This is the meat and potatoes of the Minnesota Valley Ski Club. The basic summer program includes fitness training and technique sessions three days a week. Each session has a training component including endurance, strength and agility with some speed work in the later half of the summer. Members receive workout plans for off days.

Open to all high school and junior high school cross-country skiers. There will be ability groups for all levels from beginners to elite athletes. This is the program that has produced national and state champions.

M,W,F 7:00 - 9:00 a.m. Limited to 90 skiers.

Cost: $425 Dates: June 16 - August 8
Basic Summer Program meets at Hyland Park Reserve by the chutes and ladders play area, with occasional visits to the Dakota County big river trail in Eagan.

This program meets five days a week. It is geared toward kids who have fall commitments (or are going away to college) and cannot join the competition team, but are ready to make an additional commitment to ski training in the summer. Advanced Summer Program skiers will need to sign up of an Ilog on-line training log account at www.ilog.ca

Meets M,W,F with Basic Program (either session).
Meets T, TH 7:00 - 9:00 a.m. at various sites with the competition team and White Noise Nordic advanced program. Limited to 15* skiers.

Cost: $675 Dates: June 16- August 8

The Minnesota Valley Competition Team offers an advanced summer/fall program for juniors who want to be competitive on a national (and eventually international) level. The competition team will train with MN Valley coaches five days per week in the summer and the fall. Skiers on the competition team must set lofty goals (i.e: medaling at Junior Nationals, winning state, making the Junior National team or making All-State). Competition team will train with our sister club White Noise Nordic two days a week.

The competition team will focus on more intense training with speed/hard days a regular part of the weekly schedule. Competition Team members will meet one-on-one with Reid to discuss their training, goals and review their training logs (required). Each team member will begin a yearly training plan, customized for each individual.

The competition team will train with MN Valley through the fall until the start of their high school nordic ski season. Competition team members are required to ski the Junior Olympics qualifying series.

Summer Schedule
Meets M,W,F with Basic summer program.
Meets T, TH: 7:00-9:00 a.m. at various locations.

Fall Schedule:
Meets 5 days per week M,Tu,W,F, 3:00 p.m. Sunday 4:00
Competition Team is limited to 15 skiers.

Cost: $1200 Dates: June 16 - March 2008. We take a two week break in August.