HUski Nordic club
(Huntington United Ski Nordic Club)
Skiers Ready... On Your Marks... Hup! Hup! Hup!
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. As of December 2023, we are 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 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, check out our main website https://sites.google.com/view/huskinordic/home or reach us through email at huskinordic@gmail.com. Also see us in action on our Instagram page @huskinordic!
We're 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, helmets, etc. This is more like an endurance sport, or a slow easy snow experience
It is MUCH MUCH CHEAPER than downhill skiing.
Neither equipment nor experience required. Unfortunately we do not have equipment we can GIVE you, but we do our best (no promises) to loan spare equipment so you can try it free a few times and then get equipment for pretty cheap (<<100$ total), just let us know
Learning opportunities (if you show up regularly, we’ll make a skier out of you)
Check out @huskinordic on Instagram and our Website
Racing available but totally optional, see below
To be a fully recognized member:
Join our Slack Channel
Fill out our interest from so we know your experience level
Join our roster on Engage by signing in and clicking join
Dues are 10$, ($11 for grad students and non-Northeastern students) We have not yet set a deadline for dues, but if you have come to at least a few practices with us, we will follow up with you about paying dues.
Pay online through this link
Click ‘Student Groups’ NOT ‘Club Sports’
Click ’Competition & Skill Based’
Click ‘Huntington United Ski Nordic Club Dues’
Enter $10 or $11 if grad
Click ’Add to Cart’
Click ’Checkout’
In the ‘Reason’ box just type like ‘dues’
Once complete, please submit proof of your dues payment here.
Other Prepwork:
Register yourself to race if you plan to (see below)
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
Long-Range Plans
Captain Elections: End of Spring Semester. A lot of people will be moving on, we need replacements, so prepare by reading our constitution and by-laws here. We will need to have an organizational meeting before this happens to hash out responsibilities and whether we need extra captains.
Summer-waxing day. Learn how to wax and take care of all your equipment. We'll put on a coat or two and leave on "summer wax", the protective coat that keeps the skis until next year. If you've borrowed equipment, we ask that you come to this.
Rollerskiing! All summer. You must show up with minimum of a helmet, otherwise, we will not ski with you. We will teach you and do our best with equipment, but it will be less available than actual skis. Suggested to get rollerblades and all pads/guards necessary. We have some spares, but no guarantee.
Rollerski races: all summer and fall, whenever NENSA hosts them. Beginners welcome, but learn a little first.
Dryland: all summer. Besides strength, we’ll run, use the ergs, bike? Swim? Do balance exercises, maybe hop into fun runs, triathlons, spartan races, etc
Social events: all summer chill, whatever we think of. Probably outdoor projector movie for one
Hikes: all summer and fall everywhere we can get to
Recruiting: all summer, especially orientation
Fall fest: start of fall semester
scrounge for equipment, get sponsors, reach new skiers, make uniforms, anything you all suggest
Next year's races:
USCSA races (won't be published until late 2024)
NENSA/ORDA open-to-the public (called "citizen races")
the American Birkiebiener - Feb 22, 2025- registration not open yet, but closes way before race
Racing DONE FOR THE 2024 SEASON
Total Costs:
$27.50 for individual USCSA registration until December 1st
Racing Dues: $45, covers our institution, team, and conference fees
All expenses for a Fri-Sat-Sun race weekend (food, transportation, food, housing, venue fees, snacks, activities) is generally about $130
We race in the USCSA Racing League in the eastern conference!!!!!!! This is a big win for our new team and we’re so excited about it. We’ll get to as many as we can, need 2 out of 5 to qualify for the postseason. Each weekend has 2 days, can do just one. Exact logistics are only sent out to those racing. but we will stay nearby members’ houses when possible, if not we’ll get hotel rooms (and split costs with other teams when possible). Race entry fees to be paid day of. Equipment not provided, get yours before then.
Racing Registration:
Read this page so you know what’s going on
Go here, READ THE TOP, and click “COMPETITOR REGISTRATION IS OPEN!”
You’ll need a copy of your unofficial (free) transcript which you can get by clicking “my transcript” in Northeastern StudentHub
You’ll need info about your medical insurance
Enter Northeastern as the institution and it will prompt you to click the buttons as follows: Conference=Eastern, Division=Thompson, Region=East
It may or may not save your progress so save your answers somewhere or do it all at once
Fill out this form to let us know once you’ve registered
QR code for Slack below
QR code for Interest Form below. Please fill this out to let us know about your skiing background
Want to help us out? The link below allows you to donate to our Northeastern-managed bank accounts!
Wanna see an Instagram page? Yeah you do.
Click the icon. I 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."