NYSEF NORDIC KIDS FESTIVAL RESULTS 2014

Thanks to ORDA for a great venue and grooming for the 5th annual NYSEF NORDIC KIDS FESTIVAL! Many thanks to all the volunteers and High Peaks Cyclery for the prizes!

INDIVIDUAL SKATE RACE

SPRINT QUALIFIER RESULTS

PAINTBALL BIATHLON

ADK PAINTBALL BIATHLON SERIES POINTS 2014

Ellie 

 Van

Anya 

 Chris

Range Official Gabby watches over Conor (Mansfield Nordic Club) and Jesse (NYSEF)

Championships Recap 2014

NYSEF Nordic Team has been skiing fast in AK, NY and VT over the past 3 weeks. Read on for the 2014 championships recap:

Stop #1: Karl Eid Jumps and Kincaid Park, Anchorage, AK for the 2014 USSA Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Junior National Championships. Gabby Armstrong topped the podium to become the U17 Girls National Champion! Karl Schulz skied up from 15th place after the jumping portion to 6th in the Nordic Combined race, posting the fastest XC time for the 2nd year in a row. Karl teamed up with Miles Lussi in the team sprint and the boys hammered to earn 2nd place in the U17 class. Check out the NYSEF SJ & NC blog for a full trip report: http://www.nysef.org/ski-jumping/

Stop #2: Harriet Hollister State Park, Canandaigua, NY for the 2014 NYS Public High School State Meet. NYSEF athletes were competing for the Lake Placid High School and had solid results. Nina earned 2nd place in the 7.5 km freestyle race. Speedy 8th grader Scott Schulz cranked into 6th place in the boys 10 km skate race, with teammates Beckett Ledger in 29th place and Henry McGrew in 32nd.

Stop #3: Rikert Nordic Center,  Ripton, VT for the NENSA J2 (U16) Championships. Karl joined Team NY and grabbed 2 gold medals in the 5 km freestyle race and the sprint. Karl finished 2nd overall after 3 races. Results here: http://www.barttiming.com/XCski/j2f2014.htm

Stop #4: Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, VT for the 2014 USSA XC Junior National Championships. Result highlight of the week was Everett Sapp placing 5th in the U16 classic sprint, earning All-American status! Everett also finished 16th in the 5 km classic race. Royal McDonnell started off the week in 40th place in the U16 5 km classic race. He kept improving as the week went on to finish 22nd in the classic sprint and 17th in the mass start skate race. Nina Armstrong lead the Mid-Atlantic U18 girls in the 5 km classic race with a 20th place finish. She just missed the heats in the classic sprint, finishing 1.8 seconds out in 36th place. Lucy Hochschartner skied strong in her first Junior National appearance, placing 65th in the classic race, 54th in the classic sprint and working her way up from the back of the pack in the mass start freestyle race to place 55th. Anna Izzo skied consistent all week by placing 76th in the classic race, 73rd in the classic sprint and 68th in the freestyle mass start race. NYSEF alumni Maile Sapp (freshman at Harvard University) qualified 9th in the classic sprint and finished 17th after the heats were done. She missed moving on to the semifinals by a boot lunge with the girl in her quarterfinal who moved on by the lucky loser spot. Maile finished 21st in the U20 5 km classic race. Coach Marge skied roughly 20 km hard on classic race Monday testing kick wax for the kids throughout the day. Lowlight of the week was when Everett and Nina came down with the JN virus on Thursday...6 hours of throwing up and too many hours of being totally exhausted meant no mass start freestyle race on Friday. Particularly a huge bummer for Nina as the distance skate race is her premier event, but that's how ski racing goes and totally out of the athletes' control. All Mid-Atlantic athletes who got the sickness bug (9 in total) were able to rally and at least ski themselves around the relay course on Saturday. It may not have been a fast performance but at least they were back out on the trails. A beautiful week of skiing in Stowe and everyone is looking forward to Truckee, California in 2015! Results here: http://jn2014stowe.com/results

JN parade and opening ceremonies in Stowe

Lucy starting off the week in the classic race

Everett in the sprint qualifier 

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 Everett's semifinal heat

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 Everett's semifinal heat

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Maybe it was from the cheering squad...

(Fasterskier.com photo)

Or maybe just that Everett can stride up a hill like a speedy champ...watch out when he makes his move! 

(Fasterskier.com photo)

Boom...top 10 for Everett and All-American!

 Nina in the sprint qualifier

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Anna in the sprint qualifier

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Maile in the sprint qualifier

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Royal in the sprint qualifier

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Lucy and Coach Marge after the mass start skate race

Glenice and Maeve came over to Stowe to cheer on the team

Girls selfie (with Gavin who secretly wants to ditch the UNH ski team and come ski with NYSEF)

See athletes...coaches meetings are a real thing!

