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Show SPORTS The PARKITE QUALIFIES WITH THE WORLD’S BEST, B-2 www.parkrecord.com Park Record. B-1 SUMMIT CHALLENGE RIDES FAST AND FAR, B-3 WED/THURS/FRI, AUGUST 28-30, 2019 Fate brought Park City XC coach ‘home’ Editor: Ryan Kostecka sports@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.15704 Twitter: @ParkRecSports PARK CITY GIRLS BASKETBALL COACH Park City High School girls basketball is in need of a coach for the 20192020 season. The position is paid. If interested, please contact head coach Brett Isaacson at parkcitygirlshoops@ gmail.com OPENING FOR COACHES AT PARK CITY HIGH SCHOOL Park City High School is looking for head coaches for the following sports: girls lacrosse, boys soccer, wrestling and softball. Anyone interested should contact athletic director Jamie Sheetz at jsheetz@pcschools.us. POINT 2 POINT RACE For the 11th time, the Point 2 Point race is back in Park City on Saturday, Aug. 31. Beginning at 7 a.m. at Quinn’s Junction Recreation Complex, the 75-mile course will feature over 12,000-feet of total climb before ending around 1 p.m. at the Skull Candy Building in Kimball Junction. For more information regarding the course, go to https://thepcpp.com/trail-impact/. FREE FITNESS CLASS OF THE MONTH Basin Recreation’s free fitness class for the month of August is Water Aerobics. Water aerobics uses the natural resistance and buoyancy of water against your body to provide a wide variety of conditioning activities. The class will increase your energy, stamina and strength- and is a healthy way to cool off in the summer. Classes are Mondays and Fridays at 12:15 p.m. and Sundays at 11 a.m. at The Fieldhouse. Learn more at basinrecreation.org. Please see Sports briefs, B-3 Cuttitta chose Park City over Wasatch and hasn’t looked back RYAN KOSTECKA The Park Record A combination of fate and good timing brought Steve Cuttitta to Park City High School. When Cuttitta moved to Utah in 2008, he was in search of a job as a teacher and hopefully, a cross country coach. He doesn’t remember the exact date of his hiring, but he does remember the story behind it. Living in Heber with his wife Erica at the time, Cuttitta knew he needed a job. After coaching cross-country and teaching at his alma mater, Powers Catholic High School in Flint, Michigan, Cuttitta wanted the same thing. After applying to a multitude of places in and around Heber Valley, PCHS offered Cuttitta jobs teaching English and coaching cross-country on a Monday. He quickly accepted, knowing it was a good job with a good salary that had a good reputation based on his and Erica’s research. Before he could be thrilled at starting the next step in his life, Cuttitta was offered the job at Wasatch High School, a mere walk away from where he and Erica were living. And now he was faced with a decision to make: stay on track at Park City or change lanes to Wasatch. Cuttitta chose Park City, and it’s a decision he and Erica haven’t regretted. “I needed a few days to think about the offer from Wasatch because it was something I truly needed to consider,” Cuttitta said. “It’s crazy because if Wasatch would’ve offered first and then Park City a few days later, I probably would’ve chosen Wasatch right away. It was kind of like we (he and Erica) know this is where we wanted our TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Parkite Steve Cuttitta is all smiles upon seeing his daughters Kennedy, 8, (pink) and Savannah, 6, (turquoise) as he nears the finish line of the Mid Mountain Marathon on Saturday, Aug. 17. Kennedy and Savannah, along with little brother Fin, 3, (not pictured) ran the last quarter-mile of the race with their dad. kids to grow up so when it came to it, we trusted that Park City was the right spot, and 12 years later it’s still true. “This is home.” Cuttitta found his love for distance running in Flint, but only after he quit football following his freshman year because he was “sick of getting beat up and hit everyday.” His parents wouldn’t let him sit around and do nothing during the fall, so he decided to run, beginning his sophomore year, to get into shape for the upcoming basketball season. By his senior season, Cuttitta was strictly a runner by doing cross-country in the fall and track and field in the spring, winning the state championship that same year in cross-country. “At the time, winning the state title was the highlight of my life, the best feeling ever,” Cuttitta said. “It only took a few days to love running because what I really liked was the more effort I put in, the more success I got out of it. … If I try harder than the guy next to me, presumably I can pass him and I really liked that feeling of controlling my own success.” Cuttitta would later earn a scholar- ship to NCAA DI Western Michigan, competing primarily in the 1,500-meter all four years before graduating in the spring of 2004. By the fall of that same year, he was a teacher and cross-country coach at tiny Climax-Scotts High School in Climax, Michigan, 16 miles from Kalamazoo. 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