{"id":7005,"date":"2009-03-16T15:02:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T19:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=5912"},"modified":"2016-06-28T13:52:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T17:52:16","slug":"bobcat-of-the-week-sylvan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/03\/16\/bobcat-of-the-week-sylvan\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobcat of the week: Sylvan Ellefson &#039;09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/03\/72ellefson-5985.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/03\/72ellefson-5985.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"72ellefson-5985\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Making his fourth appearance at the NCAA Skiing Championships, senior <strong>Sylvan Ellefson<\/strong> (Vail, Colo.) didn&#8217;t quite get the results he wanted, but he put forth an outstanding showing nonetheless and was a major factor in Bates&#8217; five-athlete contingent placing 13th overall at the championships, the Bobcats&#8217; fourth consecutive top-15 showing at NCAAs.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ellefson felt under the weather at Thursday&#8217;s 10K Classical Technique race, but he gutted out an 18th-place finish, covering the course in 25:34.4. On Saturday, on another beautiful day at Black Mountain, with a large representation of Bates supporters, Ellefson came in 12th in the 20K Freestyle race, narrowly missing his second career All-America honors, awarded to the top 10 finishers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was so happy coming to the finish, but at the same time, it&#8217;s the end of my college career. So it was a little bit sad, but awesome all at the same time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m happy with how I finished. The thing that made my day was the people from Bates that were here today; seeing all my friends and people from the crowd, it was really fun having people here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ellefson&#8217;s senior teammate <strong>Sam Evans-Brown<\/strong> (Gilmanton Iron Works, N.H.), making his first NCAA appearance, also moved up on his second day, placing 27th in the freestyle after coming in 36th in the classical race. Sophomore <strong>Natalie Ruppertsberger<\/strong> (Plainfield, N.H.) also competed well on the women&#8217;s side, giving Ellefson two Nordic teammates at NCAAs after two straight years of being the team&#8217;s only representative at nationals. The Bates trio teamed up with alpine teammates <strong>Liz Thompson<\/strong> and <strong>Micaela Holland<\/strong> to represent Bates skiing in admirable fashion all week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making his fourth appearance at the NCAA Skiing Championships, senior Sylvan Ellefson (Vail, Colo.) didn&#8217;t quite get the results he wanted, but he put forth an outstanding showing nonetheless and was a major factor in Bates&#8217; five-athlete contingent placing 13th overall at the championships, the Bobcats&#8217; fourth consecutive top-15 showing at NCAAs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24,130],"tags":[6345],"class_list":["post-7005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-collaboration","tag-ncaa-skiing-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88877,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions\/88877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}