GOGEBIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Location: Ironwood, Michigan
Head Coach: Will Andresen
Web Site: http://www.gogebic.cc.mi.us/athletics/nordic.shtm
Gogebic Community College is a new entrant in the CCSA for the 2009-10 season. This is the first year that the Ironwood, Michigan school will have a ski team and it comes under the direction of accomplished racer Will Andresen. Andresen, a competitive athlete to this day, was a successful runner and skier throughout high school and then went to Northern Michigan University, where he was the captain of the ski team and qualified for NCAA’s. “I’m very excited about the opportunity to coach this new team,” Andresen said in a statement on the GCC website. “My coaching philosophy will be to create individual training and racing programs to meet the specific background, talents and goals of each athlete.”
Ironwood is among the first places in the Midwest to have enough snow for reliable skiing and is therefore a popular place for Nordic racers to travel in the early season. The college itself is built on a ski hill with its own small Nordic ski trail on campus, and all-in-all should provide athletes with a good chance to ski competitively. “I am very pleased to hear that GCC has started a Nordic ski program,” NMU head coach Sten Fjeldheim added in a statement. “this will serve as a great development tool for those skiers trying to improve their chances to become a serious recruit for the four year D1 and D2 college ski programs.”

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