Wellesley sports: High school girls’ alpine skiing impresses at states; Pekowitz sisters compete at curling nationals

The Wellesley, Mass., sports news:

Wellesley High school girls’ alpine skiing team impresses at states

Congratulations to the Wellesley High School girls’ alpine ski team, runner up at the the MIAA state ski championships on Feb. 25 at Wachusett Mountain to Medway High. The Wellesley team was coming off the Mass Bay Ski League East championship for the regular season.

Charlotte Kelley shined in the giant slalom, taking second place, and the slalom, where she finished seventh.

The team has more than 50 members, who started out the season with training on dry land twice a week and in the snow two days a week, according to coach Cory Tusler, celebrating 20 seasons as a skiing coach.

The team started its races at the start of January, with 12 races for varsity and six for JV.

“It goes fast, we race 200-250 skiers per night,” Tusler said, touting the 4-5 feet of “Mother Nature’s best” snow this season.

Tusler shared special thanks to assistant coaches Liam Gray and David Driver, who skied for Tusler 18 years ago. “I couldn’t do it without them. And a big thanks to John Brown for always being at the Championship Races! No matter how cold it gets. ”

Pekowitz sisters compete at curling nationals

Wellesley sisters Julia Pekowitz (Wellesley High School ’23, Wellesley College ’27) and Alexa Pekowitz (Wellesley College ’25, University of Minnesota Twin Cities ’29) competed this past week at the USA Curling Women’s Nationals in Charlotte.

Team Pekowitz played plenty of competitive matches during the event, at which it went 3-4. In addition to the Pekowitz sisters, the team included Lila Farwell from Colorado and Kalina Petrova from New Jersey.

The team will also be competing at U21 Nationals in Bismarck,  North Dakota at the end of March.

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