JN RECAP

  Well another Junior National Championship has come and gone and once again team EAST killed it!!
The veteran's of the team Miles Lussi, Luke Daniels, and Matt Doyle capped of their winter with some hardware and the rookies Karl Schulz and Trent White had solid performances and good results for their first JN.

Medal count
SJ Ind. Silver- Miles Lussi
Elimination Jump Gold- Matt Doyle
Team NC Bronze- Miles Lussi and Luke Daniels

Some other Cool things that happened off the podium

Karl Schulz had the fastest cross country time by 26 seconds with a fall on the coarse and skied from 22nd place up to 14!!

The team event saw EAST team 1 finish a solid 5th with rookie Trent White on the team.

No one got lost at the Mall of America.

Trent White in the elimination jump was so excited to jump he was a meter early on the take-off and coach Bliss caught it on video and it is amazing!!

East team 2 which was Matt Doyle and Karl Schulz turned in the 2nd fastest XC time and moved from 9th to 6th.

Coach Bliss only forgot to bring the ESJNC banner to one place this year.

There were a total of 136 coaches meetings a new record for JNC.

All in all I am very pleased with how the kids did this year and how they represented the Eastern ski jumping and nordic combined on and off the hill.

Thanks again to Minneapolis ski club for holding an amazing JNC and all the hard work their volunteer's did to make this happen.

Next year we will be heading to Alaska for JNC so we hope to field another strong team!!

Coach Bliss

JN special jumping

The individual competitions for special jumping and nordic combined have come to an end and some great results from team East! Thursday night we got to see Miles Lussi put two solid jumps together to grab 2nd place on the K-70 meter hill here in Minneapolis for his first ind. podium spot at JN. Luke Daniels turned in a solid result in 12th followed by Matt Doyle in 25th and our two rookies Trent White and Karl Schulz placing 31st and 34th respectively.

Full results can be found at www.nordicskichampionships.com under the schedule on Thursday.

The ind. cross country was held this morning at Hyland Lake Park under cold and fast conditions for all the racers. Miles who went out first just missed the podium in 4th while Luke Daniels came in a solid 8th. Karl Schulz was the man of the day with the fastest time on the coarse and making everyone ask "who is that kid"? 

Results are not posted yet but can be found later at www.nordicskichampionships.com under the schedule for Friday.

We have a short break today and then we will head back to the hill for tonight's elimination jump which should be a fun competition for all!