Amie Smith

A fabulous weekend of racing was had at Rikert last Saturday and Sunday for our Eastern Cup #3 ~ THANK YOU to the Rikert Nordic Center staff, organizers and multitude of wonderful volunteers, from so many different clubs around NE, who all came together to put on great races!

The weekend recap ~ Saturday’s classic sprint race podiums:  For the Men ~ 1st Daniel Streinz, Mountain Endurance; 2nd Antoine Briand, CNEPH/SKIBEC; and 3rd Joey Foster, Team Hardwood.  For the Women ~ 1st Sophie Carrier-Laforte, CNEPH; 2nd Heather Mooney, Craftsbury Nordic; 3rd Carly Wynn. For the U16 boys ~ 1^st Joshua Valentine, Gunstock Nordic; 2nd Olivier Leveille, Orford; 3rd Will Koch, SMS. For the U16 girls ~ 1st Laura Appleby, CSU; 2nd Charlotte Ogden, SMS; and 3rd Olivia Cuneo, GMVS.

For Sunday’s freestyle distance races:  U16 boys 5k:  1^st place went to Joshua Valentine, Gunstock Nordic; 2^nd place to Matthew Moreau, CSU juniors; 3^rd place Will Koch, SMS.  For the U16 girls 5k:  1^st place was Abigail Streinz, OSI; 2^nd place, Laura Appleby, CSU juniors; 3^rd place Lillian Bates, Dublin XC.  For the 10k women’s race:  1^st place went to Carly Winn; 2^nd place went to Sophie Carrier-Laforte, CNEPH; and 3^rd place went to Heather Mooney, Craftsbury Nordic.  For the men’s 15k, it was a Canadian sweep:  1^st place was Joey Foster, Team Hardwood; 2^nd place to Zacha Cristofanilli, CNEPH; and 3ed to Nicholas Beaulieu, Orford.

Seed lists are now posted on the VTCM EC#3 page for both the Saturday sprint qualifiers, and the Sunday distance races.

Greetings NENSA EC racers, coaches, and parents –

The scored race results from USSA are up on NENSA.net (RESULTS tab) for the Quarry Road EC#2 weekend.

Due a problem with the timing, the preliminary results for the sprint qualifiers, put out Saturday morning were incorrect, so the overall (top 30) and the U18/U20 afternoon heats had to be invalidated.  Those preliminary qualifier results from Saturday morning, used to populate the open women and open men, and the U18/U20 women and men’s sprint heat brackets for the afternoon races, were incorrectly populated, thus, those afternoon heats results were not valid, and we cannot use the open heats or U18/U20 heats results for JNQ ranking.

Therefore, for JN ranking, we are using the corrected qualifier results for the U18/U20 class.

The U16 heats were correct.

For the seven U16 girls who made the top 30 open heats, they are being scored off their order of finish in the morning qualifier. The remaining U16s girls who made the U16 heats will be scored using their heat results.

The U16 boys will also use their heat results.

The silver lining is, we were able to work with the timer to salvage the correct sprint qualifier results, so they are now valid and correct, and have been scored by USSA for NRL ranking, and by NENSA for JNQ ranking for our U16, U18, U20 racers looking to make the NE JN Team this March.

We apologize for the timing issues at Quarry Road Eastern Cup, and I want you to know that NENSA doing all we can to work with the timers and race organizers, to be sure this does not happen again.

It is our sincere hope, and plan, to have a clean sprint qualifier this coming weekend at Rikert, and valid open, U16 and U18/U20 heats in the afternoon, that we can use for JN qualifying ranking.

It was a great day of racing in Jackson NH this past Saturday January 21^st, for the NENSA One Day Club Championship.  The morning started with low clouds, above freezing, and it almost felt like rain as I left the Eagle Mountain House.  But by race time, the sun was out, and klister was on everyone’s skis!  The course was in great shape – lots of cover and good tracks.

This was my second year participating in the WMC.  I was not sure I was even going to race at the beginning of the week – as work and travel had me worn out.  I decided to just embrace the day, and the chance to get out and actually ski, with my CSU club teammates.  I made the big mistake of grabbing a pair of my daughter’s skis to race on – ones I had never skied on before.  They were sweet skis, but I underestimated the (lack of) depth of the wax pocket, and over klistered my skis.  I had BOMBER kick, and NO glide.  I flew up Yodel and The Wave, but suffered immensely on the flats and downhills.  But I was happy to be out skiing, enjoying the day, and cheering on my teammates as we crisscrossed trails throughout the course.

Jackson does a great job with this annual race.  After, we were all treated to a fantastic lunch provided by all the local business, and served up with smiles by the youth in the Jackson ski program.

The competition for the One Day Club Championship was fierce.  In the end, the Women’s and even the Men’s categories were SO close!

