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The future of our sport! Junior racing can be a lot of fun, but it can also be exciting and competitive. Information for, by and about junior skiers, including coverage of major events like World Juniors and Junior Nationals.
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NCCSEF Steps Up Funding for 2011

Nathaniel HerzSeptember 29, 2010

If you’re planning on racing in Europe this winter on any of the trips supported by the National Cross-Country Ski Education Foundation (NCCSEF), you can thank Jerry Gilbert. Gilbert, a retired electrical engineer and avid master skier, died of lymphoma in 2008, and in his will, he left some $80,000 for NCCSEF. The money took nearly two years to find its way to the organization, but now that it has, that donation should be supporting...

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Cross-Pollinating Future Ski Champions
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Cross-Pollinating Future Ski Champions

Inge ScheveAugust 26, 2010

NORWAY – Bringing young athletes from all the ski disciplines onto one team is the recipe for excellence in the future. “Team Morgendagens Helter” is 5-year talent development project organized by the Norwegian Ski Association and backed by major sponsor Statoil, designed to share training strategies and increase the pool of experience across the different ski disciplines.

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U.S. Ski Team Announces National Elite Group Roster

FasterSkierAugust 21, 2010

Top regional junior skiers participate each year in one of four Regional Elite Group (REG) summer camps. The camps include general and ski-specific assessments, ski technique support as well as athlete and coaches education. Each camp includes U.S. Ski Team coaching staff which observe, interact and coach. With the help of regional coaches attending the camps, the U.S. Ski Team coaching staff selects the top athletes from all four REG camps (East, Central, West and...

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What Happens To Successful World Junior Racers?
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What Happens To Successful World Junior Racers?

Nathaniel HerzJuly 27, 2010

Identifying talent in endurance athletics at a young age can be a challenging task.  My goal in this article is to give you a sense of what different levels of success at WJC/U23s might indicate and how much variability there is between athletes in this respect. Our basic tool will be a graph of FIS points versus age for distance results, broken down by their best result (finishing place) at WJC/U23s.  This gives us a...

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Pat Casey to Head Holderness XC Program

FasterSkierJuly 26, 2010

HOLDERNESS, NH—Pat Casey, the former Continental Cup coach for the U.S. Ski Team, has been hired to head up the nordic ski program for the Holderness School in Plymouth, New Hampshire. The former NCAA All-American skier has coached the national team’s Continental Cup racers since 2006. He has also coached two World Championship Teams, headed up the U23 Championship Team program for the past four years, run Regional Elite Group (REG)camps throughout the country, and...

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U.S. Ski Team Announces National Elite Group Camp Roster

FasterSkierJuly 23, 2010

With the help of regional coaches attending the camps, the U.S. Ski Team coaching staff has selected the top athletes from all four Regional Elite Group (REG) camps (East, Central, West and Alaska) and names these athletes to the National Elite Group (NEG). These athletes are offered the opportunity to train alongside the U.S. Ski Team athletes at the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center October 9-17th. Attributes such as motivation, dedication, general physical fitness and...

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NENSA Volunteer Named “Outdoor Hero”
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NENSA Volunteer Named “Outdoor Hero”

Maddy WendtJune 17, 2010

Mary Anne Levins of Rutland, Vermont has been awarded the 2010 L.L. Bean Outdoor Hero award for her phenomenal dedication and devotion to youth Nordic skiing in New England.  Created in 2007, the award was established by L.L.Bean to recognize individuals working towards the preservation and promotion of outdoor recreation. Each year, a committee selects six recipients from a pool of submissions.  “Out of this year’s many nominations, one name rose to the top of...

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With Fish’s Hiring, USST Completes Staff Reorganization

Nathaniel HerzMay 18, 20102

There are very few coaches for whom taking a job with the U.S. Ski Team (USST) is a step down in intensity. But after 300 days on the road last year as head coach of the Central Cross Country (CXC) program, that might just be the case for Bryan Fish. Last week, Fish was announced as the USST’s new Continental Cup coach, completing a USST staff reorganization that began in April when Chris Grover took...

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Inaugural National J2 Talent Camp Scheduled for Summer 2010

FasterSkierApril 29, 2010

The inaugural National J2 Talent Camp will be conducted this July 31- August 8, 2010 on the campus of Michigan Technological University in Houghton Michigan. The camp will provide a great opportunity for many of the top young cross country skiers in the US to train together, learn from USST staff and top club coaches. The camp will be the first step along the US development pipeline for promising young skiers. The location of the camp will rotate around the US to other great training venues, with...

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Alaskan Juniors Cap 2010 Season with Style
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Alaskan Juniors Cap 2010 Season with Style

FasterSkierMarch 29, 2010

Spring skiing is all about warmth, fun, sun and speed, and this past weekend’s ConocoPhillips Alaska Junior Championships did not disappoint. Seventy skiers, most from Alaska’s interior, competed in the re-born event hosted by the Nordic Ski Club of Fairbanks’ FXC program at Birch Hill Recreation Area.  Formerly an annual highlight for many of Alaska’s juniors, it had been three years since the last time Cross Country Alaska’s championship races for the J2-J6 age categories...

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Randall Wins Classic Sprint, But Sargent Makes Her Work
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Randall Wins Classic Sprint, But Sargent Makes Her Work

Nathaniel HerzMarch 27, 2010

A third of the way through the finals in Saturday’s classic sprint in Madawaska, Ida Sargent (CGRP) was doing something that nobody else had done over the last two days: giving Kikkan Randall (APU) a run for her money. At the bottom of the course’s main climb, Sargent shot past Randall out of the draft, then went stride for stride with the Alaskan up the first half of the hill. Randall ultimately pulled away over...

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Sun & Speed in the County: A Complete Recap of Junior Nationals – UPDDATED with Photos
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Sun & Speed in the County: A Complete Recap of Junior Nationals – UPDDATED with Photos

March 24, 20101

Athletes could have been forgiven last week if they thought they were racing on the west coast in the bright sunshine that was the hallmark of last year’s Junior Olympics in Truckee, California. However, Presque Isle delivered in every aspect – trails, grooming, and, most surprisingly, with bright sun, klister conditions and tans that the 2010 Junior Olympics will be remembered for. New England used their characteristically dominant performance in Monday’s classic sprint event and...

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Biathlon Championships Set to Blast Off in Maine
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Biathlon Championships Set to Blast Off in Maine

Nathaniel HerzMarch 18, 2010

You can always count on snow in northern Maine. Throw in skis and guns, and you’ve got a recipe for a pretty good week. Three days of racing kick off this morning at the North American Biathlon Championships in the biathlon-crazed town of Fort Kent, Maine. The fields are small, but competitive at the top, with four biathletes racing fresh off the 2010 Olympic Games: Americans Haley Johnson, Laura Spector, and Wynn Roberts, and Canada’s...

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