Doug Maki enjoying the ride of his life. Below he discusses whether returning to some of the less-structured practices of days gone by might make us all a little better.
KEVIN BICKNER (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Will Rhoads
Nordic Combined Team Event
Grant Andrews, COC Rena, Norway, 2018
Logan Sankey
2018 Women's Ski Jumping Normal Hill National Championships Podium.
Annika Belshaw – U.S. Nordic Combined Championships at Soldier Hollow. (c) 2021 Tom Kelly
Suicide Hill
Jasper Good races for position ahead of teammate Jared Shumate. (Mackenzie Moran/USA Nordic)
Logan Sankey flies to fourth at trials for 2017 Nordic Junior World Championships at Utah Olympic Park. (U.S. Ski Team-Tom Kelly)
Ishpeming at night (Photo Credit – Mike Johns; michaeljohns.net)
Annika Belshaw 5th place
Casey Larson – USA Nordic’s U.S. Ski Jumping Championships on the HS100m normal hill at the Utah Olympic Park. (c) 2021 Tom Kelly,
Alaskan Greeting Party
Logan Sankey
Alaska Recruiting Fall 2017
ABBY RINGQUIST (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Tara Geraghty-Moats made history winning the first FIS Nordic Combined World Cup for women in Ramsau, Austria in a close matchup with Norway’s Gyda Westvold Hansen.
STEPHEN SCHUMANN
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Abby Ringquist (FIS-Sandra Volk)
NINA LUSSI 2018 US Olympic Trials
Ben Loomis, Chaux-Neuve, 2018
USA Nordic Ski Jumping
Sarah Hendrickson : WSJUSA : 2017
2016 L.L. Bean U.S. Ski Jumping Championships at the Utah Olympic Park, Park City, UT
HS-134
Photo: U.S. Ski Team
Kevin Bickner Podium 1, Kranj, Slovenia
USA Nordic Junior National Ladies
Dave Jarrett celebrates America's first Nordic Combined Olympic Medalist, Johnny Spillane
BRYAN FLETCHER (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
2018 Mens Ski Jumping Normal Hill National Championships Podium.
JASPER MEYERS TOSSING THE V AND CATCHING BIG AIR on the Ford Sayre/Hanover (NH) K32 while amazed classmates watch from the knoll.
Casey Larson
USA Nordic athletes climb a hill in a snowstorm during the FIS Nordic Combined Continental Cup at Soldier Hollow. (Mackenzie Moran/USA Nordic)
Will Rhoads Portrait, Kranj, Slovenia
At the amazing Planica jump complex.
BILLY DEMONG
Niklas Malacinski chases down Continental Cup leader Jakob Lange. (Mackenzie Moran/USA Nordic)
Ticket to Fly previews the upcoming Four Hills Tournament
Abby Hughes
2018 Women's Nordic Combined National Championships Podium.
Bryan Fletcher
AJ Brown (Photo Credit – Sabine Link)
Sarah Hendrickson
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BRYAN FLETCHER
Backcountry will serve as the official online retail store of licensed USA Nordic apparel and will provide all USA Nordic athletes with official Backcountry attire.
ADAM LOOMIS
Nita Englund : USAnordic : 2017
Stephen
Taylor Fletcher, COC Rena, Norway, 2018
Abby Ringquist & Jed Hinkley of USA Nordic
USA Nordic athletes stand ready for the debut of the women’s FIS Nordic Combined World Cup in Ramsau, Austria, showing off their new Podiumwear uniforms. Team includes (from left) Tara Geraghty-Moats, Alexa Brabek, Annika Malacinski and Tess Arnone. (Tomas Matura)
Karl Eid Ski Jumps
Nick Hendrickson, Utah Ski Team Oct. 3, 2014 in Salt lake City, Utah. (Steve C. Wilson/University of Utah)
Adam Loomis
Abby Ringquist
Tara Geraghty-Moats
KEVIN BICKNER (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Abby Ringquist
Trevor Edlund (Woodbury, MN) of the St. Paul Ski Club soars to third in the trials for 2017 Nordic Junior World Championships at Utah Olympic Park. (U.S. Ski Team-Tom Kelly)
BRYAN FLETCHER (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes (CAN)
2018 Mens Ski Jumping Normal Hill National Championships Podium.
Bryan Fletcher
BEN LOOMIS 2018 US Olympic Trials (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
NITA ENGLUND (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
BRYAN FLETCHER
Ben Berend, Chaux-Neuve, 2018
ABBY RINGQUIST (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Taylor Fletcher, 3rd Place, COC Rena, Norway, 2018
2018 Park City Continental Cup
2018 Mens Nordic Combined National Championships Podium.
Iron Mountain, MI
Stephen Schumann; 2016 Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Large Hill Championships; Park City, Utah; Photo: Tyler Tate/T Squared Action Sports
Nick Mattoon (Photo Credit – Sabine Link)
2016 L.L. Bean U.S. Ski Jumping Championships at the Utah Olympic Park, Park City, UT
HS-134
Photo: U.S. Ski Team
Kevin Bickner (Photo Credit – Tadeusz Mieczynski)
Author Will Rhoads, after successfully defending his National Title. USSA Photo.
