Jumping News

The Ford K. Sayre Memorial Ski Council wishes to thank Tina Nadeau for her great work on our new logo. You will see the new magnet on local cars, and the iron-on patch on the clothes of local skiers. The new logo highlights the four types of skiing that are part of the Ford Sayre program, and also emphasizes our desire for more snow, especially this year.  This design replaces our old logo shown below. Tina Nadeau was born and raised on Long Island in a family of artists and ultimately earned a degree in graphic design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. After working in fashion catalogue design for a few years, she relocated to the Upper Valley in 2000 with her husband and started her family while serving for nine years as a graphic designer at Dartmouth’s Design, Printing, and Mailing Services. After leaving DPMS to pursue certification as an art educator from the Upper Valley Educators’ Institute, she presently assists in a fifth-grade classroom at the Ray School in Hanover while also teaching courses at the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen. She still freelances as a graphic designer as well, primarily for the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. Thanks very much, Tina!Continue reading →

The Ford Sayre Alpine Racing program would like to thank our corporate sponsors for this 2014 season:

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The first Nordic Ski Cross Event in New England
Sunday, March 9th

Cochran’s Ski Area
910 Cochran Rd
PO Box 789
Richmond, VT 05477

• A fun, festive, and competitive citizens Nordic Ski Cross Race for all ages.
• Uphill, downhill, slalom gates, jumps, and obstacles, all on one pair of skis.
• Spectator friendly! Don’t want to race? Come watch the fun and eat pancakes with hot Slopeside Syrup.
• Interval start. Seeding based on ability, age and sex. Shorter course for kids, 12yr. and under.
• Prizes for top three in all age and ability categories.
• Cost: Adults $30 preregistered by March 2nd online www.cochranskiarea.com or $40 after March 2rd and same day. Kids $10 (12yr. & under). Includes entry fee, headband and pancake sausage feast with Slopeside Syrup.
• Start Time: 10am Kids and 11am Adults

For more information contact:
Laura Farrell laura@cochranskiarea.com or 802-291-1348

Don’t Miss It!!
Be part of the First Nordic Ski Cross Event in New England

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Of the five women named to the 2014 Winter Olympic U.S. Biathlon team this week, three are Dartmouth graduates.

Hannah Dreissigacker ’09, Thayer ’10, Susan Dunklee ’08, and Sara Studebaker ’07 are heading to Sochi, Russia, to try for the first-ever medal for the U.S. in biathlon—an ancient sport with military roots that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.

“We believe we are members of the strongest team U.S. Biathlon has ever fielded,” says Susan Dunklee ’08. (Photo by Ralph Orlowski/Reuters)

“We will have quite the Dartmouth contingent,” says Dreissigacker, the daughter of Olympic rowers Judy Geer ’75, Thayer ’83, and Dick Dreissigacker. “We have worked so hard together, pushed each other to be better, helped each other through the hard parts, and had so much fun together, and I am so glad that we all qualified for Sochi together.”

All three were members of the Dartmouth ski team, training under coach Cami Thompson Graves. They were also top students, majoring in engineering and studio art (Dreissigacker), biology with an ecology focus (Dunklee), and government and Latino and Caribbean studies (Studebaker).

Read the full story here:

http://now.dartmouth.edu/2014/01/three-alumnae-biathletes-selected-for-sochi-2014/

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