The most important regular-season events this year are the four sets of NCAA qualifying races that will determine which 11 women and nine men will participate in the NCAA Championships March 11-14 in Rumford, Maine.
The Americans struggled on the jumps Sunday in a DKB FIS Nordic Combined World Cup in Val di Fiemme.
The White Pine Stampede invested in a new groomer, has online registration, and a big party on Saturday night for skiers and volunteers.
Hanson Hills/Cross Country Ski Shop put it all all down on the snow, walking away with six out of nine podium finishes at the Michigan Cup Team Time Trial at Hanson Hills.
Billy Demong (Vermontville, NY) just missed the podium finishing fourth in a mass start Saturday as the DKB FIS Nordic Combined World Cup opened a two-event weekend in Val di Fiemme.
Yeah, it is cold. Yeah, the races are postponed, cancelled, held in chilly conditons. Yeah, it isn't perfect. But when the gun goes off all that doesn't matter. Someone will win the race no matter how crazy the lead up or how strange the circumstance.
The US Relay team of Lowell Bailey (Lake Placid, NY), Jay Hakkinen (Kasilof, AK), Tim Burke (Paul Smiths, NY), and Jeremy Teela (Anchorage, AK) posted their best result of the season this evening with an 11th place finish.
After five of nine qualifying races, the 20 spots allotted to the NCAA’s Central Region for the 2009 NCAA Cross Country Ski Championships are being heavily contested.
More photos from the Chestnut Valley Freestyle
Please use these results to make sure you have the appropriate age classification and correct finish results
Results from the Timber Ridge Classic Sprints held in Traverse City on Wednesday, January 7, 2009.
Photos from the 2009 Boyne Highlands 10K Classic race on January 4, 2009