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2025 Nordic Skiing Roster

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Gil Talbot
Jim Laskarzewski '86

Izzy Quam

  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Stillwater, Minn.
  • High School Mounds Park Academy

Biography

Athletic Honors

  • 2024-25 Captain
  • 2023-24 Captain

Academic Honors

  • 2023-24 College Sports Communicators NCAA Division II Academic All-District
  • 2023-24 D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award
  • 2023-24 USCSCA National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team
  • 2022-23 College Sports Communicators NCAA Division II Academic All-District
  • 2022-23 D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award
  • 2022-23 USCSCA National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team
  • 2021-22 USCSCA National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team

As a Junior

  • Appeared in 11 individual races at 6 carnivals
  • Best classic placement: 55th at Middlebury Carnival/EISA Championship on Feb. 24 (18K)
  • Best freestyle placement: 50th at Dartmouth Carnival on Feb. 9 (1.3K Sprint)

As a Sophomore

  • Appeared in 11 races at 6 carnivals
  • Top 30 finish: 1
  • Best classic placement: 49th at Saint Michael's Carnival on Jan. 21 (15K MS)
  • Best freestyle placement: 27th at Saint Michael's Carnival on Jan. 20 (Sprint)

As a Freshman

  • Appeared in 11 races at 6 carnivals
  • Best classic placement: 35th at Middlebury Carnival on Feb. 18 (5K)
  • Best freestyle placement: 57th at New Hampshire Carnival/EISA Championship on Feb. 25 (15K MS)

High School: Competed in six years of varsity Nordic Skiing, six years of varsity cross country, six years of varsity track & field and two years of varsity soccer at Mounds Park Academy ... captain of all four teams ... school's Athena Award winner as senior ... Nordic skiing team MVP each of final four years, competing in state championship every season ... all-conference for Nordic skiing six times, including earning an honorable mention in seventh grade ... two-year member of Junior Nationals Mid West Team ... all-conference three times for track & field and once apiece for cross country and soccer ... cross country MVP in eighth grade, track MVP as freshman, and soccer MVP as senior ... qualified for track & field state championship in 4x800 relay as sophomore and 4x200 and 4x400 relays as senior ... Honor Roll student ... earned Academic Letter ... member of Cum Laude Society, Habitat for Humanity and Knitting Club.

Personal: Elizabeth Catherine Quam ... daughter of Steve and Anne Quam ... digital media & communications major ... Dean's List student ... also member of women's cross country team as junior ... inducted into Chi Alpha Sigma (college athlete) and Phi Beta Kappa (liberal arts and sciences) honor societies.

Historical Player Information

  • 2022Freshman

  • 2023Sophomore

  • 2024Junior

  • 2025Senior