St. Cloud State Huskies
Location: St. Cloud, Minn.
Head coach: Jeremy Frost (10th season)
Top returners: Hannah Sanborn, Amber Anderson
Website: www.stcloudstate.edu/athletics
2011 CCSA Championships: Women – 9th
2011 NCAA Central Region: Women – 9th

A young roster filled with just two seniors and one junior, St. Cloud State boasts a handful of talented skiers looking to make their mark on the CCSA. Returning junior Hannah Sanborn, the team’s MVP a year ago, showed a great deal of improvement at the end of last season, particular in her skating. Sanborn landed the team’s second-best finish at the CCSA Championships freestyle event, taking 28th overall.

Picking up right where she left off, Sanborn turned in the team’s top finish in December’s Wolverine Ski Challenge 5K freestyle, taking 45th overall.

The Huskies will also look to Amber Anderson for leadership. The sophomore has gotten off to a solid start in 2011-12, taking 29th in the team’s first event of the new year – a classic sprint at West Yellowstone. Anderson also was the team’s top finisher in the Wolverine Ski Challenge 10K classic race with a time of 39:30.9.

Newcomers Halle Weisman and Katie Banken have also looked sharp for the Huskies – holding their own in both the West Yellowstone sprints as well as the Wolverine Ski Challenge 10K classic races.