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December 1, 2009 UAA skiers debut with the Alaska Nordic Cup

THIS WEEK: The Alaska Anchorage Nordic team will start the 2010 2010 UAA SKIING SCHEDULE season with the 6th annual Alaska Nordic Cup on Dec. 5-6 against the Date Meet Location Result Alaska Fairbanks Nanooks. The races are scheduled to commence at Dec 5-6 ALASKA NORDIC CUP Anchorage, AK All Day Jan 11-12 Utah Invite at Park City, UT All Day noon on Saturday, with a 10 a.m. AST start on Sunday. Jan 15-16 Montana State Invite at Bridger Bowl/ Bohart Ranch, MO All Day Jan 17 Alpine NCAA Qualifier at Bridger Bowl, MO All Day MEET DETAILS Jan 22-23 Utah Invite at Soldier Hollow, UT All Day Feb 5-6 New Mexico Invite at Toas/Red River, NM All Day WHAT: Alaska Nordic Cup Feb 19-20 Nevada Invite at Sugar Bowl/Truckee, CA All Day WHEN: Dec. 5 at Noon, Dec. 6 at 10 a.m. Feb 21 Alpine NCAA Qualifier at Sugar Bowl, CA All Day WHERE: Kincaid Park & Hillside, Anchorage Feb 26-27 NCAA West Regional at Steamboat Springs, CO All Day WHO: UAF & UAA Nordic Teams

On Saturday, following the Junior Nordic race, the Seawolves and the 2010 Seawolf Ski Roster MEN Nanooks will compete in a individual start skate at Kincaid Park ... the Name Pos. Yr. Hometown women will race a 10K at noon, followed by the men at 1 p.m. ... on Sun- Andreas Adde ALP Fr. Osteras, Norway day, the two teams will participate in a three-man relay (CL-CL-FR or FR Cameron Brewington ALP Fr. Calgary, Alberta Halfdan Falkum-Hansen ALP So. Oslo, Norway -FR-FR) at ... the women will race three 5K legs at 10 Andrew Fischer ALP Jr. Champlin, Minn. a.m., while the men's relay will consist of three 10Ks at 11:45 a.m. Egil Ismar ALP Jr. Baerum, Norway Christopher Kollenborg ALP Fr. Haslum, Norway Sam Lindsey NOR Fr. Whitehorse, Yukon SCOUTING ALASKA FAIRBANKS: In the pre-season, the Nanooks Michael Schallinger NOR Fr. Oberndorf, Austria competed in a U.S. Ski Association sanctioned event, the Flint Hills Karl Schauer NOR Sr. Fairbanks, Alaska Lex Treinen NOR So. Anchorage, Alaska Town Race Series on Nov. 22 … leading UAF was freshman Raphaela Max Treinen NOR Jr. Anchorage, Alaska Sieber (Voehrenbach, Germany) and sophomore Erik Soderstrom (As, Ryan Wolosyn ALP Jr. Taylorsville, Utah Sweden), placing first in the women’s and men’s races, respectively … WOMEN at last season’s NCAA Championships, UAF—which only sports a Nor- Name Pos. Yr. Hometown. Ida Bjerka ALP Fr. Tromsoe, Norway dic squad— received top performances from then-junior Julia Pierson Jaime Bronga NOR So. Anchorage, Alaska who finished 19th in the freestyle race and 21st in the classical race and Kelsey Coolidge NOR Jr. Anchorage, Alaska Petra Gantnerova ALP Fr. Kezmarok, Slovakia then-freshman Theresia Schnurr, who was 22nd and 13th … UAF is led Steffi Hiemer NOR So. Krun, Germany by 6th-year head coach Scott Jerome, and first-year assistant coach Kayla Hoog-Fry ALP Fr. Reno, Nevada Matt Dunlap (Bates College) … UAF is a member of the Central Colle- Sandra MacDonald ALP So. Summerland, B.C. Alex Parker ALP So. Calgary, Alberta giate Ski Association (CCSA). Kristina Repcinova ALP Sr. Banska Bystrica, Slovakia Laura Rombach NOR So. Neukirch, Germany Lacy Saugstad ALP Sr. Anchorage, Alaska LAST SEASON AT THE NORDIC CUP: UAA took a commanding 27-15 Sarah Tegeler NOR So. Eagle River, Alaska lead over rival Alaska Fairbanks on Day 1 of the Alaska Nordic Cup, but failed to defeat the Nanooks on Head Ski Team Coach: Trond Flagstad Day 2, losing overall, 44-40 … on Day 1, UAA grabbed Alpine Coach: Sparky Anderson the top four places on the men’s side and the top two Assistant Nordic Coach: Mandy Kaempf on the women’s side—led by winners Raphael Graduate Assistant Coach (Alpine): Dan McKay

