Meet the Team – Videos

Meet The Alberta World Cup XC Ski Team 2014-15. with thanks to Kevin Sandau. Brittany Webster Emily Nishikawa Alysson Marshall Dahria Beatty Heidi Widmer Patrick Stewart-Jones Sebastien Townsend Nick Monette Graeme Killick Yannick Lapierre Michael Somppi Jesse Cockney...

Cross-Country Skis, With Chips and an App

Jack Bell, NY Times December 3, 2014 in Personal Tech | Gadgetwise. For years, many people thought of the cross-country skier as either a solitary tree hugger out in the woods, icicles hanging from a frozen beard, or perhaps as a perfect human specimen struggling...

Partnership with the Capital Region Training Group

The Alberta World Cup Academy (AWCA) is pleased to announce an innovative partnership with the Capital Region Training Group (CRTG), based in the Edmonton area. To kick off the partnership, AWCA and CRTG will bring together our combined strengths at targeted races in...

Swiss Praise For The Academy

Mathias Inniger came to us from Switzerland and speaks warmly of training with the ski team at The Alberta World Cup Academy. Check out the T-shirt! With the aim to complete three months of my preparation with a good team, I traveled mid-August to Canmore to join the...

Frozen Thunder Super Camp 2014

Members of The Frozen Thunder Super Camp funded an innovative training program through innovative means, including a crowdsourcing campaign at Make A Champ. From October 20-26, junior athletes from Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, BC and the Yukon trained, lived side by...