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Show The Park Record B-4 Calendar Spring Sports 6 p.m. July 19 6 p.m. August 2 6 p.m. Snowbird Solitude August 9 6 p.m. August 16 6 p.m. Solitude July 29 9 a.m. 9 a.m. August 27 9 a.m. August 1 & 7 TBA Gold League Thursday 6:30 p.m. Silver League July 9 7 a.m. August 13 8 a.m. Recreation Sports Intermountain Cup Endurance Series Brian Head July 30 6:30 p.m. Jordanelle Triathlon 6 p.m. Draper Classic Thursday Echo Triathlon Intermountain Cup X-Country Series Sundance August 13 6:30 p.m. Triathlon Midweek Twilight Series Soldier Hollow August 13 8 a.m. August 27 8 a.m. September 17 8 a.m. Trail Series 15k Coed Friday Volleyball Coed Comp League 9-11 p.m. (783-2423) Softball Thursday Tuesday 6 – 9 p.m. Rock Wall Thursday 6 – 9 p.m. (cancellations) 615-5432 9 -11 p.m. South Summit Aquatics & Fitness Center 6 – 9 p.m. Weather Hotline Trail Series Half Marathon Wednesday Tuesday Sand Doubles League Mid Mountain Marathon 7-11:30 a.m. 6 – 9 p.m. Coed Rec League 8 a.m. Sunday Tuesday 6 – 9 p.m. July 30 6 – 9 p.m. 18 & over Drop-in Soccer Wednesday Coed Jupiter Peak Steeplechase Wednesday 6 – 9 p.m. Friday 8 a.m. Coed Ultimate Frisbee Monday Tuesday Coed 6 – 9 p.m. July 9 (655-0999) Monday Wednesday Trail Series 10k Basin Recreation Fieldhouse 6 – 9 p.m. Monday Coed Red Running 8 p.m. Monday Summit Challenge National Ability Center TBA Wed/Thurs Over 30 Drop-in Soccer Monday Coed Blue 6 – 9 p.m. September 18 6:30 p.m. Softball Tuesday Mountain Trails Tour Des Suds Sunday Open Field Play Tuesday Men 8 a.m. Ice Hockey Park City Recreation Services (615-5401) Tour of Utah Stage One & Seven August 27 Park City Ice Arena Tuesday R-19 Racing Midweek Mountain Bike Solitude July 12 Laser Racing Elliot Racing Bike Racing Deer Valley Park City Sailing 6 – 9 p.m. Monday/Tuesday 5 – 8 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. To include an upcoming sports event in the calendar, please send an email to Joe Lair at scoreboard@parkrecord.com. YourParkCityAgents.com Hall • Prugh Real Estate Team SHEILA HALL ALEX PRUGH, J.D. Associate Broker 435-640-7162 cell sheila@hall-prugh.com REALTOR® 435-901-9504 cell alex@hall-prugh.com Park Avenue Office • 1700 Park Avenue, Suite 102 • Park City, Utah 84060 © 2015 BHH Affiliates, LLC. An independently owned and operated subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate, and a franchisee of BHH Affiliates, LLC. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices and the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices symbol are registered service marks of HomeServices of America, Inc. Equal Housing Opportunity. Grand Prix schedule finalized Three stops announced for 2016-17 season USSA News Bureau The U.S. Grand Prix, the longest running winter action sports tour, has announced three stops for the 2016-17 season. Copper Mountain, Colorado, and Mammoth Mountain, California, will host the world’s best skiers and riders in halfpipe, slopestyle and big air, while skicross and snowboardcross athletes will return to the U.S. for the first time since 2011. The event at Mammoth will also act as the first of five Olympic selection events for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. The tour kicks off at Copper Dec. 14-17 with halfpipe competitions for freeskiing and snowboarding and a big air snowboarding competition. The big air competition is also part of the United States Olympic Committee’s (USOC) Team USA Winter Champions Series, a single-day television event featuring the Grand Prix along with luge and women’s hockey. “Copper always does a fantastic job preparing its Main Vein halfpipe to give us an early season event in the U.S.,” said U.S. pa Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) Snowboarding and Freesking Director Jeremy Forster. “Mammoth has been part of the selection process since snowboarding became part of the Olympics in 1998 and we are fortunate to have them on board to support both snowboarding and freeskiing athletes on the Road to PyeongChang.” A third U.S. Grand Prix event, featuring skicross and snowboardcross, is on the calendar for Jan. 19-22, with the location to be announced separately at a later date. All U.S. Grand Prix freeskiing events will be sanctioned as FIS World Cup and Association of Freeskiing Professionals (AFP) Platinum events. Snowboarding competitions will be sanctioned as FIS World Cups and World Snowboard Tour international events. Last season, with a strong broadcast partnership with NBC Sports, the U.S. Grand Prix reached a total of 6.972 million U.S. television viewers. The third stop on the 2015-16 tour, the Polartec Big Air at Fenway, was the highest-rated winter action sports television broadcast of the season, averaging 1.357 million viewers with a .87 rating. Coverage is expected to grow this season and the next with the Grand Prix being the focal point of Olympic qualification for 2018. A full TV schedule will be released this autumn. U.S. freeskier nominated after impressive winter USSA News Bureau Olympic silver medalist Gus Kenworthy (Telluride, Colorado) has received a nomination for the 2016 ESPY Awards after a stellar 2015-16 season. Kenworthy is nominated in the Best Male Action Sports Athlete category. This season, Kenworthy won two X Games medals in Aspen, Colorado — a silver in SuperPipe and a silver in slopestyle — making him the first athlete to medal in each event at the same X