Favorite Thing to Eat After a Race: Peanut Butter

Favorite Brand of Spandex: Swix

Favorite Place to Ski: Lake Louise

Favorite thing About Skiing: Sprinting to the Finish

Least Favorite thing About Skiing: Having Slow Skis

Most Painful Skiing Experience: Skiing down Moraine Lake Road in Lake Louise in -20

Best Skiing Experience: Winning the Canada Games trails sprint race

Sport you do in the off-season: Windsurfing, and Slalom water-skiing

How many years have you been skiing: Five

Which Athlete Inspires you the Most: Lukas Mark

Favorite Movie: The Dark Knight

Favorite Junk Food: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

Dreams and Aspirations: To one day go to the Olympics

Favorite thing to eat after a race: Apples

Favorite brand of spandex: I have no idea!

Favorite place to ski: Raven, Spruce view, AB

Favorite thing about skiing: I love traveling and racing at different places.

Least favorite thing about skiing: Losing a ski during a race.

Most painful skiing experience: Racing at Canmore, Haywood Noram. Taking the lead for the first kilometer, and not knowing I had 15 crazy hills I had to climb. Yes, I died at the end.

Best Skiing Experience: Qualifying for the Canada Winter Games. Yahoo!!!

How many years you have been skiing: 14

Which athlete inspires you the most? Beckie Scott

Favorite movie: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

Favorite junk food: I don’t eat junk food.

Dreams and Aspirations: I would like to race a World Cup someday, and I hope to race at the Olympics too!

Anything else that you want to Share? 

Qualifying for the CWG has been the most exciting challenge in my skiing career so far. I am still shocked that I qualified, and I can’t wait to compete and represent Alberta at the Games. I know this experience will be life changing!

How Long have you Been Skiing: A little over one year

Favorite Place to Ski: Strathcona Wilderness Center

Favorite thing About Skiing: The outdoors and all the challenges that come along with this sport

Skiing Highlight: Having the opportunity to attend the World’s Championship in Cable,Wisconsin this February. Additionally, having had the opportunity to attend the Nationals

Sport you do in the off-season: Hand-cycling

Favorite thing to eat after training: Normally a smoothie, but I’ve also been known to eat an entire box of toaster waffles on occasion

Favorite spandex company: Definitely Borah

Worst skiing experience: Falling three times in a 500m sprint, though that’s pretty hilarious when I think about it now

Best skiing experience:Seeing my coach drive up with giant box of donuts at the four hour mark on an epic roller-ski in Park City, Utah.

Also, medalling at nationals is pretty sweet as well.

Sport you do in the off season:

#1 Running

#2 Festival-going

#3 Eating

Those are sports right??

Role Model: I have a hard time choosing between Marit Bjoergen, the entirety of the U.S. national team, and my teammates.

Favorite movie: Just go with it

Favorite Junk food: Black Licorice!

Dreams/goals: To get everything I possibly can out of skiing (and life). Whether that means competing at the Olympics, University skiing or tootling around when I’m 98 years old! 

Favorite thing to eat after a race: Pasta and fruit

Favorite brand of spandex: Mt. Borah

Favorite place to ski: The Great Divide (1A)

Favorite thing about skiing: Skiing allows you to be fit in many other sports without even training for them.

Least favorite thing about skiing: Having to go outside in really cold temperatures.

Most painful skiing experience (i.e- coldest race/practice you had to push through, the race you totally got your ass handed to you at, the most impressive crash…etc): Hasn’t happened yet… but I’m sure it is coming.

Best skiing experience (i.e- race you are most proud of, best training session you ever had…etc): Qualifying for the Canada Winter Games

Sport you do in the off-season: Triathlons and Competitive Swimming

How many years you have been skiing: Skate Skiing: 5 years - Classic Skiing: 2 years

Which athlete inspires you the most: Catriona Le May Doan

Favorite movie: Any Harry Potter Movie….

Favorite junk food: Pizza and Crave Cupcakes. Life isn’t complete without them…

Dreams and aspirations: To one day represent Canada in Biathlon at the Olympics.

Anything else that you want to share?

I’m actually a biathlete, but when I was a year too young to qualify for CWG in biathlon, I tried out in Cross Country instead!

Favorite thing to eat after a race: granola bars or nothing

Favorite brand of spandex: They are all good

Favorite place to ski: Lake Louise

Favorite thing about skiing: Being outside

Least favorite thing about skiing: Klister

Most painful skiing experience Classic race at Quebec Nationals when it was +20⁰C in the middle of the day.

Best skiing experience : Canada Winter Games

Sport you do in the off-season: Mountain Biking, Running, Hiking, Rollerskiing

How many years you have been skiing: 5 years competitively

Which athlete inspires you the most? Larkin Wasmuth

Favorite movie: Forest Gump

Favorite junk food: Chocolate

Dreams and aspirations: Skiing for Canada at an international event

Favorite thing to eat after a race: Gatorade and finish line cookies!