Kevin Bickner Flight, Kranj, Slovenia
Casey Larson (Barrington, IL) of the Norge Ski Club wins his second straight tryout event for 2017 Nordic Junior World Championships at Utah Olympic Park. (U.S. Ski Team-Tom Kelly)
WILL RHOADS (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
2019 Junior Worlds Park City
Ben
USA Nordic livestream tent
Team Photo 2, Kranj, Slovenia
CASEY LARSON (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes Flight Kranj, Slovenia,
USA Nordic Russel Wilder Award Chairman’s Award Dinner 2017 U.S. Ski & Snowboard Congress
Logan Sankey flies to fourth at trials for 2017 Nordic Junior World Championships at Utah Olympic Park. (U.S. Ski Team-Tom Kelly)
Youngsters battle it out in the 5 km rollerski race
SARAH HENDRICKSON, 2018 US Olympic Trials (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Podium, 2018 US Womens Ski Jumping Olympic Trials (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
MICHAEL GLASDER AND SARAH HENDRICKSON, 2018 US Olympic Trials (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Kevin Bickner, here in training, has been leading USA Nordic’s Ski Jumpers so far this summer.
CASEY LARSON (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
JASPER GOOD (PC – Romina Eggert)
2018 Park City Continental Cup
Bryan Fletcher
Ben started 2nd and finished 5th at Nationals, another PR.
Will Rhoads Portrait, Kranj, Slovenia
Casey Larson (Barrington, IL) of the Norge Ski Club wins his second straight tryout event for 2017 Nordic Junior World Championships at Utah Olympic Park. (U.S. Ski Team-Tom Kelly)
USA Nordic athletes stand ready for the debut of the women’s FIS Nordic Combined World Cup in Ramsau, Austria, showing off their new Podiumwear uniforms. Team includes (from left) Tara Geraghty-Moats, Alexa Brabek, Annika Malacinski and Tess Arnone. (Tomas Matura)
ADAM LOOMIS
Jasper Good
Billy Demong achieved the ultimate goal in his sport – Olympic gold! Today he’s leading the next generation as the head of USA Nordic and an advocate for sport.
Logan Sankey flies to fourth at trials for 2017 Nordic Junior World Championships at Utah Olympic Park. (U.S. Ski Team-Tom Kelly)
Youngsters battle it out in the 5 km rollerski race
Coach Dave Jarrett
Team Magnus and USA Nordic are partnering to provides skis to kids at clubs across America
Henry Johnstone
SARAH HENDRICKSON (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Giant Pine Mountain
Backcountry partners with USA Nordic
Kevin Bickner Flight, Kranj, Slovenia
ABBY RINGQUIST (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Kevin Bickner Podium 2, Kranj, Slovenia
Kevin Bickner flies to gold in the HS100 meter L.L.Bean U.S. Ski Jumping Championships.
Taylor Fletcher – U.S. Nordic Combined Championships at Soldier Hollow. (c) 2021 Tom Kelly
Crowd at Giant Pine Mountain
USA Nordic’s history women’s nordic combined team at the FIS Nordic Ski World Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany. From left: Annika Malacinski, Tess Arnone, Alexa Brabec and Tara Geraghty-Moats. (Photo: Tom Horrocks)
PODCAST – Billy Demong: From Medals to Sport Leader
BEN LOOMIS 2018 US Olympic Trials (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Rachael Haerter
Kevin Bickner of the USA competes during the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup Flying Hill Team Event in Planica, Slovenia on March 25, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Jure Makovec (Photo credit should read JURE MAKOVEC/AFP/Getty Images)
Kevin Bickner Portrait, Kranj, Slovenia
Tara Geraghty-Moats : Ski Jumping : WSJUSA : Sapporo , Japan : January 13, 2017. Photograph by Ben Pieper
SARAH HENDRICKSON, 2018 US Olympic Trials (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Will Rhoads
Team Magnus will partner with USA Nordic to introduce kids across the country to skiing.
Gabby Armstrong, COC Rena, Norway, 2018
Nina Lussi
USA Nordic Junior National Team
Nina Lussi, first-ever Women's Nordic Combined National Champion.
