St. Olaf Nordic Team

We’re back with more results! It’s been a busy interim and start to second semester for us, especially as racing ramped up. After our first weekend at Wirth, some of us kicked off interim break with the Minnesota College Championships skate relay race up at Snowflake in Duluth. Our men’s teams took 2 nd (Nels, Leif, and Jake) and 8 th (Graham, Mitchell, and Jeremy) and the women were 3 rd (Piper, Laura, and Nora) and 5 th (Shelby, Allie, and Amy), and Liza was a champ and raced the scramble leg with unfortunately no team to tag off to – so really, she was the first across the line by over half an hour! Some of these skiers then headed up to Ironwood, Michigan for an intense four-day training camp to get on snow, since the cities were pretty bare.  Allie braving the cold at Conference (photo courtesy of Mrs. Brown) Amelia cruising over the top of a hill at Wirth (photo courtesy of Mrs. Brown) Teamwork! Amy and Shelby at Conference (photo courtesy of

This past weekend we spent racing The Mayor's Challenge in our own stomping grounds at Wirth Park! We brought a large crew of skiers, racing some or all of the Friday/Saturday/Sunday races! Temps dipped über-low, but the show had to go on (after some coercion and chanting from unhappy college coaches - no, Tom was not the ring leader, he kept his cool)! With "grace and grit" as Coach Tom would say, everyone had fun racing and enjoyed our last time racing at Wirth Park for the season! Laura holding up the pack in Sunday's heats of the sprint race. Shelby rounding the corner at the sprint race. Allie in Sunday's sprint heats. With regionals in Ishpeming, MI next weekend, we are gearing up for the third week of the semester, trying to staying healthy before Regionals and USCSAs! Racers for regionals are: Leif, Mitchell, Jake, Nels, Nora, Shelby, Amy, Allie & Piper. Racers for USCSAs are: Leif, Mitchell, Nels, Nora, Shelby, Piper & La