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

watch out for Gill this fall

So Kirsten has officially fallen off the training wagon as she as completely abandoned her training schedule only a few seconds after telling me she was going to be on the 500 hour schedule.  During her week in Idaho she has gone to the grocery store every day for between 1.5 and 2.5 hours which she then logs as a distance workout.  She has also taken to calling any time that she spends in the kitchen a specific strength workout because she has to wash so many pots and pans (her right arm is huge).  For intensity Kir has entered one hot dog eating contest and climbed the stairs a total of 7.5 times, she fell half way up after a particularly long trip to the grocery store.  The other day she told me she had just come back from a hike that consisted of her riding the bus to the mountain and then taking the chair lift all the way around.  Then there was today after I got home from a long strenuous day at the office Gill walks out of her room and tells me she just woke up from a recovery run.   I just don't know what happened to her but for some reason I am pretty sure her recent trend of laziness is some how Evans-Brown's fault. 
Enjoy,
Steve

1 Comments:

Anonymous Sammy B said...

Steve I'm gonna kick you in the d---

June 17, 2008 4:13 PM  

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