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Show B-4 The Park Record Calendar Wednesday Coed Comp Wednesday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Thursday Men Thursday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Summer Sports Running 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. 9:00 a.m. 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. 6:00-9:00 p.m. South Summit Aquatics & Fitness Center 615-5432 (783-2423) 9:00 a.m. Park City Ice Arena Triathlon Dino Triathlon June 29 Echo Tri July 13 7v7 Coed League Thursday Weather Hotline (cancellations) Bike Racing Intermountain Cup Rage at Snowbird June 29 Battle at North Fork July 20 Soccer 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. 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. Men’s Softball Thursday 8:00 p.m. Ice Hockey 8:00 a.m. Gold League Sunday Silver League Wed/Thurs/Sun Recreation Sports Park City Recreation Services (615-5401) Adult Softball Leagues Monday Coed Comp Monday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Monday Coed Rec Monday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Tuesday Coed Rec Tuesday 6:00-9:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Speed Skating Training Wednesday 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. 615-5707 Rock Wall Saturday 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Pickleball Open Gym Wed. – Fri 4:00 – 6:00 p.m 6:30-7:45 p.m. Basin Recreation Fieldhouse (655-0999) 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 Searching for new things to do? Wed/Thurs/Fri, June 19-21, 2019 Skateboarders raise their game for Olympic qualifiers Vibe shifts from ‘underground’ to more official BY BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer LONG BEACH, Calif. – Being an Olympic sport is starting to bring a different vibe to skateboarding. With a promise from the IOC to keep the spirit of the sport intact as it makes its debut at the Tokyo Games next year, skateboarders are raising their game as qualifying events begin. “I mean, it’s the Olympics. It’s the biggest stage a person, an athlete, anybody can ever be on,” Sean Malto of Kansas City said Thursday at the Dew Tour, which is the first global Olympic qualifying event for men’s and women’s park and street held in the United States. “It does open a lot of doors,” said Malto, 29, who competes in the street event. “It does put a lot of eyes on something that was underground for a really long time. I think that’s a real special thing, a special opportunity to be part of.” Malto participated in the first qualifier last month, the Street League Skateboarding event in London. He said that skating “has always been very loose and open,” but the qualifiers have made things a bit more rigid. “It’s been an adjustment. It’s been tough. But the opportunity is far greater than what that process has been,” he said. “It’s been pretty fun to figure out, just a little different. We go to these events anyway. We grew up skating X Games, Street League, Dew Tour. Just show up and do your best and everything else will follow that. If you win these events, then you get to go to the Olympics, and that’s fair. Just do what you’ve been doing anyway, just maybe a little better.” Josh Friedberg, CEO of USA Skateboarding, said there was some initial confusion after the first U.S. national team was announced earlier this year. Those 16 skaters aren’t guaranteed a spot in the Olympics, just support from the national governing body. Skaters not on the U.S. team, such as Malto and Curren Caples of Ventura, can qualify on their own merit. Once that confusion was cleared up, making the Olympic team became a goal, said the 23-year-old Caples, who skates both street and park. “I figured why not. If I can make it, it would be rad just to call yourself an Olympian, just to be at the Olympics and represent the first year of skateboarding in it, which would be pretty cool.” This will be the first Olympic qualification contest for Caples. “I’ve skated many Dew Tours in the past and this one is definitely different, for sure, because there are a lot of people. The whole vibe of the whole contest is a little different. You can see that people are hungrier and practices are way more intense. It’s been a cool experience and I’m stoked to compete. “Skateboarding in the Olympics is just going to put skateboarding on such a higher scale and maybe be recognized as a true sport instead of just kind of like an action sport,” Caples said. “It just puts it in a higher category, which it should be because a lot of risks come with skateboarding and it should be recognized for that.” The IOC was looking at sports that have the greatest impact with young people when it added skateboarding, surfing and sport climbing for the 2020 Games, sports director Kit McConnell said. “We want to keep that spirit of skateboarding. It’s not just about taking skateboarding and making it feel like another Olympic sport,” McConnell said. “We don’t want to