Beatty Makes Olympic Criteria

With a blistering trip around the skate sprint track in Otepaa, Estonia, Dahria Beatty is one step closer to becoming a full-fledged Canadian Olympian . Beatty finished 29th in February 18th’s World Cup race for her third top-30 race of the season, meeting Cross...

Cowboy hats aplenty on Whistler podium

The Academy men swept the sprint podium, as the team dominated the Western Canadian Championships in Whistler B.C., Jan 21-23. With Knute Johnsgaard away on the World Cup, AWCA alumnus Jesse Cockney stepped in to take the open men’s title Friday (Jan. 21) in the skate...

Legend of Johnsgaard grows

Knute earns World Cup bronze, Olympic spot Alberta World Cup Academy stand out Knute Johnsgaard punched his ticket to the 2018 Winter Olympics with a bronze medal performance in 4×7.5 men’s world cup relay Sunday (Jan. 22) in Ulricehamn, Sweden. After watching...

US NATIONALS 2017

   First came the exploding van window. Then came the bed bugs. Then the rain and faulty brakes. Yet despite harsh race conditions and unexpected SNAFUs, the Alberta World Cup Academy emerged with five medals from the U.S. Nationals in Soldier’s Hollow, Utah Jan 7-12....

The breakthrough: Beatty cracks top 30

For the second week in a row, Dahria Beatty has achieved a new personal best on the World Cup circuit, proving she can compete with the best skiers in the world. Fresh off of a 26th place in the Davos, Switzerland skate sprint, Beatty crushed the 10 km skate race in...