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The Home of Cross Country Skiing in New England

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Member Benefits

New Virtual Speaker Series for NENSA Members

Kait Miller · November 18, 2025 ·

We’re excited to announce our new virtual speaker series which is free to all NENSA members!

This educational series expands opportunities for learning beyond our in-person conferences, symposiums, and clinics. All webinars in the series will be held over Zoom and each offering will be feature a 45 minute presentation followed by a 15 minute Q&A. If you’re unable to make a webinar, register anyway as we will share a recording afterward. We currently have three speakers joining us in December and we will be adding more offerings soon. If you’re interested in speaking in our series, or have a topic you’d like to see covered in a future webinar, let us know at kait@nensa.net.

Dec 3: Patience, Insight & Leadership with Kris Freeman
Dec 10: The Master Skier: Balancing Life, Health & Performance with Matt Klick
Dec 17: The Beaver Dam Model of Club Development with Isabel Caldwell

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Series details & registration

New Year, New You – Renew your NENSA Membership Today!

Isabel Caldwell · May 6, 2025 ·

May 1st marks the start of our new membership year at NENSA and we have some exciting developments to share with you!

Membership renewals are now open!

There’s no better time than today to take care of your renewal and access a full year of NENSA programming, benefits, and resources. Join or renew at membership.nensa.net.

Explore the all-new “Member Benefits” tab

You will find a new tab titled “Member Benefits” at the top of your screen. Here you can access all of your NENSA member benefits and resources in one place. This is your one-stop hub for all the perks that come with being part of the NENSA community, including—but not limited to:

  • Discounted entry to NENSA events
  • Access to educational opportunities and resources
  • Subscription to NENSA newsletters: Kickzone (the official newsletter of NENSA), Trail Tales (BKL), and Coaches Update
  • Access to Eastern Cup, Bill Koch Festival, and U16 and Eastern High School Championship events
  • Eligibility for athlete development projects
  • Scoring and ranking in Eastern Cup, Zak Cup and Marathon Challenge
  • Exclusive offers from NENSA sponsors

Club leaders: Now is also a great time to renew Club memberships!

If you are enrolled in NENSA’s General Liability Insurance program, you’ll want to do this before your first program. You can find information about Club Liability Insurance on the Member Benefit page. 

NENSA Clubs are eligible to receive General Liability insurance coverage under the NENSA master policy.

A Master policy aggregates coverage for the community, offers better coverage than what clubs may find individually, and saves our clubs the costs of these separate policies. It is a member benefit that we are proud to offer and that we believe will benefit our community directly through the local savings it offers to clubs.

NENSA Club Liability Insurance

NENSA is a member-supported nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the culture of cross-country skiing across all ages and levels.

Your support provides critical funding that keeps our operations running year-round. It funds programs for skiers of all ages and levels, from youth and grassroots initiatives to adult events and elite development. It also helps us offer low- and no-cost programming, expand access, and create a more inclusive and vibrant Nordic ski community across New England.

Thank you for being part of the NENSA family!

NENSA Unveils a New Membership System! 

Isabel Caldwell · December 12, 2024 ·

Rodrigues Sprints – Phillip Belena Photo
NENSA Membership App

We are excited to unveil a new NENSA membership app! 

With a simple and streamlined interface, the app offers many features that will simplify membership management for our community.

Members can:

  • Securely access their membership account without having to remember a password
  • Easily lookup their NENSA membership number
  • Quickly purchase/renew a membership or update a profile
  • Easily access and manage family memberships

Coaches and program directors can:

  • View and manage membership rosters
  • Easily submit and update program rosters for streamlined bulk membership processing. This process has been simplified and automated, providing faster turnaround times, improved invoicing, and expanded payment options.
Rodrigues Sprints – Phillip Belena photo

We encourage you to visit our new app, access your account, and – if you haven’t yet had a chance – renew your 2024-25 membership. With a busy season ahead, now is the perfect time to take care of this!

update your account or renew your membership

If you have any questions or would like to share feedback, we’d love to hear from you anytime: membership@nensa.net

Thank you for being a part of the NENSA community!

nensa membership website hub
Kendall Memorial – Phillip Belena photo

New for 2025 Season – NENSA & Jakroo Youth Apparel Program!

Mackenzie Rizio · November 5, 2024 ·

New for the 2024-2025 Season: NENSA and new-sponsor, Jakroo, are teaming up to offer the BKL Apparel program this year! Items available include training jackets, training pants, hats, warm puffy coats, and more for BKL skiers, coaches, and leaders. Team clothing is more than simply pieces of clothing used to ski in. When young skiers don their uniforms, it creates a sense of camaraderie, pride and belonging in one’s club which in turn helps both clubs and individual skiers develop together.

If your club is interested, please email Patrice Spyrka at patrice@jakroousa.com for account setup, product choice questions, and design assistance. Design turnaround is 1 business day. Once the artwork is approved, the order can be placed. Delivery of the order is 2 weeks to your doorstep. Team ordering is available and there are no minimums, ever. We’ve created this webpage to address your questions. We look forward to seeing you in your Jakroo this winter! 

BKL Apparel program details

NENSA Coaches Membership Giveaway

Fred Bailey · January 8, 2024 ·

NENSA is pleased to offer a free one year coaches membership to a deserving high school coach in each of the New England states.  This provides greater access to coaches education, course access at our events, our newsletter and other NENSA member benefits.  One of the benefits is access to a webinar hosted by Nordic Team Solutions – this is Andy Newell’s coaches’ educational programming, which is run in collaboration with many other sport experts.  Members will also be entered into a raffle for a Nordic Team Solutions membership.  For more background information please check out their website.

This year’s winners were selected from a pool of nominees by popular vote among each state’s high school coaches associations.  The goal of this year’s program is to promote professional development for newer coaches who take a highly active part in our skiing community.  And the deserving winners are:

Massachusetts: Hillary Greene of Mt. Greylock High School

Vermont: Ross Scatchard of Stowe High School

New Hampshire: Alyssa Krause of Sunapee High School

Maine: Casey Spenser of Maranacook High School

Congratulations to the year’s winners.  We look forward to seeing you in action on the trails this season!

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Lyme, New Hampshire 03768