change it, we want to celebrate it.” A total of 80 spots will be available for the Olympics, with 20 per event, which include men’s and women’s park and street. A minimum of one athlete per continent will be guaranteed a spot for each event, and Japan will be guaranteed a minimum of one spot in each event. A skater can qualify in both park and street. A maximum of 12 skaters from any one country could potentially qualify, three in each event. Among those competing here is two-time Olympic snowboard silver medalist Ayumu Hirano, who last month won the men’s park event at Japan’s national championships. Continued from B-1 You don’t have to work this hard. Check out the calendar in Scene for local music, events and more! Mountain biker honored paths that had been beaten by miners in the past and shape them into a trail system involving ski area service roads, double tracks and connections they made on their own. Eventually, that became a problem for ski areas, and in an effort to legalize the trails that had been created, they were put under the purview of the Mountain Trails Foundation. “She was always out there hacking away at it with the boys,” Noaker said of Schwandt. “I think she deserves credit for, certainly, some of the early trail work in town. If it hadn’t been for them we would probably be 10 years behind on that whole project.” Schwandt was also a strong competitor. She competed in the Grundig/UCI World Mountain Bike Championships in 1994 and was the only women’s finisher in the inaugural 100mile Endurance 100 mountain bike race around Park City in 2004, when she was already in her 50s. She continued to compete in grueling endurance races like the 24 Hours of Moab for years to come. Her longevity in the sport became inspirational to those around her, particularly Team Sugar. “She was super fit,” Murray said. “I never called out her age in front of a group, but she‘s 20 years older than me, and it was something to look up to and she was someone to look up to.” On Monday, riders gathered in the Mountain Trails parking lot – many of them dressed in purple, Schwandt’s favor- Continued from B-2 Interim aerials coach As the U.S. team begins a new Olympic cycle with the 2022 games in Beijing on the horizon, Cook is looking at COURTESY OF KARI MURRAY Cyndi Schwandt, wearing a purple helmet, and her fellow Team Sugar riders pose for a photo. ite color. Friends passed out purple accessories, including small ribbons that riders could pin on their gear in her memory. “This is a good thing,” said Val Geist, a Sugar rider. “We needed to do this. They were going to wait until August, but I’m glad they are doing it now because I needed to see everybody, too, together, doing this.” Tom Schwandt, Cyndi’s brother, was under the building’s awning, speaking with some of his sister’s friends. He said he and his daughter, Sara, had been surprised and happy to see that Cyndi was such a big part of the community. Some 50 riders and another 15 hikers had turned out, plus a collection of friends that stayed at Mountain Trails and socialized. But Tom said his sister had always been popular when they were growing up. In the past week, tributes to Schwandt have popped up in the community – from the Mountain Trails Foundation, Park City Councilwoman Lynn Ware Peek, individuals on Facebook and from the official newsletter of Soldier Hollow, where she was involved in the Nordic skiing scene. “Cyndi will be missed by all of us,” wrote Judy Klautt, event coordinator for Soldier Hollow, in the race venue’s newsletter on Monday. “To Cyndi, and honestly I can’t remember this ever being more applicable and sincere, Happy Trails.” Before the memorial ride, Mountain Trails Director Charlie Sturgis, his helmet trailing purple streamers, announced the group’s route over a megaphone as a gentle rain fell. The procession of riders started rolling onto Bonanza in a herd of purple, chiming their bells as they set off. A group of hikers followed, then a Park City Police SUV, its sirens silent but lights flashing as the group left for the trail. other opportunities, though she plans on staying involved in the aerials community. Ossian has already left the team to focus on being a father to his family in Portland, Oregon, and Cook is thinking along similar lines – a slower pace. She said U.S. Ski and Snowboard will hire a new head coach in fall, who will likely be in the position at least through the next Olympic cycle. Part of Cook’s job now (alongside summer water ramp training) is to help set the team up for success under a new ad- ministration. “I’m going to stick around and make sure they have a really good structure going forward for the next three years,” she said. “Continuing to coach as well but working on some of the internal stuff in addition to that.”She doesn’t have a position lined up, but said she hopes to stay in something involving athletics in the Park City community, and, hopefully, to spend more time with her husband, Rob Lauer,and their dog, Winston. |