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Greetings potential JN Team athletes and parents ~

This Sunday is the last weekend of Eastern Cup racing for JN qualifying.  Immediately following the last men’s race at Holderness, NENSA will be having our NE JN Team informational meeting, for all potential JN Team athletes and their parents.  This meeting will be at 1:15pm in the gymnasium.  Please come to hear about the upcoming Junior National trip to Lake Placid starting March 4th, meet the JN coaches and staff, ask questions, try on the NE SWIX uniforms for sizing for ordering, and pay by check if you already know you will be making the team.  Here is the link on NENSA.net to our 2017 JN Packet/Payment info, including all waivers.

To find this link – go to the homepage TABS and click on > Programs > Competitor > JN Team > 2017 JN Packet/Payment.

We look forward to seeing you in both Craftsbury and Holderness this weekend, and best of luck to all our athletes on this final weekend of Eastern Cup/JNQ racing!

REMINDER – on-line registration closes at 5pm SHARP today on SkiReg.com.  There will be DOR registration both days this weekend – $50 each day, and you must be both a current and valid NENSA and USSA/FIS member to race – bring you membership numbers with you.  DOR open 9-10 am on Saturday at Craftsbury, and 8-9am on Sunday at Holderness.

Greetings Eastern Cup Racers ~

Do not delay ~ Registration closes at 5pm SHARP on Wednesday 2/8 for Eastern Cup weekend #4.  Go to SkiReg.com and register NOW!

Saturday is a combined Eastern Cup/Dartmouth Carnival/Silver Fox Trot classic distance race, to be held at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center, in VT.  Sunday is the Eastern Cup/Cheri Walsh Memorial freestyle distance race at the Holderness School, in Holderness NH.   Please go to VTCM EC#4 for all updates, race information and schedules.

After the last race on Sunday 2/12 – there will be a New England JN Team informational meeting at Holderness School, in their Gymnasium on Sunday at 1:15 pm – pick up and fill out the necessary paperwork, meet the JN Coaches, try on sizes for the Swix uniforms to order, etc. etc. Please come if you know you will be on the team, or, if you may be on the team – all are welcome!  This is a great opportunity to ask questions. JN Trip Leader: Amie Smith, amie@nensa.net  Click here for the complete 2017 JN packet.

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.

Press release from Craftsbury Outdoor Center January 29, 2017:

We had over 500 skiers toe the line for the 36th annual Craftsbury Marathon, presented by Fairpoint Communications. True to the spirit of the event, we had competitors who were putting on a bib for the first time to 4-time Olympians: the Marathon is a celebration of skiing in New England, a celebration of winter!
Racers completed 1, 2 or 4 laps of the challenging 12.5k course, with prizes for overall and age/gender groups.

In the BKL 1 Lap, Orion Cenkl and Miley Bletzer led the group home. 2 lap BKLers were paced by Charlie Purcell of GMVS and Ava Thurston and Quincy Massey-Bierman had a battle as they tied after 25k! Vermont High Schoolers completed 1 lap, with U32’s Stephen Looke taking the win on the boys’ side, and his teammate Emma Curchin winning for the Raiders on the girls’ side.

1 Lap men were all bested by Leo Paul Grandbois, of Biathlon Estrie. Notable too was the finish of Dan Cnossen, 2014 Paralympian. The sit-skier was second to Grandbois, on a course that features way more climbing and descending than any over course Cnossen would face in international competition. The 1 lap women’s event was won by GRP skier Kaitlynn Miller.

Recently crowned 30k classic National Champ Ben Lustgarten took the men’s 25k event handily, while Canadian Sheila Kealey took the win for the women.

4-time Olympian and New Hampshire native Kris Freeman took the win by 6 minutes over his Ski and Snowboard Club of Vail teammate, Tad Elliott. It’s Freeman’s 3rd win at the marathon, and the granite stater accomplished this victory double-poling, on skate skis. Mansfield’s Nordic’s Emily Stitt’s women’s 50k win made up in dominance whatever it may have lacked in finish drama. The former Middlebury College skier lead the women home in 3:08.

Thanks to everyone who joined us, and thanks to our generous sponsors:
Fairpoint Communications
Concept2
Outdoor Gear Exchange
Boulder Nordic Sport
Cross-Country Skier

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