For the Women – there was a tie for first place with NWVE and CSU, with 3 points each, so a tie breaker was invoked, and NWVE earned the title of Club Champion (their next highest racer earned a second place, and CSU a third place); CSU was the second overall; and Stowe Nordic was third, with 4 points

For the Men – NWVE earned the title to Club Champion with 6 points total, CSU was second with 7 points, and Craftsbury was third with 11 points.

CONGRATULATIONS to all the racers and clubs who participated ~ see you all next year!

 

It’s time to register for our Eastern Cup weekend #3 at Rikert Nordic Center, happening this coming weekend 1/28 & 1/29 ~ go to SkiReg.com and register today! On-line registration closes at 5pm sharp this Weds. 1/25. The Rikert course looks good, the crew there is working hard, and according to Rikert Director Mike Hussey, he is confident snow conditions will allow them to host another top notch event.  So don’t delay, register today!  For the schedule and full info on the weekend’s events, go our VTCM #3 page.

Looking for a fun thing to do this weekend?  Want to come skiing on some great snow with lots of other great women?  Then look no further then NENSA’s Women’s Day, this Sunday January 22nd in Bethel Maine.  Registration is just $35 for NENSA members, and $50 for non-members.  Go to SkiReg.com to register and see the full schedule of events.  There is an array of wonderful clinics to choose from, a luncheon, a raffle and lots more!  We hope you will join us!

Many of our top NENSA athletes, including those on both our NENSA Elite and Development Teams had a very successful week of racing out in Soldier Hollow Utah for US Sr. Nationals last week.  The following NENSA athletes were named to the following teams:

U18 Scando Trip:  Ben Ogden, SMS, NENSA Devo Team & Anna Lehmann, SMS, NENSA Devo Team

JR Worlds:  For the women -Katharine Ogden, SMS, NENSA Elite Team & USST D; Julia Kern, SMS, NENSA Elite Team, USST D; Lauren Jortberg, Dartmouth;  For the men – Kamram Husain, SMS, NENSA Devo Team;  Lance McKenny, PG, NENSA Elite Team; Bill Harmeyer, UVM.

U23 Worlds:  For the men – Patrick Caldwell, SMS, NENSA Elite Team, USST D; John Hegman and Cole Morgan, both former UVM skiers, now both skiing for Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation;  Callan DeLine, Dartmouth, NENSA Devo Team; For the women – Kelsey Phinney, former Middlebury skier, now skiing for Sun Valley; Alayna Sonnesyn, UVM, NENSA Elite Team; Corey Stock, Bridger Ski Foundation, NENSA Elite Team.

EXCITING for our New England athletes this year, is that both U23 Worlds and JR Worlds are going to be held in the US at Soldier Hollow Utah, January 30th – February 5th.  The USA U18 Scando trip is to Trondheim Norway this year, January 23rd-Feb. 1st.

Congratulations to all our New England athletes on a very successful week out at Sr. Nationals, including in the Championship finale, Ben Lustgarten, Craftsbury Nordic & NENSA Elite Team, skied to an impressive first U.S. title winning the men’s 30k classic.  The bronze went to veteran Kris Freeman (Campton, NH) of Ski and Snowboard Club Vail.  Katharine Ogden, SMS, won silver that day in the women’s 20k classic.

Go to VTCM EC#2 page to see seed listed posted for the Saturday SPRINT qualifier races at Quarry Road:  Please note – ignore the bib#’s on the seeds lists – all racers will be randomized within their seeds group, and you will get a correct bib# assigned to you on the starts lists.

Coaches and athletes – please be sure to check the seed lists and verify all your information.  Please contact [email protected] if there is a correction needed.  Thanks, and see you at Quarry Road!

Greetings Eastern Cup Racers!

5pm TOMORROW is you LAST DAY to REGISTER for this weekend’s Eastern Cup #2 race weekend at Quarry Road in Waterville ME!  DO NOT DELAY ~ go to SkiReg.com now to register now.  There will be NO DOR and NO late registrations allow at all.  If you miss the deadline, you miss out on racing this weekend.  We do not want this to happen, so please make sure you, your club, team members, friends, athletes, etc. are all set to race this weekend!  Quarry Road has been working very hard to make their wonderful race venue ready for us.  Be sure to remember to THANK all the volunteers and officials who are all volunteering to make the weekend great for us!  See you in Waterville!  Here is the link to the VTCM EC#2 page.

REMINDER to all Eastern Cup racers, parents and coaches ~
Our second Eastern Cup weekend at Quarry Road in Waterville Maine is fast approaching! Deadline for on-line registration is 5pm SHARP, next Weds. 1/11. No exceptions ~ NO DOR registration for this EC#2 weekend. SO PLEASE REGISTER NOW ~ DO NOT DELAY! Registration is on SkiReg.com. Full schedule and all race information can be found on the VTCM EC#2 page here on NENSA.net