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Show PARK RECORD SECTION B Thursday, April 18, 1991 'Page B1 Uriels Youth swim stroke clinic The Park City Swim Team will be presenting a youth stroke technique clinic April 20 at the Racquet Club pool. The clinic will be led by Sara Shand, U.S. National Swim Team member from 1982-87 and holder of five world Masters records. For more information in-formation contact the recreation recrea-tion department at 649-8080. Softball The Park City Recreation Department is now taking registrations for the adult coed and adult men's Softball leagues. Teams must be registered by May 3, and play starts May 20. For more information infor-mation contact the Racquet Club at 649-8080. Gymnastics The recreation department is accepting registration for its next session of youth gymnastics, gym-nastics, beginning April 15. Classes for all skill levels are offered for youths ages three and up. Class sizes are limited to ensure individual training. Registration deadline is April 12. For more information call the Racquet Club at 649-8080. Governor's Cup RunWalk Hundreds of Utahns are expected ex-pected to take part in the 10th Governor's Cup RunWalk April 20 at the state capitol. The 3.1-mile race starts at 9:30 a.m. (kids' race start: 9 a.m.) on the steps of the capitol, and is open to all age groups and skill levels. Ribbons, trophies, yogurt and T-shirts will all be given away at the event. - Early registration is encouraged en-couraged to guarantee a T-shirt. T-shirt. Sign-up forms are available at Smith's stores, Golden Spoon frozen yogurt shops, and some sporting goods stores. Call Healthy Utah at 538-6261 for more information. 3rd Country Mile RunWalk The Third Annual Country Mile 5K RunWalk takes place May 4 at the Wheeler Historic Farm (6351 South 900 East in Salt Lake City). A special one-mileTTm-focjacers under age 11 will begiaaTBm., followed follow-ed 1y thetivekilometer (Z l-raile) race at 8:45. Competitors, Com-petitors, paying the $10 pre-registration pre-registration fee ($12 race day) will receive a T-shirt, refreshments and may earn awards. Both races will be held entirely withing the boun-dries boun-dries of the wooded, 75-acre farm. For more information call 264-2241. Earth Day Globe Trot Celebrate Earth Day by participating par-ticipating in the Globe Trot 5K RunWalkRide at noon April 21 at City Park. The $10 registration fee ($12 race day) includes an Earth Day T-shirt and one small tree to be picked pick-ed up on race day. After the race enjoy the earth fair, raffle raf-fle and food. Information on environmentally sound lifestyles will also be available. All proceeds go to the Park City Recycle Center. Pre-register at Jans, or call 649-4949 for more information. Bicycle Day REI (1122 E. Brickyard, S.LjC.) will host Bicycle Awareness Day from 10-6 April 20. Special clinics will be given throughout the day by the Bicycle Advisory Committee, Commit-tee, National Forest Service and the Police Bike Patrol. Simple roadside repairs, safety safe-ty and trail riding will be some of the issues addressed. The clinics are free. Contact Andrea An-drea Miller or Kelly Davis at REI, at 486-2100. Bodily sacrifice by ALEX WELLS Record staff writer AL-lelujah. Praise AL-lah. ALrise. The world's religions are rife with references to Al, the bearded spirit who 11 years ago laid out the course for the first Al's Hill race in Summit Park. Park City's Duane Hendrickson was one of "the elect" who witnessed witness-ed the first coming of Al. "We woke up one morning and there was a course set up," said Hendrickson. "There were gates and all kinds of signs set up; we went out and participated." Before the event began, Al was sighted running down the road. The experience changed Hendrickson Hen-drickson for life, and he has skied for Al ever since. This year he was one of 20 skiers an all-time high to take part in the strange ritual of bodily sacrifice called Al's Hill. Skiing on lightweight (no metal edges) crosscountry cross-country skis and low-cut nordic boots, the humble skiers crashed and rolled through six events-downhill, events-downhill, super G, g.s., slalom, gelande and the obstacle race all on a wooded, magical hillside in Summit Park. The event's founder was rumored to have passed through the area a few hours before the race. Hendrickson Hen-drickson explained: "Al came by and he dropped off some stuff in the x '-' ' v mf; Sandberg was an airborne fashion statement after soaring off the runway. Schlopy, Circo take slalom in stride in springtime ski races When the snow got slower