Thanks to a series of clean and fast runs on home turf last weekend (April 8 to 10), Squamish's Mikayla Martin just added to her trophy collection.
Now amongst her cluttered award collection, Martin has to find space to put three more Whistler Cup trophies - one for her second place finish in giant slalom, one for her second place finish in the kombi and another for the Nancy Greene Award.
As one of only four racers able to score during the competition, Martin earned the team 49 of the 109 points the team had as a whole. The 13-year old Mamquam Elementary School student said she surprised herself with how well she did.
"It was tough but I thought it would be tougher," said the K1 alpine racer.
"I went in with a goal of top three and I thought it was far fetched but I came out with two silvers."
First up for the alpine speed demon was the kombi competition where racers transition between slalom and giant slalom gates in the same run. Martin finished the race 42.80 losing out to Italy's undefeated 12-year-old alpine racer Elisa Fornari by 43-one hundredths of a second.
"I was really surprised, I was really happy," she said.
After skiing the giant slalom run Martin finished second, again behind the Italian powerhouse, with a time of 1.04.39 but this time Martin said she wasn't as pleased.
"The second time in the [giant slalom] the same girl beat me so I just really wanted to beat her in the slalom."
Martin ended up finishing the slalom race in seventh while her biggest podium competitor fell and didn't finish at all.
Martin said her not so great slalom run could be partially attributed to being tired from the 6:15 a.m. wake-up times.
"The last day I was feeling lazy. I just wasn't as sharp as I was the first two days," she said.
"Slalom isn't really my thing. I skied better than I did [earlier] that day but I like the speed in GS and the transitions in Kombi better."
Overall, with her combined score Martin finished in third place and that suites her just fine.
"Yeah I'm more happy with the overall results."
Martin along with Whistler's Emma King won the Nancy Greene Award for their top results as Canadian female skiers.
Although she's a bit tired from the weekend race, she said she's not tired of racing this season by any means. The Whistler Cup was the last competition of the season and now all Martin has to look forward to a mere few weeks of recreational skiing left.
"I don't really want it to be over, no I don't want it to be over."
The teenager plans to mountain bike throughout the summer season and attend a few summer camps although she's undecided as to which ones specifically.
Over the three-day Whistler Cup competition, the Canadian alpine ski team earned a first place finish with the most points, 246.5 to be exact. The Italian alpine ski team finished in second place with 186.5 points and Japan finished in third with 177 points.
