{"id":51888,"date":"2012-01-18T12:14:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=51888"},"modified":"2018-10-01T13:39:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:39:36","slug":"sun-journal-ellefson-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/01\/18\/sun-journal-ellefson-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Journal highlights Nordic medal performance by Ellefson &#8217;09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/news\/local-sports\/2012\/01\/06\/skiing-bates-alum-ellefson-wins-first-national-med\/1136291\"><em>Sun Journal<\/em> columnist <\/a>Kalle Oakes spotlights the bronze-medal performance by former Bates All-American skier Sylvan Ellefson &#8217;09 at the U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships held at Black Mountain in Rumford.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51896\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/01\/Ellefson5982CROP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51896\" class=\"wp-image-51896\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/01\/Ellefson5982CROP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/01\/Ellefson5982CROP.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/01\/Ellefson5982CROP-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sylvan Ellefson &#8217;09, photographed in 2008 by Phyllis Graber Jensen.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Oakes writes that &#8220;Black Mountain harbors even more comforts of home for Ellefson than you might imagine&#8221; because Bates often uses the trails for practice and home meets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love the course. People who aren\u2019t familiar with courses are coming in just a little bit more tentative,\u201d Ellefson said. \u201cI came in with a lot of confidence from having skied here so many years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ellefson won his medal, his first at a national meet, in the 15-kilometer freestyle event.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/news\/local-sports\/2012\/01\/06\/skiing-bates-alum-ellefson-wins-first-national-med\/1136291\">View story from the <em>Sun Journal<\/em>, Jan. 6, 2012.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun Journal columnist Kalle Oakes spotlights the bronze-medal performance by former Bates&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":51896,"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":[7,24,11009],"tags":[11051],"class_list":["post-51888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51888","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51888"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118962,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51888\/revisions\/118962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}