NORDIC

NYSEF XC posts top 20 results at J2 festival and EHSC

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:59:00 +0000

NYSEF XC finished out the season with athletes racing at the Eastern J2 Festival in Plymouth, NH and at Eastern High School Championships in Rangeley, Maine.

J2 festival results
Boys 5 km freestyle
8. Joey Izzo (Lake Placid)
10. Nate Capone (Vermontville)

Boys 1 km freestyle sprint result
10. Nate Capone
12. Joey Izzo

EHSC results
Girls 5 km freestyle
13. Elizabeth Izzo (Lake Placid)

Boys 1.3 km classic sprint
17. Dan Stevens (Scotia)

Girls 1.3 km classic sprint
14. Elizabeth Izzo

Relay
8. NY team of Charlie Bencze (Tupper Lake), Elizabeth Izzo, Kevin Sprague (Queensbury), Danielle Winslow (Queensbury)

Boys 7.8 km classic mass start
12. Charlie Bencze

Girls 7.8 km classic mass start
18. Elizabeth Izzo

Mid-Atlantic BKL festival a success! with results!

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:31:00 +0000

It was a huge weekend at the Mackenzie Intervale Ski Jumps with over 110 skiers participating in the BKL Fest. The Ski Jumps also played host to Lion's Club Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Event on Sunday...

check out http://www.skijumpeast.com/ for Lion's Club results.

2009 Mid-Atlantic BKL festival results
Saturday sprint qualifier results BKL festival Saturday
Saturday sprint heat results BKL sprint heats
Saturday paintball biathlon results BKL festival paintball biathlon
Sunday skate results reposted 3/31 with updated J4 boys times
revised BKL festival Sunday
Sunday ski-orienteering results BKL festival ski-orienteering
Secretary's cup standings secretary's cup

Charlie Bencze races into 8th place at USSA Junior Olympics!

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:19:00 +0000

Charlie Bencze (Tupper Lake, NY) just kept getting faster as the week of racing unfolded at the USSA Junior Olympic in Truckee, California. He started off with a 16th place in the freestyle sprint on Monday, 13th in the mass start freestyle race on Wednesday, 8th place in the classic race on Friday and finished the week out with the 3rd fastest scramble leg in the J2 boys relay! Charlie earned All-America status with his 8th place finish. The Mid-Atlantic team had a fine week of racing.

Charlie (middle, bottom row) with the top 10 J2 boys in the country!

Link to Junior Olympic website with results and photos:
http://www.xcjuniorolympics2009.org/index.html

NYSEF on top of NYSSRA Nordic club series!

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:14:00 +0000

NYSEF Nordic finished out the NYSSRA Nordic club standings with 3,733 points from 165 athlete races this winter! Peru Nordic Masters finished in second with 2,984 points and Shenendehowa in third with 2,760 points.

Congrats to all athletes, link to final point standings:
http://www.nyssranordic.com/2008_09_Club_Series.htm

NYSEF's Demong takes Norway Cup with final World Cup Gold!

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:40:00 +0000

Iron-Bill Demong wrapped up his amazing World Cup season with a win in Vickersund, Norway.

For complete results check out www.usnoco.com

Congratulations Beru!

Eastern athletes medal at the SJ/ NC Junior Olympics in Anchorage, Alaska

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:29:00 +0000

Nina Lussi, Luke Daniels, Matt Cook, Miles Lussi and Zach Daniels on the COOK Inlet!

Pictured above, Zach Daniels of New Hampshire and the Eastern program flies through the Alaskan air in the Junior Olympic Team Event.

For complete results go to http://www.anchoragenordicski.com/

Billy Demong follows up his World Championships Gold with another Gold medal in Lahti, Finland as the World Cup Season wraps up!

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:17:00 +0000

NYSEF's Lowell Bailey grabs a top 20 at World Championships in Korea!

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:44:00 +0000

Congratulations to Lowell and Tim on their World Champ results!

For complete results go to www.fasterskier.com!

Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Empire State Games a Success!

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:18:00 +0000

All Podium Athletes: Point to the Hill that made you a Champion!

Empire State Games GLORY! K48 Gold

For Complete SJ/ NC Results go to http://www.skijumpeast.com/

BKL KIDS Classic Results

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:50:00 +0000

Download BKL Kids Classic Results, Sunday 2/22:
BKL KIDS CLASSIC RACE

start of the J5 boys and girls race!

