{"id":794110,"date":"2019-03-21T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-locals-konecny-and-haynes-shine-at-u-s-nordic-junior-nationals-in-alaska\/"},"modified":"2019-03-21T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T23:44:00","slug":"summit-locals-konecny-and-haynes-shine-at-u-s-nordic-junior-nationals-in-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-locals-konecny-and-haynes-shine-at-u-s-nordic-junior-nationals-in-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit locals Konecny and Haynes shine at U.S. Nordic Junior Nationals in Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.8172690763052\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-363316-895\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/CrossCountrySki-SDN-032219-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/CrossCountrySki-SDN-032219.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Thomas Konecny | Summit county local Lasse Konecny, left, poses for a photo with his Rocky Mountain region relay-race teammates Wally Magill and Sumner Cotton, both of the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club, at last week's U.S. Cross Country Junior Nationals in Anchorage, Alaska. The trio raced to a second-place finish in the boys U-16 3X3-kilometer freestyle relay.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"10\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/CrossCountrySki-SDN-032219.jpg\" alt=\"Summit county local Lasse Konecny, left, poses for a photo with his Rocky Mountain region relay-race teammates Wally Magill and Sumner Cotton, both of the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club, at last week's U.S. Cross Country Junior Nationals in Anchorage, Alaska. The trio raced to a second-place finish in the boys U-16 3X3-kilometer freestyle relay.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"15\">\n<p><strong>Summit county local Lasse Konecny, left, poses for a photo with his Rocky Mountain region relay-race teammates Wally Magill and Sumner Cotton, both of the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club, at last week&#8217;s U.S. Cross Country Junior Nationals in Anchorage, Alaska. The trio raced to a second-place finish in the boys U-16 3X3-kilometer freestyle relay.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Thomas Konecny<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/CrossCountrySki-SDN-032219-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/CrossCountrySki-SDN-032219-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Summit Nordic Ski Club | Summit Nordic Ski Club skier and Summit High School senior Peter Haynes (left) lunges for the finish line at last week's U.S. Cross Country Junior Nationals in Anchorage, Alaska.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"7.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/CrossCountrySki-SDN-032219-1.jpg\" alt=\"Summit Nordic Ski Club skier and Summit High School senior Peter Haynes (left) lunges for the finish line at last week's U.S. Cross Country Junior Nationals in Anchorage, Alaska.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Summit Nordic Ski Club skier and Summit High School senior Peter Haynes (left) lunges for the finish line at last week&#8217;s U.S. Cross Country Junior Nationals in Anchorage, Alaska.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Summit Nordic Ski Club<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/CrossCountrySki-SDN-032219-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/CrossCountrySki-SDN-032219-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Thomas Konecny | Summit county local Lasse Konecny, left, poses for a photo with his coach Jim Galanes of Summit County at last week's U.S. Cross Country Junior Nationals in Anchorage, Alaska. Paired with a couple of Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club athletes, the Rocky Mountain region trio raced to a second-place finish in the boys U-16 3X3-kilometer freestyle relay.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"9.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/CrossCountrySki-SDN-032219-2.jpg\" alt=\"Summit county local Lasse Konecny, left, poses for a photo with his coach Jim Galanes of Summit County at last week's U.S. Cross Country Junior Nationals in Anchorage, Alaska. Paired with a couple of Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club athletes, the Rocky Mountain region trio raced to a second-place finish in the boys U-16 3X3-kilometer freestyle relay.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"14\">\n<p><strong>Summit county local Lasse Konecny, left, poses for a photo with his coach Jim Galanes of Summit County at last week&#8217;s U.S. Cross Country Junior Nationals in Anchorage, Alaska. Paired with a couple of Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club athletes, the Rocky Mountain region trio raced to a second-place finish in the boys U-16 3X3-kilometer freestyle relay.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Thomas Konecny<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/summit-locals-konecny-and-haynes-shine-at-u-s-nordic-junior-nationals-in-alaska\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/summit-locals-konecny-and-haynes-shine-at-u-s-nordic-junior-nationals-in-alaska\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">Lasse Konecny, all fueled up, knew what he had to do after he finished his customary breakfast of oatmeal and espresso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Representing the Rocky Mountain region at last week\u2019s U.S. Cross Country Junior Nationals in Anchorage, Alaska, Konecny was the first of three legs for his three-skier team in the 3-by-3-kilometer skate ski race. In that spot, Konecny felt the pressure of setting up the final two racers on the Rocky Mountain A team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">His teammates were Wally Magill and Sumner Cotton, a pair of Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club