Whistler Mountain Ski Club (WMSC) K2 racers proved the depth of their program with their commanding performance last week as Panorama Mountain Village hosted the 2010 K2 Provincial Race Series.

Among approximately 76 male and 66 female competitors, the WMSC skiers captured 15 medals in the four days of racing, including golden performances from Emma King and Blake Ramsden, with Brodie Seger launching himself onto the podium in second or third spot in all of his events.

“The conditions were great, the competition was great and I think we all had a great time,” Seger said in a Monday (Feb. 8) statement from the WMSC.

With cold and fast conditions creating a rock-hard track, the event opened with super G races on Thursday and Friday (Feb. 5 and 6). King rocketed into contention by winning silver behind Prince George’s Alix Wells in Thursday’s first race, the provincial championship event, and turned things up a notch by surging to the top of the podium in Thursday’s second race, ahead of Wells.

In Friday’s women’s race, Pemberton’s Charley Field powered onto the podium with her third-place finish, following up on her fifth-place result from Thursday’s second race. Rae Swette, Celeste Pomerantz, Kelly Steeves and Elianne Taillefer followed her into the top 10.

In the men’s super G events, Seger sprang out to a second-place finish in Thursday’s race, and followed that up with bronze and silver medals won in Friday’s first and second super G events.

Pemberton’s Logan Pehota claimed a bronze medal in Thursday’s super G race, with Ramsden, Charlie Renzoni, Kyle Yates and Dalton Pehota all ripping into the top 10, while Ramsden and Dalton Pehota won silver and bronze medals in Friday’s events.

Ramsden’s silver coupled with Seger’s bronze, with Logan Pehota finishing fourth, came in the provincial championship event on Friday.

The fast conditions at Panorama caused Ramsden to remark that he sensed “all of my races felt like a blur. It was as if my body was moving before my mind could catch up.”

The racers moved on to the two-run giant slalom events on Saturday and Sunday (Feb. 6 and 7), where first-year K2 racer Steeves took her skiing up a notch to finish third and then second in the two days of racing. Swette, who also finished eighth in the first women’s super event, powered into the top 10 both days alongside Field and King.

“There wasn’t one thing wrong this whole week,” Steeves said.

Ramsden won the first men’s GS race on Saturday, and followed that up by winning a silver medal on Sunday. Seger won bronze medals both days, while Bryan Cadman, Kyle Yates, Renzoni and Logan Pehota earned top-10 results.

WMSC racers also shone in the GMC Cup races at Mount Norquay, Alta., with Pemberton’s Ben MacLean winning a gold medal in Tuesday’s (Feb. 9) giant slalom race to close out the third stop of the circuit. A B.C. Ski Team member, MacLean captured his first GMC Cup gold after a battle to finish his race.

In Saturday’s slalom events, Ford Swette and Jocelyn Ramsden of the WMSC and the B.C. Ski Team earned top-10 results to kick things off. In Sunday’s slalom races, Daniel Kwong and Jocelyn Ramsden led the way for the WMSC with their fourth-place finishes, with William Konantz and Spencer Morris speeding into the top 10 in the men’s event.

In Monday’s (Feb. 8) giant slalom races, which were won by Canadian ski legend Ken Read’s son Erik and B.C. Ski Team member Sarah Freeman, Ford Swette and Whistler’s Kailee Darlington achieved fourth-place finishes while Elyse Timoshenko and Jocelyn Ramsden sped into the top 10.