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Show B-4 The Park Record Calendar Summer Sports Running Round Valley Rambler June 8 8:00 a.m. Park City Mountain Run July 4 8:00 a.m. Oakley 5k Fun Run July 4 7:00 a.m. Jupiter Peak Steeplechase July 13 8:00 a.m. Mid Mountain Marathon August 17 7:00 a.m. Swiss Days 10k August 31 7:00 a.m. Tour Des Suds September 15 10:00 a.m. Bike Racing Intermountain Cup Wasatch Back 50 June 8 Rage at Snowbird June 29 Battle at North Fork July 20 Soccer 7v7 Coed League Thursday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Adult Coed Volleyball Rec Division Tuesday Comp Division Tuesday Adult Doubles Thursday 6:00-9:00 p.m. 6:00-9:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 615-5432 Pickleball (age 16 +) Sun–Friday 8:30 a.m. Noon Volleyball (age 16 +) Thurs. 8:00-10:00 p.m. Soccer (age 16 +) Mon/Wed/Fri Noon -1:30 p.m. Soccer (age 16 +) Wed. 8:00-10:00 p.m. Soccer (age 30 +) Tues 8:00-10:00 p.m. Masters Swim Tues/Thurs Noon-1:00 p.m. South Summit Aquatics & Fitness Center (783-2423) Men’s Softball 9:00 a.m. Thursday Park City Ice Arena TBA Ice Hockey 8:00 p.m. Gold League Sunday Silver League Wed/Thurs/Sun 8:00 a.m. Basketball (age 160 +) Tues/Thurs Noon-2:00 p.m. Basketball (age 16 +) Sat/Sun 8:00-10:00 a.m. Pickleball (age 16 +) Mon/Wed/Fri 2:00-4:30 p.m. 6:00-9:00 p.m. Weather Hotline (cancellations) Triathlon East Canyon June 8 Dino Triathlon June 29 Echo Tri July 13 Monday Coed Rec Monday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Tuesday Coed Rec Tuesday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Wednesday Coed Comp Wednesday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Thursday Men Thursday 6:00-9:00 p.m. 615-5707 6:30 p.m. 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. Rock Wall Saturday 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Pickleball Open Gym Wed. – Fri 4:00 – 6:00 p.m 8:00 p.m. Speed Skating Recreation Sports Training Wednesday 6:30-7:45 p.m. Park City Recreation Services Basin Recreation Fieldhouse (615-5401) (655-0999) Adult Softball Leagues Monday Coed Comp Monday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Drop-in Sports Basketball (age 16 +) Tues. 7:00-9:00 p.m. To include an upcoming sports event in the calendar, please send an email to Joe Lair at scoreboard@parkrecord.com BE A LOCAL HERO Volunteer for a local non-profit Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, June 1-4, 2019 Hundreds gather to honor life of skier Sam Coffey Aspen skier and ski Freaks leader remembered AUSTIN COLBERT Aspen Times ASPEN MOUNTAIN, Colo. – Sam Coffey was a man without friends, for anyone who met him instantly became family. Standing atop Aspen Mountain on Monday, Cathy Coffey looked at a crowd estimated at near 1,000 people as she talked about her son. Sam’s sister JoAnna, or JoJo, stood at her side. “He was the world to me,” Cathy said. “My heart and JoJo’s heart is shattered and severed beyond belief without Sam here on Earth, but his spirit will live on and because of our family, the ski group Freaks, and this wonderful community and friends, JoJo and I will save a piece of our hearts for all of you.” Monday’s memorial service on Richmond Ridge was more of a family reunion where each person came to say goodbye to their son, their brother, their cousin. Sam Coffey, the tall, friendly, larger-than-life skier from Aspen, was all that and more to anyone who crossed paths with him. He was the sort of person who existed to make everything around him better, and it was his overwhelming joy for living — and especially for skiing — that brought so many to the top of Ajax on Monday. Coffey unexpectedly died May 20 after suffering a series of strokes while vacationing in Mexico. He was 29. “I was not supposed to make this speech until I had made at least a couple of best man speeches for Sam,” Wiley Maple joked while trying to hold back tears, Baker Boyd there next to him. “When Baker called me with the news, I collapsed on the mountain. He said, ‘One of us had to go first. It’s fitting that Sam went, because he always went first.’ First to kiss a girl, first to win a race, first to drink a beer. We followed in his wake.” Maple and Boyd were Coffey’s best friends from childhood. They found each other through the Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club, where the trio called themselves the “Stallions,” a friendship formed from chasing girls, joyful shenanigans and, of course, skiing. Maple may have been the one to eventually make the World Cup as a ski racer, which included competing in the 2018 Olympic downhill, but even he spent his years looking up to the magnetic character who was Coffey, as did most others. “It’s safe to say I’ve been obsessed with Sam since I first met him. I don’t think there was anything Sam, Wiley and Bake did that I didn’t try to copy at one point or another,” said Aspen’s Bobby Moyer, who was four years younger than Coffey. “Sam taught me, more than anything, that