Rick Halling is Nordic Race Director for Atomic US. Nordic skiers love our blogs and websites where too often we dwell on the negative. Sometimes our discussions degenerate to the point of whining and always present is the claim that Nordic doesn’t get its fair share of support. A number of times it has been suggested that the US Cross Country Team and US Nordic Combined Team should break away from USSA and form a...
This clinic is part of the USSA Level 100 Certification Process. You do not have to be working toward certification to attend. Boulder Nordic Sport, Boulder, CO. Meet at the shop. Instruction from shop owner Nathan Shultz.
This clinic is part of the USSA Level 100 Certification Process. You do not have to be working toward certification to attend. Instruction from U.S. Ski Team’s Vordenberg and Casey. Palmer AK. CL and FR roller ski.
This clinic is part of the USSA Level 100 Certification Process. You do not have to be working toward certification to attend. Instructed by U.S. Ski Team’s Vordenberg and Casey. Classic and Freestyle Roller-ski
Ironwood, MI. Instructed by CXC. Contact
Hayward, WI. Instructed by CXC. Contact
Site and instructor TBD. NENSA Gaining Ground Clinic. The technique course is only one component of this multi-day clinic. Contact
Craftsbury Outdoor Center, Craftsbury, VT. Instruction from U.S. Ski Team’s Andy Newell and NENSA’s Janice Sibilia. The technique course is only one component of this multi-day clinic. Contact
1 p.m. Eastern REG. OTC, Lake Placid, NY, with U.S. Team coach Matt Whitcomb. Meet in the lobby prepared for both FR and CL roller ski instruction. Contact
The following list is a nation-wide look at the U.S. Ski Team’s Level 100 technique clinics offered for the 2009 season. All clinics are taught by U.S. Ski Team coaches or USSA-trained instructors. Participation in a Level 100 technique clinic satisfies one of several basic criteria established for a USSA coach to become certified at the 100 level. See the following link for details. Clinics are offered for all coaching levels, regardless of whether or...
Though World Championship silver medalist Kikkan Randall (Anchorage) is best known for carving out the history of her sport for U.S. Women, Randall has an equally large passion in building up the future of the sport through the organization Fast and Female. Fast and female is an organization that aims to build confidence in young girls and women while showing them the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle by getting them on a pair of...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) Board of Directors met today in Colorado Springs, Colo., for its quarterly meeting and approved a budget of $16.5 million for winter National Governing Bodies. This brings the total funding from the USOC to winter NGBs over the fours years leading up to the Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games to $58.2 million. This signifies a substantial increase from the 2003-2006 winter quad ($37.5 million) to...
Refitting the Pipeline, Version 2009 The U.S. Ski Team’s development pipeline provides direction for skiers and coaches in the hunt for an Olympic medal. The seven-stage pipeline is comprised of a multitude of successful programs, ranging from over 100 grassroots club programs, to a heavily attended Junior National Championship and a National Team with both World Cup and Development tiers. While the U.S. is propelled by the success of each of these programs, a...
Editor’s Note: This piece is an op-ed and does not necessarily reflect the views of FasterSkier. As always, please feel free to comment, but please keep discussion civil. A lot has been written on this wesbite about the USST XC program. The site itself often behaves as a mouthpiece for the USST, but I don’t want to say any more about that here. However, there are plenty of us in this country who are dissatisfied...
Recently Andy Newell participated in a
Last week the US Ski Team announced announced nominations to the 2009-2010 US Cross-Country Ski Team. Assuming all candidates accept nominations, the Team will decrease in size from 18 athletes to 11. No new skiers have been added, though several have been promoted from the B Team to the A Team. The decrease in team size was not financially motivated. Athletes can qualify through objective criteria or be added as discretionary choices. The objective criteria...
BEND, OR – Following a season of incredible success, including Kikkan Randall’s (Anchorage, AK) World Championship silver medal, the U.S. Cross Country Ski Team reunited this week in Oregon to begin its training season in the lead up to the 2010 Olympics. “It’s an early camp, so we’re really trying to lay down base fitness. We’re also working on technique with each individual working on their weaknesses at the moment,” Cross Country Head coach Pete...
FasterSkier Cross-Country Skier of the Year This award is given to the top North American cross-country skier. Cross-Country Skier of the Year (women): Kikkan Randall (USA). Kikkan’s season got off to a slow start, but she stepped it up when it mattered most, winning the first Championship medal ever by a US woman, when she took the Silver at the World Championships in Liberec. This race netted her the FasterSKier Performance of the Year. In...
FasterSkier Performance of the Year FasterSkier Performance of the Year is given to the top single North American performance of the 2008/2009 season. FasterSkier Performance of the Year (women): Kikkan Randall (USA). Kikkan Randall won the first-ever US cross-country skiing medal when she took the Silver in the freestyle sprint at the World Championships in Liberec. This was the only the third medal won by a US cross-country skier – Bill Koch won Bronze at...
PARK CITY, UT (May 17) – Nordic combined skiers Todd Lodwick (Steamboat Springs, CO) and Billy Demong (Vermontville, NY) received the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association’s highest athlete honors at an awards ceremony Friday (May 15) in Park City. Lee Todd, who has dedicated four decades of his life to serving the skiing community, was the recipient of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association’s Julius Blegen Award, which is presented annually to a USSA member...