The 2024-2025 alpine ski season has pretty much come to an end for the competitive crew representing the Northern Ontario Division (NOD), but not before athletes from across the north took advantage of late season events, with some moving on to higher end challenges.

The U16 O-Cup races hosted at Searchmont featured a total of 16 NOD skiers distributed nicely across several different clubs, with the Ladies and Men brackets broken down as follows:

U16 NOD Ladies
Searchmont: Elinor Bateman, Maelee Lesnick*, Catheryn Porpelia
Elliot Lake: Ava Currie*, Myla Goulding*, Avery Grieve
Adanac Ski Club: Lauren Bouchard*
North Bay: Lauren Moore

U16 NOD Men
Searchmont: Reid Gordon, Emmett Kreps*, Landon Phillips
Adanac Ski Club: Asher Hunt, Cael Mannella, Elliot St-Onge Winkel
Elliot Lake: Quintin Thorsteinson*
North Bay: Wyatt Wasylciw
* attended Easterns

The NOD group that attended the U14 O-Cup in Collingwood was an even larger one, with a squad of 21 skiers on hand, vying for a berth at CanAms which took place at Mont Tremblant.

The racers, in question, by gender and team were:

U14 NOD Ladies
Searchmont: Maelle Acton, Andra Annett, Dillon Barsanti, Kassandra Real*
Adanac Ski Club: Anna Corsi, Rebecca Jutras, Ella Prosperi*
North Bay: Lexine Gauthier, Leighton Moore, Finley Prisco
Elliot Lake: Hailey-Mae Sagan

U14 NOD Men
Elliot Lake: Evan Ayers, Findley Currie, Cohen Grieve
Searchmont: Benjamin Campbell*, Daniel Fraser, Lucas McMaster, Bobby Real
North Bay: Thomas Chute, Grant Park
Adanac Ski Club: Nicholas Pegues
* attended CanAms