A couple of updates for you.
Club Applications
First off, club applications were due Dec. 1. Remember, you only have to pay half now and the balance on Feb. 15. IF you need extra time to pay, please just let me know. High school racers, or MidAm racers, you should join us as "weekend only" since you probably will be just training during the week with your hs teams. The most important thing we need is the application so we know who is on our roster before we train or race. If you misplaced your application, you can get one off of our website.
Race This Weekend
We are putting together our coaching staff for this weekend and will get a plan out to you soon. If you are NOT racing this weekend, please let me know ASAP. The schedule is posted on the Region 3 website, www.region3cussa.org.
Mid-Am Automatics
If you are a MidAm automatic, you still have to register and pay for each MidAm you are planning on racing. You can find the automatic form on the Central website, www.ussacentral.org under Team selections, or follow this link http://ussacentral.org/index/cms-filesystem-action?file=fisselections/2009-auto-nubs.doc This form is due Dec. 12, to Cathy Janowiak. Her contact info is on the form. You also need to email Kathy Janssen if you plan on competing by Dec. 12, for our Mid-Am. If you would like to know how the selection for automatics is made or the mid-am picks, please go to the region website under "Important News", then Athletes born 1994 and earlier.
ENL Race (our region 3 Mid Am)
The ENL race at Boyne Highlands and Nubs Nob is 12 /19 - 12/22. To compete in this race you must have a current FIS license, must be born before Dec. 31, 1994, you can compete if you are a first year FIS racer, or a 990 FIS racer. Registration (as stated above) must be in by Dec. 12.
Cannonsburg Training
We will be training Thursday, 5:30 - 7:00 at Cannonsburg. It is free skiing only. We will also train at Nubs on Friday, it will be slalom starting at 1:00. I will have more training information for this week / weekend on Thursday.
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2009-2010 USSA and JDT WinAlpine Club Applications are now online! JDT - Click Here, USSA - Click Here
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Hi Everyone
Can you believe that Fall is upon us already? Summer just flew by! I have a couple of reminders and some new information for you.
First, Oct. 14, is the USSA renewal late fee deadline.
Early sign up discount for fall camp is Sept. 30.
Fall camp application deadline is Oct. 20.
Traverse City, Cadillac and Schuss Ability Class (15 years or older) going into the season, we are having a coach and athlete only meeting Sept. 22, 5:00 pm at Mt. Holiday (sorry for the late notice) to go over objectives, equipment and calendar for the upcoming season. We will provide refreshments. The meeting will be fun and very upbeat.
Age class athletes (14 years and younger) and parents, we will meet with you at Mt. Holiday Sept. 28 from 6:00 - 7:00 pm. We will go over our training schedule (Tues and Thurs 4:00 - 6:00 and Fri 4:00 - 6:00 and 6:15 - 7:30). Your coaches will be Austin Johnson, Craig Davidson, Nick Stanek, Scott Winquist (Fri) and Mont Reed (Fri). We are making some big changes this year in our coaching.
Grand Rapids athletes (age and ability), your meeting will be at Cannonsburg, Oct. 15 at 6:00 pm with the same objectives.
Detroit area athletes, both age and ability class - with your parents will meet Oct. 13 at 6:00, location TBA. You will be meeting with out coaching staff, going over your calendars, equipment and new changes for the year. Refreshments will be provided.
The Region 3 physical assessment test is Oct. 4, 9:00 AM at Boyne Mountain. Craig Davidson and Austin Johnson will be our attending coaches. This is for J3s and above.
Our club newsletter and application will be completed this week and should be posted on our website right away.
Scott will be attending the Coaches Summit and club symposium 9/25 - 26. There will be great speakers, and physical training information from the US SKi Team.
"First, it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms." Kristin Hunter
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Hi Everyone
Fall camp is in full swing, the brochures are going out in the mail today.
First, I want to alert you to a pretty inexpensive flight from Detroit. Mike Thibideau (Asst Brother Rice coach) will be on it if you're child is an unaccompanied minor. It is $269.20 right now - a great deal for a direct flight.
Depart Delta flight # 3164 Friday Nov 20, at 3:25 pm, arriving Denver 4:25pm
Return: Delta flight # 3149 Saturday Nov 28th 8:00 am depart arriving Detroit 12:51pm
In case you've missed the previous emails, we have some exciting changes for camp this fall
- We have added four new coaches
- Our group sizes will be limited to 10 (five groups of 10 with 2 head coaches and 2 assistant coaches per group)
- Each group will have their own training arena to assure a quality environment, more training and personal attention
- For GS we are combining two lanes to give us top to bottom (full mountain) GS
- Three days are reserved for Loveland training which was very popular last year
We will be offering early sign up discounts again this year. Pay in full by Sept. 30 and take $100.00 off of the camp price.
We have hired Austin Johnson full time this season. He will be helping Craig Davidson during the week at Schuss and full time on the weekends. We are very excited about this.
Currently, we are still working on our full time coach to help Scott in the Detroit area. It looks like Brighton will be the area we train, Mondays and Wednesdays. We will let you know the details as soon as they are finalized.
Dryland will begin in October. More details on this later.
Club information is being compiled and should be out next week.
That is all for now.
kw
