It’s been a wild couple of days for me, my teammates and some other juniors who made their way to Canadien Nationals after Junior Nationals in Alaska. I guess you could say we took Pat Casey’s words to heart and started our 2008/9 season directly after awards on Saturday night logging a good two hour sprint/agility workout on the dance floor. Shoutout to Reese Hanneman for getting lower than anyone else out there and “severely” spraining my foot. New England rounded out with 5 of the top ten places at the dance with strong performances made by Mike Mommsen(NE), Graham Egan(NE), Sam Tarling(NE), Gage Fichter(NE), NOAH HOFFMAN(IM), Erik Anderson(IM), Natalie Flowers(IM), Andrew Tillman(MW), Scott Krankalla(IM) and Parker Tyler(NE). Honerable mention for the evening went to Ian Havlick(IM) who unfortunalty dropped out in the home stretch.

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It was a sweet day in the NE Kingdom, the sun was shining and the weather was just cold enough to feel like good old winter. Everyone was in a good mood after learning about Liz Stephen’s DOMINATION at U23s! Some progressive snowfall over the last couple days have made it hard to keep tracks in place for skiing so it meant some quality time on the alpine hill. Corinne and I took several runs on Wednsday, lets just say my legs felt it at the end of the day! Powder skiing can be rough on the quads to say the least! Some of the team is gearing up for Anchorage and the others are pursuing other exciting races such as the gnarly Mt. Washington race which includes 6ks of straight uphill! Teo Jackson will compete this weekend in the Rangeley Marathon, skiing 50ks of Rangelys toughest terrain. A time trial at Craftsbury with GMVS and CNSC will keep us ready for racing, these tend to get a bit intense we’ll have to keep you updated on that… for now heres a video of our sprint trails on campus! GO LIZ!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hey everyone! I hope you enjoy learning about our Program. We’ll try to keep you updated with what is going on in our busy lives.

This past weekend we all attended the last Eastern Cup races. We had some good results, Lucy G was third in the 5km skate, even with a fall near the finish. I finished 5 seconds in front of MWSC’s Fred Bailey, for the win. I was just barely able to hold him off on the last lap where he made up 15 seconds on me.

Sunday was not so hot for me. My skis were slippery and I was pretty sore and tired from the day before. The NE JO Team naming ceremony was that afternoon; Caitlin Curran and Corinne Prevot qualified for New England (Lucy and I auto qualified). It was a sad day for our teammates who did not qualify but we look forward to meeting them in Canada for the Canadian Nationals at Whistler. Dylan Pudiak will compete at JO’s for the Mid Atlantic region.

-ST

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