2026 GRP Goodbyes
Eight Green Racing Project athletes across our four teams have recently moved on to the next phase of their journeys. We’re thankful for their impact on our community while a part of the GRP and have enjoyed watching them progress as athletes and people. Please join us in wishing them well with their next steps! Here are their GRP highlights given by the athletes themselves:
Nigel Bates
College: Williams
Years on GRP run: 2022-26
Competition highlight: Winning the Goshen Gallop, obviously.
Favorite work project: Guest speaking at high school running camps.
Favorite Craftsbury life memory: Getting ski and biathlon lessons from Susan!
What’s next?: Field Program Manager for the Green Mountain Club (maintaining the Long Trail); taking my hybrid bike places it has no business going.
(Photo by Phil Belena)
Jake Brown
College: St. Olaf/Northern Michigan
Years on GRP biathlon: 2018-2026
Competition highlight/s: Every World Champs except 2023 when I got covid: (2019, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025), every spring series (2019, 2023, 2024, 2026), every US biathlon nationals (2019, 2024, 2025) so many great races with great teammates. 2024 Duluth Spring Series 40km in the nuking snow may be the most memorable.
Favorite work project: Videoing technique for rowing camps from the launch during their silent row. Operation “Wall Lettuce Must Die” should get an honorable mention, though.
Favorite Craftsbury life memory:
- The small Elinor's things: top of the list is the lightning bugs at night on a warm summer evening. Also the war on mice, shooting the top of the light pole across the street with a BB gun, wood stove fires, table time, some great bonfires.
- Epic basketball games against the rowers, the one at HP was the best.
- Epic wiffle ball games Minnesotans vs everyone was the best.
- A legendary Utah Halloween fall trip 2019 with the GRP biathlon team when Hallie Grossman learned what a run-down in baseball was and lost her mind.
- Epic training sessions hanging onto Adam Martin.
- Fall fests and the athlete band performances.
- Winning the ugly sweater contest at the Christmas party because Troy hates the Vikings.
- Golfing with Keith and Davis. Or the time when we had to call the ambulance and evacuate Keith out of the woods after his mtn bike crash.
- Getting to meet so many amazing people: Athletes, staff, and even campers that became friends for life.
What’s next?: Spending the summer coaching in Minneapolis with Sno Racing (formerly Team Birkie) before starting med school at UVM in Burlington and frequenting Craftsbury as a master blaster
(Photo by Phil Belena)
Luke Brown
College: Dartmouth
Years on GRP biathlon: 2021-2026
Competition highlight/s: top-25 Lenzerheide Open Euros, racing spring series relay 2023
Favorite work project: Coaching junior camps and masters!
Favorite Craftsbury life memory: Humongous burn pile bonfires, getting to know athletes on the other teams and staff members over meals in the dining hall; the almost (for me) marathon run.
What’s next?: Moved to Burlington where my wife is starting her medical residency and I’ll be stay-at-home dad for now, whoop!
(Photo by Phil Belena)
Tim Cobb
College: MSU
Years on GRP biathlon: 2025-2026
Competition highlight/s: Super Tour Finals in Craftsbury
Favorite work project: Summer BKL camp adventure race!
Favorite Craftsbury life memory: Pizza nights during shoulder season when the dining hall was closed.
What’s next?: Moving to Canmore to coach xc skiing and biathlon!
(Photo by Phil Belena)
Kelsey Dickinson
College: St. Scholastica
Years on GRP biathlon: 2017 (summer) then 2018-2026
Competition highlight/s: 2nd place IBU Cup Sprint in Sjusjøen, Norway
Favorite work project: Bike club and working in the front office.
Favorite Craftsbury life memory: Trivia with the team, long conversations in the dining hall, feeling so loved by my wonderful teammates. Long White Mountain adventures, so many small moments with great people.
What’s next?: Summer Gender Equity Intern with the Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport, and also working in a coffee shop while I figure out what is next.
(Photo by Phil Belena)
Keelan Durham
College: Williams
Years on GRP ski: 2025-2026
Competition highlight/s: 4th place at Super Tour skate sprint in Ancorage, AK
Favorite work project: Working in the woodworking yurt!
Favorite Craftsbury life memory: Some of my favorite memories are trying to figure out a difficult Q-less role with 6 of my teamates over a morning cup of coffee using only the first edition Scrabble dictionary!
What’s next?: Moving on from the team I will be working on Crossmolina Farm where I grew up. I'll be haying, helping raise our chickens, cows, sheep, pigs and turkeys and doing a bunch of additional projects around the farm!
(Photo by Phil Belena)
Grace Joyce
College: Wisconsin
Years on GRP row: 2017, 2019-2026
Competition highlight/s: 2nd at Tokyo 2020 Olympic trials in the ltwt w2x, 2024 Paris Olympics W4X, National team trials 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.
Favorite work project: Working biathlon trials and Supertour races.
Favorite Craftsbury life memory: Parker Pie Trivia, night skiing, burn piles, having fun with the team on summer nights.
What’s next: Moved out to Oakland California training for LA28.
(Photo by S. Hap Whelpley)
Michaela Keller-Miller
College: University of Alaska Anchorage
Years on GRP ski/biathlon: 2020-2026
Competition highlight/s: Getting to race Minneapolis World Cup on the trails I grew up on, a couple SuperTour podiums (one at home in Craftsbury!), delving into biathlon on the IBU Cup, & wrapping up my career with spring series in Craftsbury.
Favorite work project: Working in the office and helping with races!
Favorite Craftsbury life memory: Ski commuting under the stars, learning other sports like rowing and getting into gravel biking and swimming in Big Hos. Getting to know the COC staff and community! Bat in Elinors. Elinors hill laps 🤫
What’s next?: Barista in Bozeman for the summer and working in accounting consulting in Boston in the fall.
(Photo by Phil Belena)