Age: 26
Profession: Sales Clerk — Running Store
Ski Club/Team: XC Oregon
Hometown: Ripton, Vermont
Current Residence: Bend, Oregon
School: University of Vermont
Athletic Accomplishments:
• 2005 American Ski Marathon Series Champion
• 6th in US National 10km, and 50km, 2005
• 2005 Champion: Minnesota Finlandia, Craftsbury Marathon, and Lake Placid Loppet
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<b>Why do you ski race?</b><br />
I ski race because I have always loved to ski, and I enjoy competition. Ski racing combines both.</p>
<p><b>Why are you psyched to be a part of FSx?</b><br />
This past spring Fischer racing director Eli Brown offered me a spot on a new American racing team, FSx, and I jumped at the chance to stay with Fischer. For the past five years I have raced with the Subaru Factory Team and I enjoyed the support of the team, and the many friendships I formed through it. But you only live once, and I was ready to try something new, go in on the ground floor of a racing team and have the opportunity to race with the best skis, boots, poles and wax in the industry. </p>
<p><b>What is new in your life?</b><br />
In another big change for me, in May I moved all the way across the country from Aroostook County, Maine to Bend, Oregon. Living in northern Maine and training with the Maine Winter Sports Center was a great experience, but I felt that I had to relocate to a town with more training opportunities, more options for work in the off-season, and better situated for my racing schedule. So far, living in Bend has been a blast, with ski-able snow into June, big mountains, enough single-track to get lost on for years, plenty of fit folks to train with and weather almost too perfect for an Easterner to cope with. It’s been a great summer of training here and I’m looking forward to fall and an early start on snow in October.</p>
<p><b>What does your winter look like?</b><br />
With the Olympics on the horizon this winter the season will get off to a very early start with a trip to Fairbanks, AK a week or two before Halloween. The season opening Supertour races will get racing started on Nov. 5th and 6th, and in Anchorage on the 12th and 13th. From there the schedule doesn’t slow up with another training camp high up in West Yellowstone, MT, another weekend of races there at the end of November, World Cup events for those selected in Silver Star, BC and Canmore, AB in Dec., then on to US National Championships at Soldier Hollow, UT in early Jan. Well, you get the picture. It’s going to be a busy season, so stay tuned for reports from the road from the whole team all season long.</p>
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