UPCOMING EVENTS
Thursday, February 18 & Friday, February 19
Girls Freeskiing/Freeride Camps sponsored by TPCU.
Contact: ragan@
teamparkcityunited.com
Thursday, March 24
YSA First Tracks at Deer Valley. Suggested Donation of $1,000 for a morning of private, guided skiing on Deer Valley's Bald Mountain followed by a light breakfast at Stein Eriksen Lodge with Celebrity Athletes. Contact Aimee Preston: [email protected]
Friday, April 8
Girls Freeskiing/Freeride Camps sponsored by TPCU.
Contact: ragan@
teamparkcityunited.com
June
Second Annual YSA Golf Tournament
July 4
Independence Day Parade
August or September
Circle of Excellence Awards
October 29, 2016
Save the date for the 36th JANS Winter Welcome!
November
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GET OUT & PLAY 2015/16 ALMOST SOLD OUT!
YSA's Get Out & Play Program is almost sold out for the school year. A handful of spots remain in the spring skating and mountain bike programs. Go to ysaparkcity.org for more information.
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2016-2017 PARENT RELEASE DEADLINE FOR ECKER HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL
It is that time of the year again to submit parent release or late start paperwork to the Ecker Hill Middle School Counselors. Go to the Counseling Office to pick up parent release paperwork from your child's counselor for the upcoming 2016-2017 school year. Johnna Roussos will be the 6th grade counselor for the incoming 6th graders. Willow Amendola will be the 7th grade counselor for the 7th graders. The paperwork is due with the appropriate coach's signature no later than Friday, February 26th, 2016 for the upcoming 2016-2017 school year. |
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Check us out online and take a minute to "like" us and stay tuned for all the exciting happenings with the Alliance, teams and athletes!
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Phone: 435.214.0792
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MORE EASY WAYS TO SUPPORT YSA!
1. AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support your favorite charitable organization every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you’ll find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to YSA!
2. Register your Smith's Rewards Card
Just shop at Smith’s and swipe your rewards Card! Here’s how to enroll*:
1. Visit Smiths
CommunityRewards.com
2. Sign in to your Online Account, or create an account
3. Find and select Youth Sports Alliance and click “Save”
You’ll start earning rewards for YSA right away on qualifying purchases made using your Smith’s rewards Card!
3. Wear your support for YSA on your sleeve (or neck, or head...)
with YSA logo hats or neck gaiters. Also available are limited-edition mugs and engraved wine glasses featuring local Olympians or Park City winter sports venues. They make great gifts! Buy them here.
4. Pave the way for future youth athletes
with a custom engraved brick lining the walkways in the community garden at Park City Medical Center. 100% of funds raised from paver sales will help fund Youth Sports Alliance sports teams and the Get Out & Play after school program. Bricks can be personally engraved and will be placed in this garden later this year. For more information or to purchase a brick, please go to ysaparkcity.org |
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YSA MEMBER CLUBS
FLY Freestyle,
G-Force Bobsled & Skeleton,
Park City Nordic Ski Club
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DEER VALLEY RESORT CONTRIBUTES $90,000 TO STEIN ERIKSEN YSA OPPORTUNITY ENDOWMENT
Endowment within $185,000 of Goal!
Last Thursday night, Deer Valley presented Jim Gaddis, Chairman of the Stein Eriksen YSA Opportunity Endowment Campaign, and Aimee Preston, YSA Executive Director, with a check for $90,000 made out to the Opportunity Endowment. Deer Valley's most recent donation to the fund along with contributions from more than 250 members of the extended Park City Community put the Endowment within $185,000 of its $2 million goal. The check presentation was the culmination of a day long celebration of Stein Eriksen's life.
The Endowment will provide financial support in the form of scholarships for young and aspiring athletes to participate, and possibly excel, in any of the winter sports programs offered under YSA's umbrella. The Endowment also will provide scholarships for YSA's after-school GO&P program to enable children of economically-challenged families to experience sports ranging from skating to luge to alpine skiing with equipment, instruction, and transportation included. This past winter YSA sponsored programs enriching the lives of more than 2,200 youngsters.
