About 400 elementary- and middle-school students taking part in the Shenendehowa Inventors program will display their inventions at the former Cotton Market store at Clifton Park Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
About a dozen Whitehall students, from middle grades into high school, drive two hours from home to Hoevenberg every Sunday afternoon from midwinter into early spring. They're learning how to pilot bobsleds and control skeleton sleds; they're hoping dedication and training leads to spots in the Junior Olympics. Someday, maybe the Winter Olympics.
“We’re the only public school in the country that has a bobsled team,” said Alan Bascue, a former bobsledder who serves as chief recruiter and head coach. Posted on February 7, 2010.
Codie Bascue, left, and Shan Beebe kneel near the Whitehall “Railroaders” bobsled at “Start 3” on the bobsled run at Mount Van Hoevenberg near Lake Placid. Bascue, the pilot, and Beebe, the brakeman, are sophomores at Whitehall and hope to take their passion for bobsled to the Olympics some day.
Alan Bascue, coach of the Whitehall Central School bobsled team, prepares to launch two of his sledders down the bobsled run at Mount Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid. Whitehall is the only public school in the country that provides bobsled and skeleton sliding as club sports.
From left, Whitehall Central School students Patricia Snow, 16, Emily Sweeney, 15, and Olivia Sweeney, 14, display their skeleton sleds at Mount Van Hoevenberg near Lake Placid during a recent practice session.