WILL RHOADS (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Will Rhoads
WSJUSA : 2017 : Nita Englund
MICHAEL GLASDER (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Casey Larson – USA Nordic’s U.S. Ski Jumping Championships on the HS100m normal hill at the Utah Olympic Park. (c) 2021 Tom Kelly,
Kevin Bickner; 2016 Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Large Hill Championships; Park City, Utah; Photo: Tyler Tate/T Squared Action Sports
Preview of upcoming Four Hills Tournament
USAnordic : 2017
Kevin Bickner of the USA competes during the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup Flying Hill Team Event in Planica, Slovenia on March 25, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Jure Makovec (Photo credit should read JURE MAKOVEC/AFP/Getty Images)
Kevin Bickner of the USA competes during the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup Flying Hill Team Event in Planica, Slovenia on March 25, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Jure Makovec (Photo credit should read JURE MAKOVEC/AFP/Getty Images)
Kevin Bickner Podium 3, Kranj Slovenia
Kevin Bickner; 2016 Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Large Hill Championships; Park City, Utah; Photo: Tyler Tate/T Squared Action Sports
2018 USA NORDIC OLYMPIC TEAM (Photo Credit: Abby Ringquist)
Taylor Fletcher
2018 Park City Continental Cup
Jared Shumate (Ben Pieper: Point Productions LLC)
NINA LUSSI
USA Nordic Merchandise
BEN BEREND (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Mt Werner
Westby Ski Jump
Kevin Bickner Podium 2, Kranj, Slovenia
Sarah Hendrickson
Grant Andrews, COC Rena, Norway, 2018
Kevin Bickner
Will Rhoads
Anna Hoffmann 6th Place
BILLY DEMONG
Adeline Swanson
Tara Geraghty-Moats made history winning the first FIS Nordic Combined World Cup for women in Ramsau, Austria in a close matchup with Norway’s Gyda Westvold Hansen.
Nita Englund
Will Rhoads
Mike Glasder Portrait, Kranj, Slovenia
Podium, 2018 US Womens Ski Jumping Olympic Trials (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
NINA LUSSI
2017 WSJUSA : Abby Ringquist
Ben Berend
Nordic Combined Team Event
Trials for 2017 Nordic Junior World Championships at Utah Olympic Park. (U.S. Ski Team-Tom Kelly)
Michael Glasder
Ticket to Fly previews the upcoming Four Hills Tournament
USA Nordic athletes stand ready for the debut of the women’s FIS Nordic Combined World Cup in Ramsau, Austria, showing off their new Podiumwear uniforms. Team includes (from left) Tara Geraghty-Moats, Alexa Brabek, Annika Malacinski and Tess Arnone. (Tomas Matura)
Setting up at Westby Ski Jump (Photo Credit: Mike Johns; michaeljohns.net)
ABBY RINGQUIST (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Ishpeming at night (Photo Credit – Mike Johns; michaeljohns.net)
Three USA Nordic ski jumpers to compete at ski flying world championships.
Tara Geraghty-Moats
Ben Loomis (Photo Credit – Romina Eggert)
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BRYAN FLETCHER (Photo Credit – Romina Eggert)
Logan Sankey
Taylor Fletcher
Nita Englund
BRYAN FLETCHER (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
tara geraghty-moats
MICHAEL GLASDER (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Michael Glasder
KEVIN BICKNER (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Sarah Hendrickson : WSJUSA : 2017
Casey Larson (Photo Credit – Sabine Link)
Adam Loomis
Kevin Bickner
USA Nordic athletes stand ready for the debut of the women’s FIS Nordic Combined World Cup in Ramsau, Austria, showing off their new Podiumwear uniforms. Team includes (from left) Tara Geraghty-Moats, Alexa Brabek, Annika Malacinski and Tess Arnone. (Tomas Matura)
Adam Loomis, COC Rena, Norway, 2018
Sarah Hendrickson (FIS-Sandra Volk)
TAYLOR FLETCHER (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Bickner at SGP in Klingenthal, GER this summer. Aga Pająk photo.
Ben
BEN LOOMIS (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Taylor Fletcher
COC Podium, Sunday, 12-17-17
Jed Hinkley
Will Rhoads
Ben Loomis (Photo Credit – Romina Eggert)
Landon Lee
Ben Berend (Photo Credit – Romina Eggert)
MICHAEL GLASDER, 2018 US Olympic Trials (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Media Day : USAnordic 2019
Michael Glasder
Dan Englund at work
KEVIN BICKNER (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Trevor Edlund (Woodbury, MN) of the St. Paul Ski Club soars to third in the trials for 2017 Nordic Junior World Championships at Utah Olympic Park. (U.S. Ski Team-Tom Kelly)
Will Rhoads
BEN LOOMIS (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
tara geraghty-moats
Ben started 2nd and finished 5th at Nationals, another PR.
