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Coaches/Athletes
Love New Training Area
On-Hill Wrap-up Party for ANGSL!
Red Mtn Racers Shine in
Super G Event
Red on the Podium at Whitewater SL Series
National Team Racers Coming Mar. 30!
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Volunteers
needed for Mars/Hershey Cup Spring Series March 29 – April 1 Free
T-shirt, lunch, beverage and more – e-mail Kris
Tudor to sign up.
The new designated training
area on skier’s right of the T-bar has been set up for a month or so now and
our coaches and athletes have been making good use of the fenced-off area and
the new wireless timing equipment. “The
new training area has been great – I feel more comfortable that the athletes
and the public are safer with us having our own fenced off area for training,”
exclaimed Head Coach Sean Valentine.
“Several teams from the Okanagan and Kootenays have
expressed interest in coming here to train on our facility over Spring Break, ”
said RMR Future Facilities Director Dave Muffly. Many thanks to Columbia Basin Trust for granting us
funding to purchase equipment for the training area and to Red Mountain
Resorts for allowing us to set up the area.
Thanks to RMR Fundraising Director Marten Kruysse, our
club has a place at the money trough in the new local Bingo! palace. The new hall has a non-smoking policy, which is welcome news to all the cardholder
athlete parents who get to spend 4 nights each there over the next 6 months or
so. The local bingo aficionados are
starting to file into the Eldorado Hall, but it’s going to take a while to get
the nightly “take” up to where we’d like to see it. It’s also critically important that our designated volunteers
show up on time on their scheduled days, or we’ll lose our place (and they’ll
lose $125). “Parents who fail to show
up will also have to do 8 hours of water-injection duty to ice up the training
area using a hypodermic syringe”, warned Marten.
Our recent grant from the Columbia Basin Trust was
used to purchase fencing and wireless timing equipment for the new training
area on the T-Bar. The new timing
equipment allows our coaches to easily set up accurate electronic timing
anywhere on the mountain and also can be used as a back-up system in our
official race events.
A second grant application has recently been submitted
for additional equipment.
The Velcro and elastic kits for NGSL bibs are still available. Contact Tom Gomez for your do-it-yourself
kit.
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On Sunday March 16th, there will be a big party
to celebrate the fantastic efforts and exploits of out NGSL skiers and boarders
- all are invited and we hope to have a guest team from 49° North
Wash.
If you can help with
food prep or donations please contact Tammie Britton 362-7277 or Rita Barker at
362-0043
As per the Upcoming Events section, the ANGSL Zone Finals are Sunday March 9 at
Whitewater. In light of this, there
will be no coaching at Red that day.
Instead, there will be an extra day of coaching for
Sunday skiers from 10:00 to 2:00 on Sunday March 16th, with the
big wind-up party to follow!
Red Mountain Racers hosted a CIBC Wood-Gundy Kootenay/Okanagan exchange
race series on February 1 and 2. The
2-race Super-G event on good hardpack conditions featured athletes in the K2
(13-14), FIS J (15+) and non-FIS JB (15+) categories. Thanks to everyone who helped put on a great event!
Day One – Saturday, Feb. 1 - 4
Podium Finishes for RMR!
The women’s race saw 3 Red Mtn
Racers in the top 5 overall: Nicole Derksen (1); Jessie Carmichael (4); Kim
Shaw (5). In the K2 category, Jessie
Carmichael took home bronze and Sarah Shaw took 10th place. Alex Cameron finished 12th in the
K2 category. Lindsay Gilchrist finished
5th in the non-FIS JB category.
Red Mtn Racers also put 3
athletes in the top 5 overall on the men’s side: Geoff Hatch (1); Colin
Scoffham (3); Corby Carmichael (5). In
the K2 category, 2 Red Mtn Racers cracked the top 10: Luke Vangils (7) and Cam
Norton (8). Other K2 finishers were: Rowan
Kruysse (14); Sean Pearce (17) and Kelly Milburn (24). In the non-FIS JB category, Alex Kaiser
placed 4th and Aaron Milburn 5th.