Mid-A wax trailer got a little decorating...rumor says it was from the High Plains Division...coincidence that NYSEF alumni/coach Pete Freire transferred to High Plains?

Mid-Atlantic Head Coaches Marge and Jason

Mid-AAllDayEveryDay 2014

(All Fasterskier.com photos used with permission - do not copy)

Stop #5: Mountain Top Inn & Resort, Chittenden, VT for the 2014 Eastern High School Championships. This event is a great way to finish out the race season. Top 20 boys and girls in grades 9-12 from Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts and New York compete in 4 races in 3 days! There are no U-age groups and everyone racing falls on the same set of results. NYSEF athletes really impressed all weekend. Nina kicked things off for the girls finishing in 9th place in the 5 km freestyle race on Friday afternoon. Gabby followed in 13th, Lucy in 30th and Anna in 45th. The boys were up next and Karl lead the way in 3rd place, followed by Royal in 36th, Everett in 51st, Henry McGrew in 88th and Beckett Ledger in 102nd. Saranac Lake Nordic athletes Bryce Hartman and Ethan Wood joined Team NYSEF for the weekend and finished 28th and 90th, respectively.

 Nina

Royal

Saturday brought the 7.5 km mass start classic race. NYSEF girls were seeded towards the front of the arrow and cranked the start position. It was awesome to see Nina cruise up the hill 20 feet in front of the field of 100+ girls with beautiful classic striding. Nina skied strong for a 6th place finish, with Anna improving to 22nd, Gabby in 23rd and Lucy in 39th. Everett got the random draw of the top seeded boys to lead out the mass start. Problem was, when the gun went off, Everett took a slip on the skis and went to the ground. With a quick rebound, he quickly got up and didn't cause a pile-up for the boys field (must have been the speedy skis from Coach Marge). But about a kilometer into the race, Karl got in a pile up, leaving him with a broken pole. Coach Marge got him a new pole (although still too short) and Karl worked his way back up through the field to place 63rd. Everett skied a strong race into 15th place with Royal following close in 27th. Henry finished in 80th, Ethan in 81st, Bryce in 86th, and Beckett in 101th.

 Girls mass start

Simply amazing!

Go Nina...out in the lead

Boys mass start

Everett (left row, 3rd skier back) and Royal (middle, making a move out of the track)

Karl

Everett

 Royal

 Henry

 

Beckett 

Karl getting a new pole mid-race

Broken boys post-race

Karl with his snapped pole and Everett with a bleeding chin from a fall

The afternoon race was a 1.2 km skate sprint on a hilly and twisty course. Nina hammered the course to finish 4th with sister Gabby in hot pursuit in 6th. Lucy (the surprise skate sprinter) landed in 19th place. Anna rounded out the girls in 48th place. Boys were up next and they decided they needed to put on a good show like the girls. Karl posted the top NY result of the weekend in 2nd, with Everett in 19th and Royal in 20th. Ethan moved up to 68th, Henry to 73rd, Bryce in 80th, and Beckett in 101th.

Highlight of the weekend was definitely the mixed gender, mixed technique relay on Sunday. NY Team #1 was fast with NYSEF skiers Nina (classic), Everett (classic), Gabby (skate) and Karl (skate) skiing on to the podium in 3rd! NY Team #2 was strong with Anna (classic), Royal (classic), Lucy (skate) and Liam (skate) from Queensbury High School finishing in 17th place out of 49 teams. Overall, an awesome weekend of racing for the team! Results here: http://www.barttiming.com/XCski/ehsc14.htm

Everett and Gabby relay tag

Royal and Anna relay tag 

 Karl skis the anchor leg into 3rd

Podium for Team NYSEF!

3rd place relay team

NYSEF girls Gabby, Anna, Nina and Lucy 

Mountain Top Inn & Resort

Coach Marge's home course

NYSEF NORDIC KIDS FESTIVAL

Link to event flyer: NYSEF Nordic Kids Festival 2014

Registration for the NYSEF NORDIC KIDS FESTIVAL here: https://www.alpinereg.com/EVENTS/store/XC.cfm 

Athletes who are competing both days need to register for each day individually. Online registration is strongly encouraged and closes Friday, March 21 at 9 am. Day of race registration is from 8-8:30 AM at the Olympic Ski Jumping Complex and is $25 per day.  

Age groups are based on birth year (see below). Saturday’s event will include a small K6 ski jumping hill for athletes to try on their XC skis. Sunday’s event will be the grand finale of the ADK Paintball Biathlon Series (skate technique)!

