• Chris Manhard: starting at 02:10 in the recording.  

• • Chris, originally from 100 Mile Nordics, is BC’s Provincial Coach and led BC’s historic 2025 National Championships.  

• Katie Weaver:  11:36

• • Katie is a member of Hollyburn XC Ski Club, the BC Ski Team, and the National Group 2 Team.  She is the 2025 National Champion in the Sprint.  At the World Cup in France last winter, she placed a career-best 11^th & 16^th in the Sprint Qualifications & Finals, and went on to compete at the World Championships in Norway in front of 50,000 spectators.  She is going into med school next year.  Katie has her eyes set on qualifying for the 2026 Winter Olympics.

• Ella Fuller & Megan Lohmann:  23:02

• • 16-yr old Ella is Fernie Nordic’s first-ever National Champion… x 2!  Megan is the dynamic club president.  A small and relatively new club, Fernie Nordic has harnessed amazing community support and the club’s young athletes are now giving back and inspiring the entire community.

• Finn Redman & Maria Lundgren:  35:05

• • Finn is a member of Telemark, the BC Ski Team, and the National Group 1 Team.  His experiences on the 2024 B-Tour in Sweden inspired him so much that he made the decision to live and train in Sweden for a year.  Maria, originally from Sweden, is the Assistant Provincial Coach and has led multiple B-Tours to Sweden for BC.

• Remi Drolet:  46:30

• • Remi is a member of Black Jack Ski Club, the BC Ski Team, and the National Group 2 Team.  He has BC’s best-ever results at the World Junior Championships (7^th in 2019 and 4^th in 2020) and was the anchor for Canada’s historic relay Silver in 2020.  Taking a year off during his studies at Harvard, he was one of the very youngest skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics.  He is also an NCAA Champion.  Remi has his eyes set on qualifying for the 2026 Winter Olympics.

• Reid Carter:  1:00:10

• • Reid is the longtime Chair of Cross Country BC.  Of his long list of accomplishments in the sport world, a particular one of note was his leadership and strong support for successfully hosting the FIS 2023 World Junior and U23 Nordic Ski Championships in Whistler.

• FEATURE:  Beckie Scott:  1:03:52

• • Beckie is an Olympic gold and silver medallist from small town Alberta, and the first Canadian to win an Olympic medal in cross-country skiing.  She was Chair of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Athlete Committee.  Beckie is the founder of Spirit North, a national organization dedicated to improving health, wellness and education outcomes for Indigenous youth through sport and play.  She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and has been inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, and the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame.  Beckie is now leading our national ski community as CEO of Nordiq Canada.

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Kal Tire has renewed its partnership with our sport for another five years!

For eight years already, Kal Tire has been the proud sponsor of the Bunnyrabbit, Jackrabbit, and Track Attack programs — helping young skiers across the province build skills, confidence, and a lifelong love of the sport. Their generous support has funded ski playgrounds, adventure trails, coach development, youth coaches, roller skis, program equipment, and more.

This ongoing partnership is made possible thanks to outstanding engagement from clubs and members alike — THANK YOU to everyone in our ski community for making this collaboration such a success. Having a reliable, long-term partner like Kal Tire helps us continue to grow cross country skiing at every level.

It’s a natural fit: Kal Tire is a BC-born company, founded in Vernon in 1953, with a strong community focus and stores in nearly every club location. And as we know, cross country skiers put on more miles in harsher winter driving conditions than most!

Please join us in thanking Kal Tire for their continued commitment to our growing “sport for life”!

… And on a related note, there are already 1,700 kids registered for SDP! Keep promoting your upcoming coaching workshops, listed here.

The club has now published the new strategic plan for the years 2025-2030.

Upcoming Registration dates for the 2025/26 Ski Season

• June 1-6/25 – Early Registration for Key Volunteers only
• June 15-20/25 – Open Registration

A Registration Notification email with a link to the online registration will be sent, approximately a week before Early Registration starts, to any club members who have registered with the club in the previous two seasons. If you are new to the club, have not registered with the club for the last two seasons or have changed your email address since you last registered, you will need to complete an online Registration Notification Request form. The link for this is near the top of the Registration Process page.