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Photo by Olof Hedberg Summit Nordic Ski Club head coach Olof Hedberg said this past weekend at the Raoul Willie Memorial cross-country ski races in Aspen was one of the greatest ever for the club. The team’s several standout individual performances were led by 15-year-old Nina Schamberger’s eye-opening results racing against some of the world’s best cross-country skiers. At Friday’s skate-sprint heats, the Leadville resident Schamberger raced against the best American and international ...

Summit County reported 151 new cases and one hospitalization due to the novel coronavirus in the past week, according to the county’s coronavirus webpage. A total of 2,611 Summit County residents have gotten the virus since the beginning of the pandemic and 69 residents have been hospitalized since March 5. Despite an overall decrease in incidence rate statewide, Summit County numbers have been increasing, along with the rest of the resort region. As of Friday, Jan. 29, the county’s two-we...

Photo by Liz Copan / From Summit Daily archives The Snyder sisters led the Summit High varsity girls Alpine ski team to back-to-back wins on home snow this week. Junior Olyvia Snyder picked up where she left during the 2020 high school season, as the 2020 slalom state champion won the Copper Mountain slalom competition on Wednesday, ahead of fellow Tiger teammates Paige Peterson (third place) and Victoria Uglyar (seventh). Tiger Jenna Sheldon raced well and was in second place but straddled the...

Approaching one year since schools shut down due to the pandemic, Summit School District officials are starting to see how remote learning impacted education. Last week, the Colorado Department of Education released graduation, completion and dropout statistics for all public schools across Colorado. According to the data, the four-year graduation rate for the district after the 2019-20 school year was at 90.4%, a drop of 4.7% from the 2018-19 school year. Educators are attributing the drop in ...

Inland Empire high school students honored for creating PSAs about COVID-19 Students from the Inland Empire were honored in a state competition for creating an educational COVID-19 PSA. LOS ANGELES - When Summit High School student Audrey Juarez called her TV Production class project PSA  “Overcome”, it was as much about putting it together as it was about the theme - dealing with stay at home life, as a usually very involved, outgoing, high school cheerleader.   She is one of several Fon...

Summit High School seniors Will Wagner, center left, and Andrew Duxbury, center right, pose for a picture after signing on to play lacrosse in college at Adams State and Westminster College, respectively. The boys are joined by coaches Matty Marks, left, and Pat Doherty. Photo from Joanne Wagner When 2019 Summit High School graduate Max Duxbury left the Tigers lacrosse program for Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Max’s younger brother, Andrew, lost the one guy who could challenge him at...