By Gavin Kentch
Earlier Friday, U.S. Ski & Snowboard announced the 15 athletes named to the American team for 2025 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim later this month.
The athletes are:
Women
- Rosie Brennan (APU)
- Jessie Diggins (SMS)
- Julia Kern (SMS)
- Kendall Kramer (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
- Sophia Laukli (Team Aker Dæhlie)
- Kate Oldham (Montana State University)
- Alayna Sonnesyn (Team Birkie)
Men
- John Steel Hagenbuch (Dartmouth College)
- Luke Jager (APU)
- Zak Ketterson (Team Birkie)
- Zanden McMullen (APU)
- Ben Ogden (SMS)
- JC Schoonmaker (APU)
- Gus Schumacher (APU)
- Jack Young (Colby College)
This news just came out. I will circle back to this within the next few days, as relevant, if I have any refinements about athletes who were named to the team but who do not plan to accept the nomination. Specifically, there may be some gray area here with the current collegiate skiers on this list (Kendall Kramer, Kate Oldham, John Steel Hagenbuch, and Jack Young) and potential conflicts between World Championships and NCAA Championships in the first week of March. Sure there will be 100,000 drunk Norwegians in Trondheim, but Dartmouth is hosting NCAAs this year, and the pull of that is strong. Stay tuned.
Racing begins in Trondheim with the skate sprint on February 27. Nordic Insights will have two reporters providing in-person coverage from the venue. Again, stay tuned.
You can read the full announcement from USSS here.
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