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MNC Juniors Amongst the Best in VT

By Adam Terko on 27 February, 2013 in Junior Blog

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

Silver Fox Trot – Results and Photos

By Adam Terko on 25 February, 2013 in BKL Race Blog, Junior Blog, Masters Blog

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

Weekend Wax Recommendation

By Adam Terko on 22 February, 2013 in BKL Race Blog, Junior Blog, Masters Blog

Saturday – Silver Fox Trot

BKL: Glide wax for temps in the high 20s, Swix CH8 or LF8 if you have it.

Masters/High School: CH or LF8 with some CH or LF10 mixed in

Sunday – Stowe Derby

Skate – Swix CH, LF, or HF 8

Classic – Temps will be a little warmer so glide wax with 8 mixed with some 10. For kick wax, prep your skis with an ironed in green binder. The kick will likely be warm hard wax (Toko Yellow, Swix Extra Violet, or a Swix VR60-70).

Toko wax tips for races this weekend are available here:

http://www.tokous.com/Waxtips/New%20England%20New%20York/new_england_wax_tips.htm

Silver Fox Trot

By Adam Terko on 20 February, 2013 in BKL Race Blog, Junior Blog, Masters Blog

A number of MNCers are headed down to the Fox Trot on Saturday – there will be races for all ages so you just might see some coaches out there racing too!

Here is a link to the event website where you will find race info, a registration link, and directions. Online registration closes Thursday at 11 pm, there is also day or race registration, but it is more expensive. All races will be held at the Strafford Nordic Center, which is about an hour and a half from Burlington.

http://www.fordsayre.org/nordic/sft

Hope to see you there!

Alice

Juniors: Recap of the final Eastern Cup weekend

By Adam Terko on 18 February, 2013 in Junior Blog

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The Eastern Cup race series finished this past weekend with 2 distance races in Waterville, ME. A small but strong group of MNC athletes attended these races, which are the final qualifiers for Junior National Championships.

It was a hectic day on Saturday for mass-start classic races. Temps between 32-36˚ F coupled with falling snow and wind made challenging conditions. The Harmeyer brothers persevered in the J2 category in a race that was sadly defined by equipment and wax. Ben Hegman skied another awesome race in the Open Men’s field to finish as the top junior and 6th overall!

Sunday was cold, very windy, and still had flurries in the air. Nathanael Kuzio, who sat out of the race on Saturday due to illness, had an amazing race in spite of being in a pressure-cooker battle for the JN team (3 boys fighting for last 2 spots). “Newt” skied a well-paced race and stayed upright on some very challenging descents to finish 3rd in the J2 boys category — and secure his trip to Alaska for Junior Nationals!

Although the Harmeyer brothers are only age 15 (J2 category), they raced up in the Open Men’s field to gain a point of reference for the future. Bill followed his pre-race plan of skiing smooth for 7km and then turning up the pace to finish 33rd overall. Henry skied strong wire-to-wire and finished 12th overall and he was the 7th place junior.

On the horizon are the Vermont State High School Championships, so be on the lookout for MNC athletes peppering the results! The freestyle races take place this Thursday @ Craftsbury, and the classic events are next Tuesday at Prospect. Good luck to all!!!