Juniors

Wood River Wins Third National Cross-Country Ski Education Foundation Boys High School Championship in Past Six Years. Truckee Wrenches Girls Title from Alaska for the First Time. Lake Placid, NY The Wood River High School won its third National Cross-Country Ski Education Foundation High School Championship in the past six years this past week in Lake Placid, NY at the Junior Olympic Championships. The Wood River boys won the title like they have in the...

March 13th (Rumford, ME):  Down by nearly 500 points after three events, Maine’s Eastern High School Championship team came within 87 points of winning the 2004 Banknorth Eastern High School Championships.  In the final event Sunday, the 6.6km classic race, Maine placed four girls in the top 10, compared to Vermont’s one, and the Maine boys placed 8 in the top 20, to Vermont’s  6.  Stellar performances by Mount Blue High School’s Ian McPherran (7th)...

Editor's Note: This is the final daily update from the Olympic Regional Development Authority in Lake Placid. Look for a comprehensive wrap-up of JNs on Monday here on FasterSkier. LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — New England skiers capped a dominant week Saturday when they captured the Alaska Cup, symbolic of team supremacy, as the Chevy Truck U.S. Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships drew to a close at the Verizon Sports Complex in Lake Placid. The Relays,...

It was a wild week at Junior Nationals. It seems that Mother Nature wanted to make sure that these young skiers from around the country got a little bit of all types of Northeastern weather during their stay in Lake Placid. Rain, new snow, a little bit of everything was encountered this week. But that didn't stop the races, it just made things more interesting. SPRINTS Things kicked off on Monday with the sprint races....

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March 12th (Rumford, ME): Putting four skiers in the top ten, and two on the podium after today's 6.6km Freestyle race, Vermont's Eastern High School XC Ski Team made it known today that the rest of this weekend's races everyone else would be fighting for second place. Mt. Mansfield High School's Jen McGowen eeked out a two second win over Mohawk High School's (MA) Alyssa Sessions, as the 100 girl field battled their way around...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – As the Chevy Truck U.S. Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships completed the third of four competition days, over 400 skiers were greeted by a brief, near blizzard-like snowfall shortly after the start of Friday’s Free Technique races, presented by I LOVE NY. Fortunately, the squall was short-lived and its impact on skier performances over the five and 10 kilometer distances at the Verizon Sports Complex was minimal. Sadie Bjornsen of Winthrop,...

Wednesday, March 10, 2004 LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — The world-class network of ski trails at the Verizon Sports Complex were on display Wednesday in Lake Placid as the venue hosted the Classic technique races, presented by Graymont Materials, in the Chevy Truck Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships. The contests were held at distances of 5 kilometers (3.1 miles), 10K and 15K in spring-like temperatures. On Tuesday’s training day, race organizers brought in an additional 150...

The FasterSkier.com staff has been burning the midnight oil this weekend in order to help Summit Systems provide real-time race results for this week's Junior Nationals in Lake Placid, New York. The races start today at 9:00 am today with the sprint competition. You can follow the results on-line, as they happen, thanks to the Summit Systems Timers and the race organizers in Lake Placid (with a little techical help from some of us here...

STRYN, Norway (Feb. 9) — Kazakhstan was the surprise men's winner  in a close battle Sunday with Germany in the 4x10K relay on the final day of the World Nordic Junior Championships while Russian women skied off with a 21-second victory in the 4x5K relay. U.S. men were 17th and U.S. women finished 10th. The Kazakhs had a winning time of 1:44.09.8 with Germany taking silver in 1:44.11.7. Russia was the bronze-medal team. The Canadian...

STRYN, Norway (Feb. 7) — For the second straight race, Lindsay Williams (Hastings, MN/Northern Michigan University) posted the top U.S. result Saturday, finishing 14th with Katie Ronsse (Anchorage, AK/Alaska Winter Stars) 15th behind Norway's Astrid Oevstedal in the women's freestyle sprints at the World Nordic Junior Championships. Robin Bryntesson of Sweden was the men's sprint gold medalist with no U.S. skier making the finals (top 16 qualifiers) Beau Baldock (Jackson WY/Middlebury College) had the best...

