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NENSA Receives Gatorade Play it Forward Grant

March 24, 2020 by Kait Miller

NENSA is thrilled to be the recipient of a Gatorade Play it Forward Grant, made possible by Vermont Cross Country Runner of the Year Ava Thurston. The Gatorade Player of the Year program recognizes the nation’s most elite high school athletes for their accomplishments on and off the field, and the grant works in collaboration with the Gatorade Player of the Year to empower elite high school athletes to give back to a local or national youth sports organization.

Gatorade Play It Forward empowers every one of the 607 State Gatorade Player of the Year recipients to award a $1,000 grant from Gatorade to a community organization that helps young athletes realize the benefits of playing sports. It means so much to us that Ava selected NENSA, and specifically our youth programming, as the recipient of her grant.

On top of being Gatorade Vermont Cross Country Runner of the Year Ava skis with the Mansfield Nordic Club, and has been a mainstay of our Eastern Cup races this year; qualifying to represent Team New England at this year’s Junior National Championships in Truckee, California.

This grant will go specifically towards Nordic Rocks; a program which is made possible by the Share Winter Foundation, and which was developed to introduce a whole new generation of children in grades K-4 to the joys of cross-country skiing. To find out more about Nordic Rocks, Share Winter, and the Gatorade Player of The Year Program please follow the links below.

Nordic Rocks

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A fantastic finish to NENSA's Popular races at The A fantastic finish to NENSA's Popular races at The Henchey Memorial New England Club Relay
Championships.
@craftsburyoutdoorcenter not only put on another first rate show, but they also put together nine (!) complete teams for the Club relay. This effort (and a third place finish in the Nat'| Champ relay) jumped the Craftsbury squad from third to first in the year long Club Score.
With 44 teams in the 4×5km relay we present 7 victorious teams:

<100 years Men
SSWSC (Steamboat)
Barbier, Benjamin 
Magill, Henry 
Norris, David 
Jones, Trey

>100 years Men
NWVE
Burnham, Chris 
Enman, Eli 
Clayton, Thomas 
Hollenbach, Jake 

<100 years Mixed
Mansfield Nordic Club 
Maccurtain, Rye 
Page, Emma 
Linseisen, Anders 
Cobb, Virginia 

>100 years Mixed
GMVS
Rodgers, Colin 
Paluszek, Mikaela 
Ketchel, Elliot 
Donavan, Jessie 

>200 years Mixed
NWVE
Graves, Sara 
Pribram, Sarah 
Darling, Eric 
Thurston, Tom 

<100 years Women
GMVS
Graziani, Elizabeth 
Harrington, Mary 
McIntosh, Beth 
Greenberg, Brooke 

>100 years Women 
NWVE
Enman, Acadia 
Bolduc, Jessica 
Hollenbach, Liz 
Good, Cipperly

We also had a proud squad of Zak Cup Age group winners on hand!
Stay tuned for more details of the amazing Popular skiers we had during this 2023 season.
It's snowing right now and there is more racing tomorrow at Craftsbury and April 2nd at @cochrans_nordic_cross
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