STOWE, Vt. – After almost a two week hiatus, four Alaska Nanooks hit the trails for the 2019 NCAA Skiing National Championships this Wednesday, Mar. 6 and Friday, Mar. 8 at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont. After participating in the NCAA West Region Championships and the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association Championships in Anchorage two weeks ago, the Nooks qualified two men and two women for the national championships.
 

NCAA Skiing Website	2019 NCAA Skiing National Championships
Dates & Times	Wednesday, Mar. 6 | Men at 6am AKST – Women at 8am AKST Friday, Mar. 8 | Women at 6am AKST – Men at 8am AKST
Location	Trapp Family Lodge | Stowe, Vermont
Distances & Races	Wednesday, Mar. 6 | 10/5km individual-start, freestyle race Friday, Mar. 8 | 20/15km mass-start, classic race
Follow Along	Wednesday, Mar. 6 | Freestyle Race | Webstreaming Link Friday, Mar. 8 | Classic Race | Webstreaming Link
Live Results	Seeding & Live Results

Team Scoring
The 2019 NCAA Skiing Championships combine scores from both alpine and Nordic skiing. Unfortunately, the Alaska Nanooks do not sponsor an alpine skiing team, which means they will not be able to win the overall team national championship title since they cannot catch up in the point standings to programs that qualified a full alpine and Nordic team (three men and three women for alpine, three men and three women for Nordic, which equals 12 skiing scores over four days of competition). Since the Nooks didn't qualify a full women's Nordic and full men's Nordic teams, they will not be eligible to earn a Nordic team championship title either.

All-American Status
The Alaska Nanooks have a chance to become All-Americans this weekend, as the qualification for becoming one is to finish in the top-10 overall in either the classic or the freestyle races. Former Nanook Sarissa Lammers is the most recent All-American, being named a Second team All-American after placing eighth in the 15km mass-start freestyle race in the 2017 championships.

Line-Ups
Representing the Alaska Nanooks at the NCAA's this week is sophomore Anja Maijala and senior Kati Roivas for the women and senior Max Donaldson and redshirt-senior Seiji Takagi for the men.

Women's Top-times
Anja Maijala

	Season-Best	Career-Best
5km Freestyle	15:56.4 (1/12/19)	15:56.4 (1/12/19)
15km Classic	59:33.0 (1/19/19)	59:33.0 (1/19/19)

Kati Roivas

	Season-Best	Career-Best
5km Freestyle	15:19.4 (1/12/19)	15:19.4 (1/12/19)
15km Classic	53:05.0 (1/19/19)	53:05.0 (1/19/19)

Men's Top-times
Max Donaldson

	Season-Best	Career-Best
10km Freestyle	28:24.4 (1/12/19)	21:25.9 (2/13/16)
20km Classic	57:11.6 (2/22/19)	57:11.6 (2/22/19)

Seiji Takagi

	Season-Best	Career-Best
10km Freestyle	26:58.3	21:17.7 (2/13/16)
20km Classic	1:08:49.0 (1/19/19)	59:33.0 (1/19/19)

For more information on the Alaska Nanooks men's and women's Nordic ski teams, follow @AlaskaNanooksXC on Twitter or like the Alaska Nanooks XC team page on Facebook.