Durango’s Logan Moore finished his collegiate skiing career in style. He earned first-team All-American status after finishing fifth in the men’s 20-kilometer mass start freestyle at the 2025 NC skiing national championships on March 8.
“I'm really happy,” Moore said. “I got really close last year to getting All-American. I put in a lot of effort and time this past year and a lot of sacrifice. It was really good to see that payoff, especially in front of … not quite a home crowd, but in front of a lot of friends and family that were here for the race, which was awesome.”
Moore, a senior at Middlebury College in Vermont, finished fifth in 45 minutes and 48.9 seconds around the Oak Hill Outdoor Center course in Hanover, New Hampshire. Joe Davies won the race in 43:33.9 and Moore was about nine seconds behind fourth place Benjamin Dohlby. The top five finishers were first-team All-Americans and sixth through 10th were second team.
The course wasn’t new for Moore or his teammates as they raced it in preparation for the NCAA championships. Moore said it was a world-class venue; it’s a hard course with a lot of climbing, not a lot of areas to progress and fast downhills.
“It was rather cold, but it was a little bit of weirder conditions because it had frozen the day before and then it kind of snowed on top of that,” Moore said. “It made it a fair bit slower and a little bit more challenging to the last one. The snow was also pretty deep in a few places; it just made it pretty hard to go.”
Moore started the race conservatively after his body didn’t feel good during his 7.5K race two days prior. Moore said he tends to start all of his races conservatively and likes to attack the field as the race progresses.
Therefore, Moore was happy to let some people go by him early on. He found a good group of skiers and moved up with them. Moore attacked at times and responded to others’ attacks. He said he started having fun, feeling good and outsprinted a skier from Dartmouth for fifth.
Moore was happy with his final collegiate ski season. He had numerous podiums before the national championships.
After Moore graduates college, he hopes to ski professionally. He hopes to join a professional cross-country ski team while also pivoting to train with the U.S. biathlon team this summer in Lake Placid, New York. Moore said that biathlon has always intrigued him and it seemed like a logical career step for him.
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