by Sparky Anderson | Mar 25, 2025 | News, Uncategorized
It was a season of extremes. Our athletes skied in -30F temps while training under a half-light November Yukon sun and melted when temps hit the mid 60’s in New England during our March Madness NCAA Championships and Nor Am Finals. Finding any middle ground? Well,...
by Sparky Anderson | Nov 25, 2024 | News, Uncategorized
Minus 35 degrees Celsius is roughly minus 31 degrees Fahrenheit. At some point between minus 20C and minus 35C, the Celsius temperature scale hits an acceleration clause where equilibrium is reached with Fahrenheit at minus 40 for both units of pain. We know that the...
by Sparky Anderson | Oct 1, 2023 | News, Uncategorized
The NCAA Skiing Championships in Lake Placid, NY ended with a sting. The team skied outstanding slalom on day three of four, with Leon and Ella posting top 10 All American finishes. It would be the highlight of the week. Our true strength, the Nordic group, was...
by Sparky Anderson | Feb 21, 2023 | News, Uncategorized
I rented a perfectly good truck. It took Enterprise half an hour to “find” a four-wheel drive quad-cab full-size truck, but they did. I plan for this. You can book your ride months – or years – in advance, but nine times out of ten the newly minted college...
by Sparky Anderson | Jan 31, 2023 | News, Uncategorized
Fall sped by like a Bullet Train through a short tunnel. A total blur. November was masked by October and caught all of us on our heels. It’s now the end of January and I feel like December was last year. Joking aside, a lot has happened in the past four months. Eight...
by Sparky Anderson | Sep 20, 2022 | News, Uncategorized
When I first got word that our ski team was going to be issued a citation, I fell into a bit of a panic. We’ve been through so much. What could we have possibly done to deserve this? Ironically, the answer was “speeding,” among other things. As it...