Vermont Alpine Racing Association
What's in this email?
  1. MDV Equipment Session
  2. USS Awards - Congrats
  3. COVID Resources
  4. COVID Mental Health Resources
  5. Coming Up

2020/21 Equipment
Update
Marker, Dalbello, and Volkl will be running an equipment education session on June 8th. Join a live Zoom session from MDV. MDV equipment tech talk is open to all. Join in and educate yourself on new product for 20/21
SIGN UP ASAP
*FREE EDUCATION*
MONDAY - June 8th, at 5 pm - Zoom new race product education session!
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP and for MORE INFO



2020 US SKI AND SNOWBOARD AWARDS

Mikaela Shiffrin
BMA - Awarded the Beck International Athlete of the Year Award.
 
US SKI AND SNOWBOARD CLUBS OF THE YEAR

US Ski and Snowboard Club of the Year - awarded to
Stratton Mountain School
SMS also received Freeski Club of the Year and Snowboard Club of the Year.

US Ski and Snowboard Alpine Club of the Year – Awarded to
Burke Mountain Academy

Cindy Berlack/BMA, Founder of BRASS – Russell Wilder Award
Link to read more about this award!

Patti Nichols/MMSCA – Burckett Dodge Award


Congrats to all VARA (and Alum) Award Recipients!

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COVID RETURN TO SPORT RESOURCES:

COVID RETURN TO SPORT/SCHOOL RESOURCES & GUIDELINES
R eturn to sport protocol has been created for a number of sports entities. While US Ski & Snowboard is currently working on the guidelines for return to Ski and Club the following links may be helpful if you are planning for reentry into your club for, dryland, and ski-related activities. We are all looking forward to getting back together although it will not be the same as before COVID-19.

As more is learned and new guidelines are posted by the CDC, state governments, and the US ... we will do our best to keep you updated. The following links have useful information for your planning purposes.

COVID Planning
Working and planning within generalities is the best that can be done at this time as our sport opens up in Nov/Dec for the full competition and training season. Summer camps and reentry into club programs will all be dependent on what protocol is presented from the top down.
 
  • Top-down process for opening and beginning reentry into training and competition
  • National level – What is recommend from the US Gov. CDC, FEMA, ETC.
  • CDC - FEMA – US Gov
  • VT State approval. What is the state approving for gatherings?
  • VT State Guidelines
  • State Athletic Association/VPA. Consider what the state athletic association is approving for sport.
  • VPA Online
  • Venue – what are the current guidelines for the venues involved -
  • Check specific ski area/Club guidelines


ALPINE SKI RACING RELATED RESOURCES

  • USOPC - Event Guidelines (this document may not be applicable for lower-level events) -> USOPC Event LINK 
  • USOPC - Return to Training -  Link
  • US SKI AND SNOWBOARD COVID TOWN HALL EVENT LINK - PPT -
  • MT HOOD CAMPS PROTOCOL - LINK
  • BULLET LIST - LINK

** Mt Hood Camps has generously shared their working document for their return to skiing plans.
Reminder, All of these links are being provided to help you manage and plan for your programs! You will be responsible for creating your own system for your members and club participants. The hope is that there are all useful resources for you to use.


NOTE: recommendations are changing daily, weekly, monthly, as the country and world learn more about this virus and as new discoveries are made.

MORE RESOURCES

NEASC REOPEN PLAN
Thank you for attending Reopening schools safely: Insights, successes, and lessons learned.
Please submit your questions or comments to:  info@neasc.org .
This link is also posted to the #NEASCforum web page:  https://www.neasc.org/forum
along with recordings of past NEASC webinars and resources provided by panelists. Scroll to the bottom to find it in the Archives section.

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ADDITIONAL LINKS

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MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES:
Please consider these mental health resources should you need them for any reason: 
 
COVID Mental Health Considerations - WHO 
Coping with COVID – CDC 
National Institute of Mental Health - NIMH

Please always check your state and government websites as things are updated daily.

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COMING UP!

We are excited to announce that The VARA 2018 Jr. Development Coach of the Year, Micheline Lemay, will be putting together a 3 part email series on Mindfulness as a Part of VARA's Summer Educational Email Series. Micheline has been running the Mount Mansfield Jr Alpine Racing Program, mostly working with U12's, for 15 years. She is a member of the National U14 and Under Working Group and recently started a mindfulness program called Michy’s Mindfulness Mission. She is also founder of Rugged Adventures Dryland Camps.

More to look forward to...

..to keep ski racing 1st in Vermont ...and Vermont ski racers 1st in the world...
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