CRAFTSBURY, Vt. – The Bowdoin Nordic team improved one place overall to earn fifth amongst Nordic teams at the UVM Carnival on February 6-7.
 
The Polar Bear women finished second overall on day one and fifth on day two. The men were eighth and seventh.  

Carnival Highlights

• Friday's classic sprint format allowed for 50 qualifiers skiing in heats of ten, rather than the usual six. Crum ultimately secured her second podium of the season, narrowly missing out on first, after breezing through the quarterfinals and semifinals.
• Jordan Grialou qualified for the finals and ended the day with a top-ten finish. Keir Scott and Ruth Krebs both skied in the quarterfinals and finished 27^th and 28^th, respectively. Gillian Fairfax snagged 30^th.
• Lars Sorom paced the men's side and finished 15^th on Friday. Sorom skied his way into the semifinals. Sawyer Weale was the second finisher for Bowdoin, earning 33^rd.
• Saturday boasted a 10k individual start freestyle on a couple inches of fresh light snow, making for slower conditions.
• Crum narrowly missed out on the podium in day two, finishing fourth. Fairfax jumped up into 13^thand Krebs finished 18^th. Scott and Grialou finished back-to-back in 20^th and 21^st.
• Oliver Swaby led the men with a top-30 finish. Eli Shifrin was Bowdoin's second finisher in 36^th.

 
Up Next

• The Polar Bears head to Williams for the penultimate EISA Carnival of the season next weekend.