HUski Nordic club
(Huntington United Ski Nordic Club)
Weekly practices currently meet at 6:30pm Tuesday outside of Squashbusters gym!!
(Huntington United Ski Nordic Club)
Welcome!
HUski Nordic is Northeastern’s first collegiate Nordic skiing club! Created in 2023, this new student group provides novice and experienced skiers with the opportunity to get out on the snow and improve their skills. We are now a fully recognized club under Northeastern's "club" department (Center for Student Involvement, CSI), but are not a part of the "Club Sports" department.
Our club participates in USCSA, an intercollegiate racing league from December to February, traveling across New England to test our skills against other schools, but encourage beginners and skiers of all levels to get involved! We hold weekly dryland practices on campus year-round and get on snow nearby (see Where We Ski Page). during the winter.
Nordic skiing is a fantastic full-body workout and provides a great chance to meet new people and join our tight-knit community. For more information, reach us through email at huskinordic@gmail.com. Also see us in action on our Instagram page @huskinordic!
We're also tentatively open to students from surrounding colleges and grad students.
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Quick overview if you're new:
This is NOT downhill/alpine skiing, we do not go to mountains, use chairlifts. This is a (much cheaper) endurance sport where we ski uphill, downhill, flats, everything. See our About Nordic Skiing page if you're still confused.
If you weren’t able to make it to the interest meeting any of our practices, you can look at our meeting slides here to get more familiarized with the club: Interest Meeting Slides
Neither equipment nor experience required. We have a small inventory of club equiptment that we can lend, and some of our members occasionally are gracious enough to loan their extra personal equipment. However, we ask that after a few times that you buy your own equipment, or rent when possible (<<100$ total) and we can help with this.
Learning opportunities: if you show up regularly, we’ll make a skier out of you
Racing opportunities (optional): we race in the USCSA collegiate club league
To be a fully recognized member:
Join our Slack Channel
Join our Engage roster by signing in and clicking join
Fill out our survey/form every semester so we know your experience level and what practice times work for everyone
Other Prepwork:
Get yourself equipment (ask for help via email, slack or in person and look at resources on our website and the “equipment” slack channel)
Follow us on Instagram to see us at work
Show up to practice and get abs
We have weekly dryland practices year-round. During ski season we add a weekly on-snow practice at Weston Ski Track. We also organize weekend traning throughout the year. Check our instagram for up to date information reguarding practice times!
If you can't make regular practices, let us know and we can try to adjust our schedule
Fall 2025 Interest Form! Please fill this out to let us know about your skiing background
Want to help us out? The link above allows you to donate to our Northeastern-managed bank accounts!
Click the icon. We dare you.
Anti-Hazing Policy, Defers to Northeastern University Guidelines
Northeastern University Undergraduate Student Handbook
Hazing, as defined by Chapter 269 of the Massachusetts General Laws, or defined as follows: any action taken or situation created, whether voluntary or involuntary, for the purpose of initiation, admission into, affiliation with, or as a condition for continued membership in a group or organization, which endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student, creates risk of injury, causes mental or physical fatigue or distress, discomfort, embarrassment, harassment, ridicule, or intimidation, causes damage to or destruction of property, or which is a violation of law, University policy, or the Code of Student Conduct. Such activities include, but are not limited to, striking another student by hand or with any instrument; requiring or advocating alcohol or other drug use; late sessions/meetings that interfere with academic activities; tattooing, branding, or piercing; physical or psychological shocks; wearing of apparel in public that is embarrassing, humiliating, or degrading; or games/activities causing or resulting in fatigue, sleep deprivation, mental distress, panic, embarrassment, or humiliation. Activities that would not be considered hazing and therefore acceptable would include agreeing to: maintain a specific GPA, comply with a dress code for a team/organizational function, participate in volunteer community service, participate in a team/organizational trip, take an oath, or sign a contract of standards. (SCB)
Part IV, Title I, Chapter 269, of the Massachusetts General Laws
Section 17. "Whoever is a principal organizer or participant in the crime of hazing, as defined herein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than three thousand dollars or by imprisonment in a house of correction for not more than one year, or both such fine and imprisonment.
The term ''hazing'' as used in this section and in sections eighteen and nineteen, shall mean any conduct or method of initiation into any student organization, whether on public or private property, which wilfully or recklessly endangers the physical or mental health of any student or other person. Such conduct shall include whipping, beating, branding, forced calisthenics, exposure to the weather, forced consumption of any food, liquor, beverage, drug or other substance, or any other brutal treatment or forced physical activity which is likely to adversely affect the physical health or safety of any such student or other person, or which subjects such student or other person to extreme mental stress, including extended deprivation of sleep or rest or extended isolation.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section to the contrary, consent shall not be available as a defense to any prosecution under this action."
Section 18. “Whoever knows that another person is the victim of hazing as defined in section seventeen and is at the scene of such crime shall, to the extent that such person can do so without danger or peril to himself or others, report such crime to an appropriate law enforcement official as soon as reasonably practicable. Whoever fails to report such crime shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars."
Section 19. "Each institution of secondary education and each public and private institution of post secondary education shall issue to every student group, student team or student organization which is part of such institution or is recognized by the institution or permitted by the institution to use its name or facilities or is known by the institution to exist as an unaffiliated student group, student team or student organization, a copy of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen; provided, however, that an institution's compliance with this section's requirements that an institution issue copies of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen to unaffiliated student groups, teams or organizations shall not constitute evidence of the institution's recognition or endorsement of said unaffiliated student groups, teams or organizations.
Each such group, team or organization shall distribute a copy of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen to each of its members, plebes, pledges or applicants for membership. It shall be the duty of each such group, team or organization, acting through its designated officer, to deliver annually, to the institution an attested acknowledgement stating that such group, team or organization has received a copy of this section and said sections seventeen and eighteen, that each of its members, plebes, pledges, or applicants has received a copy of sections seventeen and eighteen, and that such group, team or organization understands and agrees to comply with the provisions of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen.
Each institution of secondary education and each public or private institution of post secondary education shall, at least annually, before or at the start of enrollment, deliver to each person who enrolls as a full time student in such institution a copy of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen.
Each institution of secondary education and each public or private institution of post secondary education shall file, at least annually, a report with the board of higher education and in the case of secondary institutions, the board of education, certifying that such institution has complied with its responsibility to inform student groups, teams or organizations and to notify each full time student enrolled by it of the provisions of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen and also certifying that said institution has adopted a disciplinary policy with regard to the organizers and participants of hazing, and that such policy has been set forth with appropriate emphasis in the student handbook or similar means of communicating the institution's policies to its students. The board of higher education and, in the case of secondary institutions, the board of education shall promulgate regulations governing the content and frequency of such reports, and shall forthwith report to the attorney general any such institution which fails to make such report."