Greetings NENSA Community!
Award season continues with two very deserving individuals who were presented awards this week ~ Anna Schulz from the Craftsbury Outdoor Center who was awarded NENSA's 2018 Bill Koch
Leadership Award, and Jim Rodrigues, who was awarded the Ski NH 2018 Al Merrill Award. See boxes below to read the full story on both Anna and Jim.
NENSA also announced both our 2019 New England Women's XC Ski Day and our New England Bill Koch Festival, dates and locations ~ see boxes below for the full story on both of these very popular NENSA events!
NENSA and USBA is looking for a new full-time office Operations Manager for our joint office in New Gloucester Maine, on the Pineland campus. We are seeking a candidate who is well versed in customer service, websites and CRM's and/or a quick learner of each! This full time person would work half time for NENSA and half time for USBA. Please contact me if you are interested in applying for this position. The
full job description and posting
is in the box below.
Hope you are all enjoying this beautiful June, and don't forget to take a few moments to renew your NENSA membership for this coming season!
Best,
Amie
Amie W. Smith
Executive Director
New England Nordic Ski Association
Amie@nensa.net
Be sure to follow us on fb, Twitter and on Instagram @nensa_nordic
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NENSA News from the Field
Highlights and Notes from NENSA and the Nordic World
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Renew
your NENSA Membership today, and THANK YOU!
June 1st officially starts our new membership year. Take pride in joining the New England Nordic community with your NENSA membership in knowing your dues are coming right back to you in the form of NENSA programming and our ongoing support of venues, clubs, athletes and coaches across the region.
There are more reasons than ever to re-new your NENSA Membership! We now have NENSA Members Only Benefits & Offers on our website ~ Check back often as we will be adding more from our wonderful sponsors as the season progresses! Go to our "NENSA Members Only Benefits and Offers" tab, under Membership, on NENSA.net to see the latest offers!
Questions about renewing your membership?? Email
george@nensa.net
or call (207-688-6503) George in our NENSA office - he is there to help you!
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The 2018 NENSA Bill Koch Leader Award goes to Anna Schulz from Craftsbury Outdoor Center!
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Every year NENSA honors leaders in the New England skiing community with traditional annual awards. This chance to formally recognize the energy, effort, and engagement of some of our community leaders is one of the highlights of the year for the NENSA staff. Please join us in thanking these great folks and celebrating their accomplishments for our community.
Anna Schulz grew up with skis on her feet. She learned to ski on her great-grandparents old farmland in Johnson, VT with her brothers, cousins and family in the back fields and woods around their home. Anna was in the New England ski world early on and joined the Bill Koch Youth Ski League when her parents worked at the Trapp Family Lodge. “My first BKL festival was at Trapps when I was in 6th grade, and while I don’t remember much about it, I remember that I had a killer outfit!”
Link to full story
HERE
on NENSA.net Breaking News
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Jim Rodrigues is the recipient of the
2018 Ski NH Al Merrill Award
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Congratulations to Jim Rodrigues on being the recipient of the 2018 Ski NH Al Merrill Award. This award was presented to Jim by NENSA's outgoing Youth Program Director, Amber Freeman, at the Ski NH Dinner this past Monday evening. Jim has been an outstanding member of our ski community as a FIS TD, official, coach, trail builder and when working for NENSA for 12 years raised the bar for skiing in New England among so many other contributions!! Congrats Jim, NENSA is so very proud of you!!
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SafeSport Programs
SafeSport, a program we have been offering NENSA clubs for a number of years now, is first and foremost on the national agenda for all sport national governing bodies, including US Ski & Snowboard, to ensure that all athletes are protected, and coaches and volunteers are educated, to the importance of SafeSport. NENSA urges ALL New England coaches, parent volunteers, venue volunteers and anyone working with youth to take the SafeSport on-line course (it only takes about an hour) and get certified. NENSA has been requiring this of all our staff and volunteer coaches and wax techs at JN's and REG Camps for several years now, and now it is federal law. So please take time this summer to be sure all your club volunteers and coaches are SafeSport certified. Do it today.
The USOC provides a wide range of SafeSport resources, including
online education and awareness
. All coaches and those in a position of authority over athletes are required to take the online SafeSport course. To create an account with SafeSport, please use the following access code and follow the instructions on the SafeSport registration page.
Go to
usskiandsnowboard.org
, scrool down to the bottom of the home page, and under Governance, click on the
SafeSport
link.
- US Ski and Snowboard SafeSport Access code: NBUD-E6QB-WGT3-BW7Z
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2019 New England Women's XC Ski Day Announced!
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NENSA is pleased to announce that the 2019 Women’s XC Ski Day will be held at the Waterville Valley Nordic Center in Waterville Valley, NH on Sunday January 20, 2019. Save the date, and book a room at the host hotel, The Silver Fox Inn for the weekend!
This year’s event will benefit The Circle Program, an organization that provides girls from low-income New Hampshire families with new opportunities to learn the skills, courage and confidence they need to handle the challenges in their lives.
Lodging options and additional information are available
HERE
. Stay tuned, registration will be open in November.
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NENSA & USBA seek full-time Operations Manager for our Pineland Maine Office
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NENSA and USBA seeks Operations Manager for our joint office in New Gloucester Maine:
Job Overview:
The Operations Manager is responsible for the oversight of NENSA’s and USBA’s membership and systems operations, including the management and technical support of all software tools/platforms, and Website maintenance. This position is the office presence and office administration for NENSA and USBA. You will be in charge of our CRM management and marketing, as well as NENSA membership management and renewal campaigns, running member reports for clubs and staff. This role requires strong inspired leadership with a collaborative spirit to galvanize and to work with our Nordic community. In keeping with the NENSA mission, the Operations Manager will position NENSA as a central resource for our community and as a national leader in athlete, coach, and club development. And in keeping with the mission of USBA, the Operations Manager will provide support the clubs and athletes of the United States to develop the sport domestically and prepare athletes for competition internationally. The Operations Manager is an empowered position, requiring energy, vision and attention to detail in advancing all of NENSA’s and USBA’s programs.
Link to full position can be found
HERE
on NENSA.net in Breaking News
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NEW ENGLAND BILL KOCH LEAGUE FESTIVAL TO BE HOSTED BY FROST MOUNTAIN NORDIC IN 2019!
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We are excited to announce that Frost Mountain Nordic will be hosting the 2019 New England Bill Koch Youth Ski League Festival on March 2-3 at Rikert Nordic Center in Ripton, VT. Frost Mountain put on an amazing event with their “Skiing by the Woods on a Snowy Day” themed festival in 2011, and we’re excited to have the festival back at Rikert again!
Lodging information can be found
HERE
, and additional information on the festival can be found on the
EVENT PAGE
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Upcoming Events
A Look Ahead at the NENSA Calendar
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Full NENSA.net Calendar Listing
HERE
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New England Nordic Ski Association
49 Pineland Drive, Suite 301-A, New Gloucester, ME 04260
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