Wunderle and Jaime Bronga in the freestyle races … in their first action of the season, the Seawolf men UAA SKI TEAM QUICK FACTS earned the maximum 15 points by sweeping the top- GENERAL Treinen Home Venues: Alyeska Resort (Alpine) & Kincaid Park (Nordic) four spots in the head-to-head competition … Wunderle Affiliation: NCAA Division I covered the 7.5-kilometer course in 20 minutes, 52 seconds to beat Conference: Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association teammate then-sophomore Max Treinen by 10 seconds … on the HISTORY First year of intercollegiate skiing: 1977 ALASKA NORDIC CUP RESULTS All-time All American certificates: 115 (W-51; M-64) Year Home Score Visitor Score Winner Best NCAA Result: 4th (2009) 2004-05 — UAF: M-11, W-10 21 UAA: M-10, W-11 21 TIE Individual NCAA Titles: 8 2005-06 — UAA: M-15, W-9 24 UAF: M-6, W-12 18 UAA 2006-07 — UAF: M-10, W-12 22 UAA: M-11, W-9 20 UAF TEAM INFORMATION 2007-08 — UAA: M-22, W-18 40 UAF: M-20, W-24 44 UAF 2008-09 — UAF: M-21 , W-23 44 UAA: M: 21, W:19 40 UAF 2009 NCAA Finish: 4th 2009 RMISA/NCAA West Regional Finish: 5th of 9 2009 Honors

All-American Sadie Bjornsen women’s side, UAA earned a 12-9 cushion over the Nanooks thanks to a solid debut from Bronga (17:34) … the Nanooks retaliated on Day 2 to Lex Treinen defeat the Seawolves 29-13 … the Nordic Cup returned to Fairbanks for Max Treinen the second consecutive year … UAF holds a 3-1-1 record in the dual Alex Parker (2) meet. Raphael Wunderle (2)

2010 SEASON PREVIEW: Following a record-breaking All-Conference season in 2009, the 2010 edition of the Alaska Anchor- Sadie Bjornsen age ski team returns with the ability to be the best yet Jaime Bronga … the 2010 roster boasts five All-Americans, six All- Alex Parker Conference performers and the 2009 RMISA Alpine Halfdan Falkum-Hansen MVP, sophomore Alex Parker … after finishing a pro- Max Treinen gram-best 4th place at the 2009 NCAA Championships, PARKER Raphael Wunderle the Seawolves will be aiming for a top-3 team finish this season … a total of 16 returners (7 men, 9 women) will lead a group of RMISA MVP eight newcomers (5 men, 3 women) … seven men and women will make Women’s Alpine– Alex Parker up the Alpine team, while the Nordic squad will consist of 10 athletes (5 Women’s Alpine Team-Regional men, 5 women) … in addition to two-time All-American Parker, the Sea- Champions wolves return a 2008 All-American in senior Kristina Repcinova, who redshirted last season due to an injury … the Alpine duo will be joined by All-Academic another 2008 All-American on the men’s side, junior Egil Ismar … on Sadie Bjornsen the Nordic squad, the Seawolves return two All-Americans from last Jaime Bronga season, brothers Max Treinen (junior) and Lex Treinen (sophomore) . Amy Glen Sandra MacDonald 2009 SEASON REVIEW: After being predicted to finish 7th in Ski Rac- Alex Parker ing Magazine’s annual preseason NCAA coaches’ poll, UAA completed Laura Rombach the year with a record-breaking 4th-place performance at Nationals, Sarah Tegler producing seven All-Americans … the 2009 season started off with UAA Jeff Crompton winning its first ever invitational — the Seawolf Invite on Jan. 8-11. Dur- Dan McKay ing the same week, the Seawolves registered their second-best finish, Nils Sandtroen third, in the UAA Invite … UAA wound up fourth in the RMISA’s regular- Karl Schauer season standings as six UAA skiers received All-Conference recogni- Max Treinen tion . the women’s Alpine team were crowned RMISA champions, with Raphael Wunderle then-freshman Alex Parker taking home the Alpine MVP trophy … the Seawolves also posted a program-best 13 student-athletes on the 2009 National Ski Coaches Association All-Academic team. Trond Flagstad UAA Head Coach

