The GNC Crew

Rick is entering his third season as one of the Teen Adventure coaches and he also is working to develop youth biathlon opportunities in the Flathead Valley.

Rick spent the bulk of his adult life in the U.S. Military and has worked in the youth education field in Montana for the past couple years.

He brings years of youth athletic coaching experience and PSIA level 1 (Alpine and Nordic) certifications to the Glacier North Center team.

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This will be Ed’s first year coaching Junior Jets, graduating up from CHYSL with his 8yr old daughter who’s a budding Nordic skier. Ed skis nearly every day over the winter, usually chasing his yellow Labrador through the woods. He competes in mountain sports year round: trail running, mountain biking, alpine touring, and of course cross country ski races. Earlier in his amateur sporting career, Ed trained with former Olympic coaches for rowing and swimming. He tries to bring their approach to coaching Nordic skiing – but keeping it fun to inspire his 8yr old!

Cameron took the reins as part-time Executive Director of Glacier Nordic Club in the 2016-17 season, allowing her to combine her non-profit expertise with her love of Nordic skiing.  Cameron was formerly the Executive Director of North Valley Music School from 2004 to 2010 and has served on the Board of numerous non-profits. Prior to moving to the Flathead, she worked in real estate investment banking and finance.

Cameron has taught Nordic skiing since 2001, starting with Chet Hope Youth Ski League. She loves sharing her knowledge of skiing and developing creative teaching games and drills for the ski team kids or instructing adult clinics.

Over the past seven years, she has coached Prep Team, Junior Jets, and adult lessons and clinics. She also coached a season with the Bridger Ski Foundation in Bozeman and skied with their competitive master’s program. She has fun racing the longer distances!

Cameron holds current PSIA Level 2, USSA Level 100, and Wilderness First Aid Certifications. Her children share in her passion. Connor, her son, raced for GNST, Bridger Ski Foundation, and for four years at Bates College in Maine. He is now coaching high schoolers. Barrett, her daughter, skied with GNST and coached the Junior Jets in her last two years of high school. And Willem, her second son, skied with GNST through 8th grade.

I’m Gin Bowland. I grew up in Iowa. I studied Art and Music and got my BA from the University of Iowa. I moved to Missoula, MT, where I got my first classic skis, and met my husband James. His work took us to Sacramento, CA. We spent most of our free time there riding bikes—both road and mountain—and did some amateur racing.

We moved to Whitefish in the fall of 2012. After one season of CHYSL, my children wanted to join the Junior Jets. I started skate skiing so I could ski (keep up) with them, and I just love it! 

I started out coaching  Chet Hope for a couple of years, then I got my PSIA Certification and have been coaching with Junior Jets since 2015. I really enjoy sharing my love of the outdoors and skiing with everyone. You can also find me playing String Bass in the Glacier Symphony!

Born and raised in Alaska, Nikki learned to Nordic and Alpine ski at a very young age. Nikki grew up skiing for fun and occasionally participated in races that her grandpa would sign her up for. In 2018-19, she skied for the Juneau Nordic Ski Club and has continued to ski for fun and exercise. In 2022, Nikki moved to Whitefish to attend FVCC, she ending up finding a love for flying and earned her Pilots License that May. During the summers, she spends her time commercial fishing in Southeast Alaska, catching Dungeness crab and Pacific halibut. This is her second year working at the Glacier Nordic Shop and coaching the Chet Hope Youth Ski League.

When not at the Nordic Shop, Nikki can be found on the trails, either biking, skiing, or running, cooking delicious food, or knitting.

Cassady has been a skier her whole life. Until her teens, she was primarily an alpine skier. Growing up in Colorado, she participated in high school nordic racing and trained with her older brother’s competitive nordic team. As she drifted away from alpine ski racing in college, she began nordic skiing more frequently. Cassady is also a vegetable farmer/gardener in Kalispell and is the owner of Raven Ridge Farm. Since farming is seasonal in Montana, she decided that she needed some structure in the winter and working with GNST was a great fit. She has helped coach Jets, Prep, Comp, teen fitness, and taught adult clinics over the past few years with GNST.

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Franz hails from New England, where his formative days were spent mucking about the salt marsh, skating on frozen ponds, and only hitting the links when snow covered and with skis on his feet. For him, physical fitness is a corollary to a life spent outdoors. He disparages the trend towards increasing specialization in youth sports and has spent his fatherhood planning family adventures and finding any excuse to get the family outside and off the sidelines.

Franz has coached youth soccer, hockey and baseball, and in a former life was a snowboard instructor in Jackson, Wyoming.  When he and family moved to Whitefish in January of 2016, the Glacier Nordic Club was one of his first contacts. Franz has been coaching with GNST since, working his way along with his kids, moving from Jets on to Prep. Franz believes that kids learn through moving and that gravity and friction are great instructors. Edge awareness, balance, efficiency of movement, and aerobic fitness are just some of the lifelong traits young skiers develop in the Nordic program. Franz enjoys being along for the ride.

My coaching career started decades ago with the upstart Glacier Nordic Club in the 1980s. I also coached with the Bill Koch Ski League, now the Chet Hope Ski League. Ski coaching has taken me to Bozeman, Park City, Utah, and most recently Unalakleet, Alaska. Unalakleet was a unique coaching experience: skiing in howling brutal winds and extreme cold, actually needing green wax, training kids in a large ski-biathlon program, and ultimately having a blast with kids on skis in variable conditions from November to May.  Now back home in Montana, it is absolutely fantastic to be working with a mature and successful GNC with all the great programs that are offered to kids and adults.  GNC has grown over the years, and I am thrilled to give back, coming full circle to the community where my coaching started.  Think SNOW and see you on the trails!

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Olivia grew up in Maine, skiing, running, hiking, biking and adventuring. She raced competitively in high school in both nordic skiing and running. Olivia then went to Bates College in Lewiston Maine. Once at Bates, Olivia raced on the Division I Nordic Ski team for all four years, of which she was a captain her senior year. She also ran one season of Division III track. Olivia graduated with a BA in Sociology and Education. After graduation, she briefly worked for a non-profit doing immigration advocacy work, before accepting the role as assistant coach of the Bates Nordic Team. She coached there for two full seasons, before deciding to move out west. Olivia is going to be starting her MA in Sport Coaching this fall, which she will be doing remotely while she coaches the comp team. Olivia brings a love of the outdoors, skiing, and competing with her and hopes to share that with the whole team! 

Sarah Tegeler grew up skiing in Alaska and began ski racing in middle school. She represented Team Alaska at Junior Nationals and skied for University of Alaska Anchorage. She has coached for the Eagle River Junior Nordic program, multiple Fast and Female clinics, and XC running for West Valley School in Kalispell.