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Show SPORTS The UPCOMING WORLD BOYS LACROSSE AIMING CHAMPIONSHIPS CUT, B-2 FOR ANOTHER TITLE, B-3 www.parkrecord.com Park Record. Editor: Ryan Kostecka sports@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.15704 Twitter: @ParkRecSports B-1 WED/THURS/FRI, MARCH 11-13, 2020 Luck of the Irish HALL BRINGS HOME X GAMES GOLD Parkite Alex Hall had a successful competition at X Games Norway this past weekend. Hall won the gold medal during the ski knuckle huck event before winning silver during the ski slopestyle event. There are the first X Games medals Hall has won this season, bringing his total count to four (3 gold, 1 silver) medals throughout his X Games career. CAMPBELL WINS XC JR. NATIONALS Park City Ski and Snowboard athlete Wes Campbell won gold in the classic interval start at the Cross-Country Junior National Championships on Monday at Soda Springs, California, taking first place in the U16 finals with a time of 13 minutes and 36.1 seconds, three seconds ahead of the second-place finisher Jack Lange of Putney School XC. PARKITES TAKE COLLEGE HONORS Former Park City High School swimmers Katie Hale and Sienna Senn had a successful weekend in the pool, winning gold medals at their respective conference championships. Hale, who swims for the University of Idaho, took home gold in the 100-yard backstroke in a time of 54.75 during the Western Athletic Conference swimming and diving championships. Senn, who swims for Davidson College, won gold in the 500-yard freestyle in a time of 4:49.72 at the Atlantic-10 Conference championships. PARK CITY PASSING LEAGUE REGISTRATION TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Registration for the Park City Passing League, a non-contact football league, opened 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. SPRING SOCCER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Registration for Park City Soccer Club’s Spring Futures program is now open. Available for boys and girls between the ages of 6 through 9, those participating will be led by professional coaches who will teach the game of soccer in a fun environment, facilitate a love for the game, and promote the development of basic skills. Players must sign up for either the 5-week program, which begins on Friday, April 17, or the 10-week program that begins Wednesday, March 4. For more information, visit www. parkcitysoccer.org or contact Youth Program Director Matt Terwillegar at mattpc94@gmail.com. Please see Sports briefs, B-4 The Baynes family is all smiles and laughs as eldest son Paul, front middle, signs his national letter of intent to run track for the University of Notre Dame in the fall. Baynes, who received all-state honors last year in football and track and field, is looking forward to the upcoming season on the track. Paul Baynes will run track for the University of Notre Dame RYAN KOSTECKA The Park Record When Paul Baynes stood at a table in the cafeteria of Park City High School on Wednesday, March 3, he looked out and saw nearly 100 of his classmates, teammates, friends and family members staring back at him — and all he could do was smile. While Baynes sat down, Park City track and field coach Dave Yocum started talking with the crowd, entertaining the throng of observers with a story of Baynes three years prior when he was skinny freshman and came out to run track for the first time. When the laughter died down, all eyes focused back on Baynes as he put pen to paper, signing his national letter of intent to run track at the University of Notre Dame, one of the most prestigious colleges in the nation and a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. “I couldn’t imagine myself going anywhere that’s going to make me a better student, a better athlete and hopefully a better person,” Baynes said. “When I was looking at colleges, I wanted track to help me get into a college that academically I couldn’t get into by myself. It’s a perfect fit, the best part of both worlds for me in the classroom and on the track and hit all the check marks.” Before he signed that national letter of intent, Baynes’ journey to becoming a member of the Fighting Irish was looking grim. He began emailing college track and field coaches prior to the start of his junior season, contacting anyone from Ivy League schools to Division III colleges. With the D-III colleges, Baynes entertained the idea of participating in football as well, but in the end he knew that the competition on the track wasn’t exactly what he was looking for. However, despite his relentlessness emailing the school, Notre Dame was one of the colleges that never got back to him. MARCH MADNESS SPA SALE “I got a lot of responses from coaches, but nothing from Notre Dame,” Baynes said. “But what I didn’t know is that they were going through a coaching transition with a different staff taking over. But I kept emailing them whenever I would get a PR, hoping to hear back. … And then I did.” The email response couldn’t have come at a better time. It was early in the school year and he was struggling a little bit. A former second-team all-state football player as a junior, Baynes’s senior season on the gridiron got cut short due to a shoulder injury, one that would require surgery in the upcoming weeks. As he sat in the cafeteria feeling down about not playing football anymore, Baynes checked his email to see if any of the college coaches he’d been in previous contact with had responded to his latest email. And there it was, the email he’d been longing for. Responding to Baynes was Notre Dame’s sprint coach Wayne Pate, stating how the Fighting Irish were very interested in him. “It was surreal, so crazy and just out of the blue to be honest,” Baynes said. Now that he’s getting healthy, Baynes has been tearing up the in- door track and field scene, finishing eighth last month in the 400-meter at the prestigious Simplot Games. “Paul had a great meet, and he’s still coming off the injury so he’s trying to get fully up to speed and shape,” Yocum said. “For him to run four different 400s in two days and still compete as well as he did is a testament to what he can do. … Especially when he becomes fully healthy.” With the outdoor season fast approaching, Baynes has large goals in mind for himself. He wants to win a state title in the 400-meter, his top event, while also setting personal bests in the 100, 200 and 400-meter races. “I prefer the 400 compared to the 100 and 200 because you have to do everything well, but at the end of the day you’re toast and burnt from running it,” Baynes said. “I want to break 48 (seconds) in the 400, 22 in the 200 and 10 in the 100, all times that I think I can do. 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