Jr High Championships on Saturday, Feb 2

The North Star Conference Meet tomorrow at Maplelag has been cancelled.

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Regional Junior High Championship Nordic Ski Race 

When: Saturday, February 2 at 10 am
Where: Forestview Middle School, Baxter
Who: 6th-9th graders who are not be on the Section team

Starting Format: Freestyle and Classic races will be interval starts of 4 skiers per 15 seconds with a double pole start across a field.
Distance: Approximately 4 km freestyle and 4 km classic races on the same course.
Sprints: Sprint relay races will include teams of 3 skiers skiing 1 km each.

Schedule: 

• 9:00 Volunteer Meeting 
• 9:30 Coaches Meeting 
• 10:00 Girls Classic Ski 
• 10:40 Boys Classic Ski 
• 11:45 Fun event skiing 
• 1:00 Girls Freestyle Race 
• 1:40 Boys Freestyle Race 
• 2:30 Freestyle Sprint Relay Races
• 3:30 Awards 

Awards: Ribbons will be awarded to boys and girls by grade level, first through seventh place, in the Freestyle and Classic races. Edible prizes for sprint relay races.

Location of Trails: Forestview Middle School-12149 Knollwood Drive, Baxter

**Concessions will be available**

Little Falls Invite: Results & Photos

It was a beautiful day for our home meet at Camp Ripley! There were about 700 skiers out to enjoy the new snow and preview the Section course. Thank you to all of the volunteers who made the meet a success!


Meet Results
Brainerd Dispatch Coverage
Photos

Skinnyski Round 3 Rankings currently have the Cathedral-Sartell boys team ranked #1 in the state. We've got some tough competition in our Section!

Camp Ripley Meet - Jan. 23

            THE MEET IS A GO FOR WEDNESDAY!

If you're planning on coming out to watch the meet at Camp:
    1) You need to have a valid ID in order to get past the main gate.
    2) You'll need about 30 minutes to get from the main gate to the race area.
    3) You can get a map at the main gate if you need instructions to get to the course

Teams:  Alexandria, Apollo, Bemidji, Brainerd, Cathedral-Sartell, Detroit Lakes, Little Falls, Moorhead, Mora, Fergus Falls, St John’s Prep, Tech, TrekNorth, Willmar

Race Schedule:

• 10:00 AM & 1:30 PM Varsity Boys Pursuit (5k)
• 10:45 AM & 2:15 PM Varsity Girls Pursuit (5K)
• 11:30 Continuous wave start for JV boys and then JV girls (5k)
• 12:15 Mass Start Jr. High Boys (3K)
• 12:45 Mass Start Jr. High Girls (3k) 

**Middle School students should not even go to the middle school. Go directly to the ski room in the morning or walk over when you get off the bus. 

Parents will be providing some food for the kids to share at the team table and there will also be concessions to purchase.

Section T-Shirts - Orders due Tuesday

The Section meet is coming up quickly and the T-shirt order needs to go in next Wednesday morning. If your skier wants to order a shirt, their order will need to be turned in on Tuesday. Very sorry for the short notice! If you don't have easy access to a printer, just write the info on a piece of paper with your skier's name and send it to school. Otherwise, you can print the order form by clicking on the image below.

Alexandria Invite Results

The meet in Alexandria was all classic skiing, from Varsity down to Junior High. Jackson won the boys event where the team finished third, and Katie took second for the girls who had a second place finish as a team as well. Congrats everyone and good luck on your finals!

Brainerd Dispatch Coverage
Varsity Boys Results
Varsity Girls Results
JV Girls Results
Jr High Boys Results
Jr High Girls Results

**Parents, please check your email  for info about our home meet next week!**

Alexandria Meet & Other Updates

Monday: Team Meal & Waxing
Tuesday: Alexandria Meet
Friday: Team Meal CANCELLED
Saturday: Bemidji Meet CANCELLED

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Alexandria Invitational

Where: Andes Tower Hills
Date: Tuesday, Jan. 15
Time: 3:00 pm

Busses will leave MOLS at 12:05, LFCMS at 12:15, and LFCHS at 12:30

Schedule: 

• 3:00   Boys JH
• 3:30   Girls JH
• 4:00   Boys JV
• 4:30   Girls JV
• 5:00   Boys V
• Girls V will start right after boys V

Format: There will be wave starts. Start intervals will be dependent on the number of entries per race. 

Awards: Top 10 for each race

Scoring: Webscorer 

Parking: Andes has a large enough parking lot to accommodate all spectators. 

DL Invite Results & Photos

Varsity girls placed 4th today at Maplelag, with Katie in the top 5. Varsity boys finished 2 points behind Bemidji for 2nd place, with Colton Y, Jackson, Mac, and Colton G in the top 10. Great races from our JV and JH athletes as well!

Brainerd Dispatch Coverage
Official results
Photos

Skinnyski has also released their Round 2 Rankings today. Click HERE

Next week:
  * Monday - team meal, waxing, parent meeting in the HS commons at 5:30ish to plan for our
                        home meet at Camp Ripley on Jan 24
  * Tuesday - meet at Andes

D.L. Invite - Jan 10th

Where: Maplelag Resort, 30501 Maplelag Rd, Callaway, MN
When: Thursday, Jan 10
Time: 10:30
Schedule: 

• 6:45am Load Bus
• 7:00 am Bus Leaves
• 10:00am Coaches meeting
• 10:30am Boys Varsity* 
• 11:30am Girls Varsity*
• 12:30pm Boys JV
• 1:00pm Girls JV
• 1:45pm Boys JH
• 2:15pm Girls JH

* The Varsity race will be a continuous pursuit, starting with classic style and a quick change to skate at the halfway point of the race. The skiers may have assistance in the change over process. If skiers use the same set of skis for both the classic and skate race, the skier must step completely out of the ski binding in the ski transition area before they will be allowed to continue the next leg of the race.

Varsity: Wave Start depending on numbers. Each leg of the race will be roughly 4.5 km in length.
Jr. Varsity: 5 km Freestyle race. Mass Start.
Jr. High skiers: 3-4 km Freestyle race. Mass Start.

Ribbons will be given out to the top 10 skiers in each race. Jr High Race ribbons will be handed out at the finish.

Top four skiers from each team will be counted for a team score. Adding the times of the skiers will be used as the tiebreaker.

Skiers should bring: 

• Skis, boots, poles
• Lunch (We have some food left from the meet this weekend, but not a lot. Bring your own food too.)
• Water and/or Gatorade
• Uniform
• Dry clothes/layers
• Homework..its a long day.

Mesabi East Results

Congratulations to all of the Flyers who skied at Mesabi East today. We had some very strong finishes!

Varsity Girls finished 25th out of 55 teams
Varsity Boys tied for 13th, out of 53 teams
JV Girls finished 29th out of 44 teams
JV Boys finished 18th out of 48 teams

You can view all the results HERE.
Brainerd Dispatch coverage

Coming up next week: Team meal on Wednesday & Maplelag meet on Thursday.

Mesabi East Invitational

The Mesabi East Invitational will be held at Giants Ridge in Biwabik tomorrow. The classic race starts at 11:00 and the skate race at 1:30. There are over 900 athletes registered for the event from throughout Minnesota, and some out of state teams too.

You can view the start list HERE and watch live results as the skiers cross the finish line.

Good luck to all of the Flyer skiers!