skiers. Magill, the second leg, was fresh off of winning the 5-kilometer U-16 boys freestyle race earlier in the week, while Sumner raced to 17th in the boys sprint classic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Teamed with such high-level skiers, and with Magill set to ski the second leg after Konecny\u2019s first leg, the pressure was on for Konecny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cBecause my second teammate is the fastest guy out there,\u201d Konecny said, \u201cI wanted to set him up for a good spot so he could make a lead gap for my third teammate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Konecny, Magill and Cotton teamed to a second-place finish in the relay. It was the Rocky Mountain region\u2019s only podium showing at a 2019 Junior Nationals where the team finished in fifth place overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The podium showing in the relay race was a goal realized for Konecny, but it wasn\u2019t without its drama. Konecny, who is coached by Summit County local and esteemed American Nordic coach Jim Galanes, put his team in a fourth-place position during his leg of the relay. That was good enough to be within five seconds of first place. On the second leg, Magill left Cotton with a seven-second lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">That\u2019s when the nerves really kicked in for Konecny. Though his race was over, the Summit High School freshman watched as his Junior Nationals roommate, Cotton, skied through exhaustion. In the end, Cotton held on for a second-place finish by just a two-second margin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI definitely felt confident that we could podium top three,\u201d Konecny said, \u201cAnd the fact that we did was very exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Subhead\">Haynes shines in mass start<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Along with Konecny\u2019s second place in the relay, the top individual result for a Summit County skier at Junior Nationals came from Peter Haynes. A Junior Nationals veteran, the Summit High senior raced to a 15th-place showing in the 89-skier, 10-kilometer U-18 boys mass start classic race. Haynes\u2019 time of 26:53.2 was just over a minute behind the championship time of Zanden McMullen of Alaska Pacific University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The race was a true comeback effort for Haynes, as he was forced to recover following a fall during his second kilometer. Crossing up his skis with another competitor, Haynes dropped back to about 60th position after the fall. He then raced back up to that top-15 finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cProbably the strongest performance I\u2019ve seen from him all season,\u201d Haynes\u2019 coach, Summit Nordic Ski Club\u2019s Olof Hedberg, said at the Frisco Nordic Center on Thursday. \u201cIt\u2019s great to see a senior like that that\u2019s able to pull it together when it starts to matter. That\u2019s a lesson. And I think it\u2019s a very good lesson for those who were there for the first time. It is a very different beast to race on a national scale than the local scale. It\u2019s so tight about positions. Five seconds can be five places.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Subhead\">Summit Nordic gains nationals experience<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Of his Summit Nordic Ski Club teammates, Haynes was joined in racing to a top-15 finish by Nina Schamberger. The 13-year-old Schamberger raced up in the U-16 girls races, and finished in 15th place in the 5-kilometer freestyle race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Hedberg, also Schamberger\u2019s coach, felt the elite young athlete performed well considering she entered the Junior Nationals after battling the flu in the lead-up to the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Schamberger also has qualified to attend this summer\u2019s U.S. Nordic U-16 camp in Duluth, Minnesota. The camp invites the top 30 13-16-year-old girls and boys cross-country skiers from across the country, and bases its selections off of season results and performances at Junior Nationals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">At the camp, Schamberger will ski with her friend Samantha Smith from the Sun Valley Ski Educational Foundation in Idaho. Schamberger and Smith are the top two 13-year-old girls skiers in the country, based off of their performances this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Rocky Mountain regional team was also represented by the following Summit Nordic Ski Club athletes at the Alaskan Junior Nationals: Alex Morano, Sam Haynes, Jack Jones, Gray Wasson, Tai-Lee Smith, Jaden Phillips and Noelle Resignolo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe came home very excited that they saw the next level of ski racing,\u201d Hedberg said of the Summit Nordic Ski Club\u2019s takeaways from Junior Nationals. \u201cAnd now they know how it is and how big it is for them compared to racing in Colorado where it\u2019s a little smaller. It\u2019s a great experience to have. It\u2019s something that will inspire these athletes for next year in Lake Tahoe. We\u2019ve already started planning for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/summit-locals-konecny-and-haynes-shine-at-u-s-nordic-junior-nationals-in-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summit county local Lasse Konecny, left, poses for a photo with his Rocky Mountain region relay-race teammates Wally Magill and Sumner Cotton, both of the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club, at last week&#8217;s U.S. Cross Country Junior Nationals in Anchorage, Alaska. The trio raced to a second-place finish in the boys U-16 3X3-kilometer freestyle relay.Courtesy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 23:55:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}