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Show SPORTS The Park Record. 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 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. OVER THE HILL BIKE RIDE Basin Recreation’s Over the Hill Mountain Bike Rides are for riders over 50 years old looking to improve their skills, explore new trails, meet new friends and have a great time. Rides vary in length, difficulty and location and meet on Thursdays from 9-11 a.m. through Oct. 10. Cost is $10 per ride. Learn more and register at basinrecreation.org. DIRT JUMP JAM Join us at the bike party of the year. Park City Recreation’s 13th Annual Dirt Jump Jam is set for Saturday, Sept. 28 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the PC Dirt Jump Park. Don’t miss out on the music, autographs and giveaways at the fun and free event. Helmets are required for those who are looking to participate. For more information, visit parkcityrecreation. org or call 435-615-5401. For more sports briefs, please visit www.parkrecord.com/sports DOMINANT DEFENSE LEADS TO BIG WIN, B-2 www.parkrecord.com LOCAL SOCCER STAR COMES BACK HOME, B-3 B-1 WED/THURS/FRI, SEPTEMBER 25-27, 2019 Mountain Mettle packs a big punch Charity and sanctioned boxing event to aid in the fight against cancer RYAN KOSTECKA The Park Record The fight against cancer doesn’t appear to coming to any sort of resolution anytime soon. Maryguenn Vellinga-Hinz and Luke Hinz have decided to join in with a punch – literally. On Saturday, the first annual Mountain Mettle Boxing and Charity event is set to take place at The Corner Store at Park City Mountain Resort. Doors will open at 5 p.m. with the first of 20 fights scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. “When we first thought of this idea, we wanted two things to come of it,” Vellinga-Hinz said. “We both have people who train in the gym who have terminal cancer and they’ve completely changed my perspective about continuing to do things that are super challenging. Then if we could engage the community a little bit through boxing and give back, it would all be worth it.” Both Vellinga-Hinz and Hinz have personal experiences with cancer that helped inspire them to take on the task. For Hinz, his mother is a two-time survivor of breast cancer. It’s a different story for Vellinga-Hinz, as she lost her dad to cancer. His memory helped inspire her own boxing career. “With both of our parents going through it, and coming out with different results, I think that was the very first initial of why we decided to do this,” Vellinga-Hinz said. “They both inspired us.” Vellinga-Hinz and Hinz are the founders and owners of RISE boxing, a fitness and boxing studio in Park 1830 E. Kings Peak Cir. • MLS 11906287 3 Bedrooms | 3 Bath | 3,183 Sq. Ft. | $1,050,000 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD The RISE boxing gym in Park City, which promotes physical and mental training, is home to some members with terminal cancer. This helped spur the Mountain Mettle Boxing and Charity event, designed to help aid in the fight against cancer, organized by owners and Parkites Maryguenn Vellinga-Hinz and Luke Hinz. City that isn’t your normal boxing gym according to them. At RISE, Vellinga-Hinz and Hinz “utilize all the benefits of boxing to strengthen not only the body, but the mind as well,” This concept of strengthening both the body and mind goes hand-in-hand with the fight against cancer, meaning that you need strength of mind to overcome. This philosophy is what they implement inside the boxing ring as well, using mental strength as a partnership with physical strength to achieve the outcome one desires. Despite boxing’s intimidating learning curve, Vellinga-Hinz was determined to introduce it to Park City. It’s how Mountain Mettle got its name. “Boxing is super hard and when we were recruiting people to get into the ring and help with this, we were asking them to get hit in the face and that mindset doesn’t really lend itself to this town,” Hinz said. “The idea was that the fighters are showing us their mettle for fighting in the ring while the whole community is us theirs by fighting against cancer.” Hinz said the trigger to do the whole event actually came from one of RISE’s amateur fighters. Dave Carruthers, the founder and CEO of Voxpopme, came to Vellinga-Hinz and Hinz and told him that he wanted to take part in a fight in a few months, and so the idea was born to not only give amateur fighters the chance to compete, but to fight against something that was bigger than all of them. “He’s (Carruthers) just a blue-collar dude who wanted to fight and said he was willing do what it took to fight,” Hinz said. “He was the exact little nudge that we needed to start all of this. … And now it’s become this big thing called the Mountain Mettle and it’s everything we could’ve asked for.” According to Vellinga-Hinz, though, this is event is also more than a charity event, it’s a USA boxing sanctioned event where experienced amateurs will have the opportunity to climb up their respective weight class rankings. “We are still big supporters and involved in the Utah local boxing community, so I didn’t think it was respectful to the local boxing community to just highlight the people doing Please see Swing, B-4 1146 N. 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