Brooke Hovey - women's prelim winner 1.30 seconds ahead of Kikkan.

Chris Cook, Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation - men's prelim winner 4, four seconds ahead of second.  SVSEF is having a good week so far.

Kikkan Randall, APU.

  Ida and Liz.

How many Burke girls in the heats?  3 juniors.

Laura Valaas, Whitman College, is coming on this year...

Tazlina Manniz - APU - anouther great young racer.

NMU, Burke, Methow Valley Ski Team, Northeast Nordic, APU, Nordic Ski Club of Fairbanks, Sun Valley, and Crested Butte all put juniors in the women's senior heats.  Great work all. 

MSU and Middlebury had one skier each under 20 years old in the men's heats.

What kind of gap do you need to not get caught on the long downhill toward the finish.  This long.  Cook killed it.

Chris Cook - if you remember - also had a great World Cup sprint in Canada...

Kikkan on the way to the finish... way in front.

Comments idea... how do we best bridge the gap between junior racing and senior racing?  Other topics welcome...

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