this year, Park City's Karl Fritz Schlopy and Heather Circo got even faster. Schlopy, a former CU skier who trains with the Park City Ski Team, enjoyed some outstanding results in March and April while competing against some of the finest ski racers in America. Schlopy, whose forte is the speed events, spent most of the season competing in downhill and super G Karl Fritz Schlopy races both at home and abroad. . But in the Rocky Mountain Spring Series in late March at Winter Park, he finished second in a giant slalom, finished third in one slalom and won another. That win came against a field which included members of the Colorado University and University of Wyoming ski teams. Schlopy's results in slalom were startling, since he had not competed in that discipline since December. "It was only the third slalom of the ye or me," he saiu. driveway." Which may or may not explain the unusual behavior of some of the skiers at the event. Take, for instance, Park City's Jordan Swenson, who competed in the attire of a flamenco dancer, and wore a large inflatable banana on his head. Or Rolf Sandberg, racing in his best brown suit. Or Dusty Rhodes, who exchanged his hockey pads (last year's garb) for a superhero outfit for this year's race. "I need no padding," he explained. ex-plained. "I'm Stupendous Man." Not even Stupendous Man could stay on his feet through the downhill, the race's first event. Accompanied by a large Rottweiler-mix "pace dog," the racers zigged and zagged through trees, then dropped off Al's cornice into Al's hole, before emerging emerg-ing near the finish area. Everyone fell. "I didn't seem to know the difference dif-ference between the bottoms of my skis and the sides of my skis," said Marlin Ross. The next event, the super G, started further up the hill, near a large, once-secluded luxury home which competitors called "the start house." According to Chris Larson, the run below the house included "a short radical turn through 'the laundry laun-dry chute,' then you just sort of tuck it at the bottom." After the super G came the technical events slalom and super g. These events, by all appearances, were a bit too technical for anyone to go out there and have it all come together." After leaving Winter Park, Schlopy entered six races at the Western Regional Spring Series at Sun Valley. The 24-year old took an eighth in the super G, a fifth in one g.s., and won both slaloms. Schlopy won the first slalom by 1.2 seconds over second-place finisher Jeff Sarchett of Sun Valley. In the second race he edged Toni Stand-teiner, Stand-teiner, the 1991 NCAA slalom runner-up, by .07 seconds. The field at Sun Valley also included several current members of the U.S. Ski Team. Schlopy believes that staying sharp in slalom will help his skiing in the speed events. "It's real important impor-tant to try and keep your slalom and g.s. in tune," he said. "It makes you a better downhill and super G skier." Schlopy's late-season success helped him clinch the overall season crown for the Western Region Championship Series in spite of missing 8 of the 20 races which counted in the standings. He said winning the overall title "was a shocker; I expected to hear 'somebody else's name for the overall title and was pleasantly surprised." sur-prised." He also won the season crowns for downhill and slalom, and was second in the super G. Schlopy's success was mirrored by that of another Park City Ski Team skier, the 17-year-old Circo. Like Schlopy, Circo skied two of her best slaloms of the year in the Spring Series races at Sun Valley. The Park Citv High School senior iuuauvu 01AU1 iice, in spite of star is for the good there. Competitors straddled trees; dogs straddled fallen competitors; fans threw snowballs and yelled words of encouragement. Overheard: "Stop smiling. Get up. What do you think this is a fashion show?" If Al's Hill was a fashion show, the bombshells were out for the gelande. Looking like graduates of the "Wide World of Sports" school of ski jumping, jump-ing, the competitors wobbled off the jump, wobbled in the air, then crashed. crash-ed. Sean "Pig" Hazelrigg nearly became the event's first casualty. After soaring to his second consecutive con-secutive win in the gelande, Hazelrigg landed with his skis pointed straight downhill. He knocked knock-ed down a spectator, then hit a snow fence and tree. A moment of deep concern followed follow-ed the Jimmy Buffet tape was silenced as Hazelrigg was untangled untangl-ed from the fence. But he had suffered suf-fered only a mild contusion, and was AL-right. Swenson became the