The Craftsbury Outdoor Center and NENSA are proud to announce the Green Team, a new post-graduate ski racing program. The Green Team was conceived to fill a gap in support for skiers pursuing racing after college, and to keep elite skiers in New England, where they can give back to the skiing community that has nurtured them thus far. The Green Team will be based out of the Craftsbury Outdoor Center and coached by Pepa...
The program info packet and sign-up sheets are available on both the NSCF and FXC websites. Check it.
I am proud to announce that Northern Fruit Company will be my new sponsor! Northern Fruit Co. is located in Wenatchee, Washington, the apple capital of the world, and is committed to providing customers with the highest quality of fresh fruit. At Northern they grow and ship over 1 million boxes of the best apples, cherries, and pears to over 40 countries each year. As a Nordic skier with
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We’re back! The 2009-2010 training year is underway and Bryan, Gus and I just got back from CXC Elite team training camp #1 in Hayward, WI. The week was full of fitness testing and evaluations, including the 3000m run, VO2max testing, the strength test, and individual and team meetings. Bryan and I left the camp [...]
I used to work with teenagers at a residential school in New Hampshire. As all teenagers are hardwired to complain, some of these kids were exceptionally good at it. They complained about the food (which was really quite good compared to other institut...
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WHAT: My fabulous friend, Heather Zimmerman, will be running and biking for 48 consecutive hrs.WHY: To raise money for the development of schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan, supporting the Central Asia Institute.WHEN: This weekend, Friday May 8th- Sunday May 10th.WHERE: The American Birkibeiner trail in northern Wisconsin.GO HEATHER! WAY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!See http://hzimm.wordpress.com/
Its amazing how fast a month of rest and play goes by! April is over and it is the beginning of May...it is time to start training. Our first official day of training was Friday, May 1st. With the abundance of snow in the mountains, we were able to ...
div style="text-align: center;"This spring has been a time of real adventure for me. As athletes, we are "on" from the middle of November through the end of March and so when April rolls around, we are ready for a bit of a break. This year, Noah Ho...
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PRESQUE ISLE – The University of Maine at Presque Isle announced today that it has hired a nationally recognized ski coach – whose athletes have garnered World Championship and Junior Olympics National titles and spots on prestigious national and international ski teams – to lead the development of its Nordic Ski Team as it prepares for Division I NCAA status for the 2009-2010 athletic season. Alexei Sotskov, who helped to develop the Gunstock Nordic Association...
PARK CITY, UT – Olympic champions Ted Ligety (Park City, UT) and Julia Mancuso (Olympic Valley, CA) were among numerous national athletes on hand as the first round of U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding competitors made their way into the new Center of Excellence. The national training and education center opened its doors to athletes this week in preparation for the Olympics in Vancouver just over nine months away. The Center is the USSA’s...
The last few weeks have been pretty crazy, so sorry for the lack of updates! I’ll do my best to sum it all up. I drove back to Marquette, Michigan a few days after my stitches were removed. It was great to spend some time relaxing up in the U.P. My roommate, Morgan Smyth, and I had some [...]
Norwegian sprint start Tor Arne Hetland and Swiss World Cup veteran, Gion-Andrea Bundi have annoucnced their retirements from international ski racing. The 35-year-old veteran Hetland retired because of a lingering knee injury and asthma.”I feel like I am quitting while I am at the top,” he said. Hetland made significant sprint history, being the first sprint world champion in 2001, the first Olympic champion in sprint in 2002 as well as the first world champion...