ADDISON COUNTY — Middlebury College first year Beth McIntosh, a 2025 Middlebury Union High School graduate, cleaned up at the junior national Nordic skiing competition in Wisconsin earlier this month.

She amassed four top 10 finishes, including third place in the U20 14.5K classic race, which she completed in 52:10.1. McIntosh also finished fifth in the U20 7.5K skate race (23:58.7), seventh in the U20 classic sprint (3:52.29) and skied the third leg in the winning U20 mixed relay for New England.

Though most Vermonters minds are on mud season, like McIntosh, several other local Nordic skiers were soaking up the last patches of snow anywhere they could in mid-March.

In addition to the top 10 finishers in Wisconsin, Addison County sent a winner to the U16 Eastern Championships in Hanover, N.H., and competitors to the Eastern High School Championships at Gore Mountain in upstate New York.

At junior nationals, McIntosh was accompanied on the New England team by six other competitors with roots in Addison County, including three who also nabbed top 10 finishes at the junior national competition, held from March 9-14.

Fellow MUHS grad Ava Scheider, who just finished her first season on the Division I team at Dartmouth, placed fourth in the U20 classic spring (3:53.68). The mixed relay team she competed on came in sixth.

McIntosh’s and Schneider’s New England teammate and former high school teammate, MUHS senior, 2026 D-II high school freestyle champion and classic runner-up Mary Harrington, took eighth in the U18 7.5K skate race. Her time was 24:02.7.

Like McIntosh and Schneider, she is bound for college-level skiing. Harrington plans to compete on the D-I team at the University of Vermont next winter.

Ripton-native and Green Mountain Valley School senior Matthew McIntosh placed tenth in the U18 classic sprint with a 3:34.60 time.

Also in attendance was MUHS sophomore, 2026 D-II high school classic and skate state champion Jorgen Pirrung, Green Mountain Valley School senior Matias Citarella and Lincoln native and Williams College student Stella Laird.

That same weekend, MUHS sophomore Gabriel Perchemlides won the U16 Eastern Championship skate sprint (2:18.97) and placed sixth in the 5K classic (14:55).

Sophomore Meredith Carr-Perlow and freshman Avery Thompson were also part of the second place-earning Vermont team at that competition.

On March 6 and 7 Perchemlides and Mt. Abe skier June Yates-Rusch raced for Vermont, which took first overall, in the Eastern High School Championships.