States Team

Boys:                                                         Girls:
Will Earle                                                 Britta Clark
Mac Groves                                              Lydia Allen
Stephen Peters-Collaer                          Emma Ryan
Kelsey McGlashan                                 Haley Olson
Austin Kincaid                                        Hannah Kraus
Yib Lacey                                                Kate Dapalito
Addison Tate                                           Nathalie Ingersol
Adam Peterson                                        Sophie Ryan

TT Results from today and yesterday

Here

BKL Helpers

Hi Everbody,


We've volunteered as a team to help out with the big Bill Koch League Festival happening next weekend up at Rikert. This is a mandatory part of practice the week of break and will also be a lot of fun (maybe I should of put those in the reverse order). Here's what we need.


1) Saturday (Feb 26) and Sunday (Feb 27), Food Tent – need 4 volunteers, 2 each day from 11am-2pm.

   1. (Sat 11-2)

   2. (Sat 11-2)

   3. (Sun 11-2)

   4. (Sun 11-2)

2)  Saturday and Sunday, Bear Den Trail (little kids exploratory trail) – need 10 volunteers to help monitor and extract little kids from the snow.  Saturday, 6 to cover 2 per each per shift 8:30-11am, 11am-1:30pm, and 1:30-4pm. Sunday, 4 vols. To cover 2 per each per shift 8:30-11am and 11am-1:30pm.

  1. (Sat 8:30-11)                                         6. (Sat 1:30-4)

  2. (Sat 8:30-11)                                         6. (Sun 8:30-11)

  3. (Sat 11-1:30)    Zoe Parsons               6. (Sun 8:30-11)

  4. (Sat 11-1:30)    Hannah Kraus           6. (Sat 11-1:30)

  5. (Sat 1:30-4)                                           6. (Sat 11-1:30)

3) Saturday night banquet at MUHS – need 4 volunteers from 4:30-7pm to help with busing, cleaning up, and the silent auction.

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  2.

  3.

  4.

So looks like we could really use 18 volunteers – though it’s likely that people can cover multiple shifts, etc.

If you don't see a name in a slot, that means we still need help. I'll be sending out an email, please respond to me if with your availability. 

Anders

Emma making a big move up the hill through the stadium. 

Britta on her way to 9th place. 

Kelsey making his way out on the second loop. Kelsey had a really strong skate race. 

 Mac with some forward body lean. Mac was the 16th J2 qualifier. Solid races.

Will looking really strong out of the start. Will skied a really great skate race saying really quick through both laps. He managed to keep it fresh through two races. 

Eastern High School Qualifiers

Sunday was a long day of races at Craftsbury. It was great that people got there Saturday to preview the course and get some pre-race skiing in. Everyone showed up excited and ready to go, racing both a morning classic race and an afternoon skate.

We had some really great skiing yesterday with a decent sized crew. Some exciting results and some really good efforts across the board. Highlights include, Britta finishing 11th overall, Lydia in 18th, Alia finishing 22nd in the classic and 16th in the skate, Haley and Emma both with solid races.
On the guys side, Will had some great races, especially skiing strongly in the second race of the day, Mac finished 16th for the J2's and will be heading off on that trip. Kelsey also had a great skate race, finishing just behind Mac.

Here's a link to the results. http://www.craftsbury.com/skiing/nordic_center/news/2011J2sVTQual_110213.htm you'll be excited to see that two of our skiers made it up in photos on the website. Cool. I'll try to get some posted this evening after practice.

Friday Time Trial Results will be up momentarily. Click Me

Also, I'll be looking forward to hearing how the citizen's race went for those who stuck around. Sounded like the waxing was easy and the event was fun as usual.

MT Top Results

https://spreadsheets2.google.com/ccc?hl=en&key=tOmL6DLlkPS8kVO9aSv19nQ&hl=en#gid=2

Here you go, great work yesterday. It was tough snow, slow conditions, and lots of uphill. It was a great look at the states course and a preview of 3k racing for this weekends Eastern Qualifiers. Its a hard race from start to finish, all out from the moment they say go.

Reflections from Saturday

Nathalie Ingersoll- My first varsity race. It was much better than I thought it would be.I think I got about 63 out of 80 so I feel pretty good about it!

Adam- I felt pretty good. Had an awesome wipeout.

Olivia- was in the last race, so the track was awful, had a bunch of people wipe out, including me, but, it was a great race!
Nice job today racers!
-olivia h.
Good race, got poled in the foot.. Yay- Devon z

It was pretty fun and the snow was fast. The tracks weren't really good but there wasn't too much uphill so it was okay.
-mac

My skis were slipping a bit up the hills, but I mostly made it up on the downhills. The tracks were nonexistent in some places,but it was still a really fun race, and I made up a bunch of time and almost caught the girl in front of me at the end which was exciting. Overall a good race.
Emma

Haley-so I am overall satisfied with how it went except for the fact that I felt awful...like actually. But yeah wooooooo Nordic!! Our team did pretty well considering we were missing Lydia and Britta. The hills were stellar and having to do two laps was therefore not that an issue.

Stephen
Overall the race went well, especially on the flats where I could double pole. I think that working on doubling poling in practice yesterday really helped as well. However the hardest part of the race was switching from the long . stretches of double poling to the hills where I had to stride. But all in all the race felt good.

I slipped up the last two hills but overall I did well. it was a time and a half...next time let's not leave at 7 -george

New Video

Here's the last Rutland race...

Soundtrack by Matt Truehartt. Editing by me.

PRACTICE TOMORROW

SO School is closed, and flights are canceled and everything is delayed. I think I'll go skiing unless I hear that Bread Loaf is closed or the ACTR shuttle is canceled. Right now they have canceled the shuttle to Rutland, but not the snow bowl, I'll be checking in constantly and keep you updated. Take a look at their website for the most up to date info. ACTR

Tentative plan to take the 12:55 shuttle meeting at Rikert around 1:30pm. Who knows??