Favorite brand of spandex: Mt.Borah

Favorite place to ski: Hard to decide… it’s a tie between Sovereign Lakes and crust skiing on the Sunshine meadows!

Favorite thing about skiing: That I get to spend time outside every day and that I get to stay fit and healthy!

Least favorite thing about skiing: Cleaning off klister… although I love racing in klister conditions!

Most painful skiing experience: Pushing through summer or fall training sessions in the cold rain. It takes a lot of determination and motivation from my teammates or coaches to help push through those training sessions.

Best skiing experience : The race that I have been the most proud of recently was the classic sprint at World Junior trials in Duntroon. That was a very important race for me, and I put a lot of pressure on myself for it, but I was able to go out and give it everything!

Sport you do in the off-season: Cross country running, road and mountain biking, and hiking Canmore’s beautiful mountains.

How many years you have been skiing: 15

Which athlete inspires you the most? Sara Renner and Beckie Scott!

Favorite movie: The Incredibles. I think I know every line to that movie by now.

Favorite junk food: This isn’t really junk food, but I absolutely love cinnamon buns!

Dreams and aspirations: To medal at the Olympic Games or World Championships and to have a great time along the way!

Anything else that you want to share?

-I grew up on a small farm outside of Athabasca, Alberta, where we had cows, chickens, and sometimes horses.

-I have read all of the Harry Potter books more times than I can count.

Favorite thing to eat after a race: Sugar, doesn’t matter what kind it is. (Chocolate, candy, coke etc.)

Favorite brand of spandex: Swix. Without a doubt the most comfortable race suit around

Favorite place to ski: Praz de Lys or Lake Louise

Favorite thing about skiing: Get to travel the world and ski. Racing is also quite fun

Least favorite thing about skiing: Breaking poles

Most painful skiing experience: A mountain bike race I did a couple of years ago in Canmore in half a foot of snow and minus 5. I don’t think I have ever been that cold.

Best skiing experience: Racing in Lake Louise this winter was pretty incredible

Sport you do in the off-season: Mountain and Road biking, hiking, running, climbing

How many years you have been skiing: 16

Which athlete inspires you the most? Mo Farah

Favorite movie: Always a toss-up between Star Wars and Lord of the Rings

Favorite junk food: Chocolate cake

Dreams and aspirations: As long as I am still having fun I will keep skiing

Name: Sara McLean

Favorite thing to eat after a race: Fries at the Nordic Centre

Favorite place to ski: Mt. Shark

Least favorite thing about skiing: Klister!

Best skiing experience: Classic sprint at the 2013 Nationals in Whistler. Everything really came together, I felt good, I skied well, and I placed 2^nd!

Sport you do in the off-season: High School field hockey

How many years you have been skiing: 12

Favorite movie: Lord of the Rings

Favorite junk food: Starburst

Dreams and aspirations: Race on the World Cup circuit. Travel all over the place.

Anything else that you want to share?

I had a pretty wicked crash in the classic race at Westerns this year, but somehow I managed not to hurt myself at all! Sadly, my glasses didn’t survive…

When I was 11, my family travelled for a year. We drove from Calgary to Patagonia in a Volkswagen van.

One year when I was in Jackrabbits (not sure which level), I decided that the BEST thing you could ever do on skis was to tackle our group’s coach and sit on him… It got old after a few weeks.

Favorite thing to eat after a race: A banana and chocolate milk.

Favorite brand of spandex: Every brand, spandex is just the loveliest.

Favorite place to ski: Whistler, BC.

Favorite thing about skiing: Pushing your body and mind to their absolute limits.

Least favorite thing about skiing: Sprint heats, they’re ever so stressful…

Most painful skiing experience: I went into the classic 7.5km at Whistler Nationals in 2013 with only base binder on my skis, and practically double poled the whole thing. It’s what I now like to call a “character race,” although I didn’t have such an optimistic outlook at the time…

Best skiing experience: Canada Winter Games trials in 2014, I didn’t come into the trials expecting to get a spot on the team, but due to a few strong efforts I won two of the three selection races that weekend and was named the top male on Team Alberta to compete at the games.

Sport you do in the off-season: Running, cycling, rollerskiing.

How many years you have been skiing: 12

Which athlete inspires you the most? Jess Cockney.

Favorite movie: Interstellar.

Favorite junk food: S’mores!!

Dreams and aspirations: To go to veterinary school and work with animals as a career, all shapes and sizes.

Anything else that you want to share?

I’m a very musical person, I play the cello, guitar, and piano. I play cello in two bands, and oftentimes I like to jam with my violinist teammate Luke Gerwing, we come up with some pretty crazy/awesome stuff