Over the weekend of January 11th-12th, Northwood had great representation at a snowboarding rail jam at Titus. Brynn Haran ’28 shared a bit about her experience competing over the weekend.
Brynn Haran at a recent rail jam. Photo provided.
“The people there are all very nice—everybody helps each other and supports each other, even though everybody’s still competing against each other,” said Haran. “We still help each other out if anyone needs help with something, and it’s just a good community overall.” Haran placed 1st for both her rail jams at Titus.
Brynn spoke a bit about how snowboarding competitions work. “Some competitions have two events over two days, or there can be doubleheaders, which are like back-to-back competitions on the same day,” explained Haran. “It can be the same thing or different events. Last week’s competition was a doubleheader rail jam. You sign in, you get to go up and practice, and there’s usually a few boxes and rails. After, there’s this thing called riders meeting, and it just talks about basic information for the event. Depending on how big the groups are, they split us into heats of age groups and abilities. They go by start list order, and whenever you get up there and strap in, you just drop one at a time so that they can score you. For doubleheaders, there’s usually a break for lunch, another short practice, and then we just restart. That’s what happened at the last competition,” Haran added.
We hope to hear more about snowboarding results as the season progresses.