The Next Few Meets...

We had to cancel our meet at Camp Ripley on the 18th. There hasn't been enough snow for them to get their groomers out yet this year.

The tentative plan for this week is to send Varsity to Detroit Lakes on Thurs (Jan 14), and JV and Jr High to St Johns that same day.  If St Johns cancels, most skiers will go to DL.  Info is posted below for both meets.

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What: Detroit Lakes Invitational
When: 10:30 am Thursday January 14th 2016
Where: Maplelag Resort, Callaway, MN

Skiers should pack their own lunch.  Concessions will not be available to skiers.

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. 
• Each leg of the race will be roughly 5k in length.

JV skiers will ski a 5k classic race.
Jr. High skiers will ski a 3-4k classic race.

10:00   Coaches meeting
10:30   Boys Varsity
11:30   Girls Varsity
12:30   Boys JV
1:00     Girls JV
1:45     Boys JH
2:15     Girls JH

• 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. 
• The 5th skier will be used for a tiebreaker.

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What:  St. John’s Prep PBJ Ski Race

When:  Thursday, January 14, 2016

Where:  St. John’s Arboretum  

Team camps will be in the Field House hallway. Indoor bathrooms and concessions will be available.  All races are freestyle (skate).

Schedule: 

2:00  Coaches Meeting

2:30  JH boys – mass start 3k

2:45  JH girls – mass start 3k

3:15  JV boys – wave start 5k

3:35  JV girls – wave start 5k

3:55  Varsity boys– wave start 5K

4:15  Varsity girls – wave start 5K

Scoring: 

Top 4 skiers from each school combine to make the team score. 

Awards: 

Johnnie Bread/PBJ for 1st Place girls & boys varsity teams 

Johnnie Bread for top 5 finishers in each race.  

Brownies for places 6 – 10.

Mesabi East Invitational Results

Our team got in late last night after a cold day at Giants Ridge and a long bus ride back.  There were 66 teams skiing this year and ours did great!! Results are:

Girls Varsity: 13th
Boys Varsity: 24th
Girls JV: 11th
Boys JV: 10th

Full team and individual results can be found HERE.

The Mesabi Daily News has an article, but it's mostly focusing on Range skiers.  Brainerd Dispatch wrote about our local skiers.  SkinnySki's recap is:

Crisp temperatures and near perfect conditions on the Minnesota State Meet courses provided a great test for the field of 950 skiers at the Mesabi East Invite at Giants Ridge Saturday. Anders Sonnesyn, Wayzata, strided to the boys top classical time, just three seconds ahead of Ely's Seth Prigge with Joe Rauzi, Duluth East, just another second back. The Northern girls dominated the classic field as Hannah Bettendorf, Proctor/Hermantown, Erika Fox, CEC, and Erin Bianco, Ely, filled out the podium. In the afternoon skate races, just three seconds separate the award winners as William Kerker, Mpls Southwest, finished first with Jack Christianson, Mounds View, second and Mitch Delong, Copper Country (MI) third. Amanda Kautzer, Benilde-St.Margarets, proved to be the queen of freestyle as she posted a victory margin over 38 seconds over Stillwater's Rana Kraftson, followed by Duluth East's Sophie Farrow. Team titles went to the Wayzata boys and Duluth East girls.

Mora Invite Results

Seemed like everyone had a lot of fun at Mora on Tuesday night!  It was definitely a different experience with a flat course and night skiing.

St. Cloud Times and Brainerd Dispatch each have brief article and SkinnySki has posted results for Varsity, JV, and JH.

Good luck to the 19 skiers heading up to Giants Ridge on Friday for the Mesabi East XC Invitational!  Anyone interested in checking on the team on Saturday can view results in realtime HERE.

Mora Meet UPDATE

The earlier you get the meet info, the more likely it is to change!  :)  Here's the update:

There has been a significant change to tomorrow's schedule of races due to the deterioration of trail conditions.  For Varsity they've decided to run a series of 1k sprints instead of a mass start evening race.  These sprints will be started at about 4:30 so skiers who are planning on riding the minibus (leaving after school) with Joe will not be able to ski Varsity.  The JV race is scheduled for the evening instead.  

Bus times:

Big bus leaves at 1:45 from the High School

Minibus leaves at at 3:15 from the High School

New Race Schedule:

Fast-Track	4:00
Round 1: 10 heats	4:15
Jr High Boys	4:45
Jr High Girls	5:05
Round 2: 12 heats	5:25
JV- Boys	6:00
JV- Girls	6:30
Round 3B: 4 heats	7:00
B Final- Boys and Girls	7:15
A Final- Boys and Girls	7:25

Alexandria Invite: Results and Photos

Cold, windy, hilly, and a great day of skiing for the Flyers at Andes today!  Hunter Zupko took another first place for in the boys race and the boys team placed 3rd overall out of the 9 teams there. Amelia Kresha took 2nd in the girls race, just one second behind the top finisher.  We had 5 girls in the top 10, all 8 in the top 20 and a first place for the girls team.

Varsity, JV, and JH results are posted on SkinnySki

Photo Album I

Photo Album II

Brainerd Dispatch Article