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Show B-2 Wed/Thurs/Fri, June 19-21, 2019 The Park Record Aerials coach steps up, then out rec report Parkite Emily Cook becomes interim U.S. head coach PARK CITY MOUNTAIN RESORT Park City Mountain Resort has begun summer operations. For information on upcoming events, go to parkcitymountain.com or call 435-649-8111. BEN RAMSEY DEER VALLEY RESORT The Park Record Deer Valley Resort has begun summer operations. For information Emily Cook is leaving her position as a coach with the U.S. aerials team this fall, not before a stint as interim head coach. Cook takes over the top spot from Todd Ossian, who held the job through the last Olympic cycle. She will oversee one of the best aerials teams in the world as it prepares for winter before looking for a job with a less travel-heavy lifestyle. After spending nearly four months on the road for nearly all of the past 22 years of her life, who can blame her? Cook grew up participating in gymnastics in Boston, where she got into aerials while skiing at Sugarloaf Resort in Maine, a four-hour drive from her home each way. Her dad made the trip with her, raising Cook by himself after the death of her mother when Cook was 15 months old. She attended Bellmont High School, then spent the winters of her junior and senior year at Carrabasset Valley Academy – a prominent ski school in western Maine. She moved to Park City in 1997 at the age of 18, after making the U.S. national team. Cook became a staple of the U.S. program, reaching three Olympics – Torino, Vancouver and Sochi. She had qualified for the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, but was unable to compete after a breaking both of her feet during a World Cup competition in Lake Placid, New York. Cook said it was a snowy competition. That, along with a headwind, slowed her jump and she landed on the knoll before the dropoff. “Yeah, so that sucked,” Cook said over the phone last week. “But I tell people all the time, that definitely defined my career.” She said the injury gave her a chance to evaluate her career and her life, to examine who she was without aerials and ask honestly if she wanted to keep pursuing the sport. She did. on upcoming activities, go to deervalley.com or call 435-649-1000. PARK CITY GOLF COURSE The Park City Golf Club is open for the season. For information and tee times, call 435-615-5800. SOLDIER HOLLOW GOLF Soldier Hollow Golf Course is open for the season. For more information call 435-654-7442. CRATER SPRINGS GOLF Crater Spring Golf Course is open for the season. For information about prices and tee times, call 435-654-5588. UTAH OLYMPIC PARK The Utah Olympic Park has started its summer programming, with bobsled rides, extreme tubing, use of the drop tower and more. For a complete list of activities, hours and rates, visit utaholympiclegacy. org. BASIN RECREATION Basin Recreation maintains over 175 miles of trails for hiking, biking, dog walking and more during the summer months. Go to www. basinrecreation.org for a complete list of trails. For trail information or maintenance concerns, email Phares Gines, at phares@basinrecreation.org. MOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION The Mountain Trails Foundation maintains trails around Park City, including Round Valley. For trail information, maps and conditions, go to mountaintrails.org. UINTA-WASATCH-CACHE NATIONAL FOREST The Heber-Kamas Ranger District maintains trails and campgrounds in the Uinta Mountains east of Kamas. For information, visit fs.usda. gov/uwcnf for more information. ROAD STATUS Wolf Creek Pass and Guardsman Pass have opened for the summer. The Mirror Lake Highway remains closed. For more info, go to fs.usda.gov/uwcnf or call 435-783-4338. For more information on seasonal road closures go to udottraffic.utah.gov. STATE PARKS AND RESERVOIRS For information such as water temperature and current conditions at Jordanelle and Rockport state parks, visit stateparks.utah.gov. For information on the Echo Reservoir, call 435-336-2247. The P B COURTESY OF U.S. SKI AND SNOWBOARD Emily Cook has spent 20 years in aerials – 17 as a competitor and three as a coach. She will take over as the U.S. team’s head coach until the fall, when she will