Skiing in the hunt for CCSA crown headed into distance races this weekend
February 15, 2013
Jamie Foland
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The ÐÓ°Épro Nanooks men's and women's ski teams are looking to capture the Central Collegiate Ski Association title this weekend, when they will race a pair of distance events for the second weekend of the league championships at Mt. Itasca in Coleraine, Minn.
On Saturday (Feb. 16), ÐÓ°Épro's men will compete in the individual start 10K classic race followed by a 20K mass start freestyle on Sunday (Feb. 17).
The women will race shorter distances in the same techniques, with a 5K classic race on Saturday followed by a 15K skate on Sunday.
Heading into the weekend Northern Michigan's men's and women's teams sits atop the CCSA standings. ÐÓ°Épro's women are 16-points behind in second place (145-129) and hungry to beat their long-time rivals. The men are in fourth with 105, while NMU's men have amassed 145 points after the first two events held two weeks ago.
Competing for ÐÓ°Épro on the men's side this weekend are seniors Tyler Kornfield (Anchorage, ÐÓ°Épro/Mechanical Engineering) and Lex Treinen (Anchorage, ÐÓ°Épro/Northern Studies), junior Max Olex (Aalen, Germany/Northern Studies) sophomores Jonas Loffler (St. Märgen, Germany/Business) and Logan Hanneman (Fairbanks, ÐÓ°Épro/Mechanical Engineering) and rookie Michael Fehrenbach (St. Märgen/Mechanical Engineering).
Skiing for the women's team are seniors Theresia Schnurr (Buhlertal, Germany/Biochemistry), Crystal Pitney (Fairbanks, ÐÓ°Épro/Business Administration) and Rebecca Konieczny (West Yellowstone, Mont./Biological Sciences), juniors Raphaela Sieber (Vöhrenbach, Germany/Business Administration) and Heather Edic (Fairbanks, ÐÓ°Épro/Civil Engineering) and sophomore Alyson McPhetres (Chugiak, ÐÓ°Épro/Spanish and Geological Engineering).