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U.S. Ski Team Ups the Intensity in Sun Valley

Nathaniel HerzSeptember 10, 2010

Evidence of autumn abounds at the U.S. Ski Team’s camp in Sun Valley. Temperatures on Thursday struggled to break 50 degrees, there’s snow in the mountains outside town, and with three time trials over the next week and a half, the team’s training focus has shifted from volume to intensity. But despite the signs of the inexorable creep towards winter, nobody’s getting ahead of themselves. “We’ve got a lot of work to do, still,” said...

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Pros of Tomorrow: Ida Sargent

Nathaniel HerzJuly 26, 2010

Before last year, Ida Sargent had had a handful of strong results, but the only way you wouldn’t have heard her name by the end of the 2009-2010 season is if you’d been buried in a snowbank. Sargent, who split her winter competing for the Craftsbury Green Racing Project and the Dartmouth Ski Team, started out with some top-10s in the early season SuperTours, then really heated up at the national championships in Anchorage, where...

Camps Training

Running Up Hills: Eastern REG Camp

Maddy WendtJuly 15, 2010

High-caliber junior athletes flocked to Craftsbury Outdoor Center in Vermont on June 25 for the five-day Regional Elite Group (REG) camp. The week provided attending skiers with a chance to train with and learn from some of the country’s best coaches. This year saw some changes to the general REG plan, including more time trials and the requirement that athletes wear numbered bibs for all workouts, fostering a greater spirit of competition and professionalism. “I...

Camps Training

USSA Names NTG Participants

Topher SabotJune 8, 20109

With just several days before the first-ever National Training Group camp in Park City, USSA has released a list of participants, including many of the top young skiers in the country. The group is led by Ida Sargent, currently attending Dartmouth College and a member of the Craftsbury Green Racing Project. With a strong season, Sargent established herself as arguably the second-best female sprinter in the US behind only Kikkan Randall. She placed an impressive...

Racing US Ski Team

Bigger is Not Always Better; USST XC Nominations Consistent With Goals

Topher SabotApril 22, 201041

With Thursday’s announcement of team nominations, seven skiers are in line for spots on the 2011 US Cross-Country Ski Team. This number is down from the 11 last year, and 18 in 2009. One rookie was nominated, and five athletes were not invited back, accounting for the decline. According to USSA Nordic Director John Farra, the decrease in team size was not due to budget cuts. While the there was belt-tightening across the board when...

Collegiate General News Racing

Maempel Repeats as Collegiate Skier of the Year; Bernstein Takes Men’s Award

FasterSkierApril 16, 20102

Collegiate Skier of the Year Last year this category posed the biggest challenge with tough decisions for both the men’s and women’s award, but 2010 posed no such problems. Both winners were very strong during the regular season and dominating at the NCAA Championships. Collegiate Skier of the Year (women): Antje Maempel (GER). Maempel, racing for Denver University, became the first repeat winner of this award, following up her close win last year with a...

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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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Randall Cruises to Dominating Win in Mini-Tour Opener

Nathaniel HerzMarch 26, 2010

It’s a difficult prospect after a half-dozen personal bests, a World Cup podium, and a front-page article in the New York Times sports section, but Kikkan Randall just keeps finding ways to impress this winter. After grinding out a victory in Wednesday’s 30 k just three days removed from competing in Europe, a better-rested Randall delivered an Alaska-sized beatdown to her competitors in Friday’s 7 k classic mass start race, the opening event of the...

Collegiate General News Racing Results

Franz Bernstein, Ida Sargent repeat classic wins for EISA

February 12, 2010

Due to insufficient snow cover at the Dartmouth Cross Country Ski Center, the Carnival weekend has been moved back to the site of last weekend’s races: the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, VT. The cold temperatures, wind chill, beautiful tracks, and blue skies with sunshine are also a repeat. But the icing on the déjà vu cake: Franz Bernstein of the University of Vermont and Ida Sargent of Dartmouth were again the classic champions. This...

Collegiate General News Racing Results

Bernstein and Sargent take first races of UVM Carnival

February 6, 2010

They were ideal conditions for a classic race. Cold – but not too cold, blue skies, sunshine, and precision cut tracks. Luckily, these were also the type of conditions that could withstand a lot of racing traffic, as the college carnival was also combined with an Eastern Cup and the total number of participants numbered more than 450. Designed by Morton Trails, the race venue at Trapps Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont is in the...

Juniors Racing

Photos from the U23 Sprint Heats

FasterSkierJanuary 26, 2010

FasterSkier’s Nat Herz captured some of Simi Hamilton, Ida Sargent and other top American’s action during the sprint heats at the U23 World Championship earlier today.

General News Racing US Ski Team

Sargent Sprints to Fourth at U-23’s; Finnish Biathlete Skis Away With Title

Nathaniel HerzJanuary 26, 2010

When Simi Hamilton lost a pole and was bounced from his quarterfinal heat, it was up to Ida Sargent to salvage the American hopes in the U-23 skate sprint. She didn’t disappoint. After qualifying in fourth, Sargent advanced easily through the quarters and semis, faltering only midway through the A-final. After some bad luck and tactical errors by the Americans over the last two days, you could almost hear the sigh of relief from her...

General News Racing US Ski Team

Hamilton Wins U-23 Sprint Qualifier; Sargent 4th as All Four Women Make Heats

Nathaniel HerzJanuary 26, 20101

He’s the real deal. That’s what U.S. Ski Team Development Coach Matt Whitcomb said this morning about Simi Hamilton, after the skate sprint national champ took first place in the qualifying round of the same event here in Hinterzarten. After some drizzle overnight, the race trails at the Notschrei Nordic Center were covered with a thin icy crust this morning, which made for some slick skiing and a fast qualifying round—Hamilton’s time was around 2:20....

Continental Cup Racing US Nationals

Randall Goes Four for Four; Valaas Second, Sargent Third–UPDATED

Nathaniel HerzJanuary 8, 2010

Four races, four wins, and $4,800. Not a bad week for Kikkan Randall. The Alaskan capped off U.S. Nationals in her hometown by taking the victory in the classic sprint today. In another dominating performance, Randall won qualifying by four seconds, then led each of her heats from start to finish. Laura Valaas and Ida Sargent followed for second and third. “Kikkan sets a phenomenal example of how to be an elite skier,” Valaas said...

Continental Cup Racing US Nationals

Randall Crushes Nationals Classic Sprint Qualifier, Sargent Second and Brooks Third

Nathaniel HerzJanuary 8, 2010

It’s business as usual for the women at Kincaid Park, as Kikkan Randall again skied her way to a sizable victory in the classic sprint qualifier. 21-year-old Ida Sargent had a spectacular morning as the only woman to get within four seconds of Randall’s time, and Anchorage’s Holly Brooks slotted into third, just under six seconds back. The other frontrunners for women’s Olympic berths, Rebecca Dussault and Caitlin Compton, finished sixth and 13th, respectively, 11...

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