Alaskan Greeting Party
Head Coach Martin Bayer
Taylor Fletcher
Jasper Good
Bill Demong
Bryan Fletcher
Logan Sankey
Karl Eid Ski Jumps
MICHAEL GLASDER (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
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Ben Pieper
Bryan Fletcher
TARA GERAGHTY-MOATS
Stephen Schumann – USANA FIS Junior Nordic World Championships nordic combined 5k. (U.S. Ski Team – Tom Kelly)
2017 U.S. Ski Jumping Championships at the UOP
HS 134 meter jump
Photo: U.S. Ski & Snowboard
Kevin Bickner
TAYLOR FLECTHER (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
BRYAN FLETCHER (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Livestream volunteers are paramount to our productions
Stephen, racing to a career best 6th at Nationals.
SARAH HENDRICKSON (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Ben Loomis – USANA FIS Junior Nordic World Championships nordic combined 5k. (U.S. Ski Team – Tom Kelly)
Sarah Hendrickson
Tom Kelly/USSA Photo
Media Day : USAnordic 2019
Bryan Fletcher
GRANT ANDREWS
BRYAN FLETCHER (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Aspen Benett-Manke
Will Rhoads, Kranj, Slovenia
COC Notodden, Dec 15, 2017
Kevin Bickner of the USA competes during the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup Flying Hill Team Event in Planica, Slovenia on March 25, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Jure Makovec (Photo credit should read JURE MAKOVEC/AFP/Getty Images)
SARAH HENDRICKSON
Kevin Bickner Ski Flying World Championships 2018
Kevin Bickner – L.L.Bean U.S. Ski Jumping Championships, Utah Olympic Park HS134 meter. (USSA-Tom Kelly)
Stephen Schumann – USANA FIS Junior Nordic World Championships nordic combined 5k. (U.S. Ski Team – Tom Kelly)
Tom Kelly/USSA Photo
USAnordic : 2017
SARAH HENDRICKSON (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Tara Geraghty-Moats
Bryan Fletcher
SARAH HENDRICKSON, 2018 US Olympic Trials (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
2018 Park City Continental Cup
Will Rhoads
Hitting the road for US Cup 2018
ISHPEMING, MI TOURNAMENT in 1937.
Ben Loomis – USANA FIS Junior Nordic World Championships nordic combined 5k. (U.S. Ski Team – Tom Kelly)
Kevin Bickner 3rd Place Kranj, SLO
Keeping the trailer clean…
Ben Loomis
Jared Shumate, COC Rena, Norway, 2018
Ben Loomis
JASPER MEYERS TOSSING THE V AND CATCHING BIG AIR on the Ford Sayre/Hanover (NH) K32 while amazed classmates watch from the knoll.
Tara Geraghty-Moats made history winning the first FIS Nordic Combined World Cup for women in Ramsau, Austria in a close matchup with Norway’s Gyda Westvold Hansen.
Nordic Combined Podium
Sarah Hendrickson
Women’s ski jumping at Latemar Ski Jumping Stadium
2013 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
Val di Fiemme, Italy
Photo: Sarah Brunson/U.S. Ski Team
MICHAEL GLASDER, 2018 US Olympic Trials (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Kevin Bickner Ski Flying World Championships 2018
WILL RHOADS (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
BRYAN FLETCHER, 2018 US Olympic Trials (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Dave Jarrett celebrates America's first Nordic Combined Olympic Medalist, Johnny Spillane
JASPER GOOD (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Stephen
BRYAN FLETCHER, TAYLOR FLETCHER Podium
STEPHEN SCHUMANN
Picked up some snow on the way out of town.
Stephen Schumann, Chaux-Neuve, 2018
Michael Glasder
Podium, 2018 US Mens Ski Jumping Olympic Trials (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Sarah Hendrickson : WSJUSA : 2017
Casey Larson (Photo Credit – Sabine Link)
Taylor Fletcher
JASPER GOOD (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Media Day : USAnordic 2019
Kevin Bickner stays focused while competing in Grand Prix in Hakuba, Japan.
CASEY LARSON (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Will Rhoads
Jed Hinkley
Logan Sankey
ABBY RINGQUIST (Ben Pieper : Point Productions, LLC)
Tara Geraghty-Moats
2018 Women's Ski Jumping Normal Hill National Championships Podium.
