Colorado University seniors Joanne Reid and Eliska Hajkova went 1-2 in Saturday's 15 k freestyle mass start, the last race of the 2013 NCAA Championships, to lift the Buffs to a national title.
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Collegiate racing is significant part of the competitive cross-country ski world in the USA. Here you will find coverage of major college races and news from around the country.
Cross-country action at the 2013 NCAA Championships kicked off on Thursday at the Rikert Touring Center with the men's 10 k individual classic. Rune Ødegård helped move CU into second overall at the halfway point of the championships by winning the event in 26:00.2, five seconds ahead of University of New Mexico's Mats Resaland. Our photos from the race.
Three Scandinavians swept the podium on the first day of nordic racing at the NCAA Championships in Ripton, Vt., with Norwegian Rune Ødegård of the University of Colorado leading the charge in the 10 k classic individual start.
Gruber Crowned NCAA Classic Champion; UVM Leads Championships After Two Events
Audrey ManganMarch 7, 2013
Last season Anja Gruber wasn't on the University of Vermont's NCAA squad, this year she's the 5 k classic national champion. "It’s pretty unbelievable right now — I’m not sure if this actually just happened!" she said. Dartmouth's Mary O'Connell claimed second and Marine Dusser (UAA) took third. UVM leads CU after the first two NCAA Championship events at Middlebury College.
From a new 5 k homologated course to the largest snowmaking system of its type in North America, Middlebury College's Rikert Nordic Center in Vermont is on the cutting edge of cross-country ski racing. It did so largely in part to attract events like NCAAs, which start today.
Men’s and women’s giant slalom kicked off the 2013 NCAA Championships on Wednesday at the Snow Bowl in Middlebury, Vt. The University of Vermont leads the team scores after the first of four events; nordic races begin on Thursday with a 5/10 k individual classic. Here’s a preview of who to watch as the East vs. West showdown heats up at Rikert Touring Center.
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Weekly Race Roundup: Golden Americans, Historic Bronze for Harvey and NoCo, Another Birkie in the Books
Chelsea LittleFebruary 25, 2013
Marit Bjørgen of Norway and Nikita Kriukov of Russia both have two gold medals to their names so far this Championships, and Dario Cologna finally got the title he's been search for; but Americans made a splash too, in every discipline, with Sarah Hendrickson winning jumping, Kikkan Randall and Jessie Diggins the team sprint, and the nordic combined team bronze in the team event. Alex Harvey also made history when he took bronze in the classic sprint, the first individual World Champs medal for Canada.
Weekly Roundup: Juniors Week
Chelsea LittleJanuary 28, 2013
Sixteen youth, junior, and U23 World Championship races, SuperTour Tours, NorAms that served as the last selection races for Canada's World Champs team, nordic combined in Germany, two college series - it was another busy weekend in the nordic world. Here's everything you need to know.
In Competitive Kickoff, Colby’s New Trails Get Presidential Parade Lap
Nathaniel HerzJanuary 28, 2013
Colby College President William D. "Bro" Adams donned spandex to complete a ceremonial 2-kilometer parade lap around his college's new home trails this weekend.
In the days and weeks leading up to the Nordic events of the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid, snow was hard to come by. Thanks to the dedicated efforts of the local community, mostly consisting of heavy shoveling and snow-moving, the Olympic races were contested, and some of the more memorable races in the history of the sport took place. Most notable may have been Thomas Wassberg’s narrow .01 second victory over Finnish skier...
Individual wins by Rune Oedegaard, Joanne Reid and Maria Nordstroem led CU to team victory in the first NCAA invitational of the year in Steamboat Springs, Colo., this weekend.
Note: This story accompanies came to life under SMS Nordic Program Director Sverre Caldwell. Sophie’s father, Sverre dreamed up the team years ago, but seriously revisited the idea in a conversation with Kaeding last summer. Earlier this year, the two laid the framework to make it happen. Several months later in June, four SMS skiers and Sinnott strapped on their rollerski gear for a three- to four-hour skate in upstate New York. It was the...
Our recent series on biathletes facing the question of when and whether to go to college (parts two, and
Our recent series on biathletes facing the question of when and whether to go to college (parts two, and Development Team alumnus who had risen to the “B” squad but was left off of this year’s national team. Goessling went straight from high school in Minnesota to MWSC, where he has trained for the last two years. In total, he’s made five trips to World Youth and Junior Championships, but the 2012 edition was actually...
Our recent series on biathletes facing the question of when and whether to go to college (parts two, and expressed frustration that star athlete Laura Spector was returning to school for the summer after a disappointing season and did not seem to plan on joining the national team program in Lake Placid. It was not an unreasonable sentiment: without actually seeing an athlete, a coach’s job is certainly much harder. And as a European (Kahkonen...
Our recent series on biathletes facing the question of when and whether to go to college (parts two, and first part of our series, we focused on several elite junior biathletes who, bucking the conventions of the early- and mid-2000’s, decided to go to college before returning – often extremely successfully – to biathlon. Without a single exception, the five athletes said that today’s juniors should not rule college out as a means of facilitating...
Note: This is the last piece in a three-part series following several groups of biathletes as they negotiate the college question. part two looked at USBA’s 2007-2010 Development Team. In November, 2011, Casey Smith was named Junior Biathlete of the Year for 2011 by the United States Biathlon Association (USBA). In a European country, that might mean a pat on the back from a coach at practice, perhaps an honorary celebration thrown by an athlete’s...
Photographer Stuart Jennings shares his perspective from Saturday’s closely-contested NCAA Championships classical mass start races at Bohart Ranch, Montana. Holly Hart also captured video (above) of the nail-biter photo finish between Amy Glen (UVM) and Sophie Caldwell (Dartmouth). Full Race Report: All 2012 NCAA Championship Results NCAA Freestyle Race Galleries: 2012 NCAA Championship Women’s Freestyle Gallery, by: Stuart Jennings
The second and final nordic race of the 2012 NCAA’s was held on a blue-bird Bozeman day which reached 60 degrees by race’s end. Spectators who witnessed the 15 and 20 kilometer mass start classic races on Friday were treated to non-stop action and nail-biting finishes in both the men’s and women’s events, as the title for both races ended in a two-way sprint to the finish line. In the men’s 20k it was a...
BOZEMAN, Montana – Skiing at Bohart Ranch heated up this week both literally and figuratively as the top collegiate racers took to the trails for the 2012 NCAA Championship. Photographer Stuart Jennings captured much of the action, here is a look at the top ten women and men in the freestyle 5/10km races. Full Race Report: Graefnings and Soderman win 5/10 skate, Dartmouth top team, at first day of 2012 NCAA Championships