STRYN, Norway (Feb. 5) — Continued rains produced more sloppy going Thursday at the World Nordic Junior Championships for the second day of cross country skiing. Russians swept the women's 5K freestyle while Germany's Franz Goering won the men's 10K by three seconds. Top U.S. result came from Lindsay Williams (Hastings, MN; Northern Michigan University), who was 14th in the 5K.  Russian skiers dominated Thursday’s women’s 5 kilometer skate race, capturing the top three spots...

STRYN, Norway (Feb. 3) – Overnight rains softened the track Tuesday for the opening day of racing at the nordic World Junior Championships as Russians won both the men's 30K and women's 15K classical technique mass starts. Top U.S. result came from Lindsey Weier (Mahtomedi, MN; Northern Michigan U./U.S. Development Team), who was 19th in the women's race. Anatoly Neuchesov of Russia won the men's race in 1:24.32.7 by 11.6 seconds over Swiss Curdin Perl....

Junior World Championship started today at Stryn in Norway with classical technique mass-start races. Best US result came from Lindsey Weier in 19th place in the women’s 15 km competition. Women's results (pdf file), click

Alaska's teams for the 2004 Junior Nationals and Arctic Winter Games began to take shape last weekend, as the second of three weekends of qualifying races were held in Homer, Alaska. The Besh Cup race series, the premier race series in Alaska held races 3 & 4 of the six race series on the beautifully groomed trails of McNeil Canyon in Homer. With the sun overhead (well, on the horizon at least), great snow on...

Team will travel to Estonia for January competition thanks to successful $10,000 fundraising campaign. Aspen Colorado’s Simi Hamilton and Burke Mt. Academy’s Liz Stephen head the U.S. Scandinavian Cup team that was named Friday by the U.S. Ski Team at the conclusion of Chevrolet U.S. Cross Country Championships in Rumford, ME. The team will travel to Tallin, Estonia for the J1 Scandinavian Cup Championships January 19th. They will compete against age group national teams from...

Crocker, Williams, Weier Return for a Last Shot at World Juniors Hardware, Baldock Leads Young Men’s Team. Alison Crocker parlayed a couple of top ten overall finishes at the Chevrolet U.S. Cross-Country Championships into the top qualifying spot for the 2004 World Junior Team that was announced Monday by the U.S. Ski Team. The women’s team has a good chance to bring home the United States’s first ever World Juniors medal this year as Crocker...

Team Alaska concluded another trip to the Junior National cross-country ski championships by winning the Alaska Cup for the fifth consecutive year. Junior Nationals concluded on Saturday in Fairbanks Alaska with the relay events, and the Alaskan team was able celebrate a team victory on home soil. Final Alaska Cup Standings: 1) Alaska 1,516 points; 2) New England 1,118; 3) Intermountain/Northern 1,059; 4) Midwest 821; 5) Rocky Mountain 585; 6) Far West 383; 7) Great...

Carrabassett Valley, ME (March 15):  Joanna Kinsman (Fryeburg, ME) and Marc Vanderhoof (Rutland, VT) now have two Eastern High School Titles to their names, after Friday's Freestyle Sprints and Saturday's 5km Classic races at the Banknorth Eastern High School XC Ski Championships.  But it was the Maine team that came through with the overwhelming win for the day, with Maranacook's Ed Hunter, Messalonski's Ben Koons, and Blake Sherwood 2-3-4.  Simon Thomas-Train broke up their streak...

Junior Nationals Got Underway in Fairbanks, Alaska on Monday with the sprint competition. Sprint veteran Lindsay Williams from Minneapolis took the early lead and continued to build an insurmountable space between her and the other three finalists in the girls’ OJ sprints. Williams, representing the Midwest District, was delighted with her win. “The sprint is my best event,” she reported. “That’s how I have qualified for World Juniors for the last two years. My coach Sten...