The NCAA championships are coming to Middlebury next week. This is a great opportunity to watch the best collegiate skiers in the country, and for BKL skiers, to check out the new race course before the Grand Prix.
The complete schedule of events can be found here:
http://middleburyskiing.org/ncaa/
The 15/20k mass start on Saturday will be a particularly fun one to watch!
High School skiers wrapped up their season over the past week with the State Championships events held over the course of 2 days. Last Thursday featured skate races at Craftsbury, while they raced classic events at Prospect yesterday. CVU showed their strength and depth to take the overall titles in both boys and gals D1.
BFP Day 1 Coverage and Results
BFP Day 2 Coverage and Results
MNC athletes were present on many teams from around the County, including CVU, MMU, Essex, BHS, Colchester, BFA-St. Albans and Harwood. Skiing for the State Champion CVU squad were: Forrest Hamilton, Emmett Peterson, Parker Francis, Sean Delaney, Charlie Maitland, Thomas Clayton and Sam Longenbach — all members of MNC!! Forrest won the individual title for D1 skate, and was 2nd in the classic. Nathanael Kuzio (Harwood/MNC) was 2nd in the state in the D2 skate, and 3rd in the classic. Rounding out the podium yesterday was Emmett Peterson in 3rd. Ethan John joined the aforementioned athletes in 13th overall D1 skate and climbed to 9th in the classic.
On the gals’ side, CVU won it all, featuring several MNC athletes as well. Autumn Eastman was 3rd in skate, followed by Cally Braun, Kayla Servin and Emma Hamilton (all CVU/MNC) and all in the top-15. Autumn claimed 3rd again in classic, while Cally and Emma moved up to 7th and 9th, respecitively.
While I am not certain, I believe nearly >90% of participants in the MNC summer program represented their high schools at the State Champs. I haven’t seen full results, but I know there were many other MNC skiers racing (Nigel Sarrazin, Jordan Lamay, Ethan Thibault of Colchester, Lucy Leith and Lukas Adamowicz of BHS, Leslie Robers of BFA-St.A, Tatum Braun of CVU). My apologies if I missed anyone, please let me know or add a comment.
MNC will host open training tomorrow (Thursday 2/28) as well as next Tuesday and THursday 3/5 and 3/7. All training will take place at the Range at 4pm.
Nigh Time Rollerskiing
Emmett Peterson, CVU
Amy Bruce, MMU
Ethan John, Essex
Ethan Thibault, Colchester
Even the coaches raced!
Results can be found here: http://www.fordsayre.org/sft-race-results
We had MNC racers in almost every age category!
Lots of great photos can be found here: https://www.nensa.net/news/index.php?id=5991
As we approach the end of the skis season club resources indicate that we need to cut back on coaching staff. However, we will still be having regular T/TH ski sessions – just with more skiing and less technique coaching. With the exception of this Tuesday we will have a coach for the early Masters as we have done all season but the 6 pm slot will have 2 to 3 coaches on Tuesdays and one coach on Thursday. This Tuesday 2/26 the Early Session Masters are welcome to join with the BK kids for a classic ski tour at Bolton Valley. 11 Am – 1 PM.
It’s now time to incorporate all the knowledge gained from the MNC coaches in your ski workouts. Take this opportunity to ski a lot and focus on one or two things per session to improve your skiing.
Tuesday – Skate Skiing
Thursday – Your choice
VACATION WEEK SKIING
We are mixing things up a bit for this week.
The Mansfield Nordic Community Center (MNCC) is our club’s resource for strength training, events, meetings, and more! But how do you get there, and where do you park? Read More about “Parking at the MNCC”…
Join us on Sunday, December 15th at Craftsbury for our Masters Mini Camp. We’ll work on both skate and classic, gather for lunch, and review video and talk technique! Read More about “Masters Mini Camp @ Craftsbury”…
Masters athletes…are you looking to build strength and train with friends and teammates? Join us at the Mansfield Nordic Community Center on Wednesday nights! Read More about “Masters Strength @ The MNCC”…