{"id":2283,"date":"2009-02-18T16:47:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T20:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2016-01-14T13:40:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:40:48","slug":"ruppertsburger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/02\/18\/ruppertsburger\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Ruppertsburger &#039;11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/02\/72ruppersburger-6024.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/02\/72ruppersburger-6024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"72ruppersburger-6024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bates sophomore Natalie Ruppertsburger had another strong weekend at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival, placing seventh in the 5K Classic Technique race and 19th in the 10K Free Technique race.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ruppertsburger (Plainfield, N.H.) led the Bates women&#8217;s Nordic team to third place out of 13 teams in the event, covering the Oak Hill course in 15:57.2 on Friday in the 5K Classic. It was her third top-10 finish of the carnival season and her best to date.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday in the women&#8217;s 10K freestyle race, Ruppertsburger was 19th in 32:05.9, right behind first-year teammate Beth Taylor (Norwich, Vt.), who was 18th in 32:04.6 out of 65 competitors. Ruppertsburger currently ranks 12th among women Nordic skiers on the EISA carnival circuit, putting her in strong position to become the first Bates women&#8217;s Nordic skier to compete at the NCAA Skiing Championships since Kaitlyn McElroy &#8217;07 did in 2006. (Bates is the host school for this year&#8217;s NCAA Skiing Championships.)<\/p>\n<p>Bates&#8217; combined alpine and Nordic ski teams finished sixth out of 13 teams in the final standings in the carnival with 574.5 points, only half a point behind fifth-place Williams and 23.5 points ahead of rival Colby. Bates competes this weekend in the Middlebury Carnival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates sophomore Natalie Ruppertsburger had another strong weekend at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival, placing seventh in the 5K Classic Technique race and 19th in the 10K Free Technique race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24,11012],"tags":[6506,11035],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-student-life","tag-nordic-skiing","tag-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89012,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions\/89012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}