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Show SPORTS The www.parkrecord.com Park Record. Editor: Ryan Kostecka sports@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.15704 Twitter: @ParkRecSports SHALLOW WATER LIFEGUARD TRAINING Basin Recreation is running the American Red Cross Shallow Water Lifeguard Certification Course for ages 15 and over to learn rescue techniques in water depths up to six feet. The course runs until Sept. 26 and meets Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Fieldhouse. Through videos, group discussion, and hands-on practice, people will learn surveillance and rescue skills, First Aid, and CPR/AED. Cost is $90. Learn more and register at basinrecreation.org. 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 RECYCLEBALLS About 125 million tennis balls end up in landfills each year in the United States, leaving 20,000 tons of non-decomposable material. The PC MARC has partnered with the non-profit organization Recycleballs to offer tennis ball recycling bins at the PC MARC. For more information, visit www.recycleballs.org ADULT TENNIS CLINICS Let the racket do the talking and get in the game with Basin Recreation’s adult tennis clinics. Players will meet Fridays until Oct. 4 at the Trailside Park tennis courts from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Clinics are perfect for the beginner to intermediate player looking to have fun, meet new friends, and improve on technique. Cost is $40. Learn more and register at basinrecreation.org. For more sports briefs, please visit www.parkrecord.com/sports CHAMPIONS OF CLUB BEACH VOLLEYBALL, B-2 FROM INTERN TO COACH IN FOUR MONTHS, B-3 B-1 SAT/SUN/MON/TUES, SEPTEMBER 14-17, 2019 Parkite flying for 2020 Youth Winter Games Jones is the youngest member of the U.S. ski jumping national team RYAN KOSTECKA The Park Record When Paige Jones competes in the upcoming 2019-20 ski jumping World Cup season, not only will she be representing Team USA, she will be flying through the air as its youngest member. “There a few of us on the team that are younger, but being the youngest of them all is pretty cool and really humbling,” Jones said. “I’ve worked extremely hard to get where I’m at today, but even still its really cool knowing this is where I am.” At 17, Jones is in her second year representing the U.S. She first made the Junior National team following her second place finish at the Junior Nationals competition in early 2018. From there her rise to the national team was quick, having competed one full season as a member of the junior national team before being named to the national team. “I qualified for the national team in December of 2018 following a competition but the thing is that I wasn’t named to the team until after the winter season,” Jones said. “I wasn’t too happy with my jumps that day, but ski jumpers are never are happy with how we perform. “Anyways, my coach walked in and said you qualified for the national team, and that was pretty cool.” Jones first got her start skiing downhill with her parents when she was three years old. She went to Utah Olympic Park at the age of 8 to take part in a half and half program that featured freestyle for half of the week and Nordic training for the other half. Enjoying the Nordic portion more, and with a background in gymnastics, Jones returned the following year and BEN PIEPER/U.S. SKI AND SNOWBOARD Parkite Paige Jones flies through the air at the 2019 Springer Tournee, the premiere U.S. championship event of the summer for ski jumping and Nordic combined. solely focused on ski jumping. Yet to go off any jumps, Jones instead was going off bumps in the “in-run” position before gradually being introduced to the jumps. “When I was at UOP, I really enjoyed the Nordic part because it was a lot more exciting and got to go a whole lot faster,” Jones said. “I just felt that I liked the ski jumping aspect so much more than others. Although I was in gymnastics at the time, the gymnastics coach was sort of pressuring me a little bit to go further in the sport but I wasn’t sure I was ready. … So I left and decided to focus solely on ski jumping.” Jones saw early success as part of what was then called Park City Nor- dic Sports, traveling to Salisbury, Connecticut to compete in her first junior nationals competition in 2016 and then to Anchorage, Alaska in 2017 for her second junior nationals, with neither of them going well according to her. Things changed for Jones in early 2018 when she went on the Five Hills Tournament, a series of ski-jumping competitions in the Midwest that take place over a two-week period. She competed in two of the events, with neither giving her the results she was searching for, but it all changed when she won the third event, her first U.S. cup victory. Jones then followed that up with a second place at the Junior Nationals that year, earning her a spot on the U.S. Junior National team. “This first two events really didn’t go well and I was struggling but then, I don’t know why or how it happened, something just clicked and everything changed for me,” Jones said. As a member of the junior national team, Jones really found her footing and was opened up to whole other world of international competition. Traveling internationally for the first time, she took 8th place at a FIS Cup competition on Romania and 13th at her first Continental Cup in Norway, paving the way for her jump to the national team. Athletically, Jones’ immediate goal Please see Youth, B-3 THIS WEEKS SPONSOR The days of begrudgingly climbing into the dreaded Blue Box while holding your breath and trying to touch nothing are a thing of the past. No longer must you emerge from said box just to discover there is no where to wash your hands. We all deserve better... 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