Q. How long have you been skiing? 5 years Q. What is your hometown and home club? Walden Cross Country in Sudbury, Ontario Q. Why do you like skiing? The positive environment and fun people. Q. Are you going to school? Or working? Tell us about that. Studying Biochemistry at Lakehead University and working part time at Mountain Warehouse. Really enjoying both. Q. …
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Antoine Cyr, Graham Ritchie 7th for Canada at cross-country ski worlds
Teammates Dahria Beatty, Maya MacIsaac-Jones place 12th in women’s race Graham Ritchie of Parry Sound, Ont., pictured, and teammate Antoine Cyr posted a time of 15 minutes 18.80 seconds for a seventh-place finish in the skate-ski team sprint at the cross-country world championships on Sunday in Oberstdorf, Germany. (Matthias Hangst/Getty Images)
Athlete Intro – Sophie Tremblay
Introducing SOPHIE TREMBLAY Q. How long have you been skiing? I’ve been skiing for 14 years. Q. What is your hometown and home club? I’m from Ottawa, coached by my dad, and started skiing competitively with Nakkertok two years ago. Q. Any special memories about your early days in skiing? Skiing for cookies and racing my brother for hot chocolate. Q. Early competitions? …
Athlete Intro – Shaylyn Loewen
Next up for our athlete introductions is SHAYLYN LOEWEN. This is Shay’s third year with the NTDC team. This winter Shay competed in Vuokatti Finland as part of Team Canada at the 2021 FIS Junior/U23 World Championships. Shaylynn hails from Parry Sound and her home club is Georgian Nordic. How long have you been skiing? I’ve been skiing for 12 years. Any special memories about your …
Athlete Intro – Guillaume Pelchat
Q. How long have you been skiing? 15 years Q. What is your hometown and home club? I was born in Pembroke and my home club is Pembroke Nordic Q. Any special memories about your early days in skiing? When me and my mother would go for skis and stop to eat snacks in a hut in the forest. Q. …
Athlete Intro – Graham Ritchie
Athlete introductions continued….. GRAHAM RITCHIE, another NTDC veteran, National Ski Team member, and member of Team Canada for the FIS U23 Championships, and Period 3 World Cups. Home Club: Georgian Nordic from Parry Sound, ON Q. How long have you been skiing? I’ve been skiing for around 16 years now. My parents first put me on skis when I was about 6 years …
Athlete Intro – Pierre Grall-Johnson
Well it’s been a bit of a crazy year for sure- and it is way past time to properly introduce our 2020-21 roster of NTDC athletes. You’ve probably seen them out on the trails at Lappe, or running around town – but we haven’t really had a chance to give them each a proper intro. So here we go with some …
NTDC Athletes Named to World Cup Teams
Three NTDC Thunder Bay athletes have been named to the teams representing Canada at international events this January and February. NTDC veterans Pierre Grall-Johnson and Graham Ritchie will be part of the Canadian contingent competing in period three World Cup races in Scandinavia later this month. Ritchie and Grall-Johnson previously skied for Canada in World Cup races in 2019 and …
We ♥ NTDC Thunder Bay
Our Team Since 1993, the National Team Development Center Thunder Bay has been a leader in developing Canada’s best cross country skiers, with athletes from across the country coming to Thunder Bay to live and train in an environment that supports them in reaching their full potential. Many of Canada’s top skiers have developed right here in our back yard, …
Season Wrap 2020
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