NENSA News

It’s that time of year!  NENSA is looking to build the coach and tech staff for the 2019 Junior Nationals to be held March 9th – 17th In Anchorage, Alaska.  Submit an application here.

More information about the event: http://www.juniornationalsxc2019.com/

Help support New England Juniors in their quest for individual and divisional success.  We are looking for team players, both wily veterans and aspiring coaches, to create a fun and focused staff.

The New England Team coaching staff is selected through an application process that aims to support our young athletes with a strong team, blending some of our most experienced coaches with those who are looking to develop their coaching and technical skills. Coaches who have attended JN’s several years in a row may be rotated with newer coaches. This ensures an educational pipeline for coach development within our region. All are welcome to apply!

The workload of managing a team of 50+ plus athletes is a formidable and equally rewarding task — the key to success is steady work and a humble team atmosphere. This is accomplished with the help of the coaches like you, who volunteer their time for the week of Junior Nationals.

An active NENSA membership, and current US Ski and Snowboard L100 (or L200) Coaches Certification is required to be eligible.

You must be available Friday March 8th through Sunday March 17th.

Applications due by Wednesday, October 31th. Questions? Email me at justin@nensa.net Thanks!

With temperatures dipping into the 30’s tonight (single digits for our fiends from the north) – it feels like winter – and we indeed have a ski race tomorrow morning even though we’re on wheels.  There are 173 skiers on the start list tomorrow and we have a carnival atmosphere ready for all comers from throughout the region and beyond.  There is Day of Race Registration so numbers could increase – adding to an already record breaking crowd – making this the largest rollerski race in North America.

Rossignol will be onsite with boot demos and the Ski Rack, NENSA, and Mansfield Nordic Club will have products for purchase.  There will also be some food options.  Further event notes.

Here are the Start Lists:
5km
10km
Fun Race

Seed List – including information on which skiers will ski on matched Swenor Skis.

Dress warm – Travel safe.

On Saturday morning October 27, NENSA will be hosting the first open Rollerski Cross Country Cross event in the world.  This exciting dryland version of Cross Country Cross builds on aspects of both sprinting and agility. The event will take place at Pineland Farms in New Gloucester, Maine.

The Maine Event: Agility Sprint Festival builds on the success of our Celebrity Duel at the 2018 National U16 camp, held in June in Lake Placid, NY. That camp saw the best under 16 skiers in the country trying their hand at rollers, jumps, spins, and slalom turns all while competing for the fastest time alongside four time Olympian Andy Newell and Ludvig Sognen Jensen, the fastest skier in the world. As NENSA moves forward with this exciting new discipline of skiing, we will be offering the opportunity to compete on this course to all comers on October 27.

Races will be broken up by gender and age with Junior Women and Men starting out in the morning, followed by Open Women and Men later in the day. Skiers will compete on a matched fleet of Swenor skate rollerskis. This uniform equipment will help to even the playing field and create a competition based solely on athletic performance.

Throughout the summer and now into the fall NENSA has been greatly expanding the scope of our programming to offer year round opportunities for what is a traditionally winter sport. The NENSA Bag Balm Rollerski Race Series launched in August with the App Gap Challenge, followed by Lake Placid Doubleday and Climb to the Castle in September. The series continues with the NENSA Rossignol Fall Classic on October 13 and Trapp Invitational on November 3.

Because of the success of these events, we have been able to look beyond the traditional race format to create the Maine Event Agility Sprint Festival. This cutting edge event will test skiers on both speed and skill, and will be a fantastic introduction to the discipline of Cross Country Cross which is growing worldwide.

Registration and further schedule details can be found on SkiReg at the link below:

https://www.skireg.com/the-maine-event-agility-sprint-festival

A journey to a NENSA event – winter, spring, summer or fall!  It’s not always about the destination, but the journey that got you there!

We want to hear the story behind a unique journey or experience you had to a NENSA event!  What event were you heading to?  Where were you?  What happened?  Share a photo or video to either Facebook, Instagram or Twitter with your story.

To be eligible, you must tag your post: @nokiantyresna (Facebook, Instagram & Twitter handle)
Hashtags: #itsaNENSAjourney #itsabeautifuljourney

Winner receives a set of ANY Nokian Tyres!!
Second place: lift tickets to Killington
Third place: a Nokian Tyres swag pack

For specific contest questions, email Hello@nokiantyres.com
Drawing, from all eligible entries, will be held November 3rd at the NENSA Winter KickOff Party in Stowe VT!

Contest runs October 4th to November 1st.

NENSA is pleased to announce the sites for the 2020 U16 Championships and Eastern High School Championships!

The 2020 U16 Championships from March 6 – 8, 2020 will be hosted by Mountain Top Nordic at the Mountain Top Inn & Resort in Chittenden, VT. It will be great to have this event back in Vermont, and we’re happy to be working with Mountain Top on what is shaping up to be another fun weekend.

In 2020, Eastern High School Championships will be held March  13 – 15  at Gore Mountain in North Creek, NY. The host club Gore Mountain Nordic Center did a great job of putting on U16s in 2018 and we’re excited to be back in New York for a championship event in 2020!

Last year we took championship event bids two years in advance, so the 2019 events are already scheduled and announced.  U16s in 2019 will be held at Bethel Village Trails in Bethel, ME and EHSCs will be held at Fort Kent Outdoor Center in Fort Kent, ME.