Love, a 2022 Olympian, dominated the final two days of the NAC Cup, earning a gold medal in both Saturday and Sunday’s two-woman race with two different brakemen.

“Just walking away with a couple wins and getting Team USA on the podium in general, while moving into World Cup, is the confidence booster that we need,” Love said.

Love won Saturday’s two-woman race alongside Sydney Milani in a two-run time of 1 minute, 57.03 seconds. She followed up her result with another gold medal, this time alongside Azaria Hill, in 1:56.03.

“Honestly, we just rushed back from Europe and the World Cup tour and were trying to get some runs in preparation for the World Cup,” Love said. “It was really fun to get some experience with different brakemen. We tested things before the World Cup because you want to best prepare ourselves to represent (Team USA) on (our) home track next week.”

The U.S. four-man bobsled team of Geoffrey Gadbois, Collin Storms, Logan Radik and Brandon Jetter compete in Sunday’s North American Cup in Lake Placid. (Enterprise photo — Parker O’Brien)

The final IBSF World Cup in Lake Placid will run from March 21 to 23 and Love is hoping to end her first season as pilot with a solid result. Love, who spent half the last season as both a brakeman — alongside Kallie Humphries — and a pilot, is currently ranked third overall in the IBSF rankings for monobob and 12th overall in two-women.

“As a new pilot, each and every run is a new learning curve for me, so just trying to get more runs has been super helpful for me,” Love said. “So I’ve been very excited to get more ice time in general.”

Korea’s Yooran Kim and Inyoung Park placed second in the two-man race on Saturday in a time of 1:57.48. Canada’s Melissa Lotholz and Alex Klein were third in 1:57.94.

Team USA’s Riley Tejcek and Macy Tarlton placed fifth in 1:58.51, Sylvia Hoffman and DeAndra Greer placed sixth in 1:59.26 and Emily Bradley, alongside Hannah Cunningham, placed 11th with a time of 2:02.20.

On Sunday, France’s Margot Boch and Nome Desailly (1:57.52) placed second overall in the two-woman race. Korea’s Park and Siyeon Choi finished in third at 1:57.73.

Team USA’s Emily Bradley, right, hugs her father Mike, while Team USA’s Hannah Cunningham hugs her father during Sunday’s North American Cup in Lake Placid. (Enterprise photo — Parker O’Brien)

Tejcek and Milani placed fourth with a time of 1:58.09, Hoffman and Tarlton placed fifth with a time of 1:58.22 and Bradley alongside Cunningham placed 10th with a time of 2:02.47.

With Bradley and Cunningham’s combined run times, the duo placed first in the two-woman Junior Pan American Championships and Junior Pan American Championships U23. At the award ceremony on Sunday, the American duo were presented their awards by their fathers. Bradley’s father, Mike, used to compete for Team USA in the NAC division from 2008 to 2010.

In the men’s four-man event on Sunday, Korea’s Youngjin Suk, Kyungyeon Lee, Jonghee Park and Jaehwan So placed first overall in 1:52.71. Team USA’s Kris Horn, Darius Joseph, Trevor Chase and Jace Johnson placed second in 1:53.11. Brazil’s Edson Luques Bindilatti, Gustavo dos Santos Ferreira, Erick Gilson Vianna Jeronimo and Edson Ricardo Martins placed third in 1:53.15.

Team USA’s Geoff Gadbois, Collin Storms, Logan Radik and Brandon Jetter placed fifth with a time of 1:54.06.

The Korean team of Suk, Lee, Park and So also won Saturday’s four-man event in 1:53.19. The Brazilian team of Bindilatti, Ferreira, Jeronimo and Martins placed second in 1:53.62 on Saturday, while Germany’s Maximilian Illmann, Hannes Schenk, Henrik Proske and Jorn Wenzel finished in third at 1:53.78. Gadbois, Storms, Radik and Jetter placed fifth in 1:53.68. Horn, Joseph, Chase and Johnson placed sixth with a time of 1:54.07.

In the first two-man bobsled race on Wednesday, Kris Horn and Josh Williamson placed second with a time of 1:55.24. Geoff Gadbois and Collin Storms placed third with a time of 1:56.37. Korea’s Jinsu Kim and Hyeonggeun Kim finished in first place in 1:54.79.

