Becky Woods

HEAD COACH NORDIC SKIING
Becky Woods

A two-time EISA Coach of the Year, Becky Woods '89 has been the head Nordic skiing coach at Bates since 1994. A native of Auburn, Maine, she has coached four All-America winners, including Sylvan Ellefson '09, who was fourth in the 10K freestyle at the 2008 NCAA Championships.

During her collegiate career at Bates, she was a two-time captain, participated in three NCAA Championships and was a member of the All-East team. Woods received the Auburn-Lewiston Sports Hall of Fame President's Award in 1996 and has served on the NCAA skiing rules comittee since 1998.

 

Email: rwoods@bates.edu

Office Phone: 207.786.6339

Martin Benes

ASSISTANT COACH NORDIC SKIING
Martin Benes

Martin Benes '07 returns to Bates, where he was a four-year member of the team and served as co-captain his senior year. After departing Bates with a B.A. in Classical and Medieval Studies, he returned to his home club in California where he coached junior skiers at the regional and national levels.

Last winter Martin returned to New England as an assistant with the Dartmouth College Ski Team. He returned to California this past summer to continue working with the juniors he has coached through two Junior Nationals.

Martin is glad to rejoin the Bates team and is looking forward to working with a talented group of athletes this winter. Off the trails, Martin will be helping out Coach Flynn on the links as the Golf team assistant.

Email: mbenes@bates.edu

Office Phone: 207.755.5954

Bob Flynn

ASSISTANT COACH NORDIC SKIING
Bob Flynn

Coach Flynn posesses a impressive history in the Bates Athletics department through his continuous, untiring involvement for more than 40 years.

He was head skiing coach at Bates from 1968 to 1990 and was instrumental in the program's move to Division I competition in 1972, and in bringing the 1976 NCAA Skiing Championships to Bates. Flynn was also head baseball coach from 1991 to 1999. He is a member of the Lewiston-Auburn Sports Hall of Fame, the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame and the Maine Ski Hall of Fame.

In addition to Skiing and Baseball, in 2008 Flynn also returned to the helm as the Head Coach of Men's and Women's Golf, a position he held previously from 1990 to 1998.

Email: rflynn@bates.edu

Office Phone: 207.786.6441

 

 

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Monday, June 16, 2008

In My Defense


Don't believe anything Steve says. I actually have resisted the call of the grocery store a total of three days out of the nine I've been here, and when Steve came home from work today I was not napping but hard at work washing the dishes. Which I may or may not have counted as a specific strength workout. This all arose from the fact that I didn't fall the training schedule EXACTLY this past week, because I couldn't figure out how to open it on Steve's computer. It may also have helped that Steve is a little bitter about the hike I dragged him along on yesterday. Just because there was no trail, the mountain turned out being a huge pile of loose rocks at 50 degree angles and Steve had gone on a seven hour hike AND a seven mile run the day before, he felt the need to whine the whole way about his sunburnt legs and... never mind. That's it. But he didn't even let us go to the summit, and I had to buy him an ice cream at the end to make him feel better. 
For those of you who don't know, I'm living in Ketchum, Idaho in a beautiful ski condo tastefully decorated with an excessive number of dream catchers. I'm working at a sandwich shop with a bunch of twelve-year-olds. Actually I think their ages range from 16 to 19, but kids just seem so much younger these days.
I miss all you guys like the coccolithophore is going to miss it's shell when they can't form anymore because of the input of carbon dioxide into the oceans which causes the calcium carbonate to enter into a buffering system with the carbon dioxide. (right Sam EB?) Which is a lot. I was going to add real pictures to this, but STEVE forgot the cord for his camera and I can't upload them. 

Love (I'm having a major identity crisis and can't decide which name to put down, so each of you can insert your preferred name for me.)

2 Comments:

Anonymous Sammy B said...

Right Kir... don't forget how carbonic acid gets in on that reaction.

Ps. I like your reference to me better than Steve's.

June 17, 2008 4:15 PM  
Blogger Bates Nordic said...

well, i would have gone into detail and written out the whole chemical reaction, but i thought that would take away from the whole point of the metaphor.

June 17, 2008 7:25 PM  

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