Chasé

 Tuva Granøien has left us. It happened a long time ago. Last spring, actually. It was unavoidable. She was our graduate assistant coach. And she graduated. We had a lot of laughs, and I'm definitely going to miss traveling around the countryside with Tuva to ski races this winter!

But we all have to move forward. 

I assumed we would have a new Nordic assistant coach on board by mid-summer, but that didn't happen. And it didn't happen for most of this fall, either. But finally, a couple weeks ago, we found ourselves a new Nordic assistant coach, and he goes by the name of Chase High. Chase comes to our team straight off the Saint Scholastica ski team, where he competed at the NCAA Championships last winter, and got himself an accounting degree last spring. And a finance degree, too. 

One of these two characters is our new assistant coach.

Chase grew up in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, which is awesome because it probably means we'll all be bunking in his old bedroom every time we go there for college ski races.

Chase has only been hanging out with us for a couple of weeks so far, but we already like him a lot, and we're looking forward to lots of good times ahead!  Welcome to Alaska, Chase!