BRIEF: Members of Ski Team Take to Slopes for Final Exhibition Race

While the weather in Cambridge took a turn for the warmer this weekend, members of the Harvard nordic ski team headed north to Rangeley, Maine for one last race in the snow—a 50k-freestyle race at TD Bank Rangeley Lake Loppet.

Sophomore Tor O’Brien took 29th for the Crimson’s top finish. O’Brien was the only member of the men’s squad to compete.

Leading the women’s team was another sophomore, Clare Miller, who placed 41st, just ahead of captain Audrey Mangan. Freshmen Alena Tofte and Esther Kennedy finished 47th and 51st, respectively.

Also competing were the two nordic coaches, Chris City ’94 and Sara Cushman ’97. City, competing for the Cambridge Sports Union, finished 45th, two places ahead of Tofte, while Cushman took 49th.

Both City and Cushman are former nordic captains for the Crimson who have returned to coaching after taking time off to go to law school. Cushman was a two-sport athlete at Harvard and was named to the All-Ivy softball team in 1994.