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Show IN THE B SECTION T J The Park Record. www.parkrecord.com WEDTHURSFRI, MARCH 3 1 -APRIL 2, 2004 SPORTS EDITOR: Brett Larsen 649-9014 ext. 1 13 sportsparkrecord.com Reunion Report B-6 KJ IVklJ O Business B-7 " I v w FYI B-ll II Briefs FT1 Park City Track Club sign-ups The Park City Track Club is now accepting sign-ups for the 2004 season. sea-son. The club is designed for local kids in grades 2-8. Practice will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Park City High School track from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., beginning April 27. Track meets are scheduled on select Saturdays around the Salt LakeUtah Valley area during May and June. All sports require young athletes to be able to run, jump and throw. The club teaches participants how to learn and master those skills. Cost to join is $75, and includes a uniform, team photo and USATF membership. mem-bership. For more information, call 615-8655. 615-8655. Pre-registration must be completed com-pleted by April 25. Basin Recreation kids' baseball and softball Basin Recreation is offering spring baseball and softball for children ages 5-15 for baseball and 7 years old - 9th grade for softball, with a deadline of April 16. For more information on these programs or any other programs being offered by Basin Recreation log on to www.basinrecreation.com or call 649-1564. 649-1564. ' 1 Basin Recreation spring break camp Basin Recreation will be offering a spring break camp the week of April 5-9 5-9 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for boys and girls in grades 1-8. Cost is $110. The camp will be at Ecker Hill Middle School. Early drop-off and late pick-up are available on request. Register online at www.basinrecreation.com or call 649-1564. Girls' tennis clinic at Racquet Club The Park City Racquet Club is offering offer-ing a brand new girls-only tennis clinic for first, second and third graders. Beginning April 16, there will be two different dif-ferent clinics being held Friday afternoons after-noons or Saturday mornings. For more information call Melanie at 615-5429 or call 615-5401 to sign up. THE mXT 99 LOCALS CAM 1 i (ftp ? Resort set Dear Valet's newest plan weds pipe, rails and boxes with velvet ropes, soft seats By PETTY LARCENY Of the Record staff It's no secret that terrain parks arc fast becoming the hot spots of any mountain that has them. Its also no secret that Park City's Dear Valet Resort has none of them. Until now. With the off-season looming, resort officials offi-cials are already looking for ways to improve its offerings for next year. At the top of their list, just above padded toilet seats for mid-mountain mid-mountain comfort stations, is the addition of a terrain park and halfpipe. "This has been a long time in coming," said Dear Valet spokesman Crispy Cireens. "( )ur public Skier ( 'ross course and ( )lympic runs have already put us at the top of the Alpine activities industry. Ilie addition of a terrain park and halfpipe will keep us there." But this won't be some ordinary, run-of-the-mill collection of spray-painted rails and mammoth table tops, he said. "Skiers can get that stuff anywhere," said Greens. "What we're offering here is the complete mountain experience. After all, a halfpipe without our one-of-a-kind luxuries is just snow." Blue Square. Inc., the company hired to design the new additions, lias promised a healthy mix of intermediate and expert features. fea-tures. Construction will begin on the gentle slope behind the Silver Spoon Ltxlge in June. Besides four rails, a half-dozen "fun boxes," 10 tables and a halfpipe, the new park will offer easy access to the nearby restaurant patio area, gift shops and bath-rtxuns. bath-rtxuns. Hot chocolate or tea will also be served in on-hill warming huts for only $3.95 a mug. "'lliis is going to be the best of both worlds," said Buck French, head-designer for Blue Square. "Not only will people be able to ride the best terrain park in town, but they'll also get to sit back and relax afterward after-ward without even leaving the mountain." Cireens said the park will differ from its counterparts at other resorts in that it will be Track duo . V. r 7, ., SCOTT SINEPARK RECORD Park City's Owen Koeppen set a new school record in shotput despite poor weather conditions at a multi-team meet at Jordan High on Saturday. One