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Show SPORTS The Park Record. Editor: Ryan Kostecka sports@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.15704 Twitter: @ParkRecSports PARK CITY PASSING LEAGUE REGISTRATION Registration for the Park City Passing League, a non-contact football league, opens Feb. 24. The league runs from April 9 through May 31 and is coached by members of the Park City High School football team. It’s a 5-on-5 noncontact football passing league with participants from the second grade to the ninth grade — eighth- and ninth-graders will participate in 6-on-6 and 7-on-7 games, respectively. For more information or to register, go to www.parkcitypassingleague.com. PARK CITY SUMMER DAY CAMP REGISTRATION Park City Recreation’s Summer Day Camp will offer early registration to those who live or work in the 84060 zip code. To qualify for early registration, proof of residency or employment in the 84060 zip code must be submitted by March 14 to spencer.madanay@ parkcity.org, or brought in person to the front desk at the PC MARC. Registration will open at 9 a.m. on March 15 for both full summer and daily camp registrations. Registration for those living or working outside of the 84060 zip code will open at 6 a.m. on April 1. For more information please visit www. parkcityrecreation.org or email spencer. madanay@parkcity.org. TRIPLE TRAILS CHALLENGE REGISTRATION OPEN Hosted by the Mountain Trails Foundation, the annual Triple Trails Challenge registration is now open. The challenge consists of the Round Valley Rambler, taking place on June 20; Jupiter Peak Steeplechase, taking place on July 11; and the Mid-Mountain Marathon, taking place on Aug. 15. Register prior to April 1 to save money. For more information and to register, visit tripletrail.athlete360.com. For more sports briefs, please visit www.parkrecord.com/sports NORTH SUMMIT READY FOR REDEMPTION, B-2 www.parkrecord.com PARKITE EARNS SILVER AT WORLD CUP EVENT, B-3 B-1 WED/THURS/FRI, FEBRUARY 12-14, 2020 Americans make a statement on snow Dynamic duo leads U.S. to dual medals in dual moguls competition RYAN KOSTECKA The Park Record Hannah Soar deserves some buffalo wings. After a long day of competition that ended with a silver medal in the dual moguls FIS World Cup on Saturday at Deer Valley Resort, all Soar was looking forward to was resting and some good food. “I feel tired, real tired,” she said. “… Some of the parents rented a house here, so we are just going to go back there and celebrate. I don’t know what we are eating tonight but I do love buffalo wings. … If there’s anyone out there, please bring me some.” Heading into Saturday night, the U.S. women’s moguls team knew how tall the task was going to be if they were going to show out on home soil. With big-time competitors like France’s Perrine Laffont, Canada’s Justine Dufour-Lapointe, Australia’s Jakara Anthony and Kazakstan’s Yuliya Galysheva — the top four ranked moguls skiers in the world — also competing in the competition, the young Americans wanted to make sure they sent a message. Consider it delivered. Led by Soar, Jaelin Kauf and Tess Johnson, the U.S. women knocked off Laffont and Anthony in separate rounds en route to putting three women into the semifinals, which guaranteed the Americans two medals. “I think we definitely have a (podium) sweep coming soon,” said Kauf, who won bronze. “Tess and Hannah are incredible skiers. … I think we definitely have a really strong female team right now and the results are going to start coming.” Altogether, it was a huge night for the Americans, who entered the World Cup at Deer Valley with a lot to prove. As TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Team USA member Jaelin Kauf skis down Champion run at Deer Valley Resort during the FIS World Cup women’s moguls super finals Thursday. Following a disappointing fifth-place finish in individual moguls, Kauf was vindicated with a third-place finish in the dual moguls finals, taking down teammate Tess Johnson in the small finals run. some of the youngest teammates on the World Cu circuit out there, Soar, Kauf and Johnson all proved that they are going to be dangerous — not only for the rest of this season but for the World Championships next year and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. It was quite the weekend for Soar, whose silver followed a fourth-place finish in Thursday’s moguls competition. Soar beat teammate Jaelin Kauf in Saturday’s semifinals before falling to Dufour-Lapointe in the big final. Knowing she was facing one of the best in the world, and with a crowd of 8,500 awaiting her arrival down Cham- pion run, Soar wanted to focus on having a clean run and not let the nerves get the better of her, which she accomplished for the most part. “I’ve never been in the gate for first or second before but I definitely showed some rookie mistakes in there,” she said. “… Hopefully next opportunity I have after that, I can go out there and ski my run. Sometimes it’s a big crowd and you really want to win and you start focusing on what you want instead of how to get there. That’s OK because it’s all a part of the process.” For Kauf, the result under the lights on Saturday was vindicating after a tough performance on Thursday in the moguls competition didn’t go her way. Her fifth-place finish in Thursday’s super final was met with boos from the crowd, which was frustrated with the judges for giving her what they perceived as a low score despite her finishing with the fastest time down the course. “It’s not exactly what I was expecting after the run, but there’s nothing I can do about it except move and get ready for Saturday,” Kauf said Thursday night. That made getting the bronze medal in front of her family and friends all the sweeter, although she knocked Johnson off the podium after the two battled it out in the small finals run. “I just had a lot of fun skiing again tonight and the result came with it,” she said. “… Definitely stoked about ending the weekend on the podium. It’s just about finding the fun in skiing and doing my thing out there.” Although she didn’t medal on Saturday night, Johnson had the best run of the day when she took down Laffont in the quarterfinals. Laffont entered Saturday as the heavy favorite after having won all prior six World Cup events this season. Johnson defeated Laffont 81.81 to 80.05, crossing the finish line first as those extra points proved to be the difference. She then lost to Lapointe in the semifinals by 0.35 points, the closest Please see Two B-4 REASONS TO SHOP LOCAL. Every day your position goes unfilled, you are losing revenue! The Park Record will get you the best local applicants—plus, we have digital options to help get the word out further. Studies show that when you buy from an independent, locally owned business, rather than a nationally owned business, significantly more of your money is used to make purchases from other local businesses, service providers and farms continuing to strengthen the economic base of the community. Try us out by calling 435-776-7725, email classifieds@parkrecord.com or online placement at parkrecord.com/placead |