Jerome Adds Markset and Uhl to Women’s Ski Team

Jerome Adds Markset and Uhl to Women’s Ski Team

FAIRBANKS – Head coach Scott Jerome announced the Alaska women's skiing program has added a pair of European skiers to the roster for the 2014-15 season as Anne-Tine Markset (Oslo, Norway) will transfer from a top Division I school and Anni Uhl (Muehlenbach, Germany) signed a National Letter of Intent.
 
Markset comes to the Nanooks after skiing one season at the University of Denver and will have three years of eligibility remaining while Uhl enters as a freshman with four years of eligibility.
 
Markset spent last season as a member of the national champion Denver Pioneers ski team and only raced four times due to an in-season injury.
 
Prior to college, she represented her native country of Norway at the 2012 Junior World Championships in Turkey, where she produced one 21st-place finish and helped Norway finish sixth as a team. She also was third at the Norwegian national championships that same year in the girls' senior relay.
 
As a prep, Markset was a member of a junior national championship team in a relay at the 2011 event in Selbu. She was also third in a relay at the national championship in the senior division in 2010 while also helping her relay win the Youth Olympic Festival in Poland back in 2009.
 
Individually, she won a plethora of big events in 2009 and 2010. She was the youth Olympic champion in the 7.5-kilometer skate in 2009, while also claiming the overall national Norwegian Cup as a junior and the national junior championship in the biathlon. The following year she won the overall Norwegian national cup for juniors in both skiing and the biathlon, was a junior national champion in the same events and was a silver medalist at the European Youth Orienteering Championships in the individual long distance race.
 
Uhl has 14 years of skiing experience in both the classic and skate events while also running cross country for more than a decade. She was second place and third place for Bade-Wuerttembergische Meisterin, which recognizes her as the second-best and third-best woman from the south of Germany while she skied for SC Muehlenbach in 2014.
 
She has registered personal-best times of 22 minutes, 37 seconds in the 7.5K classic, 25:42 in the 10K skate and 43:38 in the 10K cross country running race.
 
Markset will major in psychology and Uhl will major in general studies this coming semester.
 
The duo joins Martina Himma (Tartu, Estonia) and Sarissa Lammers (Eagle River, Alaska) on the list of newcomers for next year.
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