Archive | Masters Blog

Skier Sightings at 2012 GMAA Burlington Turkey Trot

While many of the junior skiers are at our annual ski camp up in Craftsbury, other folks enjoyed the sunny morning here in Burlington at the annual GMAA Turkey Trot. If you didn’t already know, Craftsbury has about 1.25km of man-made snow and they are open for business. Nearly 20 junior skiers are at the 5-day ski camp with MNC Coaches Garrott Kuzzy and Alice Nelson.

Back to the Turkey Trot… I apologize if I forget to include someone. And with such a huge field (600+), I’m sure there are other skiers that I didn’t see.

Eli Enman (MNC Coach and CVU Coach and local legend!)
Brendan Copley (Colchester ’12)
Ilke Van Genechten (Former UVM skier)
Kyle Darling
The entire Clayton/Kjelleren family

Happy Thanksgiving!!

MNC Graduate Round-Up

By Adam Terko on 17 November, 2012 in BKL Race Blog, Junior Blog, Masters Blog

I wanted to write a quick update about our graduates that are now skiing in college. After a few minutes of searching the web, I realized there are a lot of athletes that came through the club that are now in the collegiate ranks. This list is a testament to the growing popularity of our sport in this area, and the depth of talent. If I missed someone (very likely), please let me know. Recent graduates are at the top of the list:

Sienna Searles (CVU ’12) has been training with the team at St Lawrence Univ. She joins Eric Lustgarten (BHS ’09) and Lauren Olson (Colchester ’11) on what appears to be a strong young team. St Lawrence Nordic blog.

Liam John (Essex ’12) is in the Midwest at St. Olaf College. Link to St Olaf Nordic blog.

Jack Hegman (MMU/Burke Mtn ’12) joins his older brother Pete Hegman at UVM this fall. UVM are reigning NCAA National Champions and look strong again this year.

Danny Ebenstein (MMU ’12) is just across the NY state border at Skidmore. He played goalie on the varsity soccer team this fall. Skidmore Soccer.

Brendan Copley (Colchester ’12) finished one heckuva freshman year of running at Quinnipiac Univ. Brendan was one of the top-20 freshman in the entire region (D1) and he ran a 32:51 10km at his final race of the season. Quinnipiac Running.

John Dixon and Jared Supple (CVU and MMU) are seniors at Colby College.

Emily Stitt (MMU/GMVS) and Ben Lustgarten (BHS ’09) are skiing for Middlebury College.

SWIX WAX CLINC AT THE SKI RACK

By Adam Terko on 15 November, 2012 in BKL Race Blog, Junior Blog, Masters Blog

SWIX WAX CLINIC:

There will be a wax clinic at the Ski Rack on Monday 11/26. From 6:00 – 7:30 pm. Intermediate and advanced Swix wax clinic hosted by Drew Gelinas. Floros, brushing, binders, klisters, plus Q&A at the end.

“Drive for 25” and Swix wax clinic at SkiRack

By Adam Terko on 13 November, 2012 in BKL Race Blog, Junior Blog, Masters Blog

Drive for 25:

This is a fundraiser in support of the National Nordic Foundation. The NNF supports the development pipeline for nordic skiers — helping fund things like the J2 summer camps, J1 Scando Cup Trip, Junior World Championships, etc. When I led the J1 trip to Finland in 2010, the NNF gave us $20,000 of funding to defray athlete costs. Two of our MNC junior athletes were directly helped by these funds this past year (Ben Hegman and Henry Harmeyer — both as part of the J2 National Elite Group). Let’s see how much we can raise from MNC!

https://www.grouprev.com/mansfieldnordic

Swix wax clinic at Skirack:

Skirack and Swix will host an intermediate/advanced wax clinic the Monday after Thanksgiving. Drew Gelinas will be here from Swix to give a demonstration on the tips and tricks he has picked up after many years in the industry. The tentative plan is: