KickZone eNewsletter ~ July 29, 2021 Edition

Greetings NENSA Community ~

Hard to believe it is already the end of July. It's been a very wet month here in Southern Vermont, but hoping for some dryer days come August. Our staff has been busy visiting summer camps with the ramps and hosting rollerski clinics, all while planning for our fall into winter events and races. We will be at the Good Times Roll Rollerski Race in Cumberland Maine tomorrow, and have a full line of rollerski races and clinics for August, September, October and November that are pending final permitting. We look forward to rolling out that schedule to you all very soon!

Here's what we have in store for you in this week's KickZone:

Good Times Roll Race in Cumberland ME Friday 7/30
Save the Dates: 10/2-10/3 for NENSA's annual Coaches Symposium and TD & Event Organizer Training in Lake Placid NY
NENSA's Eastern Cup Schedule for 2021-22 announced
From our Partners:
From U.S. Ski & Snowboard: FIS Showcases Diggins' Cross-Country Workout Challenge and Beijing Winter Olympics 2022: Schedule, Events, and Where to Watch
From L.L. Bean: Summer Across Maine ~ free summer programing!
From Salomon: Their fb share of our NENSA rollerski agility with our ramps! #timetoplay

Thank you to all of our NENSA Sponsors ~ they are such a HUGE part of our NENSA programing continued success, and we so appreciate all their support. I want to be sure we all acknowledge the businesses who support us and cross country skiing!

Best,

Amie

Amie Witten Smith

Executive Director

New England Nordic Ski Association

Amie@nensa.net

www.NENSA.net

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NENSA News from the Field

Highlights and Notes from NENSA and the Nordic World

Good Times Roll Rollerski Race this Friday 7/30 in Cumberland ME

Join NENSA and Nonstop Nordic in Cumberland, Maine this Friday July 30th for the Good Times Roll featuring an individual start skate race.

Location: Cumberland Fairgrounds, 175 Blanchard Road, Cumberland, Maine

7.5k Individual Start Skate Race: Top seeded athletes will compete on NENSA’s fleet of matched Swenor Rollerskis. 30 second start intervals. Registration will be limited to 80 racers due to safety reasons. PLEASE PRE-REGISTER as it greatly helps race organizers with planning. Pre-registration deadline July 28th at 6pm. Race Fees: Middle School: $15, High School: $20, and Citizen: $25. Day of registration available for $30.

Schedule:

Registration and Bib-Up Opens: 9:00am

Women’s Start: 10:15am

Men’s Start: 11:00am

Questions? Reach out to justin@nensa.net.

THANK YOU TO OUR ASSOCIATE SPONSORS

L.L.Bean and SWIX & Salomon!

Save the Dates! October 2nd & 3rd

NENSA Coaches Symposium and TD &

Event Organizers Training

Mt. Van Hoevenberg, Lake Placid, NY

NENSA is excited to bring back our annual Coaches Symposium and Technical Delegate & Event Organizers Training the weekend of Saturday October 2nd and Sunday October 3rd, at Mt. Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid New York. For now, save the dates, and more to come shortly on the schedule ~ which will include Coaches education, technique clinics, guest speakers and our annual Technical Delegates and Event Organizers training. NENSA is thrilled to be able to host this Symposium at the newly renovated and totally redone Mt. Van Hoevenberg venue. NENSA will be having one of our Eastern Cup and U.S. Ski & Snowboard Supertour weekends there in January of 2022, so it will be great to preview the new trails, the stadium and venue!

THANK YOU TO OUR NENSA CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS:

NENSA's EASTERN CUP Schedule Announced

NENSA is excited to announce the 2021-2022 Eastern Cup Schedule. Which makes today Christmas in July. Full event details will be added to the Eastern Cup pages over the coming weeks.

These four race weekends constitute NENSA’s high level race series bringing together junior, senior, and master skiers. They also serve as qualifying races for the New England Junior National Team. We would like to extend our thanks to the many venues that bid for this year’s events and we look forward to a competitive and snowy winter. We are also thrilled to announce that we will be racing in a new set of bibs supplied by and highlighting our Associate Sponsors: Swix, LL Bean, and Salomon.

...click HERE to see the full Eastern Cup schedule

THANK YOU TO OUR NENSA SUPPORTING SPONSORS:

From our NENSA Partners:

July 23:

FIS Showcases Diggins' Cross-Country Workout Challenge

Check out the core training executed by Jessie Diggins during her summer training at Vermont's Stratton Mountain School. ...WATCH

Beijing Winter Olympics 2022: Schedule, Events, and Where to Watch

The 2022 Beijing Olympics are scheduled to begin Friday, February 4, and end on Sunday, February 20, just six months after the Tokyo Olympics. If that seems soon, it is. The Winter Olympics remained on schedule even as the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games were postponed until 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. This will be the first time China has hosted the Winter Olympics. Beijing was the host city for the Summer Olympics in 2008. On the "who to watch" list?! None other than Mikaela Shiffrin, Chloe Kim, Toby Miller, and Shaun White. ...Read the Full Story at TODAY.com

NENSA was thrilled to be TAGGED in a Salomon Nordic fb post this week! :-) https://fb.watch/v/1S5KBfCH9/ #timetoplay

Thank you r.k. Miles for the awesome lumber and supplies to make our new NENSA rollerski racks and ramps!

It's been a fun summer with more to come!!

THANK YOU TO OUR NENSA OFFICIAL SUPPLIERS:

Upcoming Events

A Look Ahead at the NENSA Calendar

Upcoming NENSA Events:

STAY TUNED for our full Rollerski Race and Clinic schedules ~ permits being finalized right now!

July 1-31: Third Annual Roy-llerski

July 30: Nonstop Nordic – Good Times Roll

August 9-12: SMS BLK Camp

August 9-14: GNA Summer Training Camp #2

August 12-15: SMS Junior Camp

August 12-15: NH Dublin Devo Camp

October 2-3: NENSA Coaches Symposium and TD & EO Training, Lake Placid NY

January 23, 2022: NENSA's Women's Day

March 5-6: NENSA BKL Festival

March 11-13: NENSA U16 Championships

March 18-20: NENSA Eastern High School Championships

Full NENSA.net Calendar Listing HERE

Link to our NENSA Equality & Diversity Policy HERE

Link to our NENSA BLM Resources Page HERE

If you already shop Amazon ~ please link to Amazon Smile

with NENSA as your beneficiary!

Did you know that NENSA could benefit from the Amazon purchases you are already making??! Please link your Amazon account to Amazon SMILE (with /smile) and choose NENSA as your non-profit beneficiary! All the purchases everyone is already making, all add up, and we would love to be able to benefit from that! Thank you!!