The U.S. Alpine Championships super-G races scheduled for Saturday morning at Golden Peak in Vail were postponed shortly after 10 a.m. due to snow conditions.

“With the weather conditions we had overnight, the surface was such that it was not going to be consistent throughout the entire length of the track,” said Bryan Rooney, Ski and Snowboard Club Vail’s chief operating officer. “Really, the concern for the athletes was what was at the foremost of the postponing of this race.” 

The super-G races have been rescheduled for 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday, but the schedule won’t be finalized until the team captains’ meeting Saturday night. Rooney said the jury is discussing the possibility of moving things up slightly on Sunday.

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“Ultimately, for any race series, you’re looking for a hard, durable surface that stays consistent from the first racer to the last,” he said. “The best opportunity to do that is earlier in the day — less exposure to the sun and colder temperatures.”

Updates will be posted on the U.S. Ski and Snowboard social media channels. Spectators can find the latest communication and the livestream on the national governing body’s Facebook page.

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Looking ahead, Monday’s race schedule has now been changed to include the men’s and women’s giant slalom, with start times yet to be determined. The slaloms scheduled for Tuesday, however, will remain as originally posted, with women’s and men’s first runs going at 9 and 10:30 a.m. and the second runs following at 12 and 1:30 p.m.

Both the parade and the athlete signing scheduled for Saturday were a go.

The 2025 championships mark the first time the year-end event has come to Vail. Several current and former SSCV athletes, including U.S. Ski Team members River Radamus, Kyle Negomir and Paula Moltzan, are competing.

Saturday night’s forecast calls for rain and snow showers, with precipitation turning to all snow after 9 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. There’s also an 80% chance of snow showers on Monday night with more coming on Tuesday. When asked about the rest of the week’s outlook, Rooney said that weather is “a constant concern in this sport.”

“Precipitation this time of year, with warmer temperatures where it might start as rain and turn to snow — which is what we had last night — really impacts what we’re trying to do out there,” he stated before adding that last night’s rain would have been fine if it would have stopped and gotten colder.

“It then started snowing, so the new snow insulated the rain and the snow underneath,” he continued. “With the warmer overnight temperatures, that, combined with the insulation, didn’t allow for anything to really freeze underneath it.” 

One of SSCV’s U18 FIS athletes, Maizy Douglas, was bummed about losing the race, but didn’t have too much time to dwell on the disappointment. The silver lining: now she could change into her Vail Mountain School soccer jersey and join her Gore Ranger teammates on the pitch for a noon match against Moffat County.

“It’s always a bummer that the race gets canceled, but it’s nice that it’s in the valley so we can go and support our other teammates,” Douglas said. “Because being a multi-sport athlete, you have to make sacrifices, but today it ended up working.”