Team USA was rounded out by Shane Fisher and Trevor Chase (1:57.75) in eighth place, Grady Mercer and Logan Radik (2:58.18) in 10th and John Lansing and Robert Davis (2:04.30) were 16th .

In Thursday’s two-man race, Jinsu Kim earned his second gold medal of the event, this time alongside Kyungyeon Lee in 1:53.38. Horn and Williamson were second in 1:54.31 and Gadbois and Storms finished in third at 1:54.32.

Mercer and Brandon Jetter placed ninth with their time of 1:56.88, while Fisher and Tim Monroe placed 10th in 1:57.03.

Canada’s Melissa Lotholz won the women’s monobob event on Wednesday with a two-run time of 2:04.37. Her teammate, Kristen Bujnowski (2:04.74) was second and Korea’s Inyoung Park (2:04.97) was third. Team USA’s Riley Tejcek placed seventh with her time of 2:06.65 and Emily Bradley was ninth in 2:09.75.

Thursday’s monobob race had an identical podium finish with Lotholz earning gold in 2:02.37. Bujnowski was second in 2:02.88 and Park was third in 2:03.21. Tejcek placed seventh on Thursday with a time of 2:04.57 and Bradley placed ninth with a time of 2:07.39.

These races also served as the first-ever Junior Pan American Championships. On the women’s side, Bradley placed first in the Junior Pan American Championships and Junior Pan American Championships U23. On the men’s side, Mercer and Radik placed first and Lansing and Davis placed fourth. In the U23 division, Lansing and Davis placed first.

In men’s skeleton on Thursday, Austin Florian placed second with his time of 1:50.58. Nick Tucker placed 20th with a time of 1:53.85, Bradley Nicol placed 31st with a one-run time of 57.22, Sam Allred placed 35th with a time of 57.52, Darryl Payne placed 42 with a time of 58.23 and Andrew Whittier placed 49th with a time of 58.59.

China’s Zheng Yin (1:50.00) won the men’s skeleton event on Thursday, while Ukraine’s Vladislav Heraskevych (1:50.78) was third.

China’s Wenhao Chen placed first in Friday’s skeleton race with a time of 1:48.69. Yin was second in 1:48.93 and Heraskevych was third in 1:49.08. Team USA’s Dan Barefoot placed 12th with a time of 1:49.81. Tucker placed 27th with his one-run time of 55.69, Nicol placed 30th with his time of 55.80, Dylan Burris placed 41st with a time of 56.64, Payne placed 42nd with a time of 56.87 and Allred placed 45th with a time of 57.44.

On the women’s side, Mystique Ro placed first with her time of 1:52.68 on Thursday. Katie Uhlaender placed third with her time of 1:53.22, Sara Roderick placed 10th with her time of 1:54.41, Logan Wudi placed 18th with her time of 1:55.93. Sha’Londa Terry placed 26th with her one-run time of 58.37, while Biancha Emery placed 40th in 1:01.46. Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands was second overall in 1:53.06.

Roderick placed second with a two-run time of 1:51.26, Uhlaender placed third with a time of 1:51.52, Wudi placed 16th with a time of 1:53.66, Michelle Toukan placed 18th with a time of 1:54.16, while Terry and Emery placed 33rd and 40th with one-run times of 58.55 and 1:00.70. Bos took home the gold medal on Friday in a time of 1:50.58.

Emery placed second in the Junior Pan American Championships and Junior Pan American Championships U20, due to her time in the women’s skeleton race.

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Parabob

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Team USA had a victorious day at the IBSF Para Sport World Championships in Lillehammer, Norway over the weekend with Bob Balk winning gold and becoming this season’s World Champion in Para Bobsled.

After two runs on Saturday, Balk was in first with a two-run time of 1:51.80. Will Castillo was in ninth with a time of 1:52.51, David Christopher was in 13th place with a time of 1:52.51 and Austin Parker was in 14th in 1:54.37.

On Sunday, after two runs, Balk finished first with an overall time of 3:44.10, Castillo finished ninth with a time of 3:45.49, Christopher was 13th in 3:48.10 and Parker placed 14th in 3:48.45.

Before the World Championship festivities, Team USA competed in a Para Sport World Cup race in Lillehammer on Friday. In this event, Balk placed third with a two-run time of 1:52.72. Castillo was 11th in 1:53.35, Parker finished 13th in 1:54.42 and Christopher was 14th in 1:54.62.