looong day ahead of me on Saturday. I'm playing soccer in the desert in Victorville at 9 which means I have to wake up at 6:30. After soccer, my sister plays at the same place at one. Then home to pack and off to LAs airport for a trip to surf in Costa Rica. We leave at 1 in the morning and land at 9;30 on Sunday morning. I am going to be so tired but surfing, monkeys, zip lines and training for the Mt Sac invitational when I get back will all be so much fun. Ican't wait!

Ran my last x-country race in the desert yesterday...

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:20:10 GMT

Ran my last x-country race in the desert yesterday at the league championships. Finished 7th out of 0ver 200 girls! Now I'm getting ready for my last week of school then it's off to Costa Rica to surf and hike.

Ran another X-country race today. This time it wa...

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:55:05 GMT

Ran another X-country race today. This time it was down in the desert and over 100 degrees. I finished third. I was so hot and sandy but now I know the course. We have our championships there in a couple of weeks and I'm hoping for a top 10!

Ran my first xcountry race today for my school. I...

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:23:30 GMT

Ran my first xcountry race today for my school. I thought I was just doing this to get ready for the ski season but Idid pretty well. I took second place overall and missed winning the race by 4 seconds. There were 50 girls from three schools so I'm pretty proud of myelf.

Ran my first xcountry race today for my school. I...

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:22:48 GMT

Mammoth Speed Trainiing

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:01:58 GMT

I learned so muchthis weekend in Mammoth. Stacey Cook was my coach on Friday with Conrad from Squaw Valley. We worked on rollers and jumps and I did really well. By the end of the camp, we were launching jumps from mid way up Cornice to Hair Jump and going 50ft. I also made some new friends from up north. Remi was really cool to hang out with. The snow was actually really good in the morning for training and last night, the highest peaks had fresh snow for the first day of June.

Early Summer Fun

Sun, 24 May 2009 15:44:51 GMT

Went to the beach this weekend in San Diego. Hung out with my friend Lyndsay from the race team. We got out of the waves just long enough to bury each other in the sand. Tonight I'm going to visit some friends in at my olld home in Alpine. Next week I leave for on snow speed training in Mammoth with the Far West Ski Team. I thinnk some of our coaches are going to be US Ski Teamers so I'm pretty excited to learn from them.

Lost our first soccer game today, 3-1. Played the ...

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:36:33 GMT

Lost our first soccer game today, 3-1. Played the whole game. Gonna work on trapping and shots this week and get our first win. I'm having fun with xcountry too.

Summer at Mt. Hood Ski Camp

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:57:01 GMT

Just got back from two weeks at Mt. Hood Summer Ski camp. The cool thing about this camp is you can train both ski racing and freestyle without changing locations. The bad thing is that thier race training is a lot better than the freestyle. I made a lot of progress with my race skiing, especially my slalom. When you're a J5 in Far West, you run slalom on stubbies. As a 1st year J4 next year, I have to run full size gates and they really got me ready for that. The second week there, I trained freestyle. I didn't get that much better though. All they told me was jump higher or get more sideways but I really didn't know what they meant by that. I was hoping to learn to slide a downhill rail and throw a five. The only new thing I learned was a swithc 180. Next year I'll probably go to camps that only specialize in one thing like Tichy for racing and Windell's for freestyle.

Summer at Mt. Hood Ski Camp

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:56:50 GMT

USASA Nationals Are Finished!

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:07:41 GMT

I had fun at the USASA Nationals. Slopestyle, skiercross and halfpipe were awesome. I won all three events but I had more fun meeting new friends like Abby ( I already knew her but we became reeeeaaaallllly good friends) Summer from Tamarack, Maddie from NY ( her mom runs Liberty skis, check them out), Caroline from NY and Audrey from Mammoth. They are sooo nice and I can't wait to see them next year at Nationals. Tomorrow, I'm going to go ski with some long lost cousins at Keystone and then one more day at Copper. Then I'll fly back to California and watch my sister race at Squaw. I wish the season wasn't ending.

Busy Week and Great Results

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:11:49 GMT

What a weekend. I had j5 Far West Championships on thursday and fri and Sat. They were alot of fun. I didn't win but I got two podiums at 3rd place and a fourth place in slalom. The on satirday after my super g race, I drove to Sacramento to fly to denver to go to USASA Natioonals. I was bummed that I couldn't get my trophy but I saw Stacey Cook (she's a USA Ski team racer who's reeeeeaaaaallllly good). She got it fo me and gave it to my mom. We finally got to Copper mountain at 3 iin themorning and I had to wake up at 6:30. I saw Abby and met Summer in person. She's a good skier like Abby and me. We did our two halfpipe runs and were done beofre breakfast. I won and Abby got third. I thought Summer should have got a medal to because she had some great turns in the air. Later we went skiing with my dad and Abbys dad but now I just want to sleep. Tomorrow is Slopestyle!

National Invites

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:39:46 GMT

I got my invites to Nationals today for halfpipe, skiercross and slopestyle. I can't wait. It's going to be so much fun. I'm glad that I'll know some people there this year like Abby and I'm looking forward to meeting Summer. I saw that she signed up and is ready to go. It's going to be a busy two weeks over spring but I'm going to love every minute of it.

1st Big Podium

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:36:36 GMT

Today, I got my first podium in a big race. There were over 60 girls and I got 3rd. Yesterday, I was charging on my second run and fell half way down. I was really pushing for second but it didn't happen. Today, I was kind of nervous for my first run. I didn't want to fall again and I kind of held back a little. I was eighth after the first run but I tried my hardest, hit a lot of gates and had a great second run. My friend Steph came in second and my other friend Evan came in second for the J5 boys. The Snow Summit Race team had a great day and showed the Mammoth and Tahoe kids that Southern Cal kids can compete too!

Bear Skiing

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:59:20 GMT

I had a great day today. I started off with a few runs through the boardercross course and then competed (although no one was in my division this time). Still, by racing I qualified for Nationals and the practice races against the boys who are older than me went real well. Then, I went out with some boys from the race team in the park and superpipe. I was on my gs skis so I didn't want to do much more than go big on the jumps but guess what!? I don't know what I was thinking but I decided to throw a 360 in the pipe and I landed it! I can't wait to try it on twin tips.

Skiercross is Awesome!

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:49:31 GMT

My sister raced Super G in Mammoth last weekend. She went over sixty mph and she still has three years before she can drive. I wanted to do something too so I signed up for skiercross. I was kind of nervous after watching the crashes on Xgames. I preran the course a few times the day before to get used to it. The course was scary at first. It started with a 20 ft high spine that you had to air and then it dropped into two steep banked turns. There were a whole bunch of rollers that you couldn't avoid air on and a step down and step up. There were a whole bunch of Mammoth race team girls who entered so I had a lot of good competition. One of them was a girl I met at Nationals last year named Abby. We hung out and became good friends. I can't wait to see her at Nationals this year. She raced really well and took second. I got first and learned that skiercross can be really fun. I still like regular racing better though.

POWDER DAY!!!

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:34:53 GMT

After training was cancelled yesterday, I got to stay home and watch winter X. Way to go Daron. I knew he'd win. While I was watching, the rain changed to snow and it snowed all night! My da's a teacher and he got a call at five in the morning telling him school was cancelled. We got on the mountain a little after 8 and skied freshies until noon with a bunch my and my dad's friends. We usually don't get 18 inches in a storm here in Big Bear so this was really special.