 Ninth season overall with the University of Alaska Anchorage ski team and his sixth as the head coach for the Seawolf ski program in 2009-10. Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association  UAA skiers have earned a combined 26 All- Nationally known as the strongest and most competitive America accolades since Flagstad took over conference in collegiate skiing, the Rocky Mountain Intercol- the reigns of the program, and 45 overall legiate Ski Association is rich in tradition, history and success. since he joined the Seawolf coaching staff in The nine-member conference is comprised of Alaska An- 2001. He has also coached two individual National Champions. chorage, Colorado, Denver, Montana State, Nevada, New  In 2008-09, he led UAA to a program-best 4th place finish at the NCAAs Mexico, Utah, Western State and Whitman College. Charter with a full (12) team, produced five All-Americans, six All-Conference league member Wyoming began competing (Nordic only) in selections and a conference MVP/ regular-season events in 2006. In 2007-08 the Seawolves qualified 10 skiers for the NCAA Champion- RMISA schools have claimed 14 of the last 15 NCAA titles.  ships, produced three All-Americans, two All-Conference selections, a conference MVP and captured their 24th top-10 result at Nationals in program history.  UAA Nordic skiers have posted 11 top-10 finishes at Nationals the last four seasons combined, and have produced at least three All-America honor- ees seven of the last six years.  Flagstad was an assistant with UAA’s Nordic team from 2001-03. 2008-09 UAA SKI TEAM RESULTS

ALPINE RESULTS NORDIC RESULTS Meet/Date Overall Points MGS MSL WGS WSL MCL MFR WCL WFR Alaska Nordic Cup (11/22-23) 2nd (2) 40 — — — — 6 15 7 12 Seawolf Invite 1st (9) 554 58 55 68 77 69 71 78 78 UAA Invite 3rd (9) 529 76 39 67 45 69 78 74 81 Colorado Invite 5th(9) 450 66 47 59 73 49 59 46 51 RMISA Qualifier No TM Score 61 63 62 73 — — — — Denver Invite 5th (9) 453 69 50 49 69 59 47 58 52 RMISA Champ/ NCAA West Reg. 5th(9) 447 70 47 61 44 47 57 72 49 NCAA Championships 4th (22) 584 48 35 60 58 98 130 77 78

MGS-Men’s ; MSL-Men’s Slalom; WGS-Women’s Giant Slalom; WSL-Women’s Slalom MCL-Men’s Classical; MFR-Men’s Freestyle; WCL-Women’s Classical; WFR-Women’s Freestyle

INDIVIDUAL ALPINE RESULTS MEN Meet Seawolf Invite UAA Invite Colorado Invite RMISA Qualifier Denver Invite Regional NCAAs Skier GS SL GS SL GS SL GS SL GS SL GS SL GS SL Jeff Crompton 27th DNC 18th 28th 28th 21st 24th DNF 28th 20th 27th 26th DNC DNC Halfdan Falkum-Hansen 13th 8th 2nd DNC 11th 10th 5th 7th 4th 9th 4th DNF 21st 16th Andrew Fischer 34th DNF DNF 30th 31st DNF DNC 13th DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC Jonathan Hverven 7th DNC DNC DNC 6th DNF 16th DNF 12th 22nd 8th 19th 29th DNF Egil Ismar DNC 16th 7th 26th 12th 33rd 21st 11th 8th DNF 31st 10th 22nd 29th Dan McKay 25th 21st 17th 24th 25th 23rd 37th 15th 30th 19th 37th 27th DNC DNC Ryan Wolosyn DNF 27th 11th 21st 38th 29th 14th DNF DNF 25th 11th 24th DNC DNC Total Finishers 50 43 41 50 38 35 37 26 38 36 38 36 34 34

