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Show B-4 The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, June 26-28, 2019 Calendar Baseball 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. Bike Racing Intermountain Cup Rage at Snowbird June 29 Battle at North Fork July 20 Midweek MTB Solitude July 2 Deer Valley July 15 High Star July 16 Snowbird July 23 Snowbird July 30 Triathlon Dino Triathlon June 29 Echo Tri July 13 Jordanelle Tri August 10 Brineman Tri September 7 Silver League Wed/Thurs/Sun TBA TBA Park City Extreme Cup Pool Play July 25-26 Finals July 27 TBA TBA 9:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. Adult Softball Leagues 6:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. (615-5401) 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. Wednesday Coed Comp Wednesday 6:00-9:00 p.m. Thursday Men Thursday 6:00-9:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. 8:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. 6:00-9:00 p.m. Adult Coed Volleyball Rec Division Tuesday Comp Division Tuesday Adult Doubles Thursday Training Wednesday 6:30-7:45 p.m. (655-0999) Drop-in Sports Basketball (age 16 +) Tues. 7:00-9:00 p.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. 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. 6:00-9:00 p.m. 6:00-9:00 p.m. 6:00-9:00 p.m. (783-2423) Men’s Softball Thursday 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. Rock Wall Saturday 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Pickleball Open Gym Wed. – Fri Weather Hotline (cancellations) 4:00 – 6:00 p.m 615-5432 Softball Triple Crown World Series 16U Tourney July 16-20 18U Tourney July 16-20 TBA Park City Ice Arena TBA Ice Hockey Gold League Sunday 615-5707 6:30 p.m. TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Tommy Hickman paddles toward shore during the kids’ division of the Park City SUP Festival at Jordanelle State Park Saturday morning. Continued from B-2 South Summit Aquatics & Fitness Center Soccer 7v7 Coed League Thursday Speed Skating Basin Recreation Fieldhouse Soccer Park City Recreation Services 9:00 a.m. 8:00 p.m. TBA Recreation Sports Triathlon Dino Triathlon June 29 Echo Tri July 13 Jordanelle Tri August 10 Brineman Tri September 7 Triple Crown World Series 9U Tourney July 22-25 12U Tourney July 22-25 12S Elite Tourney July 22-25 To include an upcoming sports event in the calendar, please send an email to Joe Lair at scoreboard@parkrecord.com Paddle board festival er,” he said. His game plan for the twomile race was to not fall in the water, but he said that other than losing the race, the stakes were low. “You have enough adrenaline (to stay warm),” he said. “It’s like you’re running, so if you get in real quick and you jump out, you’re fine.” Another competitor, Chris Knoles, from Salt Lake City, said he and other SUPers regularly go out in much colder con- Continued from B-1 BE A LOCAL HERO Volunteer for a local non-profit Chairman starts his first term Nelson, who was clean cut during his years at Colorado, now had long hair and a formidable mustache. Now 60, he stands tall with fair hair and blue eyes. In a picture of Nelson from the same era, he looks like if Kid Rock had cleaned up for a wedding. Though he probably didn’t know it, Marolt would soon understand he had found a mark in Nelson. Or, at least, a sympathizer. Nelson said he had just retired from finance for the second time and was living in Sun Valley, Idaho, where he had become a rabid skier after the invention of shaped skis. He was spending 125 days a season on race skis and through that, he had gotten to know some of the really competitive racers at the time and had seen their struggle to compete on the international stage firsthand. Marolt asked Nelson to help sponsor the ski team, and Nelson has been a member ever since. After Nelson started running large boardercross and skicross competitions called Ski Tour (and later 48 Straight), he was brought on as a full member of the board in 2008. Minding the gap As chairman, Nelson said one of his main objectives is to reduce the cost of being a member of the U.S. team. “When the B and C teams, the athletes, would have to come up with something like $20,000 to $30,000 apiece to pay to the organization to be on the team, that created a fair Continued from B-1 Sports briefs MOUNTAIN BIKE CAMPS Summit Bike Club is hosting two camps for all developing riders to experience a wide range of terrain, educational talks and two races. The camps are hosted at houses at roughly 9,000 feet near Park City trails. The first camp will ditions. “In the wintertime we train a lot on the Great Salt Lake,” Knoles said. “We’ll go out when every other body of water is frozen. The water temperature is like 28 (degrees Fahrenheit) but the Great Salt Lake never freezes, so we will put in a lot of miles out there. You just don’t fall in.” He said he and a group of people have gone out onto the Great Salt Lake on Christmas Day for the last five years. “The air temperature is cold, but, you see runners on the side of the road in the wintertime,” he said. “They’re bundled up, and we bundle up the same way.” At around 11 a.m. the racers gathered near a buoy just off the beach from the finish area, and at the sound of a race official’s megaphone siren, they started