Games since 2005. Plus, he added two more X Games medals to his collection in Oslo, Norway, won the European Freeski Open and led a halfpipe sweep at the U.S. Grand Prix in Mammoth, California. U.S. Snowboarding’s Jamie Anderson and Chloe Kim are nominated in the Best Female Action Sports Athlete category. Kim is also nominated for Best Breakthrough Athlete. Devin Logan s at form t n eve ission n ow ubm r u yo vents t i m e Sub .com/ rd o c rkre Grand Prix Tour Director Nick Alexakos. “The addition of the big air snowboarding event is a great opportunity to showcase the new Olympic sport in an iconic skiing and snowboarding community.” Skiers and riders will descend upon Mammoth’s Unbound terrain park Feb. 2-5 for a weekend of halfpipe and slopestyle action, including the first Olympic selection events for men’s and women’s halfpipe skiing, slopestyle snowboarding and slopestyle skiing. This is the first time a selection event has been held a season prior to the Olympics. The U.S. Grand Prix has been the U.S. Olympic qualifying series since 1998 and Mammoth has hosted previous Olympic qualifying events, including the final qualifying event before the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. An additional four Olympic selection events for halfpipe skiing, halfpipe snowboarding and slopestyle skiing will take place during the 2017-18 season. Slopestyle snowboarding athletes will have three events plus a big air snowboarding event as part of the selection process for those teams. Olympic selection criteria and qualification sites will be announced in the coming months. “Based on feedback after Sochi, we felt it would be beneficial to extend the qualification period and host an Olympic selection event this season,” stated U.S. Gus Kenworthy up for ESPY Continued from B-1 ore m and s c i us ord’ m e ec iv l R d k r r in Fin e Pa a d h n on T ts Cale line at lendar a n Eve and on com/c t . prin record k par Wed/Thurs/Fri, July 6-8, 2016 ing pictures and sharing updates and it’s cool to see them grow. It’s nice to see a ‘like’ from her and to see that she’s watching me and I’m watching her.” This winter, Logan hopes to give her new Facebook friend plenty to like. She’s aiming to have a strong season so she’s in a position to qualify for both the Olympic slopestyle and halfpipe ski teams. “I just missed out on the half- Continued from B-2 Enduro Cup to be really careful not to push it too hard and even on the trails that are more physical, you can still overshoot turns, so the resort day was definitely challenging in that way.” “The backcountry day was PHOTO COURTESY OF USSA U.S. Freeskier Gus Kenworthy competes in a Grand Prix halfpipe competition in Mammoth, California, earlier this year. pipe spot in 2014,” she said. “We’ll see what happens, but my main goal is to make both teams in 2018.” After winning a silver medal in slopestyle in 2014, she said she is a lot more relaxed heading into this Olympic-qualifying cycle. “It gives me a lot of confidence,” she said. “Coming back as a medalist, there are definitely going to be the pressures of repeating, but having experienced it in 2014, I kind of know what’s coming. I know what to prepare for and what to be excited for. It helps.” Though she is excited to get started on the upcoming winter season, Logan said she’s approaching this offseason differently. She will still spend plenty of time on snow, but she said she’s cutting back to save her energy for when the actual competitions begin. “Competing in both events gets to be a lot,” she said. “Last summer, I spent a lot of time on snow trying to prepare. Little injuries sort of set me back throughout the season, so I’m trying to take a different approach. I’m getting my mind right in the gym and getting strong. I’m not spending as much time on snow because I felt a little burnt out toward the middle and end of the season. That’s never good. I’m working on getting as strong as possible because I need to have that endurance to compete in both events.” No matter the results of this winter’s competition schedule, Logan hopes to go back to Mexico again next year and build a house for yet another family. She just hopes she’s re-grounding herself before a trip to South Korea next time. pretty dreamy,” she continued. “I am riding and just wishing I could live up there. The terrain was great. I thought it was challenging and technical, good transitions and high speed stages and the views were amazing.” New this year, the Vittoria Bolt awarded the fastest downhill time on stage one, day one. Teddy Hayden, 17, of San Rafael, California, blew everyone off the trail, finishing stage one at 03:14.521. Lia Westermann slid in at 03:43.922, beating women’s expert day one winner, Angelica Ramirez (03:43.959), 30, of Snowbird, by milliseconds. Westermann and Hayden were awarded $100 each by Vittoria. This award is featured at each 2016 race. Podium finishers in the pro/ open category shared prize money equally divided between men and women. The podium athletes in the expert, amateur and junior categories received gear from SCOTT Sports and Vittoria. All riders were entered into a raffle, with proceeds going to the Wood River Bike Coalition. Raffle prizes were provided by SCOTT Sports, Sony, Vittoria and Niner, Sturtevant’s and Bliz. The SCOTT Enduro Cup presented by Vittoria will conclude the 2016 season at a new location, Deer Valley Resort in Park City, on Sunday, Aug. 28. |