On May 5th the New Haven River Anglers and the Middlebury Alpine Team will be hosting a Green Up Day event at the old Dog Team Tavern in Middlebury that coincides with Vermont Green Up Day. Come on out and help us clean up the New Haven River and the surrounding area to make Vermont [...]

Panther Fans are awesome! These young Panther Fans just happen to be Head Coach Stever Bartlett’s niece, Julia and his nephew, Kellan! To celebrate the NCAA win by the men’s team, Julia and Kellan skied every trail at the Middlebury College Snow Bowl. How AWESOME is that!!??! Thanks Julia and Kellan for getting psyched on [...]

as the boss man likes to say, “the hay is in the barn.” Go big, or go back to your dorm room. With big crowds and loud cheering, we’re going to have an awesome weekend. Here’s the line up: Aaron Robertson, Andrew McNealus, Bryan Shpall, Hig Roberts, Liam Mulhern, Nick Bailey, Christine Schozer, Katelyn Barclay, [...]

Spring semester has started and with that comes challenging class/training schedules. With a double session this week and likely a few next week we’re hoping to keep the gang on track to finish out strong in the regular carnival season. We’ve had some good miles on the race hills at the bowl in the last [...]

We hit up the Ross today – a little GS training with Dartmouth-like distances to get the gang ready. Beautiful weather, unreal snow conditions, and some gate building make me feel good about where we’re headed in the next few weeks.   Tomorrow the women’s team will race at Mt. Sunapee while the men’s team [...]

What a nail biting weekend of racing we had at the UVM Carnival! Overall scores were tight right down to the end of the day on Sunday. With 3 Individual wins between Patrick Johnson on the Nordic Team and Hig Roberts on the Alpine Team, Middlebury missed 2nd place by 6 points! We’ll take a [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]