El Dorado County Sports Digest

Lake Tahoe Community College has hired a seasoned community college coach and former student-athlete champion to launch its new collegiate cross country and long distance track programs.

Winter is in full force in Tahoe, and with it comes an influx of eager snowplayers. Dr. Targhee Oeveraas offers tips safety tips.

Barracuda Networks has signed an extension through 2025 as title sponsor of the Barracuda Championship. Part of the PGA Tour, the event takes place at Tahoe Mountain Club’s Old Greenwood Golf Course.

EV Range and Liberty, a subsidiary of Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp., announced a three-way collaboration that brought four high-powered electric vehicle fast chargers to the Tahoe ski resort.

Spirited EDH Soccer Club and EDH Little League supporters made a play at an El Dorado Hills Community Services District Board of Directors meeting to block proposed field rate increases, at times turning unruly.

Lake Tahoe Epic Curling, founded in January 2013, is celebrating its 10th anniversary with public events throughout the month.

Final designs for the future Bass Lake Regional Park presented at the El Dorado Hills Community Services District were met with concern by the sports community.

Much work has been under way in the year following Caldor Fire destruction at Sierra-at-Tahoe and on Dec. 3, the ski resort's management expects to be spinning lifts once again.

The Tahoe Fund announced the start of “Plates for Powder,” an annual program that offers free skiing opportunities to those who pay for a Lake Tahoe license plate.

Filmmaker Warren Miller’s team debuted its 73rd annual ski and snowboard film, “Daymaker,” which features Tahoe-area athletes Jonny Moseley, Michelle Parker, Connery Lundin and Daron Rahlves.

It’s snowmaking season at Lake Tahoe, a sure sign that winter is approaching. Northstar kicked off snow making this weekend as the thermometer plummeted.

U.S. Ski & Snowboard has announced lineups for the 2022-23 alpine, snowboard, and cross-country teams, and several of the region’s athletes again made it onto the national squads.

US Forest Service and Sensus R.A.D. Trails opened a new all-levels mountain biking trail on a rehabilitated logging road on Upper Tyrolean trail above Incline Village.

Sugar Bowl Resort will join 24 other ski resorts as a member of the Mountain Collective. Passholders can ski or ride two days with no blackout days at all 25 partner resorts.

A pioneer of women’s whitewater rafting in the 1990s, Sue Norman returned to racing for the first time in 20 years in 2019. She came away from her first event impressed by the number of young female paddlers and inspired to help youth excel.

Vail Resorts has targeted opening dates for Lake Tahoe ski areas. Heavenly Mountain Resort and Northstar California plan to open Nov. 18, with Kirkwood Mountain Resort targeting Dec. 2. This winter is the 50th anniversary of operations at Northstar and Kirkwood.

A nine-hole golf course is planned for land owned by the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians just south of Highway 50. The development, to cover 34 acres of trust land south of Red Hawk Casino, will also include a miniature golf course.

During a long career in lift construction and ski resort management, Hans Burkhart earned a reputation for completing the most difficult, demanding projects safely and on time. Now, he’s writing a book.

No race is like it in California; the 53rd annual Carson City Motorsports Hangtown Motocross Classic is back at Prairie City State Recreation Park near Placerville from June 2 to June 4, with the pros racing on Saturday.

There are dozens of golf courses around the Lake Tahoe basin that offer breathtaking views and challenging play. Avid golfers and pros weigh in on their favorite holes, whether it be best views, unique features or fun game play.

Sierra-at-Tahoe has announced plans to open for one weekend only, April 9-10, to celebrate 75 years of “history, cherished memories, good times and … tough times too.”

Alterra Mountain Company has announced plans to invest $344 million in capital improvements. It will include replacing Mammoth Mountain lifts and installing a gondola at Palisades Tahoe.

Luis Medearis went from never having been on a snowboard to becoming a successful snowboard videographer living in Kings Beach. One of the few Black videographers in the industry, he’s hoping to use his success to inspire Black youth.

A new climate change analysis concludes that the Lake Tahoe area is already too warm to risk hosting the Winter Olympic Games. But others aren’t ready to give up. Jon Killoran, CEO of the Reno-Tahoe Winter Games Coalition, says the study is “another piece that would be taken into account. ... [I]t’s a matter of what people do about what those ramifications are, to either mitigate them or not.”

Thirteen athletes from the Tahoe-Truckee area went to Beijing to compete in the 2022 Winter Olympics. Here's how they fared.

A Timbersled is part dirt bike, part snowmobile, all adrenaline. Powersports company Polaris owns the brand, but the name has become the universal term for this hybrid machine, like Kleenex and Xerox.

In the 1930s, California got its first chairlift. Only the second in the country, it kicked off a nationwide boost of interest in alpine skiing.

Despite some delays this year, the Tahoe South Events Center is on track to be completed on time. The project has endured various setbacks, including the Caldor Fire, evacuations, and poor weather.

“Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche” is a new documentary that looks back at the historic Alpine Meadows avalanche. It will premiere in December but is already gaining traction at festivals.

Despite fire damage, Sierra-at-Tahoe perseveres with a targeted reopening date of early 2022.

Tahoe Quarterly profiles freestyle skiing great Hermann Goellner. Still fit at age 78, the Austrian-born pioneer of the sport has lived in the Tahoe area for nearly 20 years.

The Tahoe Weekly compiled a list of opening dates for the 2021-22 ski season with Mt. Rose expected to be the first downhill resort to open for the season on Nov. 12. Auburn Ski Club will open its Nordic ski area on Nov. 13.