Minneapolis, Minnesota – Matt Liebsch and Rebecca Dussault led CXC Team Vertical Limit in a dominating performance this morning as the US SuperTour continued in Minnesota. Liebsch, winner of last year’s American Birkebeiner, posted a convincing win at the head of a trio of CXC skiers. He completed the 10km freestyle race in a time of 22:23, 38 seconds faster than teammate Brain Gregg. Bryan Cook completed the CXC Team Vertical Limit sweep just 4.2...
The Central Collegiate Ski Association is comprised of men’s and women’s teams from eleven schools and is largely based in the Midwest. Of the eleven, six teams are from Minnesota (the College of Saint Benedict, College of Saint Scholastica, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint John’s University, Saint Olaf College and St. Cloud State University), one from Wisconsin (the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay), three from Michigan (Michigan Tech University and Northern Michigan University), Gogebic Community College and...
They were not the ideal conditions in which to start the college racing season. The morning of the 5/10km classic races at Lake Placid held 31-33 degree temperatures with intermittent spitting rain, snow, and sleet. The race was run on the Olympic 5km course, a challenging loop which starts to climb at .5 km and doesn’t let up for the next 3 kms, before sending racers down a series of fast turns and spitting them...
The competitive season began today for the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association (RMISA) at the MSU Invite at Bohart Ranch in Montana. After an early lead on Friday, the Colorado Buffs won the nordic portion of the meet with another good day on Saturday.
The weekend of college races in Jackson, New Hampshire started off with an excitingly fast, criterium style race format. The snow was thin, but perfectly cold and the trail crew at Jackson had groomed the course to a sparkling cut under blue-bird skies. The criterium was a mass start, with nearly 50 competitors in each field toeing the line. The course raced across the stadium and up a steep wall of a hill climb before dropping back down an S-turn back into the...
ANCHORAGE, AK – The Alaska Nanook men’s and women’s ski teams claimed their fourth consecutive Alaska Nordic Cup title, winning both relay races Sunday afternoon at Hilltop Park in the 6th annual series. With a one point lead entering the second day of competition (21.5-20.5), the Nanooks knew they needed to win at least one of the two relay races for the overall victory. However, they did one better and swept both races for a...
In 1980, Americans went wild over “The Miracle on Ice” when the underdog U.S. hockey team upset the heavily favored Soviets and then Finland at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y. Among the thousands of athletes from around the world who competed that year was Glenn Jobe, an Olympic athlete from the University of Nevada, Reno and a member of the Wolf Pack’s ski team. But now, the ski team that produced Jobe and...
Feb 6-7, 2010 TD Bank Eastern Cup/UVM Carnival, Stowe, Vermont. (Trapp Family Lodge) Sunday Feb 7th: Freestyle, individual start. Distance: 5km for J2 boys and girls; 10K for men and women.
Feb 6-7, 2010 TD Bank Eastern Cup/UVM Carnival, Stowe, Vermont. (Trapp Family Lodge) Saturday Feb 6th: Classic, individual start. Distance: 5K for J2 boys and all women; 10km for men.
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