Earlier this month, the U.S. Ski Team returned to New Zealand's Snow Farm for on-snow training and racing. “The primary goal was extended time on snow working on group and individual technique needs,” head coach Chris Grover explained. “Another goal of the camp was to touch base with racing." Ten U.S. skiers started 2-4 races, and several racked up podiums.
It was 50 degrees and sunny on Monday in Rasnov, Romania, which sounds pleasant, but what's it like racing in? "Pretty darn hot," Julia Kern explained, after racing to a career-best 16th in the freestyle sprint on Day 1 of Junior/U23 World Championships. Another American, Logan Hanneman placed 15th, and Julien Locke led Canada in 16th in the U23 men's race.
This week, eight USST members returned to Lake Placid, N.Y., to kick off the fall with an intensity camp. They are joined by the SMST2 team, the Sun Valley Gold Team, the NTG and NEG, making for a large group of elite skiers. But because of the shortened camp, the USST will not participate in the Climb to the Castle.
USSA National Coaches Symposium and L200 Training Wraps Up in Lake Placid (Press Release) Summary: It’s been a busy and informative 5 days for coaches around New England, with time for some fun too. Last Wednesday and Thursday, 18 coaches took part in the first ever L200 coach certification training to be held in the East. Bryan Fish, development coach for the USST taught this very informative course, and with any luck, and some hard...
For its first on-snow camp of the summer, the U.S. Ski Team traveled to New Zealand to train at the Snow Farm in Wanaka. With a full 15 days of skiing, the team was able to make some mid-summer improvements to technique while logging some serious distance on skis.
The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) announced its cross-country team nominations for the 2015/2016 season on Thursday, naming 16 athletes to the team, four more than the previous year.
Ben Saxton of Stratton Mountain School T2 wasn't initially part of the U.S. World Champs squad but was added after a sixth place finish at the U23 Champs. He answered 10 questions before his first World Championships as part of our series on World Champs rookies.
entering the nordic ski market in the U.S. in early January of 2015, Julbo Eyewear and its network of athletes have wasted no time making their mark on competition at all levels. Former Birkie winner, Matt Liebsch kicked off the marathon season with wins in the Sisu Marathon in Ironwood, Michigan, a win at the City of the Lakes Loppett and an American Mora Vassaloppet victory (his 6th victory in the race). He will toe the line in...
Ben Saxton (SMS T2/U.S. Ski Team) skied to an impressive sixth-place to earn the top North American result of the classic sprint at the U23 World Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Canada's Dahria Beatty was the top North American woman in 20th.
Press release) Julbo USA is excited to announce its entrance into the high end cross country ski market and the addition of elite U.S. Nordic skiers.With over 125 years in business, the eyewear brand based in France’s Jura Mountains has a profound history in the mountaineering and ski mountaineering worlds. From this history, Julbo eyewear has produced unrivaled technical products geared towards mountain and snow sports. “We’re a mountain brand with followings from sports that require highly technical products,” explained...
Dakota Blackhorse-von Jess (Bend Endurance Academy) made winning look easy in Tuesday's 1.5 k classic sprint at the 2015 U.S. Cross Country Championships in Houghton, Mich. And while this win may not be as momentous as his first national championship in 2013, it's all part of his season plan.
On a spring-like day at Bohart Ranch, Canadian Patrick Stewart-Jones narrowly edged out Stratton's Ben Saxton and Sun Valley's Matt Gelso to take the men's classic-sprint title on the first day of the Bozeman SuperTour.
Men's SuperTour racing kicked off Friday with a 1.5 k freestyle sprint in West Yellowstone, Mont. Dakota Blackhorse von-Jess was able to outlast the surging Norwegians from the University of Colorado, to claim the first victory of the 2014/2015 season.
How will domestic skiers qualify for World Championships? Who's racing this year? What an we expect from the 2015 SuperTour? To answer these questions and more here is FasterSkier's SuperTour preview, which gives you and in-depth look at how competition will shape up on the domestic front.
Approximately 40 athletes attended the USST Altitude Camp in Park City, Utah which concluded Oct. 19. The camp is a final opportunity of the best skiers in the country to fine tune their skiing before the winter season starts in November.
Saturday marked Stratton Mountain T2 Team's third annual 100 k Ski-A-Thon. A clever mix between a fundraiser and an over-distance workout, the event is a way for the team to reap both physical and financial benefits over the course of 62.1 miles.
With the help of U.S. Ski Team head coach Chris Grover and Canadian National Team Head Coach Justin Wadsworth, Tor-Arne Hetland and the Canadian World Cup Team ended up in Vermont last month. "Andy Newell can train here for many years … That’s the reason we are here," Hetland explained.
Almost three years ago now, Reid Lutter and Piotr Bednarski decided that rather than watching their two Twin Cities training programs compete for skiers and resources, they should join forces. The results are a lesson in what city-based ski clubs can accomplish: in 2014 Loppet Nordic Racing was the most successful junior team in the country.
SMST2 and U.S. Ski Team D-team member Ben Saxton describes a workout his Stratton team does almost every other week in the summer. "It is perfect for building a strong base as we move forward into higher intensity intervals later on in the training year," he explains.