next victim, hitting another tree hard enough to knock the banana off his head. Then came another skier who executed ex-ecuted a semi-flip to perfection, landing lan-ding on his head. During the final event the obstacle course the weary, beer-bloated beer-bloated fans began trickling away from Al's Hill. Only the faithful remained, to see skiers fall off jumps, jump around trees and duck under signs. Jordan and Tania Swenson had the best overall men's and women's scores, respectively. Chris Larson and Tori Pillinger were the second-place second-place finishers. The Swensons may be the final champions on the original Al's Hill. Next year's event may be moved to a new locale, since the current location loca-tion is for sale. r A competitor attempts to turn ting late in the start order. On the first day, she was 15th after one run, then skied the fourth-fastest second run. On the second day she was ninth after one run, then moved up to sixth. For the first time this year, she felt good about her slalom. "I think it's just all starting to click," she said. "It's starting to make sense." Circo also finished 24th in the super G, and 13th in one g.s. Heather Circo For the year, she finished second in the overall Western Region standings. stan-dings. In the Kyle Warren Memorial standings for juniors in Western Region FIS races she finished second se-cond overall, and first in slalom. Circo plans to polish her slalom skiing to compete on the college level next season (NCAA skiers compete only in slalom and giant slalom.). "I'm going to work a lot on it," she said. "Now that I have a little lit-tle confidence and know I can finish, I think it will help." r rX -' : J i x Hlf A . r,. vis Swenson's banana remained until a tree knocked it off. Jordan Swenson warned of the dangers of developing Al's Hill: "It'll be like some kind of Poltergeist; it'll be like building a house on an Indian burial site." through the perilous doglegs on . 1 mm v Tr T r1 i P.C. Cycling Club cyclists get rolling Members of the Park City Cycling Club enjoyed some outstanding results in a stage race April 6-7 in St. George. Mike Hensen and Tom Noaker both won their respective classes at the race, which consisted of a five-mile five-mile hillclimb, a 48-mile road race and a criterium. Hensen, a newcomer to the P.C. Cycling Club, finished first in category IV, the division for new racers. Noaker was first in the Masters division. Park City's Todd Henneman was eighth in categories I, II and III. Slowed by poor training conditions in Park City, local riders struggled some in a second stage race in Moab Public input sought on area youth soccer The Park City Youth Sports Advisory Ad-visory Board's Soccer Subcommittee Subcommit-tee will hold a public input meeting at 7 p.m. April 23 at the City Park Recreation Building. The Soccer Subcommittee, headed by Armin Herteux, makes recommendations recom-mendations for changes in the local youth soccer programs. The upcoming upcom-ing meeting will deal with some important im-portant topics. Among the issues discussed will be the registration for the fall '91 spring spr-ing '92 seasons (Sign-up is set for April through June of this year.). of AI k w.1 CI', pnotoa by Nil Rahm intact for most of the race, Hendrickson believes the event will go on, regardless. "Al will have it somewhere else," he said. "Al comes through every year." It's just a matter of faith. the downhill course. April 13-14. Noaker enjoyed one of the team's best results, finishing third in the Masters in that race. In other P.C. Cycling Club news, the club will initiate their weekly Monday night training rides starting this Monday at 6 p.m. at Jans. These rides, according to Noaker, are "little "lit-tle chain ring rides" i.e., slow, easy group rides. The club has also scheduled a 50-kilometer team time trial at 10 a.m. April 28 at the Alberta State Time Trial Course near Utah Lake. Bob Walker is the new club president. presi-dent. New members are welcome. For more information on the Park City Cycling Club, call Tina Quayle at Jans at 649-1020. Another important topic for discussion will be the creation of select teams from Park City. Select teams teams of the best players, which will compete in S.L.C. will be debated. The Subcommittee will discuss 1) whether or not to liave select teams, 2) which age groups should offer select teams, and 3) how to choose these teams. Another question up for discussion is whether under-12 teams should play in the Salt Lake City recreational recrea-tional leagues. The public is encouraged to speak out on these issues. |