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Show SPORTS The Park Record. TOWN RACE SERIES TO START ON MONDAY, B-2 www.parkrecord.com PCHS GIRLS EARN FIRST REGION 10 WIN, B-3 B-1 SAT/SUN/MON/TUES, JANUARY 21-24, 2017 Ligety down, but not out Editor: Griffin Adams sports@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.104 Twitter: @ParkRecSports FESTIVAL AT WASATCH MOUNTAIN STATE PARK The Wasatch Mountain State Park Visitor Center will be hosting its second annual Winter Festival on Jan. 21 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visitors can demo a handful of equipment, such as snowshoes, snow bikes and snowmobiles, but can rent only snowshoes and crosscountry skis. The day use fee is $7 per car for up to eight people and $4 per car for Seniors 62 and over. The Park is asking people to call in advance to reserve equipment. For more information, call (435) 654-1791 or email friendsofwasatch.org. PARK CITY BASEBALL SPRING TRYOUTS Park City Baseball will be holding Spring Baseball Tryouts for boys and girls aged 7-14 at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse on Saturday, Feb. 4 from 9-10:30 a.m. for 11-14U and 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. for 8-10U. Spring 2017 age brackets: If your player will be 8 years old by April 30, she/he qualifies for the 8U team, and so on. PCB will play in the RMSB Super League. Games begin April 15 and end on June 10. All you need to try out is a glove and athletic shoes/clothes. There is no fee to attend tryouts but you must register. To register, and for more complete information, please visit www. parkcitybaseball.org. FREE FITNESS CLASSES AT THE PC MARC Start 2017 with a new fitness routine. During the month of January, the PC MARC is offering a free kickboxing class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10:45 a.m. and free Barre on Wednesday and Friday at 5:15 p.m. For more info, visit parkcityrecreation.org or call 615-5400. Please see Sports briefs, B-2 PHOTO COURTESY OF THE U.S. SKI TEAM - TOM KELLY Ted Ligety takes a breather while training for the Audi FIS Ski World Cup opener at Soelden, Austria on the Rettenbach Glacier. Ligety, who underwent lower back surgery on Wednesday, hopes to return to the slopes by the summer. Olympic skier talks about decision to have season-ending surgery GRIFFIN ADAMS The Park Record Olympic skier Ted Ligety has done it a million times over. After the area received feet upon feet of snow roughly two weeks ago, the Park City native decided to take advantage, while he could, with his wife. They strapped on the powder skis and got some turns in at Deer Valley Resort, one of the places that shaped Ligety’s career. It was a perfect day for shredding, but also, it was a somber goodbye to the mountain, for now. “I hadn’t had a powder day all year,” Ligety said in an interview with the Park Record. “That was definitely a nice thing, especially to do it with my wife” This was the last time Ligety would be skiing for the foreseeable future after opting to undergo a season-ending microdiscectomy procedure to relieve pain in his left leg. While the surgery is technically one for the lower back, it is often used to help alleviate pain in PHOTO COURTESY OF THE U.S. SKI TEAM - TOM KELLY Ted Ligety trains for the Audi FIS Ski World Cup opener at Soelden, Austria on the Rettenbach Glacier. Ligety started feeling pain in his left leg during this week of the World Cup circuit back in October. the legs, which is what Ligety experiences. The Parkite has been hampered by back issues for the last couple of years. The pain, however, got to a point when Ligety just wasn’t Ligety anymore. It was back in October when he was skiing in Soelden, Austria for the World Cup opener. “It was difficult,” Ligety said of the decision. “It’s the kind of thing where I can ski, but I can’t ski well or in a way that I can win the races. That’s been the difficult part of it.” For Ligety, skiing is his life. It always has been: from being raised in a ski town to participating in its local youth ski clubs to attending the Park City Winter School to occupying a spot on the U.S. National team for the last 13 years. If he could be skiing, he would be: he wants to finish out this World Cup season. He wants the opportunity to defend his giant slalom title — Ligety is the three-time defending champion in the discipline — at the World Championships in St. Moritz. “My big goal this year was World Champs,” Ligety said. “I wanted to go for a fourth [giant slalom title]. That was really special and important to me to try and go do that.” What he really doesn’t want, though, is to have to sit out for the second time in as many years due to injury. He did everything in his power to try to avoid that. He visited a plethora of doctors and neurosurgeons, receiving numerous treatments, such as receiving cortisone shots, that could have helped without getting surgery. “Nothing was really working,” Ligety said. “I worked with a bunch of different physical therapists who used different techniques. It just came to a point where there was no improvement. One of the neurosurgeons I saw was very confident saying that I needed surgery.” Upon returning to Park City, Ligety saw a handful of other doctors to gather some different opinions, but much to his dismay, the advice was the same. Please see Down, but not out B-4 COME EXPERIENCE DEER VISTA Gated, private residential community. Minutes from Main Street, Park City. 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