While most NT athletes spend their days competing and practicing on the stadium turf or in the main gym, senior Anders Geise chooses to hit the slopes. At the age of 11, Anders Geise began training to be a Nordic Combined athlete. Nordic Combined is a sport that mixes ski jumping and cross-country skiing. First, the athletes begin with a ski jump and are rewarded with points for how stable they are and the distance they jump. These points are then tallied and the athletes with the best jumps get the longest head starts in the second half, the cross-country skiing race. The winner of the cross country event is then crowned as the winner of the whole event. Anders Geise first was introduced to skiing by his father, Chad Geise, who was a two-time Olympic alternate, a Minnesota high school state champion, and a four-year collegiate cross country skier. The other half of the sport, ski jumping, was introduced to Anders Geise by one of his dad’s good friends, Olympic Gold Medalist Bill De...