Day Two – Sunday, Feb. 2 – 3
More Medals for Red
Women’s Overall JB Women K2 Women
Nicole Derksen (2) Lindsay Gilchrist (4) Alison Worsfold (3)
Alison Worsfold (5) Alex Camerson (11)
Kim Shaw (7) Sarah Shaw (22)
Men’s Overall JB Men K2 Men
Geoff Hatch (2) Dane Tudor-Olds (5)
Colin Scoffham (5) Luke Vangils (7)
Dane Tudor-Olds (8) Keith Muffly (17)
Nick Smith (11) Cam Norton (20)
Rowan Kruysse (21)
(link
to complete results) Sean Pearce (23)
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Nelson Ski Team (with help from Red Mountain Racers and Salmo Ski Team)
hosted a CIBC Wood-Gundy slalom race series on February 22 and 23. The 3-race Super-G event featured athletes
in the K1 (11-12), K2 (13-14), and non-FIS JB (15+) categories. Thanks to everyone who pitched in to allow
another race to be hosted in the W. Kootenays!
Whitewater SL: Day One – Saturday, Feb. 22 – Race 1
K2 Women JB
Women K1 Women
Jessie Carmichael (1) Lindsay Gilchrist (4) Kacie Peterson (5)
Alex Cameron (2) Allyshia Milburn (14)
Alison Worsfold (4)
Sarah Shaw (8)
K2 Men JB
Men K1 Men
Keith Muffly (4) Aaron Milburn (6) Dustin
Gilchrist (4)
Sean Pearce (7) Josh Lotecki (7)
Joe O’Callaghan (10)
(results not yet posted to
web)
Whitewater SL: Day One – Saturday, Feb. 22 – Race 2
K2 Women JB
Women K1 Women
Alex Cameron (1) Lindsay Gilchrist (4) Kacie Peterson (5)
Jessie Carmichael (2) Allyshia Milburn (14)
Alison Worsfold (4)
Sarah Shaw (8)
K2 Men JB
Men K1 Men
Keith Muffly (5) Aaron Milburn (6) Dustin
Gilchrist (9)
Dane Tudor-Olds (6) Josh Lotecki (8)
Sean Pearce (7)
(results not yet posted to
web)
Whitewater SL: Day Two
– Sunday, Feb. 23
Red Mtn Racers again filled the
podium in the K2 women’s category: Alex Cameron (1); Jessie Carmichael (2); Alison
Worsfold (3), with Sarah Shaw in 6th place. In the K1 category, the RMR placings were Leah
Hilts (6); Kacie Peterson (12) and Allyshia Milburn (14). Lindsay Gilchrist finished 4th in
the non-FIS JB category.
On the men’s side Luke Van Gils in 4th
place was the top Red Mtn Racer in the K2 category, while Kelly Milburn
finished 11th. In the K1
category, Dustin Gilchrist in 4th was tops for the RMR team and other finishers
were Stefan Gordon (9); Ben Van-Gils (10); Jake Muffly (11); Joe O’Callaghan
(12); Colston Beatson (13); Josh Lotecki (17); Shane Davies (18) and Jarrett
Smith (19)
In the non-FIS JB category, Aaron
Milburn finished 4th.
RMR results from:
Apex Pontiac Cup SG and DH
races
Phoenix E2
Whitewater NGSL Zone
Finals
Fernie K2 Provincials
Former Red Mountain Racer Aaron Civitarese
Wins Apex Pontiac Cup Super-G
Aaron Civitarese in action
March 29 – April 1 at Red
Mountain
“This is a fun wrap-up to the race season, following the Canadian
National Championships at Whistler and it will showcase some of our
nation’s most talented ski racers.”
RMR
will once again host this exciting series of GS and SL races, featuring
FIS-level (15 years and older) athletes who compete on the Mars and Hershey Cup
race series. Most athletes will be from
BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan, but we also expect to see athletes from the U.S.,
overseas countries and members of our Canadian National Team, such as Thomas
Grandi, Eric Guay, and David Anderson.
Many volunteers are needed to host such a large event,
so if you can help, please contact Kris
Tudor. We especially need some more
gate-keepers, manual timers and course workers.
Sunday March 9 at Whitewater
The big wrap-up race event for the Nancy Greeners,
complete with medals and free lunches.