Minnesota Athletes Vital to Growth and Success in Nordic Skiing

January 12, 2024 While the lack of snow has curtailed cross country skiing in Minnesota this winter, the World Cup championship races in Europe have a strong dose of Minnesota participation and history.  Jessie Diggins continues to amaze; the 5’ 4” Afton, Minnesota athlete has a significant lead in the standings for 2023-24.  It follows

David Van Orsdel: RUNNER TURNED EUROPEAN PROFESSIONAL CYCLIST NOW “ALL IN” AS HE RIDES ON EMOTION

November 16, 2022 “I was always obsessed with sports,” says David Van Orsdelwho moved to Hopkins, Minnesota from Minneapolis at the age of one. One of two sons of Lil (Lundeen) and Scott Van Orsdel, a sprinter at Concordia College in Moorhead, David, born in 1984, grew to 5’ 8” by 8th grade—and has remained

Garrott Kuzzy: Prost! PASSION NOW IS SHARING EUROPEAN SKI EXPERIENCE WITH TRAVELERS

Although 2010 Olympian Garrott Kuzzy, born in 1982, grew up a few blocks east of Theodore Wirth Park, a 2020 World Cup site, he didn’t ski there much  One of three children from an athletic family (one sister, Laura, skied for the University of New Hampshire, while the other, Martha, was on the Virginia rowing