Ellie Hartman

Featured Image: The Luxury Chalet Company Chalet Les Bruxellois. Credit: The Luxury Chalet CompanyFrom the Love for the SlopesThe Luxury Chalet Company was born from a deep-rooted love of alpine skiing and living.

Lindsey Vonn has earned yet another ESPY (Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Awards) nomination, this time for Best Comeback Athlete, following her remarkable return to the World Cup circuit this year.Vonn’s Previous ESPY Wins and NominationsWINS2010:

Featured Image: Bradshaw Underhill winning an EISA Carnival at the Dartmouth Skiway. Credit: Stephen CloutierBradshaw Underhill spent four standout years at Middlebury College, making his mark on the slopes, the golf course, and in the classroom.A physics major and two-sport NCAA

Featured Image: Liam Wallace. Credit: GEPAAlpine Canada Alpin athlete Liam Wallace made a truly remarkable comeback last season. After a life-threatening crash in February 2024, the young athlete persevered and returned to the slopes stronger than ever.During a training run ahead of

Featured Image: Martina Plunger Beech on the hill with the Stifel US Ski Team. Provided by Martina Plunger Beech.Remember the saying, “There’s no ‘I’ in team?” That couldn’t be more true for athletes competing at the highest level.Remaining at the top of

Featured Image: Provided by Burke Mountain AcademyAs the new season approaches, it’s time to find a program that supports your alpine ski racing goals and academic success. Whether you're a full-time racer or multi-sport athlete, the right environment can help you excel in both areas.

Featured Image: James (Jack) Crawford receiving honorary gondola naming in Hahnenkamm. Credit: KSC/alpinguin200 guests and close family members came together on July 29th at the Hahnenkamm to celebrate ​​James (Jack) Crawford’s legendary win last season on the Kitzbühel Streif.The Canadian speed specialist

Featured Image: Gogebic Ski Area Management Program. Credit: Gogebic Community CollegeNestled in Ironwood, Michigan, Mt. Zion at Gogebic Community College is home to a long-standing and continually growing Ski Area Management program. This unique mountain community is not only dedicated to cultivating a strong mountain culture

Energetic costs and constraints are key considerations when analyzing an organism’s life history and may require trade-offs to be made between different life history traits. One of these trade-offs occurs between investment in immunity and performance. The purpose of this study is to discover if this trade-off influences behavior in neonate Children’s pythons (Antaresia childreni). We hypothesize that snakes undergoing an immune response will have reduced behaviors promoting survival. To test this hypothesis, neonate Children’s pythons were randomly assigned to receive an immune challenge of keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) or a vehicle injection as a control. Two days after the injections, the individuals underwent three behavior trails over two consecutive days. These trails tested the snake’s strike frequence, swim speed, and endurance, and their performances were recorded and compared. Six days after injections blood smears were obtained. White blood cells differentials were performed by counting 500 total cells at 400x magnification and different cell types were recorded i.e. red blood cells, heterophils, monocytes, lymphocytes ect. We found KLH elicited an immune response, as KLH treated neonates had higher lymphocyte ratios. Within immune challenged snakes, but no controls, there was a negative correlation between performance and immune cell rations, suggesting a trade-off may be present. We also found that there is significant variation in mass across clutches, and that hatchling mass is correlated with performance, such that larger snakes perform better.

Stifel Birds of Prey GS World Cup first run: Odermatt dominates, Pinheiro-Braathen and Kristoffersen tie for second and 3 U.S. make the flip.