Several Methow Valley Nordic Team (MVNT) athletes recently traveled to Houghton, Michigan, to compete in the U.S. National Championships for Nordic skiing, team director Leslie Hill reported. The events serve as selection races for several international trips, and about 400 skiers gathered on the Upper Peninsula. Scheduled were a freestyle sprint on Jan. 2, an […]
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McCabe wins two more Nordic titles at Jr. National Championships
The Methow Valley Nordic Team’s Novie McCabe won two national championships, and anchored an all-MVNT team to another first-place finish, at the Junior National Championships in Utah last week. McCabe also won two first-place titles in last year’s Junior Nationals at Lake Placid, New York, skiing in the U16 division. This year she competed in […]
MNVN claims lots of top spots at Race of the Methow
The Methow Valley Nordic Team (MVNT) hosted the final PNSA Junior Qualifying race at the McCabe Trail at Liberty Bell High School last weekend, with great weather and excellent grooming making ideal conditions for the Nordic racers taking part in the Race of the Methow. MVNT fielded 38 skiers in events that included over 150 […]
MVNT’s McCabe qualifies for Scandinavian Cup races
Novie McCabe of the Methow Valley Nordic Team (MVNT) qualified to represent the United States in the Scandinavian Cup races for 15- to 17-year-olds at the U.S. National Championships in Anchorage, Alaska, last week. McCabe will join five other U.S. team members in Vuokatti, Finland, on Jan. 20-31. She was one of four MVNT members […]
McCabe claims second Nordic Junior Nationals title
The Methow Valley Nordic Team’s Novie McCabe took another national title in the U16 girls’ sprint race last week at the Nordic Junior National Championships in Lake Placid, New York. Earlier, Novie McCabe took first place in the U16 girls’ 5-kilometer race. The classic spring competition began last Wednesday (March 8), as fickle weather played […]
MVNT’s Novie McCabe takes first place at Nordic Junior Nationals
The Methow Valley Nordic Team’s Novie McCabe took first place in the U16 girls’ 5-kilometer race on Monday (March 6) at the Nordic Junior National Championships in Lake Placid, New York. Team director Leslie Hall reported that McCabe, a freshman at Liberty Bell High School, started relatively early in the race in hopes that the […]