Peter Vordenberg

Newell, Williams and Kuzzy Wrap It Up.

by Torin Koos

Matt Whitcomb has the ball rolling.  The most-asked-for programming from the USST has been coaches education... it is here.  Click it.

By Tazlina Mannix.  (and some great photos inside by Krista Rader)

Tale by Kikkan Randall and many photos inside...

Our second home

http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/607.html?sector=CClistid=300068 From here type in Nation: USA and Order By: distance or sprint... You can also just enter the skiers name... the site is slow so just wait a sec  

http://www.ussa.org/magnoliaPublic/ussa/en/sports/crosscountry/rankings.html And from here look down to where it says "Check your national ranking... click here"

WWW.TEAMTODAY.NING.COM click it, sign up, participate, own it. Updates, final shots, etc to come in due time.

Great to be on the 2010 Olympic courses! 

Photos from Santa Caterina near Bormio.

Andy Newell - after a long frustrating stretch wins the prelim by a good margin and then takes his second podium result ever with a second place.  Kikkan Randall had a good day as well finishing 5th.  Great, great work Andy and Kikkan.   Chandra Crawford won the thing (congrats) and Devon Kershaw was 5th.

In her first year at U-23 Liz Stephen (USST) scored a 38.6 point FIS race and a podium result.  Not far back Tazlina Mannix (APU/USST) finished 8th with a 45 point race and Morgan Arritola (SVSEF/USST) finished 11th with a 54 point race.  Great skiing all!

Not the best day for US Skiing.  Newell fell in the the prelim (still almost qualified), Koos who did qualify strongly was eliminated in the first round (a fast round granted), no one else qualified.  In Italy at JWC Hoffman broke a ski early in the race went to the back of the field, got a new ski, hammerd through the whole field back up to 6th place and then finished 23rd.  Rough - but we have the talent, the work ethic and the will so while rough days and weeks will make us scratch our heads it will not make us hang our heads.

http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/1228.html?event_id=24591cal_suchsector=CC  

http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/1228.html?event_id=24591cal_suchsector=CC  

Starting with Bib (rank) 10 the Mens team finished 11th.  Freeman had the 9th best time in his leg and was just under 30seconds out.  Kuzzy had the 9th best time and was 50 seconds out which is a very good race.  Zimmermann and Newell fought all out in their legs.  Much more racing to come.  One thing you can count on - we will fight hard.