NYSEF Ski Jumping Program returns to Historic Brattleboro, VT Competition!

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:08:00 +0000

Our weekend of Ski Jumping in Brattleboro, VT was full of firsts. But before we could even start jumping on the brand new jump, the hill crew had to make a huge effort to fight back against the warm weather of the days prior to the event. Dan "Mouse" Warner led a crew that bagged tons of snow, actually carried bags of snow, all day Thursday to make sure that we had our event. Not to mention all the efforts, for the months and years prior, to build this new jump.

The honor of taking the first jump went to local boy Spencer Knickerbocker on Friday morning. With the chants from many school children at the base of the jump, "Spencer, Spencer, Spencer..." He climbed out on the start and prepared himself for his biggest jump yet. The story of the first jump ever on a new ski j ump is always an interesting one. Spencer chose a high start and launched himself off the jump as many dozens of onlookers celebrated for him and with him. Spencer is the youngest person that i have known to ever "christen" a new Olympic size hill, so congrats Spency.

The events on both Saturday and Sunday were accompanied by near perfect weather...and a bunch of new hill records. The first official athlete was Jon Farnham and he set a record of 50 meters. Next up was Danielle Lussi and she set a mark of 60 meters before Tara Geraghty-Moats managed to jump in the high 80's. As the Jr. boys flung off the jump AJ Brown set a mark of 96.5 meters before Alex Madden, in the Sr. class, topped him with a 97.5 meter jump. By the end of the first trial jump the hill record was set at 98 meters and was claimed by Andrew Bliss and 2 of the visiting skiers from Slovenia and Austria.
After the competition was officially concluded the hill record was set and owned by the days winner from Austria Christian Reiter at 100.5 meters.
Andrew Bliss showed the best NYSEF performance and finished in 4th place with a long jump of 98.5 meters and a mere 1.5 points off the podium. USST member Davis Miller was 5th and Cooper Dodds finished 6th.
other NYSEF Athletes and alums: Willy Graves 9th, Alex Madden 11th, Pete Frenette 12th, colin Delaney 15th and Pete Freire 16th.

For the ladies...Tara Geraghty-Moats dominated the field on Saturday and won by 16 points over Karin Friberg 2nd, Nita Englund 3rd, Nina Lussi 4th and Danielle Lussi 5th

The Jr. boys class saw Zach Daniels from NYSEF and Northwood school finish 3rd while Brattleboro native Spencer Knickerbocker finished in 4th position.

On Sunday we had another perfect day for jumping and another record crowd came to watch the boys and girls jump far. In the Sr. class the same winner prevailed but the rest of the field was much more competitive. USST members Alex Miller and Willy Graves, and NYSEF skier Andrew Bliss were finished 3rd, 5th & 6th respectively. Alex Madden finishing in 8th and Cooper Dodds rounded out the top 10. The distances were for most of the athletes were longer today but the scores were tighter; Between Willy in 5th and Cooper in 10th the point spread was only 5.5 points.

Definitely a tougher challenge for the Girls and Jr. boys on Sunday as the podium shuffled around a little bit. Karin Friberg brought her A-game and finished on top today. Tara Geraghty-Moats finished 2nd, Nita Englund 3rd and the Nina and Danielle Lussi were 4th & 5th.
For the Jr. boys the young Slovenian managed to take home the win on both days but he was definitely pushed by Will Schott on Sunday who switched classes to try and take the title, but he came up just shy
and finished a couple meters behind in 2nd place. AJ Brown finished in 3rd place but had a hard time holding off NYSEF's Zach Daniels in 4th place who may have had his best ever K90 competition to date. Close behind was Spencer Knickerbocker who managed his longest jump of the weekend of 83.5 to finish in 5th.

The longest jumps of the weekend were definitely had by the crowd of athletes that participated in the target jump after the official competitions. On Day 1 we saw a memorable jump from Karin Friberg as she sailed way over the target to about 98 meters. During Sunday's Target Jump the mark was set farther down the hill at 97 meters. this made things much more exciting and we saw much longer jumps. Due to a 5-way tie there had to be an extra jump, and it was a great round. the winner of the target jump was the only guy that didn't out-jump the mark. Willy Graves soared down to about 100 meters and still celebrated for the crowd even though he knew he couldn't win. Alex Miller had the longest jump of the weekend when he went flying over the mark and landed a jump at 102 meters. These boys and girls really proved to the crowd, and to everyone else, that Harris Hill was a great new jump, it was in great shape and was set for a lot of years of long and exciting jumps.

