Nordic News

Please check out this great article on the Ford Sayre Ski Jumping program from our local Kid Stuff magazine:

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Congratulations to Ford Sayre’s Evan Nichols and Aiden Cudhea for their impressive results at the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association’s 2017 Junior National Championships at the Norge Ski Club in Fox River Grove, Illinois, two weeks ago!

Nichols, a 13-year-old at the Lyme School, and Cudhea, a sophomore at Thetford Academy, were selected to represent the East Division in a nationwide field of athletes. Nichols took first in U-16 individual Nordic combined, edging Concord’s Henry Johnstone by 30 seconds. Cudhea took fifth in U-16 special jumping. The East took third overall. The Valley News published this article in yesterday’s paper

Evan Nichols

• U16 Individual Nordic Combined Junior National Champion at just 13 years-old
• U16 Team Nordic Combined Junior National Champion
• U20 Team Special Jumping Bronze Medal

Aiden Cudhea

• 5th Place U16 Special Jumping Junior National Championships
• U20 Team Special Jumping Bronze Medal

Silver Fox Trot 2017

Strafford Nordic Center

February 11, 2017

• Girls 1/2
• Boys 1/2
• Girls 3/4
• Boys 3/4
• Girls 5/6
• Boys 5/6
• Girls 7/8
• Boys 7/8
• Citizens Race – Women
• Citizens Race – Men

Ford Sayre presents the NH High School (NHIAA) Ski Jumping Competition

• Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 6:00pm
• Roger Burt Memorial Jump, Oak Hill, Hanover, NH
• Hot Cocoa, Music, Camp Fire, Fun under the Lights

Come watch top High School competitors from around the state soar over 100 feet under the lights at Oak Hill in Hanover. Cheer for the Hanover High jumping team!

Join us for hot cocoa, music and a camp fire. Here are a few photos from 2015.

DIRECTIONS

• From downtown Hanover take Lyme Road (Rt 10 North to the first rotary just before the COOP Foodstore).
• Take the first right off the rotary onto Reservoir Road.
• Reservoir Road comes to a “T” after roughly 0.7 miles.
• Take a left down to the Storrs Pond/Oak Hill ski complex.
• Park there. The jumps are up the hill to the left (hidden by a few trees). From the parking lot you’ll see the lights from the ski jumping complex shining through the trees.

Hurrah for Jay! We can’t imagine a more deserving person to be recognized with this award. Below is the beginning of the NENSA article on Jay. Go here for the complete text and photos.

NENSA is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2016 Bill Koch League Youth Leadership Award is Jay Davis of Ford Sayre. Jay Davis has been involved as a Coach at Ford Sayre for 18 years! Jay is a natural at coaching, and he coaches youth sports during every season. He is a role model as a skier and all around athlete, running, hiking, biking and getting skis in before work even on the coldest days of the year. He keeps things fun and adventurous and is someone who truly embodies the spirit of the Bill Koch Youth Ski League…..

Make sure to give him a high five or a hug when you see him next!

Happy spring!

Ashley & Peter