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Show SPORTS The Park Record. Editor: Ben Ramsey sports@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.104 Twitter: @ParkRecSports ARCHERY GAMES CAMP The PC MARC is offering a camp for preteens featuring challenge games and competition shooting held at Treasure Mountain Junior High School. The camp is offered Monday through Thursday from 5 to 6 p.m., March 19–29. One week and two-week packages are available. Participants must have completed at least one previous Park City Recreation archery class. Space is limited, and registration ends March 14th. Sign up at parkcityrecreation.org or call 435-615-5400. INAUGURAL SODA LEAGUE RACE Park City Ski and Snowboard will hold its inaugural SODA League giant slalom on March 16. The race is open to all skiers ages 12-19, and requires only a helmet and alpine skis to compete, in addition to the $35 race fee (lift included). Check in starts at 11 a.m. and the race starts at 1 p.m. There will be awards and prizes at 4:30 p.m. Registration required. See B4 for more details. PARK CITY SOCCER CLUB ACADEMIES The Park City Soccer Club is offering both girls- and boys-specific academy sessions for players between the ages of 6 and 10 years old. Led by professional coaches, the PCSC Youth Academy’s primary goals are teaching the game of soccer in a fun environment, facilitating a love for the game, and promoting the development of basic skills. Players may sign up for an eight-week Friday session, beginning March 16. The Academy curriculum is designed to allow players to join at any time during a session, and the Academy is scheduled, when possible, to complement spring recreation league soccer. Sessions will transition from the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse to the outdoors as weather permits. For more information, visit www. parkcitysoccer.org or contact Academy Director Matt Terwillegar (boys) at mattpc94@gmail.com or Patty McAllister (girls) at pattymcallister92@ gmail.com. WALK WITH EASE AT THE FIELDHOUSE Basin Recreation is offering an arthritis prevention walking program at the Fieldhouse through April 22. Walk with Ease is a great program for anyone dealing with arthritis or limited mobility or for those who love to stay in shape with walking. The class will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.m. to noon on the track at the Fieldhouse. The cost is $20 or free with your Silver Sneakers card. PCHS SENIOR EARNS FULL NEW ALPINE RACE TO BE RIDE FOR CADDYING, B-2 HELD AT PCMR, B-4 www.parkrecord.com B-1 WED/THURS/FRI, MARCH 14-16, 2018 Big air’s rising stars take season’s final flight Local athletes fill four of six spots at big air junior nationals BEN RAMSEY The Park Record Sunday marked the end of the Junior Freestyle/Freeskiing Championships, which represented the culmination of six disciplines of skiing, hosted by Park City Ski and Snowboard. On Saturday, after the big air junior nationals at the Utah Olympic Park, PCSS Special Projects Manager Walt Evans and Volunteer Coordinator Katherine Hughes took a moment to talk about the logistics of hosting the massive event. It started with the aerials junior national competition on Tuesday at Park City Mountain Resort, then the junior national halfpipe competition on Wednesday, the moguls junior nationals on Thursday and Friday along with the slopestyle finals, big air on Saturday, and then dual moguls on Sunday. “What we set about doing was creating a showcase deal for Park City Ski and Snowboard Club,” Evans said. “We wanted a marquee event that would create opportunity for our athletes for one, but also create a system that we could work as a team and move forward, with a vision of helping support the February 2019 World Ski Championships at Deer Valley, Park City and Solitude.” Evans said the event, hosted at Park City Mountain Resort and the Utah Olympic Park, facilitated competition for 304 athletes. “That’s across all disciplines,” Evans said. “The pipe, the slope, the big air, the aerials, moguls and dual moguls.” TANZI PROPST/THE PARK RECORD Left: Annika Sundquist competes in the finals round of the Freestyle and Freeskiing Junior National Big Air competition at the Utah Olympic Park on Saturday. Right: Nolen Johnson gives bystanders a show during the Freestyle and Freeski Junior National Big Air competition on Saturday. He finished with a high score of 70.6. Evans added that the 12-day competition process had been taxing to produce, but it made sense for the club to host something as a whole, after it was created by the merging of several independent clubs before this season. “It’s been intense but, as Walt said, our eye is on the prize of bringing all the different communities together,” Hughes said. “So we don’t have two alpine clubs like we used to and three freestyle clubs. ... We’re all together under one umbrella now, and this was our first event working all together.” Hughes said the event has given athletes, parents and club staffers the opportunity to see what each branch of the club does, and what its athletes can do. According to Hughes, the club had about 50 local competitors in the event. Please see The Best, B-3 Soldier Hollow booms as racers chase gold Area athletes compete on home turf for title of national champion BEN RAMSEY The Park Record Approaching the main start area on the final day of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Cross-Country Junior National Championships at Soldier Hollow had the feel of walking through a boomtown. Cars and vans from all over sit in the lower parking lot. Spectators and racers — ubiquitously dressed in spandex suits and large variants of the Oakley Blade sunglasses — flowed in and out of the race course. In the final ascent to the central observation building, the side of the road was pleated with a continuous line of skilength duffel bags, occasionally attended by their owners. Behind the bags were what looked like saw horses laden with ski waxing paraphernalia and shipping container trailers where coaches looked over rosters, or were entranced in the crucial ritual of waxing skis. In front of one trailer, a sign read “Do not disturb, in the zone.” Please see Skiers, B-3 Please see Sports briefs, B-4 BEN RAMSEY/PARK RECORD Kai Mittelsteadt of Bridger Ski Foundation in Bozeman, Montana, anchors an Intermountain Division U-16 relay team during the Cross-Country Junior National Championships at Soldier Hollow on Saturday. 2090 E. Flat Top Mountain Dr. 4 Bedrooms | 4 Bath | 4,608 Sq. Ft. MLS 11800374 | $1,995,000 286 N. Kings Peak Court 3 Bedrooms | 4 Bath | 3,269 Sq. Ft. MLS 11801435 | $1,265,000 Just minutes from downtown Park City, owners enjoy: RedLedges.com GOLF | TENNIS | EQUESTRIAN | DINING SWIM & FITNESS | SKI LOUNGE Exclusively Brokered by Red Ledges Realty, LLC . Obtain the Property Report required by federal law and read it before signing anything. No federal agency has judged the merits or value, if any, of this property. 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