Casey Colby

Trailblazer trip to Marcy Dam!

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:58:00 +0000

NYSEF XC's Trailblazer team loves to ski so much they spent Valentine's Day morning skiing into Marcy Dam! Great weather, good snow and smiles all around!

Grace, Georgia, Nina, Glenice, Anna and Margaret

Charlie Bencze gets on the podium at USSA Super Tour in Stowe

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:16:00 +0000

Charlie Bencze (Tupper Lake, NY) skied into 3rd place in the J2 boys USSA SuperTour/NE Eastern Cup frestyle race in Stowe, VT on Feb 7. Sam Cowan was 8th and Will Fieroh 18th in the J2 boys. Elizabeth Izzo finished a solid 10th and Kati Christoffel finished 27th in the J1 girls race. Willie Bencze was 39th in the J1 boys race. Maile Sapp (Morrisonville, NY) finished 16th in the J2 girls classic race.

Full results from the weekend at http://www.nensa.net/results/index.php?io_view=events&top_event_id=189&season=

Joey Izzo wins 25km Lake Placid Loppet!

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:45:00 +0000

Joey Izzo (Lake Placid, NY) had an impressive day winning the overall 25-kilmoter freestyle Lake Placid Loppet in 1:16:28.6. Teammates Douglas Osborne (Peru, NY) finished 2nd in 1:29:38.3 and Evan Greenberg (Saranac Lake, NY) finished 4th in 1:39:28.6 in the 13-17 year old category. Link to article http://adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/504903.html?nav=5010

With these results, NYSEF Nordic continues to sit in 1st place in the NYSSRA Nordic Club standing with 3,867 points. Peru Nordic Masters are in 2nd with 2,506 points and Shenendehowa is in 3rd with 2,452 points.

Joey cruising at the NYSEF JOQ

NYSEF XC athletes named to Championship Teams

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:24:00 +0000

Charlie leads the pack of J2 boys at the NYSEF Harry Eldridge JOQ, with teammate Sam in 3rd

Nate Capone racing in the Lake Placid JOQ

The Mid-Atlantic XC division concluded their Junior Olympic qualifying series in Old Forge, NY. 25 athletes were named to the 2009 Junior Olympic team traveling to sunny Truckee, CA March 7-15, the following 8 NYSEF athletes qualified:
J2 boys
Charlie Bencze (Tupper Lake, NY)
Sam Cowan (Lake Placid, NY)
Joey Izzo (Lake Placid, NY / qualified but declined spot for the Eastern J2 Championships)

J1 Girls
Elizabeth Izzo (Lake Placid, NY)
Kati Christoffel (Clifton Park, NY)

J1/OJ Boys
Dan Stevens (Scotia, NY)
Wayne Clark (New Paltz, NY)
Willie Bencze (Tupper Lake, NY)

NYSEF athletes qualified for the Eastern J2 Championships in Plymouth, NH
Charlie Bencze
Sam Cowan
Joey Izzo
Nate Capone (Vermontville, NY)
Will Fieroh (Paul Smith's, NY)

NYSEF athletes qualified for Eastern High School Championships in Rangeley, ME
Dan Stevens
Wayne Clark
Willie Bencze
Charlie Bencze
Sam Cowan
Joey Izzo
Nate Capone
Elizabeth Izzo
Kati Christoffel

Thanks to our Nordic sponsors

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000

Tri-Lakes Credit Union
http://www.trilakesfcu.com/

Contact Becky at beckyg@nysef.org for sponsor opportunities

NYSEF Harry Eldridge Freestyle Results

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:26:00 +0000

J2 boys results: J2 boys freestyle
J2 girls results: J2 girls freestyle

Women's 10 km freestyle: Women's freestyle
Men's 15 km freestyle: Men's freestyle

Congratulations to Carly Wynn (J1/Saratoga Biathlon/Queensbury, NY) and Doug Amos (J1/Stratton Mt School/Bondville, VT) for winning the overall junior titles for the combined classic and freestyle races. Both names will be engraved on the Harry Eldridge Memorial Cup.

BKL Kids Freestyle results: BKL results

Thanks for racing. Thanks to ORDA staff for stadium set-up and course. Thanks to all the volunteers.

