Mid-August Greetings NENSA Community ~
We are thrilled to welcome the Green Mountain Valley School (GMVS) as our newest NENSA Supporting Sponsor! Sponsorships, along with memberships, donations and some program income is what keeps our doors open and our fantastic programing happening. We thank GMVS, and all our sponsors (and members and donors!) for your continued support. We are growing our staff and expanding our program offerings, and we could not do this without you!
It might be the dog days of summer, but we have been busy applying for grants, collaborating with our sponsors, and working with venues and organizing committees to plan for all of our fall and winter events and races. We are thrilled to roll out (pun intended!) our NENSA Rollerski Series schedule for the rest of the summer and fall.
See the box below for all the options and join the fun!
We are also excited to be bringing you our new NENSA Championship Race bibs this season, thanks in part to SWIX, Salomon & L.L. Bean. A huge shout out to Steve Poulin at SWIX for working with NENSA to design these spiffy new bibs ~ sneak peek above!
Here's what we have in store for you in this week's KickZone:
- With two races down, and many more to go, we announce NENSA's Rollerski Race Series & Clinics for August through November!
- Third Annual Roy-llerski Recap
- Full recap for Good Times Roll Race in Cumberland ME
- Save the Dates: 10/2-10/3 for NENSA's annual Coaches Symposium and TD & Event Organizer Training in Lake Placid NY
- NENSA's 2021-22 Eastern Cup Schedule
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From our Partners:
- From U.S. Ski & Snowboard: Kikkan Randall becomes the Executive Director of the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage (NSAA)
- From L.L. Bean: Summer Across Maine ~ free summer programing through 9/5!
Thank you to all 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
GIVING: DONATE to NENSA today, and thank you!
MEMBERSHIP: RENEW or JOIN today, and thank you!
Please take a few minutes to do that and support the organization that supports XC skiing here in New England, and beyond! NENSA is here for you, running programing for you, our ski community ~ we need your support this year, more than ever!
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NENSA News from the Field
Highlights and Notes from NENSA and the Nordic World
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2021 NENSA Summer into Fall
Rollerski Race Series & Clinics
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In collaboration with the event hosts and our NENSA partners, we’re thrilled to present the NENSA Summer Rollerski Series! To build momentum across our eastern region, this series features events in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York ranging from hill climbs to cross country cross events. See all events listed below on our 2021 Event Poster. Top ranked racers will compete on NENSA’s new fleet of PINK Swenor rollerskis. Stay tuned to our NENSA Breaking News, Event Calendar, Facebook, and Instagram for registration information and event details coming next!
In addition to the race offerings, we’re also planning to host Learn-to-Rollerski clinics in conjunction with some of these events where all participants can try NENSA’s Swenor rollerski fleet. Stay tuned for clinic details and then come on out and see what all the excitement’s about! All are welcome and no experience is necessary.
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Third Annual Roy-llerski Recap |
A big thank you to all who participated in the Third Annual Roy-llerski and supported the Maine Outdoor Wellness Center! This event, created by Jenny Wilbraham, honors Maine skier Roy Varney by bringing together the cross country ski community and raising money for the Maine Outdoor Wellness Center. This Center was a dream of Roy’s, a place where he could continue to train for cross country skiing and biathlon year-round all while continuing to help out on the farm. The nonprofit Center, managed by Roy’s family and friends, seeks to preserve his memory by providing opportunities to access the outdoors for all Turner and surrounding residents of central Maine and New England. The Center plans to provide an extensive cross country trail system on its 300+ acre farm that can be utilized year-round for hiking, skiing, biking, and running. While this year’s Roy-llerski has come to completion, you can still support the Maine Outdoor Wellness Center by paying them a visit and/or making a donation here.
This year 40 people partook in the Roy-llerski raising over $900. Folks participated in many forms from paddling to biking to rollerskiing, and we had 10 go-getters enter the Rockstar category and complete 71.19k in one effort! To see how everyone stacked up in all the categories, visit the link below. And keep an eye on your mailbox as 20 lucky participants will get event bags with swag from the Maine Outdoor Wellness Center and LL Bean! Thanks again to everyone who participated and we’ll see you next year!
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THANK YOU TO OUR ASSOCIATE SPONSORS
L.L.Bean and SWIX & Salomon!
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It was certainly a good time in Cumberland, Maine at the first ever Good Times Roll Rollerski race organized and co-hosted by Nonstop Nordic! Twenty-seven skiers ranging from middle schoolers to masters racers toed the start line for the 7.5k individual start skate race at the Cumberland Fairgrounds. Check out the results below and stay tuned for more event photos!
Top-3 Women:
1. Emma Charles
2. Leska Whitmarsh
3. Jenny Wilbraham
Top-3 Men:
1. Caden Cote
2. James Eysenbach
3. Joey Rouhana
...click HERE full results, a photo gallery from the Lewiston Sun Journal, and for tons of other great photos from @flyingpoint
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THANK YOU TO OUR NENSA CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS: |
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NENSA's Eastern Cup Schedule for 2021-22 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
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THANK YOU TO OUR NENSA SUPPORTING SPONSORS: |
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Save the Dates! October 2nd & 3rd
NENSA Coaches Symposium and TD &
Event Organizers Training
Mt. Van Hoevenberg, Lake Placid, NY
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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!
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July 30:
Kikkan Randall Joins NSAA as New Executive Director
The Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage’s (NSAA) board of directors is excited to announce the hiring of Kikkan Randall, one of America’s most successful Nordic skiers, as its new Executive Director. Randall is an Alaska sports legend who grew up in Anchorage and whose love for Nordic skiing was ignited as a child in NSAA’s popular Junior Nordics program. ...Read Full Press Release at AnchorageNordicSki.com
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THANK YOU TO OUR NENSA OFFICIAL SUPPLIERS: |
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Upcoming Events
A Look Ahead at the NENSA Calendar
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October 2-3: NENSA Coaches Symposium and TD & EO Training, Lake Placid NY
Full NENSA.net Calendar Listing HERE
Link to our NENSA Equality & Diversity Policy HERE
Link to our NENSA BLM Resources Page HERE
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If you already shop Amazon ~ please link to Amazon Smile
with NENSA as your beneficiary!
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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!! |
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New England Nordic Ski Association (NENSA)
49 Pineland Drive, Suite 301A
New Gloucester, ME 04260
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