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Nordie Alums Kicking It
Former Bowdoin Nordic team member Kaitlynn Miller ’14 won the classic sprint race at the 2016 US Cross Country Championship in Houghton, Michigan, in early January. Miller, who had captured second-, fourth-, and tenth-place finishes in the other three championship races, cruised through the classic sprint heats
with wins in the quarterfinals and semifinals. In the finals, she posted a dominating 12-second victory in the 1.5K race to capture the title in a time of 4:19:42. A native of Elmore, Vermont, Miller twice qualified for the NCAA Championship while at Bowdoin. She currently races for the Craftsbury Green Racing Project club, based in Vermont. Meanwhile, two of Miller’s former teammates, Jackson Bloch ’15 and Tyler DeAngelis ’15, embarked on the last day of 2015 on a three-month cross-country skiing trek across Europe. The
two native-Mainers first competed against each other when they skied for their high schools’ cross-country teams in Falmouth and Readfield before becoming teammates at Bowdoin. Their trip will take them to Czech Republic, Austria, France, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, and Norway, where they’ll compete in several cross-country ski marathons. They brought eleven pairs of skis and four pairs of boots. You can follow their adventures on their blog 477kilometers.blogspot.com.
(Above left) Kaitlynn Miller ’14. (Above right) Tyler DeAngelis ’15 and Jackson Bloch ’15 at the finish line of the January 27 Dolomitenlauf 42K skate race in Austria. DeAngelis finished twenty-fourth and Jackson twenty-fifth in a field of several hundred skiers.
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BOWDOIN | WINTER 2016