Charlotte Hilton and Isaac Lovett will both be representing Nova Scotia at the national competition, which takes place at the end of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two Lockview High Grade 10 students sat down with The Laker News at the Fall River Tim Hortons to talk about how they\u2019re feeling and preparing for the U16 nationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m super excited,\u201d said Hilton. \u201cI’ve been waiting to do this since my first year U14. I have always wanted to do it since I was little.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hilton said from listening to other skiiers who are friends with her talk about going to U16 nationals at Mont Tremblant, it seemed like a cool experience to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lovett agreed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt’s been something to look forward to for the past couple of years,\u201d he said. \u201cIt’s a super fun event with everyone across Canada, and you get to be with your friends.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To go to U16 nationals Hilton and Lovett, members of the Wentworth Ski Race Club, both had to be among the top five alpine skiiers in the province, which they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Both say attending the national competition a \u201cpretty big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because of COVID-19 restrictions the past two years, both are in the age group that didn\u2019t get to do events such as this, so they\u2019re really excited to be able to compete and have something super cool to do finally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hilton and Lovett said their friends are pretty stoked about hearing they will be wearing the Nova Scotia colours at the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy mom\u2019s been telling everybody at her work about it,\u201d said Hilton with a chuckle. \u201cAlmost everyone that I’ve told her about it says, that’s pretty huge that I’m one of five people in our province that’s going to this big national battle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”127″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”25″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hilton was asked how skiiers like her and Lovett can temper their excitement so they can compete well and get results they\u2019re striving for at Mont Tremblant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe do like a lot of mental like training and planning with our coach for moments like these where we have to focus,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the event coming up fast, and school still in, how do they keep focus on their grades with thoughts of the U16s in the back of their heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe’re taught to create a balance between skiing and school, so I have an equal amount of focus on both of them,\u201d said Lovett. It’s kind of hard, though, when we have to focus on both because our teachers almost expect us to know what we have to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The two, who have placed top three in almost every race they\u2019ve competed in this season, said they\u2019ve had a lot of fun on the slopes this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe got to go to Cape Breton, which we weren’t allowed to do last year because of all the restrictions,\u201d said Hilton. \u201cWe’ve also got to go to Quebec, and we’ve got to do all sorts of cool things that weren’t able to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”150″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”78″] [adrotate banner=”111″] FALL RIVER: Two Fall River skiiers are chomping at the bit to hit the slopes at the Under-16 nationals. Charlotte Hilton and Isaac Lovett will both be representing Nova Scotia at the national competition, which takes place at the end of the month. The two Lockview High Grade 10 students sat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3373,2,3374,5,370,3375],"class_list":["post-27154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-charlotte-hilton","tag-fall-river","tag-isaac-lovett","tag-lockview-high","tag-skiing","tag-wentworth-ski-race-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/unnamed-1024x683.jpg\")