to enter the terrain tti$VV" -i'Eif?iVni' f t 1 1 i. M GRAYSON WESTPARK RECORD The space behind Dear Valet's Silver Spoon Lodge will no longer be just a place for skiers to relax. The resort plans to add a terrain park, including several rails like this one, and a halfpipe during the summer. Resort spokesman Crispy Greens said the additions will provide the perfect mixture of luxury and extreme sports. designed to provide the thrills of the X-Games X-Games while bearing in mind the needs of a more sophisticated clientele. "You won't need to ski at this park with your pants around your knees and your boxers box-ers hanging out to fit in," he said. "'Ill is park will be designed for an equally-adventurous, but more sedate crowd. 'Unit's what is going to make this place special. Anybody can feel comfortable here." provides year membership contract required .... " : Velvet ropes and multi-colored flags will separate the intermediate features from the expert areas of the terrain park. French said. Corinthian columns will also skirt the entire area, and loudspeakers placed on top of them will provide the necessary mix of Top 40 and ( lolden Oldies for skiers of all ages at the park, he added. 'Iissue boxes, garbage cans and heated benches will line the perimeter of the park. L- r spark despite storm By BRETT LARSEN Of the Record stuff Although snow, rain and wind swept over a 50-team track meet at Jordan High School Saturday, the Park City team was able to walk away with a couple of big victories vic-tories that provided a ray of sunshine. For the Miners, shotput hurler Owen Koeppen snapped a school record, while runner Elli Reed out-distanced athletes from several 4A and 5A teams for a win in the 1. 600-meter dash. "'I"hat was the high point. 'Iliose two kids did a gcxkl job." said Park City track coach Bill Kahn. who was pleased with the way his whole team performed against much bigger and stronger programs. "Kids that do well in that kind of company are special." Still, both Miners' teams finished in the middle of the pack. 'Hie girls earned a total of 11 points, while the boys managed only eight. But Kahn wasn't disappointed. " Iliis is a huge meet." he said, happy that his young team - the girls' squad is nearly 75 percent freshmen while the boys are only slightly more experienced - got a chance to compete against such a diverse group. "They just need time. They're going to come around," Kahn said. The Miners also went into the meet somewhat short-handed, since several key athletes were busy with other activities. One of them, senior runner Caleb Fine, was sore J " 0f " fc'A ,:.,..;U,L..1:,i,.;:V, i parks age r? and bright, yellow signs will indicate good positions for photographs, he said. Of course, the terrain park will only be open to skiers. Dear Valet may be giving into the wave of the future of skiing, but no plans are in the works to let snovvboardcrs through the gates yet. For now. riders are going to have to step into some skis to enjoy the resort's newest attraction. Please see New park, B-6 ly missed on the relay team, where Park City usually picks up several points for wins, Kahn said. Fine, who starred on the hardwood for the Miners' over the winter, was attending a banquet for players selected to the All-State basketball team. "We were just missing a lot of boys." Kahn said. Park City was bothered by the adverse weather conditions, too. "It was awful," Kahn said. "It affects everybody." Cold and damp conditions have a tendency to freeze up athletes' muscles mus-cles and impair performance, he said. Koeppen and Reed didn't seem too bothered by the weather, though. Koeppen. who is signed to play football at Weber State this fall", broke the Park City schixil record in shotput with a throw of 52-feet-9-inches. eclipsing by four inches the old mark set by Dave Jensen in 1997. Meanwhile. Reed completed her mile-run mile-run in a brisk five minutes, 22 seconds. The track team will be back to full strength when it visits Tnnpview on Thursday and Friday, in a meet that will include several teams from both 3A and 4A. Kahn is optimistic about his team's chances, especially since no 5A kids are going to be competing, he said. Competition is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. on both days. Timpview High School is located at 3570 N. 650 E. in Prove. 1 Silver Mountain Sports Club & Spa filw IflGi KTjiTa m f toM V |