USCSA Press Release: Week 1 Nordic Recap

January 29, 2025

By Mallory Williams

The Eastern Conference has kicked off the Nordic Ski Season with races the past two weekends. The Rocky Mountain Conference starts their season January 25th and the Midwest Conference will start their season February 1st, instead of Jan. 25, after the cancellation of the Noquemanon races because of a lack of snow.

Eastern Conference
In their first weekend of races, teams participated in the White Mountain Classic on January 11 and the Jackson Jaunt on January 12, both events taking place at the Jackson Ski Touring Foundation. The Saturday race was classic style and the Sunday race was freestyle.

On Saturday, in the men's race Clarkson completed a podium sweep led by Matthew Clarner (39:30.9), followed by Finn Payne (40:15.6) and Joey Rouhana (40:48.5). On the women’s side Amalia Tinmouth (53:01.7) and Gabrielle Spyra (54:25.6) from McGill finished first and third, while Skylar Francis (54:10.1)n from Clarkson finished in second.

Clarner (17:39.7) and Rouhana (17:55.7) also found success on Sunday finishing in first and second. Gabe Loyd (18:25.9) from Paul Smith’s College finished in third. The women’s race was a repeat from Saturday, with the top three being Tinmouth (22:19.9), Francis (22:20.9), and Spyra (22:51.0).

The following weekend was another busy weekend for the Eastern Conference. The teams competed in the Spike Clayton Memorial Invite, which featured a skiathlon on Jan. 18 and a classic race on Jan. 19. In the men’s skiathlon Clarkson’s Rouhana (28:59.1) and Torsten Brickley (29:50.8) finished first and third. Noah Branchflower (29:31.3) from University of Vermont finished second. In the women’s skiathlon Leah Mowry (34:14.3) and Elsa Mowers (36:03.8) from Middlebury finished first and third. University of Vermont’s Isabelle Serrano (35:04.2) finished second. To round off the weekend, in the men’s classic race, Clarkson’s Rouhana and Clarner (1.0 back) once again found success, finishing first and second. John Deforest (9.1 back) from Dartmounth finished third. On the women’s side Mowry got her second first place finish of the weekend. Not far behind her was Jackie Wells (.09 back) from Cornell and Serrano (.50 back) from University of Vermont.

As the next week of the season gets underway, many conferences will compete for the first time in 2025. Follow along nationwide https://www.uscsa.org/competition-calendar.html#/Calendar

USCSA is the sports federation for collegiate team ski and snowboard competition in America. The organization believes that student-athletes of all levels and abilities should have access to quality and exciting venues of competition. Our athletes agree that our team orientation fosters a collaborative approach across their collegiate athletic and academic careers, and often this mentality proves indispensable in their adult lives and careers. USCSA includes over 140 institutions from coast to coast, fielding over 4,700 female and male alpine, freestyle, nordic, and snowboarding athletes who participate in more than 300 events annually.

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