Volunteer sign-up here: https://www.alpinereg.com/xcVolunteers.cfm

See you in Lake Placid!

2013/2014 Age Groups: age (as of 12/31/13) birth year

U8 (Lollipopper): 0-7   (2006-2013)
U10: 8-9                         (2004-2005)
U12: 10-11                     (2002-2003)
U14: 12-13                     (2000-2001)
U16: 14-15                     (1999-1998)

Olympic Alumni Time

NYSEF caught up with alumni Annelies Cook before the winter ski season kicked off. She shared her athletic path and what it was like coming into the Olympic year:

Annelies welcome, thanks for chatting with us today.
You bet!

You speak fluent Dutch. What’s a fun phrase we need to learn? Well, yes. I guess I speak fluent “Children’s Dutch”. Try this out: Je bent een echte nageaapt. You’re a real aped!

Wow! We’ll have to use that. So--you’re hoping to qualify for your first Olympic Team this winter. How’s your preparation going?
It’s been going really well. Our team is super professional-- everyone is on board. We all get along really well. Training has been fun, simple--we’re not doing anything different, it’s just getting more focused and dialed in. It’s been really fun!

Is that at all overwhelming?
No, I think it’s fun. It’s not so much that you’d even start to get conceited about it or feel special, but for me it’s a unique experience because I haven’t really done it before. I can really understand if I’d been doing this before and it’d feel like, “Ugh… this again,” but for me it’s still new and I’m like, sure why not! 

How does going into an Olympic year feel different than going into any other season?
The biggest difference for me, and this could be different for Tim and Lowell, is that this is the first year that I’ve really received any attention for doing biathlon. Before, I was on the National team and it just wasn’t that big of a deal. Now all sorts of people are starting to get in touch--local magazines, NYSEF, the news channels, news networks from Park City-- it’s just a funny experience to have people care so much all of a sudden!

You said that you’ve kept your training good and simple. What sort of things are you working on with your coaches?
Right now it’s all about the details--simple things that can end up costing a lot of time. For me, shooting has been a big avenue where I can make huge improvements. If I can shoot four seconds faster per stage, that’s 8 or 12 seconds faster per race. Last year (in a World Cup in Antholz, Italy) I was 18th and I shared the same second with four other girls-- if I had been 10 seconds faster, I would have been top 10. So little things like that add up!

You have a really neat story with biathlon and cross country skiing. You made a really impressive return to the sport after being bumped from the national team. The following season you had some of your best results ever. Can you tell us about that?
Yup. So, I competed in biathlon throughout high school and was on the junior national team. I missed the 2006 Olympics, which was a reach for me--and after that IIwas burned out and went to college for 3 years with the idea of eventually returning to biathlon. I returned and made a huge bump up in training, maybe too big. It wasn’t the right fit at that time. I didn’t qualify for the National Team and my skiing was slow. I decided to give it one more year and trained for the season on my own. I went back to the basics and focused on things that worked for me in college (at the University of Utah). After that season I qualified to go to Europe, compete in World Cups, qualified for World Championships-- it was amazing.

Any superpower?
I’d love to fly. Flying would be pretty cool.

What makes biathlon the coolest sport ever?
It’s so darn hard to get right! Haha. You really have to put all these little pieces together. If you want to get to the top in biathlon and excel, it takes a long time. There’s always something that can go right in biathlon, and that keeps you coming back, yet there’s always something that goes wrong and keeps you from landing in the perfect place. It’s so easy to keep on trying and trying and working at it. So the one day where everything goes right-- it’s a magical feeling. And it doesn’t happen often!

Tell us a cool story from your NYSEF days.
We used to go up onto Heaven Hill and play capture the flag… these epic games! We’d split up, me, Tim, Lowell and all these little kids. We’d split up and play these wild games that would go on for hours. Tim and Lowell would have a minute to run and hide the flag, and then we’d be in the woods for what seemed like hours. I’d be crawling around on the ground an inch at a time because I’d get so nervous. And we’d all be covered in mud and war paint. I loved my NYSEF days!

Thanks Annelies and congrats on your first Olympic Games in Sochi! 

Annelies (center) teaches the next generation of NYSEF atheltes how to rollerski 

NYSEF HARRY ELDRIDGE CLASSIC RESULTS

It was a wild ride with hang tough ski racing today at the Olympic Jumping Complex! Good work by all the racers. Many thanks to the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA), High Peaks Cyclery, South Meadows Farm Maple Sugarworks and all the volunteers!