WOMEN Meet Seawolf Invite UAA Invite Colorado Invite RMISA Qualifier Denver Invite Regional NCAAs Skier GS SL GS SL GS SL GS SL GS SL GS SL GS SL Allison Empey 18th 11th 9th 12th DNF 11th 15th DNF 34th 13th 11th 23rd DNC DNC Sandra MacDonald 9th 14th 5th 19th 14th DQ 17th 13th 33rd 24th 14th DNC 33rd 30th Alex Parker 1st 1st 39th 28th 1st 1st 1st 2nd 1st 2nd 7th 19th 4th 7th *Kristina Repcinova DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC Lacy Saugstad 24th 4th 13th 26th 21st 8th 26th 5th 23rd 11th 19th 18th 28th 26th Total Finishers 45 36 42 43 33 32 36 26 34 38 33 36 35 34

GS-Giant Slalom; SL-Slalom DNF-did not finish; DNC-did not compete, DQ-Disqualified *Redshirted 2009 Season INDIVIDUAL NORDIC RESULTS MEN Meet Nordic Cup Seawolf Invite UAA Invite Colorado Invite Denver Invite Regional NCAAs 7.5k 5k 15K 15K 10K 10K 10K 21K 10K 5K 20K 10K 20K 10K Skier CL FR CL FR CL FR CL FR CL FR CL FR CL FR Nils Kristen Sandtroen DNC 3rd 11th 19th 28th 34th 20th 24th DNC DNC 34th 29th DNC DNC Karl Schauer 22nd DNC 31st 34th 35th 30th 34th 37th 31st 37th 29th 37th DNC DNC Lex Treinen 19th 4th 26th 9th 16th 6th DNC DNC DNC DNC 26th 13th 16th 2nd Max Treinen 5th 2nd 8th 6th 4th 4th 18th 8th 9th 22nd 20th 18th 13th 5th Raphael Wunderle 8th 1st 5th 7th 5th 5th 12th 6th 3rd 2nd 9th 7th 2nd 3rd Total Finishers 26 12 44 44 44 44 48 48 46 45 42 40 39 39

WOMEN Meet Nordic Cup Seawolf Invite UAA Invite Colorado Invite Denver Invite Regional NCAAs 5k 5k 10K 10K 5K 5K 5K 15K 5K 5K 15K 5K 15K 5K Skier CL FR CL FR CL FR CL FR CL FR CL FR CL FR Sadie Bjornsen DNC DNC 2nd 6th 3rd 3rd DNC DNC DNC DNC 4th 14th 3rd 19th Jamie Bronga 5th 1st 6th 1st 10th 4th 16th 13th 9th 15th 15th 17th 24th 12th *Kelsey Coolidge DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC Amy Glen DNC 2nd DNC DNC DNC 5th 24th 31st DNC DNC 19th 21st DNC DNC Steffi Hiemer DNC DNC 15th 11th DNC 14th 19th 17th 12th 17th 11th 22nd DNC DNC Rachelle Kanady 8th 8th 19th 21st 24th 23rd 32nd 23rd 23rd 27th DNC DNC DNC DNC Laura Romach DNC DNC 7th 8th 12th 19th 18th 12th 14th 9th 6th 13th 23rd 11th Sarah Tegler 15th 6th 34th DNC 37th 35th DNC DNC DNC DNC 27th 32nd DNC DNC Total Finishers 23 9 36 34 39 36 42 40 46 33 44 35 39 38

CL-Classical; FR-Freestyle DNF-did not finish; DNC-did not compete, DQ-Disqualified