When the country’s best short track speedskaters raced around the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns two months ago in the World Cup season opener, they were but foals getting their wobbly legs underneath them. This weekend they return to the Oval for the United States Short Track National Championships as thoroughbreds, or at least that’s the hope.
Team USA coach Wilma Boomstra said she expected her young team — the oldest member is 24 — to have some early nerves.
“What is important for me to see is that they’re always getting better and making improvements over what they did before,” Boomstra said in October.