Club Officers 2009-2010

About the Club

Carleton Nordic Skiing Club is primarily a team of people who enjoy cross country skiing and racing at a competitive level. We train in the Fall and Winter. There is currently no full-time coach. To be a part of the club you need only limited prior experience but you will need your own equipment. We also hold free workshops, a fun ski race, and invite anyone interested to join us and start loving snow!

2009-2010 Roster

Samantha Thompson

Nina Whitney

Johanna Fierke

Anne Doering

Peter Wilton

Sara Patton

Ben Tyler

Francesca Chubb-Confer

Dia Davis

Anne Fure-Slocum

Amanda Hund

Sara Prather

Anne Triest

Julia Schwartz

Rose Hyson

Ryan Skinner

Jojo Schmidty

Max Strand

Kim Bauer

Sameena Ahmed

History

Nordic Skiing at Carleton has existed continuously since at least 1939! It used to be a combined alpine and nordic team which separated in the early 70's. The Nordic has been extremely competitive in past decades, producing many olympic prospects and nationally ranked skiers. It has alternated between varsity and club status a couple times during its existence. In 2001-2002 the administration decided to cut the varsity team without consulting or informing its coach or members before-hand. In that same year
plans were unveiled to build a new art gallery and synchronized swimming became varsity. Several skiers transferred away from Carleton and many potential students interested in racing withdrew their applications or did not accept. The team survived as a club the next year, organized almost entirely thanks to the work of Nate Scott with help from a few of the former members. This past winter of 2003/2004 the team did very well by gaining 10 new members and competing in 8 different races.

Nordic Ski 2009

On the weekend of January 10-11, sixteen cross-country skiers from Carleton competed in the 24 Hours of Telemark (24T), one of the nation's only 24-hour cross-country ski races. Held at Telemark Resort in Cable, WI, 24T is a 24-hour race for soloists and relay teams of 2-6 skiers. Beginning at 10 AM Saturday and ending at 10 AM Sunday, Carleton skiers skied a total of 1000 km on the hilly 5 km race course.

Team "Git Off My Lake Again" (Anneli Doering '10, Camille Hommeyer '12, Julia Schwarz '10, Sam Thompson '11, Sara Patton '10, and Rose Hyson '11) won 1st place in the "24 Hour Six Chix" category, with 245 km skied. Team "Thing 1" (Mikaela Robertson '09, Amanda Hund '10, Emma Sando '09, and Dia Davis '12) won 3rd place in the "24 Hour Women 4" category, with 240 km skied. 1st Place in the "24 Hour Coed 4" category was won by team "Thing 2" (Johanna Fierke '12, Francesca Chubb-Confer '12, Nina Whitney '12, and Mark Hagemann '10), with 220 km skied. Hannah Specht '09 and Peter Wilton '10 won the "24 Hour Duo Open" category with 300 km skied.

On Saturday, January 17 more than 30 Carleton skiers competed in the 2009 edition of the Crazy Carleton Classic Relays. A great variety of costumes, including wetsuits, super-heroes, garden gnomes, and bathrobes, could be seen zooming by as teams of three tagged off to one another after completing their leg of the 3.4 km course. Course conditions were great thanks to the generosity of the St. Olaf groundskeeping staff, who coordinated with Carleton groundskeeping to groom the course in a pinch. This year's winners, Kate Meyer '09, David Smith '09, and Hannah Specht '09, won the race in 49:08. The award for best costume went to the very convincing garden gnomes Sarah Hund, Amanda Hund '10, and Julia Bradley '10.