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Show SPORTS The Park Record. Editor: Griffin Adams sports@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.104 Twitter: @ParkRecSports HOLCOMB’S CELEBRATION OF LIFE TO BE HELD, B-2 www.parkrecord.com TRIATHLON SEASON TO RETURN TO AREA, B-3 B-1 WED/THURS/FRI, JUNE 7-9, 2017 Local groups join forces to create Park City Ski & Snowboard Club TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Alyssa Gorsch of the Park City Ski Team skis around the gate during the David Wright Memorial Giant Slalom Race last season. The Park City Ski Team announced the intent to join forces with other local clubs to become the Park City Ski & Snowboard Club, the new premier youth sports organization in Park City. CELEBRATE THE FIELDHOUSE EXPANSION Come celebrate the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse Expansion on June 10 from 10 a.m. to noon. There’s something for everyone all morning, including fitness classes, games, challenges, bounce houses, face painters, food and pass sales that make this a community event you won’t want to miss. We will also conduct swim assessments to help with lesson placement. Four lap lanes will be available from 12pm to 7pm, along with the hot tub from 8am to 7pm. Participants in classes and lap swim must be 14 years or older, but the splash pad is a perfect choice for families with younger children. Any activity at The Fieldhouse is free all day. We’re open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. with Splash Pad hours from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. TINY TRI AT THE PC MARC The fifth-annual Tiny Tri on Saturday, June 10, at 9 a.m. is a great way for kids to get some small scale triathlon experience and celebrate Olympic Day. Kids from the ages of 7 to 16 will bike, run and swim, starting and ending at the PC MARC. Olympic skier Jillian Vogtli will lead a warm up. First 25 registrants will receive a goodie bag, and all finishers will earn a medal. For more details and to register, visit parkcityrecreation.org or call 615-5400. Please see Sports briefs, B-5 Jesse Hunt will be Executive Director for new organization GRIFFIN ADAMS The Park Record Five ski and snowboard youth programs based in Park City announced on Monday afternoon the intent to become “one, all-encompassing organization to better serve Park City’s aspiring athletes,” per a press release. The new organization will be called the Park City Ski & Snowboard Club. Included in this newly-formed organization are the programs formerly known as the Park City Ski Team, Summit Ski Team, Team Park City United and the Nordic and Fly Freestyle divisions of the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation. All Park City teams were invited to join the new club. “In looking at the potential benefits of uniting our talented Park City athletes and families into one ski and snowboard organization, we feel this is a major opportunity to provide world-class personnel and top-notch training resources to better serve our youth,” the Integration Team said in the release. Selected as the new program’s executive director is Jesse Hunt, who GRIFFIN ADAMS/PARK RECORD Members of the Integration Team that formed the new Park City Ski & Snowboard Club pose for a picture in the Quinney Conference Room at Utah Olympic Park on Monday afternoon. From left are Pat Quiqley, Jim Fitlow, Martin Fox, Colin Hilton, Marc Norman, Walt Evans, Matt Terwillegar, Ellen Adams and Jesse Hunt. Team members not present in the photo are Jon-Eric Greene, Brent Nixon, Daniel Sheinberg and Brodie Pollard. has led the Park City Ski Team since 2009. He will oversee four divisions; Alpine, Freestyle, Nordic and Snowboard. The Park City Ski & Snowboard Club will exist under the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation, but function as a separate LLC. “It’s a nonprofit,” Colin Hilton, President and CEO of the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation, said in a roundtable discussion with the Integration Team on Monday afternoon. “The LLC is under our nonprofit. … It provides an efficiency that focuses the effort for coaches on coaching and for us to handle the HR, books, those kind of things, which we do al- See page B-7 for just a few of the cats and dogs available for adoption ready for different entities.” Under Hunt will be a Park City Ski & Snowboard Club governance board, which will include members from the Park City Ski Team, Summit Ski Team, Team Park City United, Park City Nordic, Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation, Youth Sports Alliance, Park City Mountain and Deer Valley Resort. Overall, there will be 13 seats on the governance board. “That structure will take advantage of being able to use our administrative services, yet set up a local board that is a governance board and is already identified,” Hilton said. The creation of the Park City Ski & Snowboard Club has been a long time coming. Many members of the integration team have been in contact for the last few years, throwing the idea around, but never actually making it come to fruition. But after continued dialogue, which picked up last October, all parties agreed on the fine details. When Hunt made the announcement to staff members in the separate organizations, now all part of one team, he said the elation was palpable. “It was pretty fun to get everyone Please see Joining forces, B-4 |