U.S. Ski & Snowboard has named a team of 36 athletes to its squad that will compete in the International Ski Federation's (FIS) Junior Nordic World Ski Championships and U23 Cross Country World Championships Jan. 28-Feb. 3 in Goms and Kandersteg, Switzerland.
Sofia Shomento, a freshman on the Dartmouth College Ski Team and an alum of the Bridger Ski Foundation, has earned a coveted spot on the Junior Worlds Cross Country team and will represent the U.S. at the Junior World Championships in Switzerland at the end of January.
2018 FIS Nordic Junior World ChampionshipsGoms-Kandersteg, Switzerland
Cross Country
Women
Margaret Gellert, 17, Anchorage, Alaska Winter Stars
Hannah Halvorsen, 19, Truckee, Calif., Alaska Pacific Nordic Ski Center
Kathleen O'Connell, 19, Steamboat Springs, Colo., Montana State University
Hannah Rudd, 19, Anchorage, Univ. of Alaska-Anchorage
Sofia Shomento, 18, Bozeman, Mont., Dartmouth College
Hailey Swirbul, 19, Carbondale, Colo., Univ. of Alaska-Anchorage
Men
Luke Jager, 18, Anchorage, Alaska Pacific Nordic Ski Center
Ben Ogden, 17, Landgrove, Vt., Stratton Mountain School
Karl Schulz, 19, Lake Placid, N.Y., Univ. of Vermont
Gus Schumacher, 17, Anchorage, Alaska Winter Stars
Canyon Tobin, 18, Anchorage, Alaska Pacific Nordic Ski Center
Hunter Wonders, 19, Alaska Pacific Nordic Ski Center
