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Show SPORTS The Park Record. Editor: Ben Ramsey sports@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.104 Twitter: @ParkRecSports ADULT WINTER VOLLEYBALL LEAGUE The PC MARC will host a sixversus-six coed adult volleyball league on Wednesday evenings from 6 to 10 p.m. between Feb. 7 and April 11. Recreation and competitive divisions will be available. The team registration deadline is Feb. 3. Visit parkcityrecreation.org or call 435-615-5401 for more information. JAELIN KAUF ENVISIONS A PERFECT RUN, B-2 www.parkrecord.com LADY MINERS SEARCH FOR WINS, B-3 B-1 SAT/SUN/MON/TUES, JANUARY 27-30, 2018 After years of setbacks, skier Casey Andringa makes the Olympic Team SKI WITH BASIN NORDIC SKI PROGRAM Basin Recreation is offering Nordic ski clinics in February for adults who are just learning to skate ski to the intermediate skier. Sessions are Sundays beginning Feb. 4 from 10 a.m. to12 p.m. at various Basin parks and trails. The cost is $50 for the fourweek session or $15 for drop-ins each week. Each session is limited to 20 participants, and skis are not provided. To register, visit basinrecreation.org or call 655-0999. PARK CITY HIGH SCHOOL WATER POLO The 2018 high school spring water polo season begins Feb. 12, and the Miners water polo team is looking for new recruits. There will be a free week of play starting Feb. 12 for those who would like to try the sport. All abilities are welcome to try out and scholarships are available. Practice is Monday through Friday, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Park City Aquatic Center. Registration is due by Feb. 20. Go to www.parkcitywaterpolo.com for details. Please see Sports briefs, B-3 PARK RECORD FILE PHOTO Casey Andringa celebrates after crossing the finish line of the mogul course on Champion run at Deer Valley Resort during the men’s finals of the FIS Visa Freestyle International World Cup moguls event on Jan. 11. Deer Valley Resort was stage for his best-ever performance PARK RECORD FILE PHOTO BEN RAMSEY Casey Andringa flips off the bottom air on Champion run at Deer Valley Resort during the men’s finals of January’s World Cup event. He placed fifth overall in what was his second ever World Cup event. Casey Andringa is growing a mustache for good luck. Sitting in the Deer Valley Resort’s Bald Eagle Room at Snow Park Lodge on Tuesday, his long hair swept back, he said it may not be the most full and luxurious mustache a man could have – “Some people have called it the creeper stache,” he said -- but it’s certainly doing the job. At 22, Andringa is easily having his best season yet as a moguls racer. He has had his first outright win at the U.S. Selections in Winter Park, Colorado, which meant he got his first nomination to the U.S. Ski Team. That win also meant he got to ski in his first World Cup competition, where he took seventh, then broke into the super finals (top six) for the first time at the Deer Valley World Cup. That result helped cement his place as one of the top three moguls racers on the U.S. The Park Record Grant Applications Are Currently Being Accepted for the Grant applications from certified tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations are now being accepted for the Bessie Minor Swift Foundation. The Foundation accepts grants for programs that emphasize literacy, reading and writing, languages, science and interdisciplinary areas. Applications ranging from $500 to $3,000 will be considered. Since 2008, the Foundation has awarded more than $450,000 to nonprofit groups including schools, libraries, community colleges and small local organizations. DEADLINES: Grant Application Deadline Thursday, February 15, 2018 Grant Awards Announcement Tuesday, May 1, 2018 ParkRecord.com To apply, please visit the Bessie Minor Swift Foundation website at: BessieMinorSwift.org Team, and led to his selection to the Olympic Team. Hunter Bailey, Andringa’s friend and teammate on the Vail Ski and Snowboard Club, said from an outside perspective, it’s easy to call Andringa’s nomination to the Olympic Team a wild and unpredictable turn of fate — a fluke. But Bailey has seen Andringa’s rise firsthand, and said it’s just as crazy that he has never made it this far before. “It’s one of those things where skills-wise, it’s not that crazy — he’s that good,” Bailey said in a recent phone interview. “I knew if he had the chance he would get it. There was no question in my mind. But he’s had the chance taken away from him so many times, I think everyone was starting to think it had passed him by.” Born in Wisconsin, Andringa’s parPlease see Andringa, B-4 |