MEN'S RESULTS

WOMEN'S RESULTS

NYSEF Harry Eldridge Freestyle race has been canceled due to weather and course conditions

CLASSIC START LIST AND COURSE MAP

MEN'S START LIST

WOMEN'S START LIST

RACE SPLITTER DOWNLOADS
MEN
WOMEN

Upper portion of race loop from parking lot up open all day

Full race loop (including from ticket booth to stadium) open 10:30 AM - 12 NOON

Only ski in the direction of the race

Athletes must cross the race course by the ticket booth and walk down the access hill to reach the start and stadium area
 

CLICK MAP TO ENLARGE

NYSEF Harry Eldridge Race Weekend update

RACES ARE A GO AND WILL BE HELD AT THE OLYMPIC JUMPING COMPLEX

UPDATED SCHEDULE (1/9/14)

SATURDAY JAN 11 NYSEF HARRY ELDRIDGE JNQ CLASSIC
USSA NRL / Mid-Atlantic JNQ / New England out-of-region JNQ / NYSSRA Wilkinson Cup Series

Men's start 12:00 NOON 7.8 km Classic (individual start, 3 laps)
Women's start 1:30 PM 7.8 km Classic (individual start, 3 laps)

bib pick-up 10:30 AM-12 NOON

THERE IS NO DAY OF RACE REGISTRATION!
awards at approximately 3 PM

SUNDAY JAN 12 NYSEF HARRY ELDRIDGE JNQ FREESTYLE
Mid-Atlantic JNQ / NYSSRA Wilkinson Cup Series
changed to individual start
9:30 AM U16 Boys / U16 Girls 5.2 km Freestyle (individual start, 2 laps)
10:00 AM U18 / U20 / Men 10.4 km Freestyle (individual start, 4 laps)
10:30 AM U18 / U20 / Women 10.4 km Freestyle (individual start, 4 laps)

bib pick-up available until 10:30 am

THERE IS NO DAY OF RACE REGISTRATION!
awards at approximately 12 NOON

BKL Freestyle race to follow

LINK TO ONLINE RACE REGISTRATION (closes 1/9/14 at 9 PM):
https://www.alpinereg.com/EVENTS/store/XC.cfm

LINK TO LODGING: http://www.lakeplacid.com/stay

VOLUNTEER SIGN-UP HERE: https://www.alpinereg.com/xcVolunteers.cfm

Questions? Email Margaret at margm (at) nysef.org

NYSEF Season Opener 2013 Results

Athletes from NYSEF, SLU, Peru Nordic Masters, Team HURT and others kicked off the 2013/14 race season at the Olympic Jumping Complex. 4 laps x 1.5 km made for a deceivingly hard race. It was the college athletes who came out on top of the podium, with Elizabeth Izzo (UNH) and Austin Meng (SLU) grabbing the victories.

 

Men's Results

 

Women's Results

 

Thanks to ORDA for the awesome course!

 

Awards were donated by High Peaks Cyclery

 

Photos at NYSEF Nordic on Facebook

NYSEF Season Opener update

ATHLETES:
Please be aware that Lake Placid is under a “Winter Storm Warning” with the potential to receive 6-12 inches of snow tonight into the morning. If the conditions in Lake Placid warrant a race cancelation, the decision will be made by 7 am. Travel at your own discretion.

Lake Placid weather update:

http://www.weather.com/weather/today/12946

NYSEF Season Opener 2013 Race Details

DATE: Sunday, December 15, 2013

LOCATION: Olympic Ski Jumps

START TIME: 10:30 AM individual start (men followed by women)

DISTANCE: (roughly) 6 km for all racers

# OF LAPS TO SKI: 4 laps for all racers

TECHNIQUE: freestyle

DAY OF REGISTRATION ($30) / BIB PICK-UP: 8:30-9:30 AM at Olympic Ski Jumps base lodge 

AWARDS: following race at Olympic Ski Jumps base lodge

THERE IS NO BKL KIDS RACE

LINK TO RACE REGISTRATION:
https://www.alpinereg.com/EVENTS/store/XC.cfm
Online registration closes Saturday, December 14 at 3 PM
Pre-registration is strongly encouraged

Sign-up to volunteer here

QUESTIONS? email Margaret at margm (at) nysef.org

NYSEF Season Opener is a GO!

NYSEF Season Opener is on for this Sunday, December 15, 2013. A location will be determined on Thursday after the night snowfall. Choice #1 is Mt. Van Hoevenberg and Choice #2 is at the Olympic Ski Jumps on a 1.5 km loop (snowmaking).

Race details, online registration and volunteer sign-up will be posted on Friday morning - stay tuned!

Think snow!