“I feel like I’m almost the rudder of a ship,” Broncs head coach Cody Hansen said. “My job is to point the ship in the right direction.”

The right direction in Alpine skiing is straight downhill — fast.

“A lot of it is just knowing what you want to go for,” Broncs senior Owen Janssen said. “The mindset is, ‘I’ve got to go all out and not let little things rattle you.’ You can’t win a ski race going 80 percent.”

Janssen was at 100% Saturday as he skied the resort’s Moran Run in 40.03 seconds on his second run to take the boys’ individual slalom title with an overall time of 1:22.59.

“He wasn’t satisfied with second place,” Hansen said of Janssen, who finished second on Friday in the giant slalom.

Jackson junior Travis D’Amours won the giant slalom title on Friday with runs of 1:00.05 and 1:00.73 for a total time of 2:00.78.

“I was nervous,” D’Amours said. “But I knew I could win, and I skied two good runs.”

The boys were one point shy of a perfect weekend, sweeping the top five places in the slalom on Saturday and taking the top four spots and sixth place in Friday’s giant slalom. That gave Jackson 159 points (out of a possible 160) for the two-day meet, far ahead of second-place Pinedale’s 65.

Following D’Amours and Janssen on Friday in the giant slalom were Adi Wetzler and Brett Lane in third and fourth place, respectively. Jack Stolte finished sixth for the Broncs, rounding out Jackson’s 79 points.

On Saturday, Wetzler and Lane once again came in third and fourth in the slalom, and senior Fin Hutchinson finished out the boys’ perfect Saturday score with a fifth-place finish.

Among the girls, Taylor Smith won Friday’s giant slalom and Saturday’s slalom to score 36 points for the Broncs, who swept the top five places on both days for a perfect score of 160. Natrona County came in second place with 74 points on the weekend.

Smith had runs of 1:00.50 and 1:02.94 in the giant slalom for a total time of 2:03.44. On Saturday she sped down the mountain in times of 43.86 and 42.73 for a total time of 1:26.59 in the slalom.

Madison Kramer finished second in giant slalom and third in slalom. Annie Moll was third in giant slalom and fifth in slalom; Lily Steinberg was fourth in giant slalom and second in slalom; and Ceci Bruno was fifth in giant slalom and fourth in slalom.

Smith, Kramer, Moll, Steinberg and Bruno were all named to the girls’ all-state team, as were D’Amours, Janssen, Wetzler and Lane for the boys.

Janssen’s title win in slalom followed his older brother, Nick, who won the giant slalom title last year for the Broncs.

“I texted him before the race, and he said, ‘Don’t mess up the streak,’” Owen Janssen said. “I think that’s the perfect way I could have ended my season.”

D’Amours said he and Janssen have a friendly competition that makes them both better.

“Sharing with Trav is always fun,” Janssen said.