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U.S. Nationals & Flaming Leaves Festival- Lake Placid
Last week, U.S. ski jumping and Nordic Combined athletes, families, and fans converged on Lake Placid, NY for U.S. Nationals and Lake Placid’s annual Flaming Leaves Festival. Athletes from all over the world attended the competition and training camp. While most of...
2024-’25 Trail to Gold Coaching Grants Awarded
By Nancy Fiddler The National Nordic Foundation, The Olympic Women’s Book Project, the Women’s Ski Coaches Association, and the U.S. Ski Team are excited to announce the 2024-’25 recipients of the Trail to Gold Coaching grants. This season’s recipients represent the...
An Unforgettable Day with Johannes Klæbo in Minneapolis
There was something special in the air at Theodore Wirth Park Trailhead on a beautiful August day, almost exactly six months after Minneapolis had hosted the 2024 COOP FIS Cross Country Ski—the first time in nearly 25 years that it had been held on U.S. soil. The...
From Our Athletes
NNF Cup Update: Senior Nationals sees UU Cement Position in Front, Craftsbury Surges in Women’s Field
Period II of the SuperTour coincided with the US Cross Country Ski National Championships last week, providing a full program of racing for a ski community gathered from across the continent on the once, and possibly future, Olympic venue at Soldier Hollow, Utah. The...
NNF Cup Update: Defending Champs UU Come out Strong in Anchorage, with Bridger Ski Foundation Close Behind
Winter has been hard to find across the North American continent as the 2023-24 ski season has started. Which made last week's SuperTour opener at the Anchorage WinterStart series in Kincaid Park stand out. No matter the early snow woes from New England to the...
Annika Martell Back on the Trail to Gold for a Two-Week Stint Unlike Any Other For the US World Cup Team
US Ski Team fans have had a lot to be excited about lately. The first three weekends of World Cup action in across Finland and Sweden have been capped by a flurry of podiums for the US Relay Team, JC Schoonmaker, Rosie Brennan, and Jessie Diggins. And while those...
NNF Profiles
Cooper Camp: From the Vancouver Airport, Updates from the U18 NTG Midwest Contingent on Camp
#AIRPORTSELFIE Over the past week, U18 NNF athletes have been busy training with each other and US Ski Team coaches in Whistler, British Columbia to kick off the summer training season and start to visualize the course for next year's FIS Junior World Ski...
OPA Cup Athlete Update – Alayna Sonnesyn
Last week, a crew of 9 women and 4 men took a trip to Sappada, Italy to compete in the Europa (OPA) Cup Finals. After spending a week in Toblach, Italy training in the sunny and beautiful Dolomites, we somehow found ourselves in a more magical place.Sappada is a cozy...
Update from Hannah Rudd at OPA Finals
Hello! This is Hannah Rudd, checking in from Toblach, Italy as we wrap up our OPA Pre-Camp! After finishing the American Birkebeiner last weekend, we jumped on a plane and flew over to Europe, where we met up with a handful of other athletes coming from World Juniors...








