Ontario Midget Championships 2017 presented by LLF Lawyers LLP

*** Note: Registration is now closed

Kawartha Nordic is excited to be hosting the 2017 Ontario Midget Championships from March 3-5, 2017. This three-day event offers the chance for skiers of all ages to see what cross country ski racing is all about, and we are hoping you and your family will come as spectators, volunteers or racers.

This year's event will feature an exciting head-to-head ski cross event under the lights on Friday night.

While this is an Ontario Championships, for many of the athletes this will be their first ski race, and as such is structured to be a fun and easy-going event. There will be classic and skate ski races in both individual and team relay formats.

We encourage all male skiers born in 2002–2007, female skiers born in 2003–2007 and paranordic skiers born in 2001–2007 to participate.

For details, please check out the official 2017 Ontario Midget Championships Race Notice or Avis De Course les Championnats de Midget de l'Ontario 2017 — revised 18 Jan 2017.

The Annual General Meeting of the members of the KAWARTHA NORDIC SKI CLUB, INCORPORATED will be held on Monday November 14, 2016 from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

Nominations for Directors may be made in writing and filed with the Secretary seven (7) days prior to the Annual General Meeting. All members in good standing, 16 years or over, are eligible to vote. Nominations may be sent to Kawartha Nordic Ski Club Inc., PO Box 1371, Peterborough ON, K9J 7H6 or membership@kawarthanordic.ca.

• Official AGM notice
• Minutes of last year's AGM on November 16, 2015
• KNSC Bylaws

Location: Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School, Cafeteria (1009 Armour Rd, Peterborough) (this location is fully accessible)
Date: Monday, November 14, 2016
Time: 7:00pm

Fall means trail work at Kawartha Nordic! Trail clearing and volunteer weekends will be planned throughout October and November with dates posted to the website. What's involved? Simply hiking the trails, removing branches, sticks and large stones from the trail bed, and cutting back any branches that interfere with safe skiing from the side of the trail. If you come across any large fallen trees send us an email to let us know the location. A volunteer coordinator will be at the Woodfine Chalet at the beginning of the day and will leave instructions for those arriving later in the day

• October 22 and 23 between 9am and 3pm
• October 30 between 10am and 3pm.
• November 6 between 10am and 3pm.
• November 13 between 10am and 3pm.

No need to RSVP, just try to make it up when you can. Please bring work gloves, work boots/ footwear, snacks and drinks, loppers, handsaws, trimmers or any other equipment you might make good use of. And be sure to leave a note on the chalk board of the Woodfine chalet to let us know which trail you've worked on (latest photo below). 

We're very excited to be offering Kawartha Nordic clothing sales this fall in partnership with Peterborough Northern Designs (Flavour Fashion). Proceeds will go to support club operations and programming. Orders will be taken for a limited time only until October 23, 2016. Check out the great line-up of high quality tee-shirts, women's tee-shirts, long sleeve shirts, and hooded sweaters in the online catalogue and then order them online. Pre-orders submitted before Oct 23rd will be ready by mid-December just in time for holiday gifts!

Season pass sales and ski program registration are now open for Kawartha Nordic's 2016-2017 ski season via our online partner zone4.ca

Our updated rates for 2016-17 do not include HST nor the mandatory additional memberships for Cross Country Ontario (CCO), CCO Southern Ontario Division (CCO SOD), and Cross Country Canada (CCC). These will be added to your registration automatically.

Good luck to Kawartha Nordic member Geoff Way-Nee who is competing this week at the 2016 Haywood Ski Nationals in Whitehorse with the best skiers in the country! Geoff now skis with Lakehead University after working his way through Jackrabbits, Track Attack and the Athlete Development Program.

Check out the flickr feed of photos from the 2016 Ontario Midget Championships.

Thank you for attending the Ontario Midget Championships 2016 at Kawartha Nordic. We hope you enjoyed your weekend as much as we enjoyed hosting you.

CTV aired a spot on our Championships on the Saturday CTV News at 6. The segment is at about 34:15.

Results

• Saturday's Classic Technique 3.1km Interval Start Race
• Saturday's Freestyle Technique 3x625m Team Relay Race
• Sunday's Freestyle Technique 3.1km and 4.4km Mass Start Races
• Overall Team Winner — Georgian Nordic

We had two instances that required a review of the video to be sure of results in Sunday's Mass Start races. Check out the video evidence below.