Lost and found items: Swix warm-up pants and a pink polypro top. Email Margaret at margm@nysef.org to claim these items.

NYSEF Harry Eldridge Classic Results

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:08:00 +0000

Men's overall results: Men's overall classic results
Men's results by class: Men's classic by class results

Women's overall results: Women's overall classic results
Women's results by class: Women's classic by class results

Email Margaret at margm@nysef.org with questions.

NYSEF Harry Eldridge Race Weekend Info

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:07:00 +0000

SATURDAY JAN 24 HARRY ELDRIDGE CLASSIC
USSA NRL/Mid-Atlantic JOQ/ESGQ/NYSSRA Series
All racers 7.5 km classic (2 laps)
Download course map: Classic Harry Eldridge 3.75 Km
Download stadium layout: classic stadium layout

Men's start 12:00 noon, download startlist: Mens start list
Women's start 1:00 PM, download startlist: Womens start list

Day of race registration 10-11 AM. Bib pick-up until 11:30 AM. Day of race entries will be filled in at the end of the Men's and Women's start lists respectively. Awards at approximately 3:30 PM.

THERE WILL BE NO SKATING OR SKIING BACKWARDS ALLOWED ON COURSE ON SATURDAY.

SUNDAY JAN 25 HARRY ELDRIDGE FREESTYLE
Mid-Atlantic JOQ/ESGQ/NYSSRA Series
Download course map: Freestyle Harry Eldridge 5km
Download stadium layout: freestyle stadium layout

10:00 AM J2 Boys mass start 5km (1 lap)
10:30 AM J2 Girls mass start 5km (1 lap)
11:00 AM J1/OJ/Women mass start 10km (2 laps)
12:00 NOON J1/OJ/Men mass start 15 km (3 laps)

Day of race registration from 8-9 AM. Bib pick-up available until 10:30 AM. Awards at approximately 1:30 PM.

BKL Kids Freestyle race registration 1:15-1:45 PM in the biathlon lodge. $5 entry fee. 2 PM start. Lollipop 1/2 km, J5 2km, J3 3km, J3 4km.

THERE WILL BE NO SKIING BACKWARDS ALLOWED ON COURSE ON SUNDAY.

Email Margaret at margm@nysef.org with questions.

NYSEF XC Harry Eldridge race registration

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:00:00 +0000

Race and volunteer registration for the NYSEF XC races Jan 24-25 available at http://nysef.org/nordic.htm
PLEASE PRE-REGISTER, THIS WILL HELP MAKE FOR FAIR SEEDING IN THE STARTS. Online registration closes Wed 1/21 at 10 PM.

BKL race to follow on Sun Jan 25 (day of race registation only)

The Golden Arrow Lakeside Resort in Lake Placid is offering a special rate of $129 per night for racers. Call (800) 582-5540 to make a reservation and ask for the NYSEF Harry Eldridge rate.
http://www.golden-arrow.com/

Billy Demong takes GOLD in Vancouver!

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:33:00 +0000

NYSEF Ski Jumping Program competing in Europe

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:04:00 +0000

NYSEF Elite Ski Jumping Coach Casey Colby has been in Europe with NYSEF athletes Andrew Bliss and Peter Frenette.

Update from Casey...

Well, the really good news this weekend is Nick Fairall. he has found his ski flying ability very quickly. his first ski flying competition ever and he earned his first world cup points ever. it was awesome to watch. and he was so close to a top-20, just a little bobble over the knoll cost him probably 20 meters... but he got 15 world cup points this week in the hardest event i have seen a long time. the top 3 and sometimes the top 5 are so far ahead of everyone, it is awesome to watch them jump.

at the FIS cup in Harrachov things were not so celebratory, but i think the boys learned a lot of things, hopefully. this event was hard, keep in mind that alexander and mike both got COC points last week in GER, and they also had a tough time equaling those results in this FIS Cup weekend. very impressive jumps by the winners. the first day everyone jumped as if they were walking a tightrope. i don't know why they tense up so much during the comp rounds when the mood before the comp is so light and cheerful. that's a puzzle for us all to figure out.

Brian Wallace had great trial jumps, best jumps of the trip for him, both over 80 meters. but then his comp jumps weren't quite as good for timing and he landed in the 50's. he is soaking it all in and its good that he is seeing what this level of jumping is like.

