Hello Ottawa and Gatineau cross country ski community. ENGNE is hosting the Nordiq Canada AGM on June 18th at the 4Points Sheraton Hotel in Gatineau On the Saturday evening there will be a Nordiq Canada Banquet dinner and for this event ENGNE encourages our ski community to attend to share with Nordiq Canada our regions [...]
Congratulations to the 2021-22 Nakkertok Community Award winners. The awards recognize members who have contributed a significant amount of time and effort to the Nakkertok community and ski season. The award winners are: Golden Toque Award Rodney Neufeld Rob Smith Volunteer of the Year Award Benoit Letourneau Sarah Walsh Irene Casey Rob Samulack Sylvia Welke [...]
I am pleased to announce a new coaching line-up to lead the Nakkertok Racing Program. We have re-structured the program into Development (U10 to U16) and High Performance streams (U18 and ENRG). Geoff Tomlinson will provide overall leadership for the Racing Program continuing as the Interim Head Coach and lead the Development stream, overseeing athlete [...]
Nakkertok is currently accepting applications for the Fenton Nakkertok Bursary Program for the 2022-23 season. The bursaries help young athletes participate in the Nakkertok Racing Program and Adventure Program. The bursaries will be awarded to athletes who require financial assistance to offset the cost of participating in the Nakkertok programs. The bursaries are open to [...]
Would you give Klaebo a run for his money in a sprint? Or is slow and steady what wins the race? Équipe Nakkertok Racing Group (ENRG) is inviting you to find out at the ENRG Ski Fest, April 9th and 10th, 2022. Saturday, April 9th will feature the Nakkertok Stadium Sprint Championships of the Universe. The event includes [...]
The Nakkertok Board of Directors is seeking nominations for the Nakkertok Community Awards. Each year the Community Awards recognize members who have contributed a significant amount of time and effort to the Nakkertok community and ski season. We are seeking nominations of Nakkertok members with outstanding contributions to our club in the following categories: Volunteer(s) [...]
Nakkertok Nordic is hiring two full time enthusiastic individuals to coach high performance and development athletes (U14 and older) as well as provide support to our younger race program athletes. We have a successful high performance racing program with 250 athletes, 4 paid full-time coaches, 5 part-time paid coaches, a strong volunteer coach/ admin support [...]
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Nakkertok’s own, Katherine Stewart-Jones is off to represent Canada at the cross-country ski events at next month’s Beijing Olympics. Over the last couple of years Katherine has established herself as the top Canadian women’s distance skier and won both distance races at the recent Olympic Trials in Canmore, Alberta. Olympic Trials win, Nathanial [...]
Welcome to the new ski season. At the time of writing this we’ve had two full weeks of Nakkertrak operations. Based on the weather forecast we may once again have the only decent skiing in the region for the bulk of December. We are getting ready to host the National Capital’s first XC Ski race [...]
