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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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Jumpin' Off Things = FUN

A big hello from upstate where the water flows like wine and the women instinctively flock like...well...I guess they don't really flock around here. Anyway life in Keene is still GOOD! Except for the fact that even though Hova and I live about 10 minutes from both Papineau and Magoo, I think we have seen both ladies only twice...I blame it on work and not wanting to drive because of newly increased gas price of $4.31 (yeah I know Dylan its like 9 bucks a gallon in Germany yah). Anyway we have been busy with many things: cliff jumping, ice cream making, selling stuff on eBay, Six Flags Theme Park, getting pulled over by NY State police for neglecting to wear a seatbelt 100 feet from our residence, humidity (blah), losing and buying new heart rate monitors, realizing that food actually costs money when you live on your own, and other fun stuff like that. Recently, I went to a US Biathlon Team camp and was very happy I was attending for two reasons: (1) it is great to ski with some of the faster skiers in the country (i.e. Tim and Lowell) and (2) it made me realize that when I race on nordic skis I know that I will NEVER have a gun on my back when I do so...EVER. Besides that, Hova and I have a new housemate, Paul Smith, from UVM. He's the man. Quiet, but the man. The movies that are up are of nearby cliff jumping shenanegans (or SHEE-NA-NEE-GANS as Harry likes to pronounce it). We went to a place called The Bluffs with the Matty McClelland, Sophie, Scottie, Marlijne, and some other nearby peeps for an adrenaline rush one afternoon. 70-foot cliff...terrifying really but FUN!!! Hope all is well and it is great hearin' how people's summers are going. Can't wait to see people in the fall.
Later Skaters,
Sylvan
PS- So of the 46 mountains that Harry and I were planning to climb we have hit....... FOUR, maybe a goal for a different summer.
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posted by Bates Nordic at 7:29 PM

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