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Local Sports

Tri Lakes Youth lacrosse registration is now open

Tri Lake Youth Lacrosse registration is now open. Registration is open to girls and boys in kindergarten through sixth grade in the Tri-Lakes region and surrounding communities. Beginner and experienced players are welcome. Pre-season indoor skills training will start in March with the ...

Lake Placid hosts North American aerials event

LAKE PLACID — For the first time since 2019, Lake Placid hosted an aerials competition at the Olympic Jumping Complex. The venue hosted the FIS Freestyle North American Cup on March 1 and 2, which was part of a NorAm Cup tour that spanned from February to the first week of ...

NYSEF skiers compete in multiple events

Local New York Ski Educational Foundation athletes competed in various Alpine ski races at Whiteface, Gore Mountain and in New Jersey on Feb. 24 and 25. In New Jersey, the FIS teams competed in the Winter for Kids Slalom races where NYSEF and Northwood athlete Julianne Brochu took the ...

NYSEF athletes compete in junior nationals

Local athletes competing for the New York State Ski Educational Foundation’s men’s ski jumping and Nordic combined team traveled to Anchorage, Alaska from Feb. 27 to March 2 to compete at the Junior National Championships this past week and earned a double podium sweep in ski ...

Three win Junior National Championship luge titles

LAKE PLACID — Two-time Junior World Championship medalist Matt Greiner celebrated his final day as a junior luge athlete on March 2 by winning the Norton Junior National Championship title in Lake Placid. In the men’s doubles event, Junior World Champions Marcus Mueller and Ansel Haugsjaa ...

Saranac Laker tries skeleton at 83

SARANAC LAKE — At 83-years old, Donna Haig of Saranac Lake raced head-first on a skeleton sled down the Mount Van Hoevenberg track Friday, Feb. 23. Haig is now the oldest person to go down the Mount Van Hoevenberg track on a skeleton sled, according to state Olympic Regional ...