Year of Birth: 2000
Club: Whitehorse cross country ski club
Years on Academy: This will be my first year with the academy!
Education: University of Calgary, currently studying Mathematics

Career Highlights: 

• Cross country skiing is a team sport so I like racing side by side with my team mates, so coming in 4th with my training partner Hannah Jirousek in this past years Nationals team relay was for sure a career highlight.
• I love traveling for my sport so another favourite of mine was going to Utah when I was 16 for the world junior trials.

Favorite SoLo Bar: Lemon Lift Solo Bar!

Favorite Place to Ski: I love skiing in Whitehorse, on the Mount Mac ski trails

Favorite Recovery Meal: 

Interesting Fact about Me: I enjoy photography, my pets being my primary models and taking a snapshot of all the amazing adventures I do up in the Yukon.

Personal Sponsors:

Equipment: Rossignol boots and Fisher skis

Year of Birth: 2000
Club: Revelstoke Nordic Ski Club
Years on Academy: 1st year
Education: Bachelor of Biological Science at the University of Calgary

Favorite SoLo Bar: Chocolate Coconut Mint

Your favorite place to ski? The Haig Glacier

What is your best recovery meal? Option 1

Year of Birth: 2000
Club: Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club
Years on Academy: 1
Education: Science Bachelors

Career Highlights:

• Top ten Westerns
• 8th Easterns
• Racing in Greenland

Favorite SoLo Bar:  Chocolate Manderin

Favorite Place to Ski: Whitehorse Cross Country ski trails!

Favorite Recovery Meal: Anything pasta

Interesting Fact about Me: I speak three languages- English, French and Czech and I LOVE dogs!

Instagram: h_jirousek

Year of Birth: 1995 Club: Canmore Nordic Years on Academy: 1 Education: National Sport School – Calgary Career Highlights:

• Competing at the Youth Junior World Championships for Biathlon on 3 separate occasions

Favorite SoLo Bar: Vanilla Favorite Place to Ski: Whistler, BC Interesting Fact about Me: Really into mountain biking Personal Sponsors: Clint Cawsey, Your name here!

Year of Birth: 2000
Club: NWT High Performance Ski Team
Years on Academy: 1
Education: Graduated high school – in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Calgary

Career Highlights:

• Silver at Arctic Winter Games 2018
• 9/72 1.2 km Skate Sprint at Canadian Nationals 2018
• 4th at Western Canadian Champs in 10km Classic
• Silver at Eastern Canadian Champs in 3km Prologue

Favorite SoLo Bar: Nuthin but Nuts

Favorite Place to Ski: Canmore, AB

Favorite Recovery Meal: Option 1

Interesting Fact about Me: I love the outdoors, travelling, Scuba Diving, eating tacos, and I am a major coffee enthusiast

Personal Sponsors: Rossignol and Barren Ground Coffee Co.

Instagram: Bennett_nicolas

Year of Birth: 1998
Club: Canmore Nordic Ski Club
Years on Academy: 3

Career Highlights:

• Midget NorAm Champion
• 2nd Canadian National Championships – Sprint
• 3rd Overall 2014 Canadian National Championships
• 1st 2014 Western Canadian Championships – Sprint
• Eastern Canadian Champion 2016

Favorite SoLo Bar: Dark Chocolate Mandarin

Favorite Place to Ski: Canmore Nordic Centre
Favorite Recovery Meal: Smoothie and eggs

Words I live by: “Set your goals high and don’t stop until you get there”

Interesting Fact about Thomas: He can ride a unicycle!
Personal Sponsors: Rossignol, Unlimited Skate and Snow

Facebook: Thomas Manktelow
Instagram: thomasmanktelow
Equipment: Rossignol

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Year of Birth: 2000
Club: Revelstoke Nordic Ski Club
Years on Academy: 1
Education: University of Calgary, Biological Sciences

Career Highlights:

• 2017 Westerns 1st place in classic int. 10km
• 2017 Nationals 1st place classic int. 10km
• 2017 Nationals 3rd place classic sprints
• 2017 Vernon NorAm 3rd place 5km mass start classic
• 2018 World junior trials 5th skate sprints
• 2017 junior girl 1st aggregate at nationals
• 2018 Junior National Ski Team
• 2018 Nationals 2nd in interval start 10km classic

Favorite SoLo Bar: Dark Chocolate Mandarin

Favorite Place to Ski: Silver Star

Interesting Fact about Me: I can ride a unicycle. My twin sister and I are the sixth generation of our family to have been raised in Revelstoke.

Instagram: bethlgranstrom

Equipment: Fischer and Swix

Year of Birth: 1989
Club: Whitehorse cross country
Years on Academy: 8
Education: Athabasca University

Skiing achievements you are proud of?
– 2 x Olympian

What is an interesting fact about yourself? I would like to be a teacher after my ski racing career
Your favorite place to ski? Whitehorse
What is your best recovery meal? Pasta

What equipment do you use? skis, poles, boots/bindings.