Pete Frenette was getting better every session, even every jump... his official training and trial jumps were 86-88, right around the top-30 cut. but his comps jump were trying to jump so hard that his technique just collapsed on one jump and just a slight miscue in direction on the 2nd jump. he finished in the high 30's, about 5 meters from the cut.

blake hughes had a decent first comp and a bad 2nd comp, he tries to jump so fast that any break in technique is seriously magnified. he finished 30th the first day and 32nd today and his jumps have been 89.5 & 86 87.

andrew Bliss definitely tried too hard to kill the take-off on a couple of his jumps. it was easy to see how tense he was in the air... when he knows he is the top skier he is so relaxed, but when he has to work for it or depend on a really good jump just to make the top-15 then he tries too hard... 2 jumps of 89 put him in 28th the first comp and in tougher conditions today he had a good trial of 91 then a little short of K for the comp put him in 28th again. he certainly knows exactly what the answers are to gain 10-12 spots so we'll see if he relaxes for the next event.

Nick alexander is not on his game right now, even after his best COC finish ever last week. 23rd & 21st this weekend; but i don't think he is taking these events seriously because he may see it as a step down from the COC events. he jumped 91 & 92.5, 88 and 92... but he surely needs to treat these comps as the real deal...because they are. there are a lot of good jumpers here, many JWC competitors are here i think.

Mike Glasder was the best this weekend, he was 17th both days with jumps around 92 & 93. his trial jump on saturday was one of the best of the day for all the competitors. with 2 good jumps mike is a contender for top-5. just a small change in his direction in the comp and he lost 4-6 meters that cost him dearly. Mike definitely has the best attitude on the jump, most focused and relaxed approached and the most confidence of the group right now, he is a good leader this week.

but all the cheers went to Fairall this week, he did a great thing at his first ski flying event. other than his best ever result, the world cup points and the perma-grim on his face; he also made it possible for all their world cup travel to be paid for from now on for a coach and 2 athletes. so instead of spending all that money on travel, room & board from their own pocket... they get it paid for now when they are at the world cup level.

and for you parents... the boys are spending much less money than you all budgeted for. i think R&B has cost them 130 Euro total so far for Tue night thru sat afternoon.

We just arrived in Oberwiesenthal GER for some training. a couple days of jumping then we head to Lauscha for the events this weekend.
hope all is well.
casey

A cold classic race in Tupper Lake!

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:39:00 +0000

Link to results from Tupper Lake ESG:

http://nyssranordic.com/word_press/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/tupper_lake_results_11009.pdf

Congrats to Elizabeth Izzo and Charlie Bencze for claiming the overall scholastic wins!

Link to Tupper Lake BKL results:
(please note the J5 times should all have 10 minutes subtracted from their time)
http://nyssranordic.com/word_press/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/bkl_tupper_lake_results_11009.pdf

Ethan Wood (Saranac Lake) racing to third place in the J5 boys class.

Glens Falls JOQ recap

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:36:00 +0000

NYSEF XC had a strong showing in the second Mid-Atlantic Junior Olympic Qualifier on Saturday in Glens Falls. Dan Stevens (Scotia) was 3rd in the OJ class and 5th overall. Charlie Bencze (Tupper Lake) took the J2 boys win and 8th overall. Elizabeth Izzo was 3rd in the J1 class and 4th overall.

OJ boys
3. Dan Stevens (Scotia)
4. Wayne Clark (New Paltz)

J1 boys
4. Willie Bencze (Tupper Lake)
16. Doug Osborne (Peru)

J2 boys
1. Charlie Bencze (Tupper Lake)
3. Sam Cowan (Lake Placid)
5. Joey Izzo (Lake Placid)
8. Nate Capone (Vermontville)
18. Will Fieroh (Paul Smith's)

J3 boys
4. Evan Greenberg (Saranac Lake)

J1 girls
3. Elizabeth Izzo (Lake Placid)
4. Kati Christoffel (Clifton Park)
9. Danielle Lussi (Lake Placid)

J3 girls
1. Maile Sapp (Morrisonville)
4. Anna Izzo (Lake Placid)

Link to full results: http://nyssranordic.com/word_press/

Will Fieroh on the final climb.

Charlie Bencze racing to victory in the J2 boys class.

Trailblazer ski out to Porter Mt loops!

noreply@blogger.com (NYSEF NORDIC) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:20:00 +0000

Trailblazer Team hit up the trails on a rainy day for a long trek out to Porter Mt loops at Mt. Van Hoevenberg!