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• Bates and family: It’s what Becky '89 and Kaelyn Woods '20 have always known

2020: Team captain.... One of 16 women's Nordic skiers from the East Region selected to complete at the NCAA Championships.... Placed 27th out of 40 skiers in the 5K freestyle at the NCAA Championships.... For the third year in a row, Woods led the Bobcat women in every race and advanced to NCAAs for the third straight year.... Her best results in classical technique races were ninth at UVM and 13th at Bates.... In freestyle races, Woods placed as high as 12th at Bates and 15th at St. Lawrence. 

2019: Team captain.... Placed 30th out of 40 competitors in the women's 5K freestyle race at the NCAA National Collegiate Skiing Championships.... Placed 24th among 40 competitors in the women's 15-kilometer mass-start classical technique race at the NCAA National Collegiate Skiing Championships.... One of 14 women's Nordic skiers from the East Region selected to complete at the NCAA Championships.... Woods and Bates alpine skier Griffin Mueller combined to score 11 team points over four days, putting Bates in a final 20th place among 24 scoring teams.... For the second year in a row, Woods led the Bobcat women in every race.... Her best results in classical technique races were ninth at the UVM Carnival and 13th at the Bates Carnival.... In freestyle races, Woods placed as high as 12th at Bates and 15th at St. Lawrence.... Earned All-State honors with a fourth-place finish at the Chummy Broomhall Cup (Maine state championship).

2018: Finished 23rd out of 40 competitors in the women's 15K freestyle race at the NCAA National Collegiate Skiing Championships, the program's best NCAA championship race since 2012.... Woods finished the Howelsen Hill course in 47:22.3, edging Nicole Schneider of Northern Michigan by a half-second, for the best NCAA Championship finish by a Bates Nordic skier since Beth Taylor finished 19th in the 5K freestyle race in 2012.... Woods capped her outstanding sophomore season with the second-best time by a competitor from a Division III school in the race; Middlebury's Katie Feldman finished 13th.... Woods' finish counted for eight team points.... She and Bates sophomore alpine skier Griffin Mueller combined for 23 points at the four-day championship, good for an 18th-place showing among 23 participating teams.... Made an impressive NCAA National Collegiate Ski Championship debut, placing 26th out of 40 athletes in the women's 5K classical technique race.... Woods finished the course at Howelsen Hill in 16:45.9, trailing 25th-place finisher Kati Roivas of Alaska-Fairbanks by 6.9 seconds and outpacing 27th-place Kelsey Dickinson of the College of St. Scholastica by 2.0 seconds.... Woods -- daughter of Bates head coach Becky Woods -- was one of 13 women's Nordic skiers from the East Region selected to compete at NCAAs.... Woods led the Bobcat women in every race this season, and also took first place in the Chummy Broomhall Cup (Maine state championship) in the team's week off from the EISA circuit.... The exceptionally consistent sophomore never finished lower than 25th place in a carnival race this season, whether freestyle or classical technique.... Her top freestyle results were eighth place at St. Michael's and ninth place at UVM; in classic races, her top results were sixth place at Dartmouth and ninth place at UVM.

2017: Placed 28th out of 95 women in her carnival debut in the women's classical technique sprints at St. Lawrence.... Placed 32nd out of 109 competitors in the women's 5K freestyle race at St. Lawrence.... Finished 26th out of 97 skiers in the women's 5K classical technique race at UNH.... Finished 35th out of 100 women in the 15K freestyle race at UNH.... Led all Bates women's skiers with a 25th place finish out of 87 finishers in the freestyle sprints at UVM.... Finished 21st out of 90 collegiate skiers in the 10K classical technique race at UVM.... Came in 28th place out of 70 collegiate skiers in the women's 15K freestyle race at Middlebury.... Teamed with senior captain Halie Lange to finish 14th out of 34 pairs of collegiate skiers in the classic sprint relay at Middlebury.... Finished 33rd in the 15K freestyle mass start at Bates.