To contribute to the Endowment please visit ysaparkcity.org.
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PARK CITY SENDS EIGHT TO YOUTH OLYMPICS
Youth Sports Alliance teams are sending a delegation of eight athletes to the 2016 Youth Olympic Games slated to begin on Friday in Lillehammer, Norway. Team Park City United (TPCU) is represented by four slopestyle skiers. Alex Hall and Nikita Rubocki (below) will compete for the United States and Benjamin Garces and Valentina Garces will represent their home country of Chile. Duncan Biles, Ashley Farquharson and Alanson Owen from the Wasatch Luge Club (WLC) will all slide for the United States. Park City Nordic Ski Club is sending Ben Loomis to compete in Nordic Combined for the United States.
Park City athletes make up 10% of the United States delegation of 62 athletes heading to Lillehammer in which 1,100 athletes from 71 countries will participate in the event scheduled from February 12th through 21st. All competitors are between 15 and 18 years of age. The Youth Olympic Games is organized by the International Olympic Committee and features all 15 events slated for the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.
Chris 'Hatch' Haslock, Director of Competitive Freeskiing and Skiing Development for Team Park City United and 1988 Olympic Aerialist, observed that "four of the 22 slopestyle athletes invited to compete at the Youth Olympic Games train full-time with TPCU — more than any other development team in the world." Haslock added, "TPCU's coaches and training facilities consistently produce some of the top freeskiers in the world."
Jon Owen, Head Coach of Wasatch Luge Club and 1988 Olympic Luger, notes that Park City athletes sliding for the WLC filled three of the four US luge spots for the Games. He says, "I am proud of our local kids qualifying for Lillehammer. It shows that our hometown venues and teams are doing a good job putting kids on the world stage."
Follow their progress at lillehammer2016.com.
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COMMUNITY TEAMS UP TO PUT GET OUT & PLAY SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS ON SNOW |
Switchback Sports, Rossignol & the Christian Center of Park City teamed up to provide 127 scholarship kids with skis, snowboards, and winter clothing for the alpine session of Get Out & Play. A record setting 700 local youth participated in the January session of Get Out & Play — 590 local youth headed to the slopes at Deer Valley, Park City Mountain and Utah Olympic Park, while an additional 108 cross-country skied at White Pine Touring, learned to boulder at The Mine or skated at the Park City Ice Arena, bringing the total for the year to 914 participants.
Rossignol donated more than 100 sets of skis & snowboards to Get Out & Play, while Switchback Sports took the lead in prepping and distributing the gear to scholarship recipients to use during their lessons.
In mid-December, a gear-up night was held at McPolin Elementary School to help provide scholarship students with ski pants and jackets to use all winter as well as during their ski or snowboard program. Collection bins had been placed at all Park City's elementary schools in which community members donated ski jackets, snow pants, mittens and goggles to help clothe GO&P scholarship recipients. Despite the generosity of the community, clothing donations ran short. The Christian Center pitched in by providing ski jackets and pants to help make sure that every scholarship student was properly attired to hit the slopes.
Rob Harter, Executive Director of the Christian Center noted, "We are happy to support YSA's 'Get Out & Play Program' by providing the necessary ski clothing including hats, gloves, pants etc. so that the youth who are a part of this program have what they need to have a great experience on the mountain. We are excited about what YSA is doing in general and this program in particular because it is such a fun-filled recreational opportunity for the students of our community."
The Get Out & Play sports program is a unique community partnership, giving elementary students the opportunity to try a variety of sports in a safe, supervised setting regardless of financial need. Led by the YSA, this program is a cooperative effort between local venues including Deer Valley, The Mine Bouldering Gym, the Park City Ice Arena, Park City Mountain, Utah Olympic Park and White Pine Nordic Center, and coaches for many local competitive sports teams including Figure Skating Club of Park City, Fly Freestyle, Park City Ice Miners, Park City Nordic Ski Club, the Park City Speed Skating Club, Team Park City United, Team Utah and and Young Riders, along with more than 100 parent volunteers who all worked to together to provide local elementary school children the chance to learn new skills at reduced prices.