seek other employment. She spent three years recovering – first, re-learning to walk, then to ski, then to jump, then to jump as a world-class athlete. “You learn certain life lessons when you have your dreams taken away from you so quickly,” she said. Through the process, she had friends, family and teammates who helped her stay motivated, and helped her re-learn the nuances of the sport. She returned to the slopes a year before Torino in 2006, and many of those friends were alongside her during the opening ceremonies. Cook said walking into the Studio Olimpico in Torino to complete her comeback was “one of the most amazing moments in life.” “Getting to share that experience with them (her teammates) was amazing,” she said. She took 19th overall, but kept competing at a high level, and improving. She took 11th in Vancouver in 2010 and eighth in Sochi in 2014 before calling it a career. During her years as an athlete, Cook graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in mass communications, which helped her land a job with Skullcandy (whose headquarters are just down the hill from the Utah Olympic Park, where the aerials team trains), with whom she worked for about two years. “I really wanted to take some time and gain some professional experience,” she said. “I got completely out of the aerials world, but was still working within the sport world.” She landed on her feet to say the least. Cook helped Skullcandy set up a high performance lab inside the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse where the company, in partnership with the University of Utah and the University of Southern California, studied the impacts of music on athletes and helped athletes learn about their own capacities. “The outcome was we found that music had a profound impact on athletic performance,” she said. “It was super fun, it was a great project.” Among the projects, Cook was part of the team that helped former Navy SEAL Andy Stumpf set the world record for farthest wingsuit flight. Then she got a phone call from Todd Ossian, the head coach of the aerials program. Ossian told Cook the team was looking for another coach and asked if she would be interested. “It took a lot of consideration,” Cook said. “I absolutely loved what I was doing with Skullcandy and loved interacting with the community in a Weather Temperatures: WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Mostly sunny Nice with sunshine and patchy clouds Partly sunny and cooler Partly sunny with showers, mainly later Mostly sunny Winds: W 7-14 mph Winds: SW 8-16 mph Winds: WNW 6-12 mph Winds: WNW 6-12 mph Winds: SW 7-14 mph 75°/49° 73°/39° 57°/39° 57°/40° 68°/48° High for the week ................................ 78° Low for the week ................................. 44° Precipitation: Total for the week ............................. 0.64” ACCUWEATHER UV INDEX TM Ogden 83/53 Elko 85/46 Salt Lake City 86/61 Wendover 89/59 SUN AND MOON Wednesday ...... Thursday .......... Friday ............... Saturday .......... Sunday ............ Sunrise 5:55 a.m. ......... 5:55 a.m. ......... 5:55 a.m. ......... 5:55 a.m. ......... 5:56 a.m. ......... Sunset 9:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. 9:01 p.m. 9:01 p.m. Moonrise Moonset Wednesday ..... 11:08 p.m. ......... 7:58 a.m. Thursday ......... 11:47 p.m. ......... 8:55 a.m. Friday ...................... none ......... 9:53 a.m. Saturday ........ 12:21 a.m. ....... 10:51 a.m. Sunday .......... 12:51 a.m. ....... 11:50 a.m. Last New First July 2 July 9 Craig 78/46 Park City Provo 82/56 Price 82/53 Ely 83/45 Richfield 86/55 Moab 91/62 Cedar City 87/60 Page 95/69 Full Aspen 72/46 Grand Junction 87/59 Cortez 84/47 St. George 99/70 Grand Canyon 83/43 June 25 Evanston 71/45 75/49 MOON PHASES July 16 Farmington 87/52 Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Wednesday’s highs and Wednesday night’s lows. NATIONAL CITIES City Albany Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Boston Buffalo Charlotte Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus, OH Dallas Denver Wednesday Hi Lo W 82 66 sh 66 51 pc 86 73 t 79 69 t 71 62 pc 78 61 c 88 72 t 68 56 sh 80 65 c 79 65 c 82 66 c 92 72 t 80 53 pc High pressure will remain in control on Wednesday providing dry and mostly sunny weather. It will be quite comfortable as well with high temperatures ranging from the 50s and 60s in the mountains to the 90s in southwestern Utah. Any spotty shower will be well across the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming. Tranquil weather will continue tonight. ROAD CONDITIONS REGIONAL CITIES Logan 82/46 Wed. Thu. Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. The higher the AccuWeather UV Index™ number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Shown is the highest value for each day. 0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 High; 11+ Extreme. Please see Interim, B-4 Wednesday, June 19, 2019 REGIONAL FORECAST FIVE DAY FORECAST FOR PARK CITY ALMANAC Park City statistics for the week ending June 17 different way and gaining this professional experience.” But she said she felt she was needed on the team, and was curious if the passion she felt for the sport as an athlete and the fulfillment she got from competing would translate over as a coach. She accepted the position in the fall of 2016, and quickly found the satisfaction she was curious about in the job. “It’s the most incredible experience to know that you’ve supported someone when they’ve had one of their best finishes,” she said. She was there to see Ashley Caldwell and Jon Lillis earn World Championship titles in 2017. But she said the greatest joy of coaching for her comes not from those triumphs, but from the small successes along the way. “I love having a little project and spending however long it takes to reach a little tiny detail,” she said. “For me, it’s all about these little details for the athletes and watching them light up when they learn a new trick. That’s absolutely an amazing thing.” She said it’s also very rewarding to watch athletes overcome their challenges and learn lessons they will take with them when they pull off their ski boots. 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US-40: Plenty of sunshine is in store for Wednesday; no weather-related travel problems are expected. TRAVELERS FORECAST There will be a spotty shower in the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming Wednesday. However, the vast majority of the region will be dry with abundant sunshine overhead. Dry weather will continue Wednesday night with a few clouds. WEATHER HISTORY A tornado struck New Brunswick, N.J., on June 19, 1835, killing five people and laying waste to a 17.5-mile-long path that ended at lower New York Bay. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2019 WORLD CITIES Thursday Hi Lo W 76 61 sh 68 54 pc 86 72 t 86 70 t 68 62 sh 68 54 r 90 69 t 71 54 c 76 60 c 71 56 t 74 59 t 96 74 pc 84 53 pc City Des Moines Detroit Dover Houston Honolulu Las Vegas Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis Nags Head New Orleans New York Norfolk Wednesday Thursday Hi Lo W Hi Lo W 75 60 r 78 65 pc 79 61 c 69 53 r 81 70 t 89 69 t 95 78 pc 96 78 pc 89 74 pc 88 74 sh 105 80 s 103 74 s 75 62 pc 72 63 pc 88 80 t 90 77 t 77 60 pc 75 62 r 82 75 t 87 74 pc 92 79 pc 91 79 t 76 65 c 77 66 pc 83 73 t 93 72 pc Wednesday Thursday City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Oklahoma City 85 64 t 89 71 pc Orlando 88 75 t 90 75 t Philadelphia 80 69 t 86 66 t Phoenix 103 77 s 104 78 s Pittsburgh 79 66 t 75 58 t Providence 75 62 pc 74 63 sh St. Louis 80 67 t 82 70 pc San Antonio 99 77 s 100 75 s San Diego 70 64 pc 70 65 pc San Francisco 74 56 pc 71 54 pc Seattle 66 51 c 67 52 c Tampa 86 79 t 89 79 pc Washington, DC 84 73 t 90 70 t City Auckland Bangkok Barbados Beijing Berlin Buenos Aires Dublin Frankfurt Hong Kong Jerusalem London Montreal Wednesday Hi Lo W 58 48 s 88 79 t 86 81 sh 92 72 c 88 64 pc 60 40 s 63 47 r 87 60 pc 90 83 t 82 64 s 68 50 t 79 60 pc Thursday Hi Lo W 59 55 r 90 78 t 87 80 pc 95 73 pc 82 61 t 60 46 c 60 45 c 76 58 t 91 83 t 82 62 s 67 50 pc 73 56 sh City Moscow Oslo Paris Rio de Janeiro Rome San Juan Seoul Sydney Tokyo Toronto Warsaw Zurich Wednesday Hi Lo W 79 58 s 67 54 sh 77 59 t 83 71 pc 82 63 s 90 80 s 78 64 pc 60 48 s 79 68 pc 76 60 c 82 65 t 84 58 pc Thursday Hi Lo W 83 62 pc 64 49 sh 70 54 t 84 71 s 83 64 s 88 79 pc 80 63 c 58 47 pc 78 68 pc 69 54 r 82 64 t 72 57 t Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. |