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Relay Day at U.S. Junior Nationals (Press Release)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 16, 2019 Contact: Joey Caterinichio, Event Chair, president@anchoragenordicski.com, (907) 229-6427 Josh Niva, Chief of Media, nordicskiereditor@gmail.com, (907) 301-5287 Alaskans...

Day Three 2019 Junior Nationals (Press Release)

(Press Release) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 15, 2019 Contact: Joey Caterinichio, Event Chair, president@anchoragenordicski.com, (907) 229-6427 Josh Niva, Chief of Media, nordicskiereditor@gmail.com, (907) 301-5287 ...

2019 Junior National XC Championships Gallery from Anchorage, Alaska

It's Junior National time in Anchorage, Alaska. These photos come to FasterSkier from photographer EA Weymuller who is shooting the race scene in Anchorage and cheering his daughter on. Weymuller has begun creating a...

Wednesday Workout: Guiding Junior Athletes With Adam St. Pierre

This Wednesday Workout includes guidance from Boulder Nordic Junior Race Team (BNJRT) Head Coach Adam St. Pierre. After earning a BS in Physics and Biochemistry while skiing for Colby College in Maine, St Pierre earned a...

Wednesday Workout: Recovery and Nutrition on the Road During the U18 Nations’ Cup Trip

Kate Oldham is a U18 athlete from Carbondale, CO who skis for the Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club. After strong results at US Nationals, Kate was selected as one of the six female U18 skiers to travel to Otepää,...

Relay Replay: Full Video of U20 Relays from World Juniors

Last Saturday, the American women placed fourth in the U20 relay at 2019 World Junior Ski Championships. In any other year before 2017 this result would probably be headline news; considering that the Americans had the...

Jager, Ogden, Hagenbuch,Schumacher: U.S. Wins U20 Worlds 4 x 5 k Relay

Nordic skiing doesn't exactly come to mind when considering the X's and O's of sport. Those who don’t ski on Saturdays or Sundays might be familiar with football’s schematics. The arrows, the diagrams,...

Saturday Race Rundown: U.S. U20 Men Win Relay, U20 Women 4th at World Juniors (Updated)

2019 U23 World Ski Championships in Lahti, Finland 4 x 3 k and 4x 5 k relay Full U20 Men's Race Report In a historic first for the U.S., the U20 men’s team won the 4 x 5-kilometer relay today in Lahti, Finland at...

Quick Hit Athlete Check-Ins from U23 Worlds: Graham Ritchie

U23 World Championships in Lahti, Finland got rolling on Jan. 21 with a classic sprint. In our quest to check in with some of the North American athletes in Finland, with emailed a list of quick-hit questions to touch...

Quick Hit Athlete Check-Ins from U23 Worlds: Hannah Mehain

Friday Race Rundown: World Juniors, IBU World Cup, and Super Tour (Updated 2x)

2019 U23 World Ski Championships in Lahti, Finland 15 k/30 k Classic Mass Start Link to Doug Stephen's images from Lahti. Of the four Russian athletes starting the 15-kilometer classic mass start in Lahti,...

Quick Hit Athlete Check-Ins from Under 23 Worlds: Braden Becker

U20 Worlds 15 k/30k Classic Mass Start Rundown: A Big Day for the U.S. and Canada

The mass start classic races for the U20 athletes at the 2019 World Junior World Ski Championships dawned on another crisp, bordering on a frigid day in Lahti, Finland. A scroll through the results makes clear the day was...

Wednesday Race Rundown: U23 Worlds from Lahti, Finland

Four U.S. skiers began the U23 women’s 10 k skate individual start at the 2019 U23 World Ski Championships in Lahti, Finland on Wednesday, all four finished in the top-30 after Russia’s Mariya Istomina claimed the win...

Tuesday Race Rundown: Lahti Junior Worlds U20 5 k/10k Individual Skate (Updated 2x)

FIS Junior World Ski Championships Lahti, Finland 5 k/10k Freestyle Interval Start Tuesday in Lahti, Finland was as Finland should be: squeaky-snow-cold and cross-country ski racing on offer. Eighteen-year-old Gus...

World Juniors Classic Sprint Rundown: Ogden 8th, Keeffe 12th

Sunday featured the first day of racing at the 2019 Junior World Ski Championships in Lahti, Finland. To kick things off at the crown jewel of Finnish ski venues was the U20 classic sprint. The men raced a 1.6-kilometer...

World Junior Ski Championships from the Comfort of Your home; The Viewing Basics

This season's International Ski Federation (FIS) World Junior Ski Championships will be held in Lahti, Finland beginning Jan. 20. If you're interested in streaming any of the events live, the organizers in Lahti have you...

Gus Schumacher Leads the Way in First Besh Cup Weekend

Note: FasterSkier is accepting submissions for regional race reports, including for juniors racing. If you would like to see a particular race circuit covered and have the writer with the will to do it, please have them...

A New Start For the Methow Valley in its Quest for a Signature Race

Washington’s Methow Valley is the literal end of the road in winter. There’s one way in from the south. There's route 20, a sinuous side spur plunging down from Omak in the Okanogan Highlands to the Methow's eastern...

Fish on Promoting the U.S. Development ‘Pathway’ vs. the ‘Pipeline’

JACKSON, Wyoming -- Last last month, U.S. Ski & Snowboard announced that Bryan Fish had been promoted to cross country sport development manager. FasterSkier sat down with Fish on Sept. 14 at Jackson Hole's Center for...