FasterSkier Podcast: Interview with SMS T2’s Gus Kaeding
FasterSkierNovember 20, 2012
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Ready or not, the 2013 SuperTour season is fast approaching. Here’s what you need to know about the domestic race scene this year. At this point, we’ve pretty much said everything we can about the twelve senior ski programs in the U.S. We ran a series throughout the summer highlighting each team’s past accomplishments and goals for the future. Read back through ‘em for comprehensive rosters and standalone previews (scroll down for links). Now that...
Canmore Wrap (with Videos)
ericpackerOctober 27, 2012
Remember to support US skiing and donate to the NNF Drive for 25. All donations are quintupled by a 5-1 matching donor. To donate at my ambassador page: http://grouprev.com/ericpacker. We’ve had an awesome camp in Canmore with lots of high quality … Continue reading →
Banff and Lake Louis
ericpackerOctober 24, 2012
We had an easy day here in Canmore, with the morning off from training and a 90 minute skate ski in the afternoon. Erika, Sophie, Annie, Skyler and I decided to take a morning trip into Banff National Park. I’ll … Continue reading →
Skiing in Canmore/TT
ericpackerOctober 22, 2012
The SMST2 team arrived in Canmore, Canada to get on snow for the first time this season. The town of Canmore is a 30 minute drive from Banff National Park and is located in a valley between some of the … Continue reading →
Visit to Rossi Headquarters
ericpackerOctober 21, 2012
This past Wednesday I headed down to visit Rossignol’s US headquarters in Park City. They have an awesome setup with their showrooms, workshops, and offices all under the same roof. I met with Rossignol’s Nordic Racing Manager Paul Clark and … Continue reading →
Park City Wrap
ericpackerOctober 20, 2012
The SMST2 team spent the last two weeks training in Park City with skiers from the USST, APU, and the Craftsbury Green Team. Park City is located up in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains at an elevation of 7000ft. One of the … Continue reading →
NNF Drive for 25
ericpackerOctober 10, 2012
The National Nordic Foundation is an awesome organization that supports the development of US skiing. The NNF helps fund trips such as the J1 Scando Cup, World Juniors, U23 World Championships, and World Cup Competitions. Last year the NNF … Continue reading →
Fall training in Stratton
ericpackerOctober 1, 2012
After a few easy recovery days following the Lake Placid Camp, we got back at it with an intensity week here in Stratton. We started the week out with some long intervals up the Stratton Mountain Access road, which recently … Continue reading →
Lake Placid Camp
ericpackerSeptember 28, 2012
Every year the US Ski Team hosts a camp in Lake Placid to kick off fall training and bring together many of the best athletes from around the country. We recently wrapped up the camp after two weeks of awesome … Continue reading →
Ski-A-Thon
ericpackerSeptember 28, 2012
On September 2nd we held our first annual Ski-A-Thon fundraiser for the SMST2 team. The goal for the day was to ski 100 km and raise money to help pay for travel and racing expenses this upcoming season. We started … Continue reading →
New Website!
ericpackerSeptember 6, 2012
Welcome to my website! It’s still under construction, but will be up and running in no time. I’ll be adding content every day, so check back often. Eric
New Website!
ericpackerSeptember 6, 2012
Welcome to my website! It’s still under construction, but will be up and running in no time. I’ll be adding content every day, so check back often. Eric
Note: This story accompanies came to life under SMS Nordic Program Director Sverre Caldwell. Sophie’s father, Sverre dreamed up the team years ago, but seriously revisited the idea in a conversation with Kaeding last summer. Earlier this year, the two laid the framework to make it happen. Several months later in June, four SMS skiers and Sinnott strapped on their rollerski gear for a three- to four-hour skate in upstate New York. It was the...
Summer Training with Stratton’s T2 Team (Videos)
Alex KochonAugust 24, 2012
Since its six-skier strong elite club based in the resort town of Stratton, Vt. Stratton Mountain School (SMS) graduates Andy Newell and Skyler Davis were originally part of the program. This year, the two U.S. Ski Team (USST) members are joined by three Dartmouth graduates — Eric Packer, Sophie Caldwell and Erika Flowers — and USST member Jessie Diggins, formerly of Central Cross Country (CXC). Head coach Gus Kaeding also came from CXC, where he was an...
Between training on an Austrian glacier and inside a ski tunnel in Germany, a guy’s got to have some off-snow fun. Not that skiing isn’t fun, but when it’s your job, an offer to play pickup soccer with several top Norwegian and German nordic skiers is difficult to pass up. For Andy Newell, the invite came nonchalantly from Norwegian men’s coach Trond Nystad, who previously headed the U.S. Ski Team. With little notice, the 27-year-old...
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Home in Southern Vermont, Newell Hardly Relaxing
Alex KochonJuly 10, 2012
SHAFTSBURY, Vt. – Andy Newell had been home in southern Vermont for just about a week – and he hadn’t had a ton of free time between
Note: This one of several previews in a quick-and-dirty series on U.S. elite teams. We asked coaches to send their 2012/2013 rosters and tell us what’s new for the coming season. We will be publishing additional reports over the next few weeks. Teams are presented in no particular order. Team: Stratton Mountain School T2 Team (SMST2) Coaches: Gus Kaeding (first year; former assistant at Central Cross Country, or CXC) Roster: Andy Newell (U.S. Ski Team),...
With Elite Team, Stratton Aims To Create “Hotbed of Skiing” in Southern Vermont
Audrey ManganMay 1, 2012
Back in early February, Stratton Mountain School (SMS), one of the country’s most successful ski academies, announced that it would be starting a new elite professional ski team in the 2012-2013 season. Gus Kaeding, who most recently coached at CXC, signed on as the head coach to join longtime Stratton nordic director Sverre Caldwell at the southern Vermont program. The announcement was subsequently buried by a busy period of domestic and international racing, but the...
With SuperTour Finals and U.S. Distance Nationals wrapping up in Craftsbury, Vermont, the North American ski community can call it a wrap on another season. Despite a general lack of snow, the finale in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom was a success – particularly for the U.S. Ski Team’s Kris Freeman, who after a disappointing World Cup season returned to the States to claim the overall win at SuperTour Finals and then the national title in the...