WCS Video

Kirk Nichols took some great videos of everyone braving the storm during Saturday's race. Check it out:

J3 and younger

Older crew

USA World Champions!

This week World Ski Championships are taking place in Italy and the USA made history!!! The USA women's sprint relay team (we did a sprint relay in the first Utah Jr Series race) won GOLD!!! This the first women's individual or team gold medal for the US at a World Championship event!!! Check it out and be inspired:

http://fasterskier.com/article/unreal-randall-and-diggins-are-world-champions/

http://fasterskier.com/article/from-wax-room-to-finish-line-u-s-builds-a-perfect-race/

WCS Results

Here is a link to the WCS #5 results! Congrats to all who raced this season. It is great to see all the smiling faces out skiing as fast (even through windy snow storms!).

Series results will be posted here when they are available!

WCS #5 in Photos

As usual, the race at the Farm was a test of who was the toughest! Just as the race started a wind driven snow moved in. Here are some photos, results will be posted as soon as they are available.

Pre S

and the J4's are off!

J5 start!

Sophia Burkemo

Nathan Curtis

A few of the Comp Team racers

Thanks Wasatch Citizen Series for a fun winter of racing!!! 

Bogus Basin Photos

Here are some pics from Matthew Heimburger from this past weekend:

Joseph in the J3 boys classic

Fischer

Mason on his way to win the J4 boys.

Jacob 

Bronwyn

Aren with the OJ/J1 boys team for Junior Nationals!

Ingrid

Mason on the podium for the skate race!

Fischer with the J2 boys Junior National Team!!!! 

Wasatch Citizen Series #5

It is hard to believe the final race of the Wasatch Citizen Series is already here! Here's the scoop:

What: Fun racing for all ages!

When: Saturday, February 23, 10:00am start

Where: The Farm, Park City, UT - park at the church between The Canyons and the white barn

Race Info:  19km Freestyle race with shorter distances for younger and novice skiers. Registration will be the morning of the race from 8:30 - 9:30 at the church.

This is the last race of the season so there will be lots of shwag, prizes, and awards given out! As always Team Soho will have coaches at the race to help. Come out and join the fun!

Utah Jr Series Photos

Jen Jackson took some photos at the Utah Jr Series last week! Check it out:

If anyone else has photos they would like to share send them to morgan.smyth@soldierhollow.com 

Bogus Basin JNQ

The Comp Team just returned from a fantastic weekend of racing at Bogus Basin, just outside of Boise, ID. It was the last of 3 weekends of Junior National qualification races. Saturday was an individual start classic race followed by an individual start skate race on Sunday.

Saturday, Aren Burkemo led the team with a break-through 2nd place in the men's J1/OJ 10k!!! Marc Jackson also had a fantastic day finishing 11th. In the men's J2 race Fischer Heimburger again demostrated his consistency this season by finishing 5th.

On Sunday, Bronwyn Tayler led the women with a 12th place in the J2 girls. Ingrid Norton had a great race finishing 17th. In the J1/OJ women Lauren Jackson finished 24th. On the men's side Fischer Heimburger and Marc Jackson both cracked the top 10 finishing 6th and 10th. Aren Burkemo wasn't far behind in 12th. All racers skied 5k so times were very close!!!

Also this weekend, Jacob Livingstone and Reid Bohanon competed in their first JNQ races! It was great to see them out giving it their all!

Devo Team skiers Joseph Jackson and Mason Heimburger came up with their parents and represented Team Soho very well with 2 tops tens and a 1st and a 3rd by Mason! The future Comp Team is looking good =)

Hopefully more pictures coming soon...

Utah Jr Series #2 Results

Utah Junior Series Race #2 - Classic Sprint with heats. Qualifier results below. Heat results coming soon... 

J1/OJ – Classic Sprint Qualification Results

Course – 2 laps

Name                                        Club                Age                       Time

1. Aren Burkemo                      Soho               18M                        2:54

2. Marc Jackson                        Soho               17M                        3:00

3. Reid Bohanon                       Soho               16M                        3:59

4. Lauren Jackson                     Soho               16F                          4:05

J2/J3 – Classic Sprint Qualification Results

Course – 1 lap

Name                                         Club                Age                       Time

1. Fischer Heimburger               Soho               15M                        1:34

2. Will Nichols                          TUNA            15M                        1:35

3. Matt Behrens                         TUNA            14M                        1:45

4. Connor Patten                       TUNA            13M                         1:50

5. Drew Palmer-Ledger             TUNA            13M                        1:51

6. Xander Burkemo                   Soho               13M                         1:54

7. Bronwyn Tayler                    Soho               15F                          1:55

8. Felix Firth                              Soho               12M                         1:57

9. Lydia Strohl                          TUNA             14F                          1:59

9. Jenae Rasmussen                  TUNA             12F                          1:59

11. Ingrid Norton                       Soho               14F                          2:00

11. Joseph Jackson                     Soho               12M                        2:00

13. Ben Slawson                       TUNA                                             2:01

14. Sienna Ledger                     TUNA             13F                          2:02

15. Mary Strohl                         TUNA             14F                          2:08

16. Vincent Bonacci                  TUNA            12M                         2:10

17. Jacob Livingstone                Soho               14M                         2:11

18. Keenan Peters                      TUNA            13M                         2:13

18. Cole Burnett                         Soho               12M                         2:13

20. Spencer Broshanan               Soho               14M                         2:21

21. Christian Haight                    Soho               12M                         2:35

22. Gillian O’Brien                     Soho                13F                         3:13

23. Max Moody                          Soho                13M                        3:21

J4/J3 – Classic Sprint Qualification Results

Course – 1 lap

Name                                          Club                  Age                      Time

