After a tough weekend on every front imaginable, the alpine team has rebounded with some solid days of training. When you start the season off with a 3rd place finish on a weekend, you always want to end up 3rd or better – a 4th place finish was a sort of kick in the teeth, [...]
Go Midd!
- Schedule Update: UNH Carnival: January 27 - 28 | UVM Carnival: February 4 -5 | Dartmouth Carnival: February 10 - 11 | Williams Carnival: February 17 - 18 | MIDDLEBURY CARNIVAL!!!! February 24 - 25 | NCAA Championships (Bozeman, MT) March 3 - 7 | US Nationals (Alpine) April 1 - 3 |
Alpine
UNH Carnival
Whoa, not sure if you office-dwellers felt how fast that week just went by, but we sure did! Tomorrow we hit the road again for week 2 of Carnival Season and it feels like Yesterday that we were leaving for Sunday River and the Bates Carnival. Yowzah! Time flies when you’re having fun and training [...]
Alumni Rule Skiercross
Speed….check. Jumps….check. Head-to-head racing…..check. Hedda Bernstein and Joey Swensson representing Middlebury in the Skiercross world……check. If you’re not familiar with what skiercross is, check out this wiki definition – Ski Cross (also known as Skiercross or Skier-X) is a type of skiing competition. It is based on the snowboarding discipline of boardercross. Despite it being [...]
Middlebury Ski Team Alumni and Friends of Skiing Reception Saturday February 25th, 6 pm
Save The Date: Middlebury Ski Team Alumni and Friends of Skiing Winter Carnival Reception You are cordially invited to join current Middlebury Ski Team members, as well as the coaching staff, in celebration of the Middlebury Winter Carnival. WHEN: Saturday, February 25th, 2012 6:00 p.m. WHERE: Two Brothers Tavern [...]
Pictures and Results From Bates
EISA SKIING BATES WINTER CARNIVAL 01/20/2012 TEAM SCORES 1. UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT UVM 1006.0 2. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE DAR 839.0 3. MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE MID 703.0 4. UNIV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE UNH 645.0 5. COLBY COLLEGE CBC 553.0 6. WILLIAMS COLLEGE WIL 537.0 7. BATES COLLEGE BAT 470.5 8. ST [...]
Strong Start at Bates
We are up early this morning (Sunday)and off to Stowe to race a Vermont Cup GS to be used as race prep for the UVM Carnival in a few weeks. I will include more details on the weekend later. But in short the team did a great job this weekend. The men secured second in [...]
Bates Carnival
Last night I could hardly sleep – not sure if I’m excited, anxious, or just plain nervous for the first carnival this weekend. As a ski racer you experience so many different emotions entering the first carnival series, but as a coach I never imagined that you’d get just as nervous, excited, pumped up, or [...]
GS training On the Allen.
It may have warmed up to the single digits today. Regardless… we fit in some early morning GS before the Martin Luther King Day crowds decended upon the Snow Bowl. Really it is good up there despite the lack of snow in town.
Sugarbush Training Day Video
no big deal, just another sweet video. don’t get too excited though, this is just an editing “warmup” – still workin out the kinks.
Nordic
More photos from UNH:
More photos from UNH. Thanks to Eddie Damon (Caroline’s Dad) for shooting these!
UNH Carnival Report
The second stop on the collegiate tour this week had us in Jackson, New Hampshire, one of the nicest places to ski around. Winter has been fickle in the East this year, but there was enough snow to pull off some racing and the crew at Jackson worked hard to get the most out of [...]
Partner Profile: Alpina Sports
We’ve enjoyed a partnership with Alpina Sports for many years. The iconic red boots grace many of our crew this year and all test skis and Middlebury team skis at Middlebury have NNN bindings. Many thanks to Alpina Sports USA for supporting our team with such a fantastic product.
Middlebury Ski Team Alumni and Friends of Skiing Reception Saturday February 25th, 6 pm
Save The Date: Middlebury Ski Team Alumni and Friends of Skiing Winter Carnival Reception You are cordially invited to join current Middlebury Ski Team members, as well as the coaching staff, in celebration of the Middlebury Winter Carnival. WHEN: Saturday, February 25th, 2012 6:00 p.m. WHERE: Two Brothers Tavern [...]
Bates Carnival: Day Two
The team returned on Saturday evening in a state that could only be described as happy, but not content. The folks at Rumford pulled together the same race courses and Saturday’s classic mass start (10k for both men & women) was tough and tightly contested. In the first race, the men skied in a tight [...]
USA Scores Bronze Medal at Youth Olympic Games: Middlebury’s Heather Mooney Skis 2nd Leg
First-year skier, Heather Mooney skied the second leg of the Youth Olympic Games relay, a mixed-biathlon / nordic skiing relay. Heather had a bit of a cold and soldiered through the effort. More photos and reports from the folks at the Stratton Mountain Team blog. Congrats to Heather and all of the Youth Olympic Games US [...]
Patrick Johnson Wins Opening Day of Bates Carnival as the Team Posts a Strong Start.
With the college season finally here, we settled into the first of six racing weekends. Soft, cold snow, the first we’ve seen since our Thanksgiving camp in West Yellowstone, made for a soft track and slow times today, but not for slow skiing. Patrick skied a flawless race coming from 10 seconds down on the [...]
STRIDE
Hilary Rich reports on some outreach work with the STRIDE foundation. Find out more about STRIDE here. On Mondays, some of the women’s team travels up to Bread Loaf to teach and ski with elementary school girls from Middlebury and Ription with the STRIDE Foundation. This week, Keely, Squirrel (Em Attwood) and myself trekked to [...]