• Salomon
• Swix poles

Year of Birth: 1993
Club: Soo Finnish Nordic Ski Club
Years on Academy: 4

Career Highlights:

• U23 2016 World Championship Team
• 32nd 2016 U23 World Championships – 15km Skate
• 3rd Aggregate U23 Men – 2016 Canadian National Championships
• 4th  2017 Canadian National Championships 10Km Skate
• 2nd 2017 Eastern Canadian Championships – 20Km Skate
• 6th  Canadian National Championships – 50km Skate
• 6th – Swiss Cup 2017 – 10km Classic
• 2nd Noram Rossland – 15 Km Classic

Favorite SoLo Bar: Dark Chocolate Coconut Mint

Favorite Place to Ski:

• Silver Star, BC
• Paulson, BC
• Hiawatha Highlands, ON

Favorite Recovery Meal: Pancakes, smoothies, coffee, anything breakfast related. Or the leftovers from the previous day, that’s pretty incredible.
Words I live by: “Life is like going the wrong way on a moving sidewalk, to get ahead you gotta hustle.”
Interesting Fact about Me: I’m a big food person, and I can thank my mother for that. It’s about the simple pleasures in life; cheese, bread, peanut butter, cream, avocado, eggs, pasta etc.

Personal Sponsors: Listed on jackcarlyle.squarespace.com

Website: jackcarlyle.squarespace.com
Instagram: jackcarlyle
Twitter: @carlylejack 

Equipment: Alpina, Fischer, Swix, Oakley (Shades on Caribou)

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Year of Birth: 1997
Club: Rocky Mountain Racers
Years on Academy: 3
Education: First Year University

Career Highlights: 

• Top 5 at Canadian National Championships

Favorite SoLo Bar: Chocolate Charger

Favorite Place to Ski Race: Canmore Nordic Centre
Favorite Recovery Meal: Pasta with meat sauce
Interesting Fact about Me: He grew up on a farm in northern Alberta where we had cattle and chickens!

Instagram: michael_macisaac

Equipment:  Rossignol

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Year of Birth: 2000
Club: Big Thunder Nordic
Years on Academy: 1
Education: University of Calgary, Majoring in Chemistry

Career Highlights:

• 8th – Canadian National Championships 2018 – Sprint
• 10th – Canadian National Championships 2016 – 5km Cl Int
• 2nd – OCup #1 2016 – 5km Cl Int

Favorite SoLo Bar: Dark Chocolate Mandarin

Favorite Place to Ski: Mont Sainte-Anne

Favorite Recovery Meal: Whole wheat bagels and crunchy peanut butter

Interesting Fact about Me: I raced in France with La Féclaz during the 2016/17 season

Equipment: Salomon and KV+

Instagram: nicholasmrandall

Year of Birth: 1976
Hometown: Ottawa, ON
Years coaching the Academy: 8

Career Highlights: 

• 2006 Olympian

Favorite Place to Ski: Gatineau, QC
Favorite Recovery Meal: Pasties!
Interesting Fact about Chris: He has two children!

Year of Birth: 1980
Hometown: Mount Beauty, Vic, Australia
Years coaching: 16 some part-time and some full-time

Career Highlights: 

• winning the Blåbär Loppet at the Vasaloppet in 2002

Coaching Highlights:

• Coach Australian team World Junior/U23 Championships in Liberec, Czech (2013) where Australia fielded its first ever woment’s relay team at a World Championships.
• Team Manager Australian team World Championships Val di Fiemme (2013) where Australia lead the first lap of the men’s ream sprint in Semi Final A!
• Being part of the Ski Tour Canada!  What a great experience to be working with the Australian team but watching Canadian athletes I had worked with represent their country and, finish all 8 stages.  Amazing!
• Many more moments not on as grand a scale including the “great toque catch with Sam Hendry”, special handshakes with the twins and watching younger (12-14 y.o) push themselves to new limits!  Coaching is really the best job!

Favorite Place to Ski: Falls Creek, Australia!! Ramsau, Austria
Favorite Recovery Meal: Home made energy balls and anything with Vegemite
Interesting Fact about Allison: Contrary to the stereotype of Aussies living in the Bow Valley, I grew up skiing (at Falls Creek), I have never worked as a “lifty” or worked in a bar (my mum still think I’m a ski bum though 🙂
Coaching Philosophy: I love helping athletes put the pieces of the puzzle together to become the best person they can be.  Being a successful athlete is more than being physically fit and strong.  You need to be mentally tough, be injury free and most of all, having fun!  I have a nerdy love for functional movement and physical literacy, so I enjoy making athletes move in many different ways and doing weird stuff that takes them out of their comfort zone!