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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, July 14-16, 2010 The Park Record B-4 BMC enters Tour of Utah Tour de France vet Hincapie will ride in Park City streets .Submitted by Tour of Utah The 2010 Tour of Utah announced that the BMC Racing Team will participate in next month's race with a squad of five-riders. i The squad will include three-time national road champion George Hincapie, Salt Lake City native and 2008 Tour of Utah winner Jeff Louder, and fellow Americans Chris Barton, Chris Butler and Swiss national Simon Zahner. : Hincapie went pro in V1994 and is recognized for .riding on the team of eight Tour de France champions and for being the only rider to join Lance Armstrong in jail seven of his victories from 1999-2005. . "I'm excited to be able to do another race in the JJ-S.," Hincapie said. "From .what Jeff and other racers have told me, The Tour of Utah is well organized and very demanding." Louder has been a pro.cyclist since 2000 and lives in Salt Lake City when he's not racing overseas. Besides his win at the 2008 Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah, he also finished third overall at last year's race and has finished on the podium in several COURTESY OF TIM DE WAELE international races, includGeorge Hincapie, shown here, will take part in his first ing the Tour de Beauce and Tour of Utah in August. the Tour of Qinghai Lake. 1 "I am very happy to be racing the Tour of Utah with Wasatch Range through race course and attend the BMC Racing/' Louder said. some of Utah's most beauti- festivals in Ogden, Park "As a Utah native, I am par- ful and challenging terrain. City, Provo, Salt Lake City ticularly motivated to do Scheduled to take Aug. 17- and Tooele. well, and we are bringing a 22, the tour will attract 18 For more information about team that will be competing professional cycling teams, the BMC Racing Team, please totaling 144 cyclists competfor the win." ing for a cash/prize purse of visit www. bmcracingteam. com. \ The Tour of Utah is a six- $45,000. For more information on the day, 300-mile-plus profesTour of Utah, please visit More than 30,000 spectasional bicycle road race www. tourofutah. com. tors are expected to line the along the Rocky Mountain's Burnett retires from adaptive team sport's top juniors, he quickly charged to the podium and Submitted bv USSA swept all four 1997 U.S. Junior Championship titles at 15, just three years after his U.S. Adaptive Alpine Ski first race. Team member Carl Burnett As a member of the U.S. has announced his retirement Adaptive Alpine Team, after 10 years with the team .Burnett's strength was his as a sit-skier. Burnett was a consistency. Fighting his way member of the U.S. adaptive down every course, he never "B" team. crossed the finish line outside "I will definitely miss all the top 15 in a World Cup. the people I've hung out with Burnett's consistency named over the last 12 years - some him to three Paralympic of my best friends are guys teams and secured him the that I've competed with and 2007 NorAm overall title. trained with on the team - and "One of my best internagetting to see the world," said tional results was fifth in the Burnett. "But at the same downhill at the 2006 time, there are aspects of the Paralympics in Torino," travel that I won't miss." Burnett said. "Just to be there Burnett, paralyzed below with my teammates who went the waist in a car accident first and second was an equal when he was five, took up experience." adaptive ski racing seven Burnett is trading in his years later at age 12.race skis and hitting the books. Evolving into one of the After recently moving to Seattle, he plans to attend the University of Washington's graduate program in the fall and pursue his masters in library and information science. Following school. Burnett hopes to find a job as an academic librarian. "My teammates have always known I've been kind of a nerd," admitted Burnett "But the librarian thing is fairly recent. The last year oi two I've been thinking aboul what kind of career would suit me when I'm done with ski racing." Although Burnett is making a big change from ski racer to librarian, he will take the memories of the team wherever he goes. "Driving around the mountains on beautiful days in Europe and listening tc music," Burnett said. "That is the kind of thing I will remember for a long time." Westminster honors Olympians opportunity to attend a high- who has the challenging task i ly-regarded comprehensive of working out class sched- i Submitted by USSA liberal arts college while ules built around World Cup ! training and competing. It calendars and training camps ] The leadership of Salt has been especially beneficial that take athletes aroundfive! Lake City's Westminster to athletes who are now resi- continents 12 months a year, i College had a chance to show dents in Utah while working There was a special pride | its pride recently, hosting out at the new Center of amongst the Westminstei' over a dozen U.S. Ski Team, Excellence in Park City, or staff knowing that 14 of the ' U.S. Snowboarding and other utilizing Olympic legacy facil- student athletes were on the ; elite athletes for an end-of- ities like the Utah Olympic 2010 Olympic Team thaij the-school year luncheon. Park and Soldier Hollow. competed in Vancouver - \ The athletes are part of a The student athletes had more than any other college; i unique partnership with the an opportunity to mix with in America. U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Westminster College leader"What an outstanding; Snowboarding which allows ship and thank the university group of young men and; them to attend college while for its support. Nearly 60 women," said Westminster's' continuing to train for the Team athletes have attended Director of Corporate i Olympic Winter Games. the college through the Relations Safia Keller. "I was! grant very impressed with theii ; "I was so impressed with Westminster/USSA how dedicated these athletes program tuition-free. The dedication to their athletic ] are not only to their sport, group has a cumulative GPA training, as well as their edu-; cational goals. They will defi- \ but to their academic pursuits of 3.65. at Westminster College as "It was great to meet more nitely succeed in life in what-! well," said Vice President of of the people who have been ever career path they choose j ] Institutional Advancement a part of our having the to pursue." Steve Morgan. "Their incred- opportunity to pursue an As one might expect. I ible performances on the education while competing there's a wide range of educa-! slopes are reflected in the and finishing up after retire- tional interests in the ath- ] classroom." ment," said freestyle moguls letes. world aerials championNow in its fifth year, the skier Heather McPhie, who is Ryan St. Onge, a finance Westminster partnership is ranked No. 2 in the world. major, talked about how having a strong impact in pro- "School is a really important Westminster has broadened viding athletes with an part of my life, both for con- his horizons. Nordic comtinued education, as well as bined athletes Willy Graves keeping a balance in my and Skyter Keate recently career." retired but are now able tc "The luncheon was cool," continue their studies fullsaid Olympic alpine ski racer time. Ski jumpers Alissa Hailey Duke. "Everyone who Johnson and Avery Ardovinc was there thanked the are especially excited to have Westminster staff for every- the program close to then home while training. Johnson thing they do for us." 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