if you are going to do something, do it all the way and never, ever stop having fun. He made us all into better versions of ourselves. Being around Sam made you better. His lust for life and his frantic desire to enjoy every pleasure of what it means to be alive is contagious and has infected everyone that knew him.” Coffey was himself an accomplished ski racer, having been a two-time All-American at the University of New Hampshire. He even served as Maple’s ski technician on the World Cup circuit this past winter. An avid traveler and adventurer, about the only thing Coffey loved as much as his family and skiing was Aspen itself. Alongside Maple and Boyd, he co-founded the “Freaks” ski gang and never missed a chance to heckle the likes of Vail. A talent in the world of ski marketing and public relations, Coffey left that life behind soon after his father, Snowmass icon Joe Coffey, died in January 2018 after a long battle with melanoma. This past year was the best of Sam Coffey’s life, according to Maple, and while it was a life cut short, it was a life lived to its fullest. “Sam’s family is his best friends, and his best friends are his family,” said Sierra Rintel, a close friend of Coffey’s who attended UNH with him. “It’s insane to think about how many people Sam knew and his impact on them. He did such a good job of making other people feel special. It was easy for him, because he truly loved everyone. His contagious smile, laugh and personality made us all want to be around him.” Cathy Coffey hinted that her son was maybe ready to turn a new page in the coming years. Surely he would have returned to Maple’s side on the World Cup next winter, where he made quite the impression traveling alongside members of the U.S. Ski Team these past few months. But after that, he may have settled down, although his vivacious approach to life certainly would have remained and it certainly won’t be forgotten. “Sam had an exuberant personality full of gusto that can never be suppressed or duplicated,” Cathy Coffey said. “I have no regrets with how Sam didn’t waste a moment of his life. He told me after one more ski season coming up in Europe, he would be ready to venture back to more marketing in the ski industry and sometime have a family. I replied, ‘You have lots of time for that,’ but he didn’t, because God had much greater plans for Sam. Sometimes God picks the undoubtedly good guys.” Volunteer toasted for a life spent at Special Olympics Lorrie Woycik says helping was ‘a calling from God’ EMILY SCHNIPKE The Times (via Associated Press) VALPARAISO, Ind. – Lorrie Woycik is always greeting people with a smile and sometimes one of her patented hugs. Her joyful demeanor can be felt by those she talks to in Valparaiso. But there are some people in the Region who always feel Woycik’s love _ her kids. Thousands of them over the years have known her and been encouraged by her. Woycik, or Ms. Lorrie as her students and athletes call her, has been involved in special educa- tion in Porter County since the very beginning. This year marks Woycik’s 50th anniversary with the Special Olympics as well as 50 years since the beginning of Special Olympics Indiana. Woycik, 88, calls her work with special needs children and adults “a calling from God.” Woycik moved from New York to attend Valparaiso UniPlease see Volunteer, B-6 PARK RECORD FILE PHOTO Chris Best, left, and Phares Gines, Basin Recreation’s trails maintenance supervisor, right, work to create a culvert during National Trails Day last year along the rerouted lower section of the Iron Bill trail near the Utah Olympic Park. Basin Recreation is planning on improving a learner’s loop in Trailside on Saturday. Continued from B-1 New trails coming to county in the bike park,” Liegert said. For more information go to basinrecreation.org and select the open space tab. South Summit to complete Oakley Trail Park South Summit Trails Foun- dation, which manages trails on the east side of Summit County, plans to complete Phase 2 of the Oakley Trail Park in Oakley by building a beginner skills and drills area. The area will include a pump track and a jump line. The jump line, which consists of three- to four-foot jumps, will run from Buckaroo Connect down to Lower Lariat. It is intended as a tool to help new riders get a feel for airtime. The pump track will be located at the bottom of Buckaroo, just above where it connects with Lower Lariat. “We saw the need for more beginner-oriented trails in the Kamas valley,” said Corey Dutton, director of South Summit Trails Foundation. “That’s why we put in the Oakley Trail Park, and now we are seeing a demand from the community for an even more beginner area, which is Phase 2.” Dutton said the organization expects to complete the projects by July 1. “The weather has slowed us down,” she said. “We were supposed to break ground this month but we have been unable to do so because the ground has been so wet.” For more information go to SouthSummitTrails.org. |
