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From the FasterSkier archive — posts syndicated from athletes’ and coaches’ own blogs between 2004 and 2012, kept online as published. Current coverage is at fasterskier.com.

Tag: Junior/U23 World Championships

  • Under 23 Questions with Katharine Ogden

    Under 23 Questions with Katharine Ogden

    Katharine Ogden, of the Stratton Mountain School and U.S. Ski Team D-team, in the women's 20 k classic at 2017 U.S. nationals earlier this month at Soldier Hollow in Midway, Utah. (Photo: U.S. Ski Team)
    Katharine Ogden, of the Stratton Mountain School and U.S. Ski Team D-team, in the women’s 20 k classic at 2017 U.S. nationals earlier this month at Soldier Hollow in Midway, Utah. She finished second among the senior women. (Photo: U.S. Ski Team)

    In an effort to showcase the North Americans competing at next week’s International Ski Federation (FIS) 2017 USANA Nordic Junior World Championships and U23 Cross Country World Championships at Soldier Hollow in Midway, Utah, we asked those qualifying athletes several questions about themselves — actually, we had them fill in the blanks. First up, 19-year-old Katharine Ogden, of the Stratton Mountain School and U.S. Ski Team D-team, who’s representing the U.S. at her third Junior Worlds.

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    “My full name is Katharine Ogden, but you can call me KO. I was born in Seattle, Wash., and raised in Landgrove, Vt., and one thing you should know about my hometown is there are only about 100 people living there.

    I started cross-country skiing when I was three, thanks to my papa who is a ski coach. I currently train in Stratton, Vt., with Stratton Mountain School.

    If I’m not skiing, you might find me mountain biking. If I had to pick a favorite book, it would be ‘Looking for Alaska’.

    One of the things I’m most excited about for Junior Worlds at Soldier Hollow is racing at altitude. One race I’m especially targeting there is the 10 k skiathlon.

    The best advice anyone ever gave me about skiing or racing was my dad always tells me, ‘It’s fun to kick ass.’ One of the best race memories I have is when my teammate (Julia Kern) won the relay race in a photo finish at my first JNS at Soldier Hollow in 2012.

    If I could meet one World Cup skier, it would be Heidi Weng.

    If I don’t end up being a professional skier, I’ll probably be a recreational skier 🙂.

    I’m missing zero days of school to be here, and my teachers are probably thinking, “I don’t have teachers.”

    You can follow me on Instagram at @katharineogden.”

  • NNF Supports U23/World Junior and U18 Team Members

    Patrick Caldwell NNF

    Over $100,000 in Skiing Support Awarded

    SALT LAKE CITY- Following a successful US National Championships last week in Soldier Hollow, Utah, the US Ski Team has named their upcoming squads for the World Junior and Under-23 World Championships, as well as the U18 Development team.

    “These are the trips that Kikkan Randall and Simi Hamilton started on,” explained US Skiing’s Joey Caternichio at the team naming, highlighting the recent success from Randall and Hamilton, “These trips are where we find our next great skiers.” Thirty-four athletes from twenty programs comprise this year’s team make-up, a strong showing from a representative cross section of the skiing country, a similar representation to the athletes that powered the National Nordic Foundation’s Drive for 25 (D25) this fall.

    “During the D25, these athletes and their peers raised approximately forty thousand dollars and helped bring in another 65 thousand dollars in matching donations,” explained NNF executive director, Dave Knoop. We have turned around and used those donations to fund the very teams these folks have made. The NNF has helped these athletes take care of funding so now their focus can purely be racing and not expenses.”

    The competitions for the World Junior and U23 Championships will take place this year in Val di Fiemme, Italy, site of last year’s World Championships. The event begins on January 27th and continues through February 3rd. A pre- event camp will take place the week prior. The NNF supports the camp and the trip adding $3850.00 of support per athlete and reducing each individuals costs to $1500 in total. “We’re extremely grateful to have the NNF,” explained U23 skier Annie Pokorny, “It’s this funding and support that makes these trips doable.”

    The funding is also crucial for the even younger U18 crowd, who will partake of races in Finland’s junior circuit. The team will be led for the third year by Boulder Junior Nordic Coach, Adam St. Pierre, who highlighted the quick turn around for U18 team members, “Health is priority #1 for (the team) leading into the Finland trip. They’ve got to recover from US Nationals and put in some training to…race fast in Finland.” Like the WJC / U23 team, the U18 team is supported heavily with NNF support. Each athlete will get $1875 in support for the event, leaving their total cost at $750.

    “These trips are crucial to our success as a country,” described Bryan Fish at the naming ceremony for the World Junior Team, “With the NNF in place, we have a partner to help support skiing at the levels where development matters.”

    For more information and for updates from these trips, log onto: www.Nationalnordicfoundation.org

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    NNF Support of US Team Trips:

    WJC/ U23 (including pre-camp) Individual Support: $3850

    U18 Individual Support: $1875

     

    World Junior / U23 Team

    Nichole Bathe (University of Alaska)

    Erik Bjornsen (APU)

    Patrick Caldwell (SMS / Dartmouth)

    Skyler Davis  (SMS / T2)

    Rosie Frankowski (Northern Michigan University)

    Elizabeth Guiney (Craftsbury Green Team)

    Lars Hannah (Steamboat Springs Winter Sports)

    Jack Hegman (University of Vermont)

    Mackenizie Kanady (University of Alaska)

    Stephanie Kirk (University of Vermont)

    Tyler Kornfield (APU)

    Ben Lustgartenv (Middlebury College)

    Adam Martin (Northern Michigan University)

    Cole Morgan  (University of Vermont)

    Thomas O’Harra (APU)

    Scott Patterson (University of Vermont)

    Annie Pokorny (SMS / T2)

    Mary Rose (SVSEF)

    Ben Saxton (SMS)

    Sloan Storey (SVSEF)

    Maggie Williams (University of Vermont)

    Marion Woods (University of Vermont)

     

    U18 Team

    Cully Brown (Durango)

    Max Donaldson (Fairbanks)

    Seiji Takagi (AWS)

    Karsten Hokanson (Park City)

    Peter Holmes (Tahoe)

    Jake Bassett (AWS)

    Kathrine Ogden (SMS)

    Hailey Swirbul (AVSC)

    Mattie Watts (SISU)

    Taeler McCrerey (Summit)

    Vivian Hett

    Hannah Halvorsen