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New Club e-Newsletter
wins "Gold Medal"
Apex Pontiac Cup Speed
Event Results
Red on the Podium at Fernie K2 Provincials
National Team Racers Coming Mar. 29!
Latest Nancy Greene League News
(Two
ways to jump straight to the news you
want, or just “Page Dn” to see all the news)
Volunteers
needed for Mars Cup Spring Series March 29 – April 1 Free
T-shirt, lunch, beverage and more – e-mail Kris
Tudor to sign up.
Our head coach, Sean Valentine, has done an amazing job of putting together
a draft Team “Bible”, which is now available as a pdf (Adobe Acrobat)
download from the club website. (click
here)
So far, the “bible” contains information on the Red
Mountain Racers’ guiding principles, programs, expectations for parents and
athletes, a list of club executive members and coaching staff, tips for ski
tuning, a pre-race trip checklist and more.
The club executive is considering making the Team “Bible” a living
online reference for everything members need to know, including club policies
and procedures.
Thanks very much for getting us off to such a good
start with this, Sean!
Hard-working parent/volunteer (and
RMR webmaster), John O’Callaghan, “slips the course” at the Whitewater Alcan
NGSL Zone Finals (more like “slips away
from the course for a few freshies!”)
BC Alpine
recognized the first issue of the new Red Mountain Racers News by awarding it a
“gold medal” in its Bell Mobility
Alpine Update on March 6th.
Newsletter editor Steve Hilts said he hopes that this
new communication tool will serve several important purposes:
bringing
all the key club news together in one place for members’ convenience and to
help everyone feel part of the race club
highlighting
athletes’ accomplishments to inspire them to higher goals
putting links to the club website, as well as
other ski racing websites, into everyone’s inbox on a regular basis to draw more people to those sites
reminding members of upcoming events and
alerting them to opportunities to get more involved
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On Sunday March 16th, there will be a big party
to celebrate the fantastic efforts and exploits of our Alcan 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
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!
The Red Mountain FIS Racers ( age 15 +) competed in
the Pontiac GMC Downhill and Super G at Apex Feb. 25-28. The 4 days of racing (2 downhill and 2 Super
G races) were preceded by a five day speed camp at Apex. Best finishes for Red Mountain Racers were:
Nicole Derksen 18th in downhill and 11th
in Super G. Kimberly Shaw finished 20th
in downhill and 21st in Super G.
Geoffrey Hatch finished 24th in downhill
and 39th in Super G. Colin
Scoffham was 35th in downhill and 30th in Super G. Corby Carmichael finished 37th in
downhill and 34th in a Super G.
Nick Smith was 48th in downhill and 34th in Super
G.
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The K2 (age 13 and 14) racers traveled to Fernie for
the CIBC Wood Gundy Provincial Championships Feb 28-Mar 2 with one race in each
discipline.
Jessie
Carmichael finished 16th in Super G and 3rd
in slalom. Alison
Worsfold finished 14th in Super G, 13th in GS and 5th
in slalom. Alexandra Cameron finished
19th in Super G and 16th in GS. Sarah Shaw finished 33rd in Super G, 35th
in GS and 40th in slalom.
Dane Tudor-Olds finished 6th in Super G, 7th
in GS and 12th in slalom. Lucas
Vangils was 15th in Super G and 18th in GS. Keith Muffly finished 25th in
Super G and 15th in GS. Sean
Pearce was 37th in Super G and 15th in slalom. Rowan Kruysse finished 50th in
Super G, 38th in GS and 53rd in slalom. Kelly Milburn was 56th in Super
G, 49th in GS and 45th in slalom. Cameron Norton finished 59th in
slalom.
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Phoenix ski club hosted
the first E2 race of the season on March 2 under quite ideal race conditions.
Girls 9-10 years old:
Maureen O’Callaghan (1),
Alexandra Greene (6), Kelcie Peterson (9), Sarah Heyer (10), Jennifer Lawson
(13)
Boys 9-10 years old:
Steven Fry (3), Todd
Loukras (6), Edward Shepherd (7), Ben Kendall (8), River Sidley (9), Neil Hilts
(10)
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Red Mountain Racers fielded 5 teams at the ANGSL West
Kootenay Zone Finals at Whitewater on March 9th. Course conditions were very challenging, with lots of fresh
powder falling throughout the day. The
ruts were waist high to a Snow Tiger by the end! The free-skiing was to-die-for and the Nelson Ski Team and
Whitewater Resort put on a great event, including the free lunch for the
racers.
The Red Mountain Snow Cats, Snow Leopards and Snow
Hawks picked up bronze medals and the Snow Birds and Snow Bears got silver.
Neil Hilts
– Snow Cat
RMR results from:
Alcan NGSL E2 @ Salmo
Mars/Hershey Cup Spring
Series
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 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 16 at Salmo
Salmo Ski Team is hosting a make-up race for E2s – to
replace the race that was cancelled in February. This race is on the same day as our ANGSL wrap-up party at Red,
but the E2 race should end early enough to allow you to make it back for the
start of the festivities.