On Saturday, Jan. 29, the Summit Tigers Nordic ski team traveled to Minturn to compete in its second state qualifier of the season. The Tigers had their first state qualifying skate-style Nordic race Jan. 21,.
At the Gold Run Nordic Center on the afternoon of Friday, Jan. 21, conditions couldn’t have been better for a Nordic race as Summit High School hosted their first and only home meet of the.
Nordic ski legend Jon Kreamelmeyer is thankful for the Summit County community, which he said contributed to saving his life recently. “My wife, Claudia, and I want to send out a heartfelt ‘thank you’ to.
Photo from Summit Nordic Ski Club
Summit Nordic Ski Club head coach Olof Hedberg spoke from Soldier Hollow Nordic Center in Midway, Utah, on Saturday, March 13, in the same situation but with a far different experience as last year.
It was on the Thursday afternoon in Soda Springs, California, 12 months ago when Hedberg and Summit Nordic skiers rushed home to Summit County after the cancellation of the remainder of the week’s Cross Country Skiing Junior Nationals. The cancellation was a part of U.S. Ski & Snowboard’s decision to cancel all remaining domestic events due to coronavirus concerns.
“Last year at this time, I was standing in a trailer packing up our stuff,” Hedberg said. “The races ended right there, right then. Since then, it’s been 12 different months.”
Photo by Olof Hedberg
Summit Nordic Ski Club head coach Olof Hedberg said this past weekend at the Raoul Willie Memorial cross-country ski races in Aspen was one of the greatest ever for the club.
The team’s several standout individual performances were led by 15-year-old Nina Schamberger’s eye-opening results racing against some of the world’s best cross-country skiers. At Friday’s skate-sprint heats, the Leadville resident Schamberger raced against the best American and international women U-18, U-20, U-23 and senior division athletes on the 1.4-kilometer course.
After advancing in the group of top-30 finishers out of the initial race, Schamberger advanced all the way to the final round of heats. In that race, her time of 4 minutes and 8.25 seconds was the best American time in the heat, behind only race winner and University of Utah skier Julia Richter of Germany (4:03.34) and University of Utah skier Karianne Moe of Norway (4:05.95).