Mallams 2nd Rendezvous Nordic race

by Whitefish Pilot
| March 9, 2011 9:55 AM

Former Glacier Nordic Ski Team member

Ian Mallams took second place in the 50K Nordic race last weekend

at the 32nd annual Yellowstone Rendezvous in West Yellowstone.

Mallams, 21, finished with a 2:40:22,

only 39 seconds back of overall winner Jason Travis, of Park City,

Utah.

Whitefish High School graduate Matt

Shryock, 24, who now lives in Missoula, finished ninth overall with

a 2:46:54. Mallams and Shryock were first and second, respectively,

in the 18-24 year-old division.

Other local finishers in the 50K

included John Gangemi, 27th overall and second in the 50-54 age

division, Ryan Dye, 46th overall and seventh in the 35-39 age

division, and Russell Mallams, 92nd overall and seventh in the

55-59 age division.

Current Glacier Nordic member Fischer

Gangemi, 16, took fourth overall in the 25K race with a 1:23:18.

Jason Schmidt, who recently won the Broken Binding races at the

Stillwater Nordic area, took 17th overall with a 1:28:03.