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Paul Smith’s College, Clarkson excel at USCSA championships

LAKE PLACID — The Paul Smith’s College Nordic ski team had a banner week at the USCSA Championships last week in Lake Placid. The Bobcats claimed their first-ever women’s national title while taking home six individual national titles, the overall men’s and women’s titles for ...

New girls travel basketball team formed

SARANAC LAKE — With the popularity of women’s basketball skyrocketing in recent years, a new youth girls travel basketball team was recently created for aspiring hoopers to improve their game. The Tri-Lakes Yetis basketball team is a group founded and coached by Saranac Lake native ...

NYSEF athletes sweep podiums at junior nationals

LAKE PLACID — Local New York State Educational Foundation ski jumpers and Nordic combined athletes rose to the top of the eastern team at the Junior National Championships in Anchorage, Alaska from Feb. 27 to March 1. Each year, at the end of the competition season, some of the best ...

USCSA holds fourth day of racing

LAKE PLACID — The fourth day of the five-day-long annual Collegiate National Championships this past Friday featured a men’s and women’s snowboard slopestyle, men’s Alpine ski slalom and a men’s and women’s Nordic classic mass start race. Nordic athletes competed in their ...

Kaysha Love earns two golds in NAC Cup

LAKE PLACID — With the final IBSF World Cup of the season less than one week away, Team USA’s Kaysha Love returned home this past weekend to compete in the five-day-long North American Cup at Mount Van Hoevenberg. Love, a 2022 Olympian, dominated the final two days of the NAC Cup, ...

Paul Smith’s College wins boys Nordic national championship

LAKE PLACID — The Paul Smith’s College’s men’s Nordic team took home the U.S. Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association national championship in the classic team sprint event at Mount Van Hoevenberg on Wednesday. Clarkson University followed in second place and Western Colorado ...