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SHOP AT WHOLE FOODS PARK CITY LOCATION AND DONATE BAG CREDITS TO YSA
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In February, March & April, bring your own bag to shop at Whole Foods Market and donate the bag credits to YSA. Thanks for your support!
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TEAM PARK CITY UNITED OFFERS GIRLS' MOGULS, BIG MOUNTAIN & TERRAIN PARK CAMPS
Camps cost $125 for both days or $85 for one. Lift ticket not included in the cost of the camp. Camps begin and end are Park City Mountain. Email [email protected] for more information.
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TOP RESULTS FOR FLY FREESTYLE
In December, Fly had an Aerial NorAm in which, Wes Perry executed his first ever Full Double Full and made the finals on 12/19/15. Also on that same day, former FLY Freestyle athletes from 2014/15 season, Avery Driscoll and Winter Vinecki (currently National team athletes) placed 1st and 2nd.
At the January Erica Knell Aerial/Big Air competition, FLY athletes Erica Stemler took the overall win for the women and Wes Perry finished 1st and Mitchell Rachuba finish 3rd in the mens overall Aerial contest. Madeline Eatchel took 2nd overall in the Big Air.
FLY hosted the Just Jump January Aerial/Big Air competition at Madeline Eatchell finished 3rd overall in Aerials for the women and for the men, Wes Perry finished 1st and Mitchell Rachuba finished 2nd overall.
On February 11th and 12th FLY is hosting a mogul and dual mogul event at the Canyons.
The FLY Aerial team will be heading to Lake Placid and Val St Come for the NorAm tour from February 9th to the 27th. |
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PARK CITY SKI TEAM ALUM WINS AT 7 NATIONS CUP
Alix Wilkinson, a member of USSA's U16 National Training Group and a Park City Ski Team Alum, took first in the Slalom at 7 Nations Cup in Courchevel last week. This event included the top U16 skiers from Europe and the United States. READ THE FULL STORY >
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SUCCESSFUL SEASON UNDERWAY FOR PARK CITY NORDIC SKI CLUB
PCNSC athletes are posting great results this season! These include:
Junior World Championships Qualifiers: Cross Country – Leah Lange, Nordic Combined–Stephan Schumann, Jared Shumate, Ben Loomis, Ski Jumping– Sophia Nester competing for the US and Jake and Robert Locke competing for Great Britain.
Youth Olympic Games Qualifiers: Nordic Combined – Ben Loomis. PCNSC coach Blake Hughes will be attending as a coach.
Other cross country highlights: PCNSC had 4 podium finishes at the Soldier Hollow Super Qualifier, the largest junior race in the country with over 700 racers and teams from all over the West. Classic Sprint: Leah Lange (2nd place – U18/20 girls, classic sprint), Wes Campbell (1st place – U12 boys). Mass Start Freestyle: Sydney Palmer Leger (2nd place – U16 girls), Janne Koch (2nd place – U12 boys)
Other ski jumping/Nordic combined highlights: PCNSC had 13 athletes qualify for Ski Jumping/Nordic Combined Junior Nationals in Connecticut! Men: Stephan Schumann, Jared Shumate, Ben Loomis, Tucker Hoefler, Jake Lock, Robert Lock, Greyson Scharffs, Kristian Drividahl, Kevin Bickner. Women: Sophia Nester, Sam Macuga, Paige Jones, Kailey Jones, Kailey Bicknar. |
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SYNCHRONIZED SKATING TEAMS PODIUM AT US FIGURE SKATING'S PACIFIC COAST SECTIONALS
Both of the Figure Skating Club of Park City's Synchronized Skating Teams podiumed at last months Pacific Coast Sectionals. The Preliminary Team finished 2nd while the Pre-Juvenile Team finished 4th.
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