{"id":794445,"date":"2019-04-02T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/colorado-mountain-college-leadville-to-host-2020-u-s-national-snowshoe-championships\/"},"modified":"2019-04-02T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T01:20:00","slug":"colorado-mountain-college-leadville-to-host-2020-u-s-national-snowshoe-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/colorado-mountain-college-leadville-to-host-2020-u-s-national-snowshoe-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Mountain College Leadville to host 2020 U.S. National Snowshoe Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"
Snowshoers take part in the 2019 Colorado Cup at Colorado Mountain College Leadville. The town of Leadville will host next winter’s 2020 U.S. National Snowshoe Championships on the campus trails at Colorado Mountain College Leadville. Event organizers expect as many as 300 athletes from throughout the country to descend on the mountain town to compete during the 3-day event, scheduled for Feb. 28 through March 1 2020.<\/strong>
Lauren Swanson \/ Special to The Daily<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Colorado Mountain College Leadville will host the 2020 U.S. National Snowshoe Championships from Feb. 28 through March 1 on CMC\u2019s campus trails.<\/p>\n

The 2020 event, which will be the 20th annual U.S. Nationals, will serve as the highest-elevation competition in the U.S. Nationals\u2019 history. This year\u2019s event was hosted in Wisconsin while last year\u2019s was in Vermont.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled that Leadville will host the championships,\u201d Kevin Mastin, co-chair of the Lake County Tourism Panel, said in a press release. \u201cThe event happens at a great time of year for us. The snow is reliably good and will show the town well. The increased lodging nights in the middle of winter will be a real benefit to our shops and restaurants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Darren Brungardt, a CMC Leadville assistant professor of mathematics and the coach for CMC\u2019s running club, also served as a member of the committee that worked to bring the championships to Leadville. Brungardt said with Mike Bordogna, the executive director of the Leadville\/Lake County Economic Development Corporation, a committee of tourism panel members was formed leading to the submission of the application to host the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no place like this in the world that will offer such a unique snowshoe racing experience,\u201d Brungardt said in a press release.<\/p>\n

The governing body putting on the event is the United States Snowshoe Association, which promotes recreational snowshoeing across the country. The 2020 national championships will feature a 5-kilometer race, a 10K, a half-marathon and a marathon.<\/p>\n

Brungardt said he expects 200 to 350 racers at the event, from as young as middle school students to athletes in their 90s.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited to share our backyard with a new group of athletes from around the United States,\u201d Bordogna said. \u201cThe event combines important elements of our history and our current-day passions in an environment that we are confident will be appreciated by all.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information about the 2020 snowshoe championships, visit LeadvilleTwinLakes.com\/Snowshoe.<\/p>\n

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Snowshoers take part in the 2019 Colorado Cup at Colorado Mountain College Leadville. The town of Leadville will host next winter’s 2020 U.S. National Snowshoe Championships on the campus trails at Colorado Mountain College Leadville. Event organizers expect as many as 300 athletes from throughout the country to descend on the mountain town to compete […]<\/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-794445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 07:18:28","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\/794445","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=794445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}