by Logan Gruber
operations@thenewsleaders.com
The results are in, and the Sartell-Cathedral combined Girls Nordic Ski team took 11th place overall at the state meet at Giants Ridge in Biwabik.
Biwabik is north of Duluth, and east of Virginia, on the Iron Range.
Seven girls competed at state, along with two alternates. The seven competitors are: Anna Lindell, Haley Anderson, Lauren Buchholz, Mackenzie Dockendorf, Madilyn Fesenmaier and Maggie Baumann, all of Sartell; and, Rachel Eickhoff, Cathedral. The two alternates are: Chesney Tillemans and Emma Wildeson, both of Sartell.
Of the seven competitors, only four of their scores counted toward the team’s total score at the state meet.
Of those four, Eickhoff finished 55th out of 157, Lindell finished 58th, Dockendorf finished 66th and Buchholz finished 116th.
This was the team’s first time heading to state.
“We’re happy to make it. They’ve never gone before, so [the girls] are pretty excited,” said Head Coach Joe Teff said in an earlier interview.
The team had to beat out Little Falls at sections, who tends to go to state competition every year. Sections were held at MapleLag, near Detroit Lakes on Feb. 3. The team took second place, right behind Mora.
There are 45 girls in total on the team. Sartell High School and Cathedral High School compete as a joint team, in both boys and girls Nordic Skiing.
Assistant coaches for the team are Bailey Drewes, a student at the College of St. Benedict, Jane Fark and Mike Schroden.
Anna Lindell, Sartell, had frozen eyelashes at the section 8 competition at MapleLag in Detroit Lakes on Feb. 3.
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Lauren Buchholz raced down the trail Feb. 3 at the section meet. The combined Sartell-Cathedral team took second place at sections, beating out Little Falls, but falling behind Mora. The team competes at state in Biwabik on Feb. 12. For updates, be sure to head to our website, thenewsleaders.com.
(Front) Anna Lindell and (in back) Mackenzie Dockendorf.
The girls Nordic Ski team took second at the section 8 competition at MapleLag in Detroit Lakes on Feb. 3. Pictured (front row, from left to right) are Mackenzie Dockendorf and Rachel Eickhoff; (back row) Maggie Baumann, Haley Anderson, Lauren Buchholz, Anna Lindell and Madily Fesenmaier.
Some of the team posed for a picture at MapleLag in Detroit Lakes on Feb. 3. They are (from left to right): Lauren Buchholz, Rachel Eickhoff, Mackenzie Dockendorf and Anna Lindell.
Rachel Eickhoff flies by the cameraman, her father, during sections near Detroit Lakes on Feb. 3.
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Rachel Eickhoff heads down the track during sections at MapleLag on Feb. 3.
An intimate moment of reflection and preparation was caught by photographer Eickhoff during the section 8 meet at MapleLag near Detroit Lakes. The skiers went on to take second place, and earn themselves admission to state in Biwabik.
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The ski team poses for photos while holding their second place plaque and wearing their well-deserved medals on Feb. 3 after defeating Little Falls at MapleLag near Detroit Lakes.