the two-mile race. What appeared to be a column of snow fell about a mile to the south on the east side of Deer Valley’s hills as the racers made four laps around the course. In the end, Fowler was first to cross the line. He performed a headstand on his board as he floated the last few feet to shore, then fell into the shallow water before jumping up to run across the finish line. He finished with a time of 20 minutes, 38 seconds, followed by Ryan Trump (20:58) and Roxy Christensen (22:10). Bill Johnson took third among men (22:24). Izzy Akers finished second among women (24:08), and was followed by Sloane Johnson in third (26:13). Fowler stood in the finish area, and explained his handstand as a slight rain started to fall. “I was a little hot, so I figured I needed to get in,” he said. amount of resentment because that’s a lot of money for a 20-year-old and their family to come up with,” he said. “The kid, instead of being in the gym and on the snow; they’re out fundraising. And after writing us a $20,000 check, you still need money to survive. So it may cost you $50,000 a year for the benefit of being on the national team.” He said forking over that large sum made some athletes question whether U.S. Ski and Snowboard had their best interests in mind. Nelson also said U.S. Ski and Snowboard has “under-invested” in coaches’ educations. He and the current administration are trying to remedy those woes. He said this year, for the first time since he joined U.S. Ski and Snowboard, the nonprofit has been able to fully fund the A, B and C teams within cross-country, alpine and moguls skiing. The development team athletes still need to raise $10,000 each, which Nelson says is perhaps less than they are spending on a yearly basis to compete outside of U.S. Ski and Snowboard. The freeski and snowboard teams have a bigger hurdle. “We’ve gotten that down to around, in total, around $400,000 and we think we will be able to close that this year,” he said. “Our ambition is to be able to fully fund everybody above the rookie level.” Nelson said U.S. Ski and Snowboard invested some $2.2 million in closing the gaps, though it still has more to do. “A lot of it came from donors who understood, ‘Wow this is a problem for the organization and we want to help,’” he said. More and more, he said, the organization is trying to garner those donations from more and smaller sources as opposed to a few larger contributors, which is one area where the athlete experience and fundraising overlap. One of the findings of the consulting group was U.S. Ski and Snowboard wasn’t putting enough money into digital marketing, and was spending a considerable amount promoting only their very top athletes – some 25 athletes out of 185. Going forward, Nelson said the nonprofit will expand its marketing and feature more of the upcoming athletes, which he said would both add to the athlete experience and help the governing body raise funds. “Our Instagram followers, if you aggregate all the athletes, (numbers) 22 million,” he said. “For the organization itself, it’s only 800,000. We need to help figure out with the athletes how to best explore the 22 million.” As for coaches’ educations, Nelson said U.S. Ski and Snowboard has been working with the U.S. Olympic Committee to establish a “coach’s code” that employees will apply consistently. “If you want to be competitive in the modern era, you have to be much more attuned to an athlete’s overall wellness, which isn’t just on the hill, it’s off the hill,” Nelson said. “And it’s not just during the snow sports season, it’s year round. Just a lot of things like that we realized we had some gaps in what we were doing. … What the athletes would say is, probably, we treated them too much on a transactional basis, instead of really thinking about them more holistically.” When asked about his guiding principles for steering the organization, Nelson said trust and integrity were at the forefront – two qualities he has found integral, believe it or not, in the finance industry. “If you lose that, you’re worthless,” he said. The same goes for how he interacts with the athletes at U.S. Ski and Snowboard. “I’m not somebody who has any kids,” Nelson said. “Now I have 185 of them.” run from June 25-30, the second from Aug. 6-11. For more information go to summitbikeclub.org and select the “Camps” tab. Feasler and his coaching staff. To register for either camp, email david.feasler@gmail.com. BASEBALL CAMPS The Park City High School baseball program is running a summer youth camp for players ages 8 to 14 from July 15-17. Camp is in session from 1-3 p.m. Campers will work on the fundamentals of hitting, fielding, pitching, catching and more. The last day of camp will be competitions and an activity on a slip and slide. Camp is held at the Park City High School baseball field and are run by PCHS head coach David WATER POLO PRACTICE Park City Water Polo is currently hosting practices at Ecker Aquatic Center. The practices are meant to provide activity as well as build water polo skills and are not mandatory. Monday, Wednesday and Friday practices go from 6:30-8 p.m. and run through July 24. Tuesday and Thursday practices go from 6:30-7:30 p.m. through July 25. Season passes to practice are $150. To register, go to parkcitywaterpolo.com. |