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Glacier Nordic team competes travels for qualifier in Utah

by The Whitefish Pilot
| January 29, 2025 1:00 AM

Race season is picking up for the Glacier Nordic ski team.  


Seven athletes and two coaches headed to the Soldier Hollow Nordic Center in Utah for the first Junior National Qualifier of the season -- the SuperQ. 


The Utah qualifier is called a SuperQ because three divisions attend: The Intermountain Division, which includes Montana, the Rocky Mountain and the Pacific Northwest divisions. Saturday also featured a Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association college race.   

During Friday’s skate sprint, all athletes raced a sprint qualifier on a hilly and fast 1.3K loop.  


Glacier Nordic athletes Findley Dezzani, Kendall Dye, Marin Gignoux and Addie Nerdig all qualified to ski in heats.  


Sprint heats take the top 30 qualified athletes and race five rounds of six racing head-to-head. Dezzani ended up sixth overall in U18 and Dye raced to sixth place for U16.  


Saturday's race was a classic distance race in pristine classic conditions. Dezzani was eighth in the 7.5K for the Intermountain Division. Dye had a stellar race, gracefully striding the 5K into 13th place in the Intermountain Division among her older peers.  


There are three Junior Qualifier events leading up to Junior Nationals, an invite-only race week in March where the athletes race against the best juniors in the country. 


Other Glacier Nordic results:  


Addie Nerdig 13 (U14), Marin Gignoux 14 (U14), Liam Browne 37 (U18), Euelle Browne 38 (U16), Peter Schram 48 (U16) 




    Liam Browne competes at Soldier Hollow in Utah Jan. 18. (Photo provided by GNC)
 
 
    Findley Dezzani competes at the JNQ in Soldier Hollow in Utah Jan. 18. (Photo provided by Glacier Nordic)
 
 
    Kendall Dye competes at the JNQ in Soldier Hollow in Utah Jan. 18. (Photo provided by Glacier Nordic)