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Where do you want to ski this weekend?
In a normal winter, a question like that would raise a lot of possibilities. By my count, there are at least 22 ski areas within a reasonable day trip by car less than a two=hour drive. These include the biggest areas in the East like Killington, Okemo and Whiteface, down to small, mainy teaching slopes like Maple Ski Ridge and Willard.
But this isn’t a normal ski year. The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed lots of new rules governing where and when you can go, from quarantine regulations on out-of-state travel to often mysterious capacity limitations just about everywhere.
Mayfield’s Relyea signs National Letter of Intent to run at UConn | The Daily Gazette
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February 25, 2021
Mayfield s Madison Relyea, center, signs her National Letter of Intent to compete at UConn as her mother, Kara, and father, Chris, watch Thursday.
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MAYFIELD As Madison Relyea looked for her college home, it found her.
The Mayfield senior three-sport athlete who runs in the fall and spring and is a state champion Nordic skier in the winter signed her National Letter of Intent Thursday, committing her to the University of Connecticut, after cross country coach Lindsay Crevoiserat reached out to her last fall.
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Mayfield girls, Queensbury boys open Nordic ski season with wins | The Daily Gazette
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Mayfield s Fianna Halloran powers her way to the finish line at Cole s Woods Wednesday in the opening Nordic ski invitational of the year. (Stan Hudy)
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GLENS FALLS When Winter Storm Gail brought more than 30 inches of snow to some places in the greater Capital Region earlier this month, Section II Nordic skiers rejoiced.
Then, warmer temperatures and rain dampened their spirits and left them scrambling to find a suitable course for Wednesday’s season-opening Shenendehowa/Saratoga Invitational.
“We were so excited because we went so long into December with no snow and then we got all that,” Mayfield senior Delaney LaFontaine said.
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No, not the blizzard last week that has all our areas open for business for the holidays.
(But that is a good one.)
Instead, it was tiny Mayfield, led by state champion Madison Relyea, winning the Section II girls’ cross country championship last February, beating a field of rivals from schools with much larger enrollments. Remember the film about the small school in Indiana beating all the bigs to win the state basketball championship?
Think of Mayfield as “Hoosiers” on snow.
Well, we now have snow again and Relyea is back for her senior year. She and her Panther teammates will be strong favorites in every meet. But while skiing is among the handful of high school sports in the state that have been cleared to compete this winter, as of right now, championship events in all sports have been canceled. The focus will be limited to Section II rivals only.