Skier of the Week: Will Timmons!

Will skiing to victory in the 5km Classic

We usually start these posts by saying how hard it was to choose the skier of the week. While that is often the case this week was extremely easy.

Will started the season solidly and has just gotten stronger and stronger in every race.

To say that this weekend was a huge success for Will is am extreme understatement. Just 8 days after lying in bed for an entire day in Slovakia and 5 days after skiing an extremely competitive 30km at the World University Games Will skied to a double victory at the Western State Colorado University Invitational in Crested Butte.

Despite the fact that Will was fighting fatigue from the 30km, jet lag, time change, the first week back to classes and PT for his ROTC he dominated the field on the weekend beating athletes who had a weekend off racing and some of his teammates who did not recover quite as well.

Before the Games we challenged the athletes to rest and recover well enough to complete the 30km and then turn around and ski well at the WSCU races. The mark of a true champion is not only the quality of training but how well they recover and Will has done both to perfection.

Will lead an extremely strong UW contingent to a full podium sweep both days!

Will's dedication to training and to recovery have set him above the pack as we head into the final race of the regular season and we are looking to great things at Nationals!

Will Timmons - YOU ROCK OUR WORLD!