1. Jack Jarrett                              Soho                  10M                      2:03

2. Sydney Palmer-Ledger           TUNA               11F                       2:06

3. Mason Heimburger                 Soho                  11M                      2:19

4. Aidan Rasmussen                   TUNA               10M                      2:26

5. Abby Swanson                       TUNA                8F                        2:30

6. Geneva Humburt                    TUNA               11F                       2:32

7. Mila Ledger Ridel                   TUNA               11F                       2:33

8. Sara Livingstone                      Soho                   9F                        2:34

9. Harper Brown                          Soho                 12M                       2:37

9. Joseph Bonacci                       TUNA                9M                        2:37

9. Lina Farra                                PCNSC              11F                       2:37

10. Grace Swanson                      TUNA               11F                       2:39

11. Nathan Curtis                         Soho                  10M                      2:41

12. Zander Coombs                      Soho                  11M                      2:45

13. Sophia Burkemo                     Soho                  9F                         3:09

14. Tory Peters                             TUNA               10F                       3:14

15. Rachel Haight                         Soho                  10F                       3:17

16. Whitney Hess                          Soho                  11F                       3:23

17. Selma Sherer                           Soho                  9F                         4:07

18. Livy Jespersen                        Soho                  10F                       4:21

Utah Junior Series #2 NEW LOCATION

Tomorrow's Utah Jr race is moved to Soldier Hollow!!! Here's the scoop:

Tomorrow is the second race of the new (and free) Utah Junior Series, hosted by TUNA and Soldier Hollow.  We would really like to encourage everyone to show up and race as part of our initiative to expose our athletes to the other nordic athletes from around Utah in a fun, lightly competitive environment, as well as to different race formats they will encounter more frequently as they get older (ie. individual starts, sprints, etc)

This week's race is a Classic Sprint- there will be a timed individual start qualifier, followed by semi-finals and finals heats.  It was originally scheduled to be held at Round Valley, however since the snow is lacking there we will be holding the race at Soldier Hollow. 

Registration for the race will take place at SoHo from 4:30-4:45 (we can be flexible, this is a low key race).

Hope to see everyone there, we will be able to assist in classic waxing if you bring us clean classic skis before the race.

Get ready for some fun!!! 

Wasatch Citizen Series #4 Results

Great job to all who raced last weekend!!! Results can be found here.

Wasatch Citizen Series #4

This Saturday, February 9, the racing continues with a 10k Classic race at Mountain Dell. As always there are shorter distances for novice and younger age groups! Here's the scoop:

What: 10k Classic race

Where: Mountain Dell (off of I-80 just past parley's summit)

When: Saturday, February 9, start time 10:00am

Who: ALL ages and ski abilities! Never raced? This is the event for you!

Coach Evelyn will be there helping with kick wax for Team Soho. REMEMBER you MUST bring CLEAN skis (no kick or glide wax) if you would like the coaches to wax your skis =)

SUPER-Q Weekend!

A HUGE conrgats to all the skiers, parents, and volunteers for a GREAT weekend at the Soldier Hollow Super Q. It was two very full action packed days. We had many Team Soho personal bests and great racing across the board. Here are some higlights:

Friday's Freestyle Sprint event: Fischer Heimburger blazed through the 1.3km course to finish 13th in the U16 men’s category.  In the U20 category, Marc Jackson and Aren Burkemo both had strong performances finishing 16^th and 20^th.

Saturday’s classic distance races started off with Team Soldier Hollow’s Mason Heimburger taking the second step on the podium in the U12 boy’s race.  In the U16 race, Fischer Heimburger (Mason’s brother) notched a top 10, finishing 8^th. Aren Burkemo also skied strong finishing 9^th in the Men’s 18-20 age category.

Other Team Soldier Hollow racers include, Jeremy Willey, Evan Tayler, Lauren Jackson, Bronwyn Tayler, Sierra Enos, Ingrid Norton, Isaac Sullivan, Drew Sullivan, Sophia Burkemo, Sara Livingstone, Josh Livingstone, Christian Haight, Dephina Brady, Xander Burkemo, Felix Firth, Joseph Jackson, Morgan Mischo, Reid Bohanon, Seale Mosle and Jacob Livingstone. 

Kirk Nichols took video of most of the events! Check them out here: 

http://www.youtube.com/user/nicholskk