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Show SPORTS The Park Record. Editor: Griffin Adams sports@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.104 Twitter: @ParkRecSports PARK CITY WATER POLO SUMMER SEASON Registration is now open for Park City Water Polo’s Summer Season. The youth (14U & under) season begins May 31. Practices are on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Park City Aquatic Center at Ecker Hill Middle School. The cost is only $75. All abilities are welcome, so this is the perfect opportunity to give the sport a try. For information or to register, visit parkcitywaterpolo.com. BASIN REC ULTIMATE FRISBEE LEAGUE Basin Recreation’s Summer Ultimate Frisbee League is back. This coed league runs June 11 through July 16, featuring a regular-season schedule and tournament finish. Games will be played on Thursday and Sunday evenings. All players receive a team shirt. Drop-in to orientation night on June 1 or June 4 at Willow Creek Park to check it out. Register individually for $30 and be drafted to a team. Basin Rec Ultimate discs are available for $10 when you register. Visit www.basinrecreation.org for more information or to sign up today. Contact patrick@basinrecreation.org with questions. FIT FOR SUMMER SALE AT BASIN RECREATION A three-month sale is available at Basin Recreation Fieldhouse from now until June 30. An individual pass costs $90, while a couple pass would run for $165. Students, seniors and military members can purchase a pass for $80. Also available in the deal is the option to add unlimited fitness classes to the pass. The sale is limited to one pass per person. Please see Sports briefs, B-4 WATER POLO, LACROSSE ALL-STATE PLAYERS, B-2 www.parkrecord.com GRIFFIN ADAMS The Park Record Despite a brief hiatus away from the game, Micaela Damas is no stranger to soccer. From being a high school star to a college stud to a professional MVP, Damas has quite the resume in terms of success in the sport. It’s for those reasons, among others, that led to Park City High School to hire Damas as its new girls’ soccer head coach for the upcoming fall season. “I absolutely love the sport,” Damas said. “I was really sad when I left and wasn’t able to play anymore, so coaching is a great avenue to get back into the sport.” Damas, also a teacher at the school, used to control the pitch as a star defender at Northern Illinois University. From there, she went on to play professionally for the North West Sydney Koalas in Australia, where she was voted the league’s MVP in 2011. Her success led to Damas’ decision to return to the United States in the Women’s Professional Soccer league. It was at this time in 2012 that the league she was about to participate in folded, thus leading her down a path she never thought she’d go down — bobsled. After making the U.S. team that same year, Damas opted to move to Park City, where she could devote more of her energy into sport. Though she was cut from the team right before the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Damas said she learned things from bobsled that will aid her in her new venture of coaching. TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Micaela Damas, Park City High School’s new girls’ soccer head coach, poses for a picture on Dozier Field. Damas, a teacher at the school, played soccer at the collegiate and professional levels, as well as competed on the U.S. Bobsled team in 2012. “Bobsled allowed me to see a different side of athletics that soccer never really allowed me to see,” she continued. “Bobsled requires you to lift a lot and understand a lot about the physical body, which is easily transferable to soccer.” And whether it was bobsled or soccer, Damas has always known the importance of carrying out responsibilities in sport, which is something she has already relayed to the team in a preseason meeting last week. “The girls seem really excited,” CKM Collision “Physics Behind Collision Repair” Receive 5% off auto repairs exp. 08/31/17 Office Manager WED/THURS/FRI, MAY 31-JUNE 2, 2017 Former college star to take over the PCHS girls’ soccer team at Quinn’s Junction Jon Brady B-1 Right woman for the job: PCHS hires Damas Park City’s oldest most consistent collision center Est. 1978. Chad Knaras 3844 North Old Highway 40 Park City | Utah | 84098 PARK CITY SAILING TO GIVE AWAY TESLA, B-3 Owner 435.649.9802 ckmcollision.com Damas said. “They received their preseason packets, so they know what they’re responsible for over the summer. I told them what I’ll be responsible for, so if we all do what we’ve agreed to do, the season is going to start pretty quickly.” Damas is taking over a program that has had the same head coach for the last 20-plus years in Chip Cook. The latter helped built the Miners up to what they are today, Damas said, and the new head coach doesn’t want to change any of that. Rather, she hopes to just build on the legacy that’s already in place. “[Cook] set an incredible foundation for me to work with,” Damas said. “I think the only new thing that I bring to the table is my expertise and my background. Being able to actually be at the high school is [also] a big deal because I see the girls all the time. They can’t really hide from me, so that works out. But besides that, my bobsled background and the proPlease see PCHS hires Damas, B-4 |