Michigan Tech Women’s Varsity Soccer team will be having a Showcase on March 17th from 8-10 p.m. in the Multi-purpose gym.   All current Tech female students are invited to participate in the open tryouts.  Please arrive in the gym by 7:40 in order to fill out the proper paperwork.  Individual meetings will be scheduled for the following day between the coaches and each individual to discuss the tryouts and improvement opportunities.

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With the hiring of the Michigan Tech Women’s Soccer coach, Michelle Jacob, we at the Lode wanted to have a chat with her to see what the plans are for next year’s team, and how things are progressing.

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The Michigan Tech Ski teams will head to the American Birkebeiner race in Cable, Wisconsin this coming weekend, in what should be an exciting weekend for the skiers.  The race is hailed as the second largest ski race in North America.  Over 10,000 skiers, 2,000 volunteers and 15,000 spectators are expected to descend this weekend for a 50K Skate, a 54K Classic, 23K Kortelopet, and a Prince Haakon 12K.  Over 20 countries will be represented as well as 47 American states. The US, Canada, Norway and Finland make up the top three countries with people racing and the states sending the most racers are skiers from the Midwest (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois) plus Colorado.

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The Michigan Tech ski teams played host this past weekend to a handful of other teams from across the region, as Houghton was the site of the NCAA Central Region Championship.  As the teams took to the course, it was supposed to be a break out weekend for the Huskies who had been skiing well all year, and even more so in the past few weeks.

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This weekend Houghton and Michigan Tech will play host to the NCAA Central Regional Championships here at Tech’s Ski Trails. The race comes at a great time for our hometown skiers as both teams will look to take advantage of the home course to catapult them to success.

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The Michigan Tech ski teams enjoyed a Winter Carnival at home this past weekend and won’t be traveling all that far for their next races this coming weekend as they head down US-41 to Ishpeming. The ski teams will compete in the Central Collegiate Ski Association Championships against some familiar opponents like Northern Michigan and Alaska – Fairbanks, who they skied against in the US Championships in Alaska. Though it isn’t necessarily a home meet (as Ishpeming is a stone’s throw from Marquette) it is close enough where Tech might be able to claim a bit of a home course advantage.

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Michigan Tech Women’s Soccer team has its coach, and now has a foundation on which to build.  Michelle Jacob was announced as the head coach on Jan. 27, coming off an 11-7-1 record last year with Marian University. The record looks deceiving, as prior to her reign as head coach at Marian, the soccer team was just a measly 4-12-1.  Jacob spent three seasons in the assistant coaching ranks at UW-Stevens Point after finishing a four-year playing career at the same university.  At UW-Stevens Point, Jacob was an All-America First-Team selection and the WIAC Player of the Year in 2001.  While playing with the Pointers, her teams racked up a 75-15-2 record and won the Conference title all four years.

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The Huskies ski team continued a good run in the Central Super Tour this past weekend in Telemark, Wisc.  Good showings from both teams is an encouraging sign as the teams will begin to prepare for the CCSA Championships which will be hosted in Ishpeming February 13 and 14.  The Ski team will then host the NCAA Central Region Championships here at Tech the weekend after the races in Ishpeming.

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We continue our new feature in this year’s running of the Lode Sports section this week.  The Lode Sports has taken to a new Club Sport each week, in an effort to highlight all the great sports here at Michigan Tech.  This week we turn to one of our last remaining clubs untouched, the Wrestling Club.

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The US National Championships in Alaska at the start of the year provided a good barometer for the rest of the season, as expected.  This past weekend the Ski teams faced off against Central Region foes in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the first leg of the Central Super Tour.  After performing well against Central Region competition in the Last Frontier, the Huskies skied well back in the continental states against the same foes.

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