Methow Valley Nordic Team

MVNT News!
THANK YOU to all the waxers who dedicated some time to helping prep the rental skis for the summer! We finally finished and the skis will be stored away until we are ready to put them to use again next November. THANKS to: Hannah Gonzales, Elise Putnam, Laura McCabe, William Worrell, Steve Oulman, Danielle Micheletti, Julie Grialou, Mike Putnam, Margo Peterson Aspholm and Jerry Bell for all of the waxing and organizing help. And thanks to Rita and Winthrop Mountain Sports for keeping the rental program going.

Ski Rental Return Monday April 8 and Tuesday April 9 to Winthrop Mountain Sports during normal business hours. Please make sure the skis, poles and boots are clean with no markings on them.

CONGRATULATIONS to all the J2+comp skiers who competed at Junior Nationals in Fairbanks AK March 8-17!  They had a solid week of good racing up there. All worked hard. Olivia, Paul, Elise, Ella, Maya and Claire all competed for MVNT and PNSA. Results can be found at www.summittiming.com under the races link.

Good job to those skiers who traveled to Revelstoke BC for Midget Championships! Results can be found at www.zone4.ca. They may not post dance contest results so you'll have to ask the competitors about that: Peter Aspholm, Emerson Worrell, Novie McCabe, Walker Hall and Lyndsay Worrell all took part in the events in Revelstoke.

CONGRATULATIONS to all 15 MVNT athletes who traveled to the Western States Youth Ski Festival in Bozeman MT this past weekend! Lots of great results and wonderful TEAMWORK. Our Team placed 2nd among 9 strong western teams! See the link to results below.

A beautiful day and Fun for all at the Big Adventure! We had 41 kids show up and enjoy the wonderful McCabe trails and the fun obstacle course! Great job to all those kids who got out there and gave it a try and a big THANK YOU to Hanz Scholz for all of his work and to all the other volunteers who made it happen. A variety of kids earned a variety of awards!

FIND Race results: Rodeo: http://www.mvsta.com/results.html
                                 Race of the Methow: see RoM tab above!
                                 Teck BC Cup #2 Kelowa: http://zone4.ca/results.asp?id=5276
                                 Sunnyside JNQ Bend OR: http://www.time2race.com/2013%20Results.htm
                                Soldier Hollow Super JNQ Utah: http://summittiming.com/races/race_results.php
                                 Spokane JNQ Sunday: http://www.webscorer.com/race?raceid=6646
                                 Spokane JNQ Saturday: http://www.webscorer.com/race?raceid=6619
                             Western States Youth Ski Festival: http://www.bridgerskifoundation.org/western-states/
                                Midget Championships: http://zone4.ca/results.asp?id=5648
                                Junior National Championships: http://summittiming.com/races/race_results.php



REMEMBER to let Leslie know your kilometers that you skied so we can work towards our TEAM GOAL of 25,000 kilometers and ski more than halfway around the world! You can use the Kudos for Kilometers sheets which can be found at the tab on this home page. We are also about to put out an online tracking sheet! And here is a spreadsheet document you can use for kilometer tracking on line if you like:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtYGNrwaawJSdHdsb3Q3VDI2T1o5em1POW9wMVRnVXc
thanks to Holly Hall for this!

CHECK OUT METHOW TV's video of Race of the Methow!    http://methowtv.com/videos/race-of-the-methow/

CHECK OUT the METHOWNET GRIST at www.methownet.com/grist for a fun video of the Race of the Methow!!!

NOTES of INTEREST: SADIE BJORNSEN won the 20km classic National Championship (1/6) and the Freestyle Sprint race on 1/8 and Erik Bjornsen won the 15km skate National Championship on 1/4 with Brian Gregg close behind in 4th! Congratulations to our fast skiing alumni!!!! See them in the calendars we are selling.
The Methow Valley Nordic Team
Program News!:

The next upcoming fun event for many of you to participate in will be Hanz's Excellent Adventure on SUNDAY FEBRUARY 10 from 1-4pm at the McCabe trail. Free fun ski related events for all!
Join us! Sign up at Webscorer (it helps us plan):

There are changes in the staffing as you may have heard. Leslie Hall is the Program director and will be overseeing all the coaches and the various options. Laura McCabe is the lead coach for the J2+ comp skiers, Scott Waichler will be leading the J3 comp skiers with Leslie's help on some days. Phil Woras will be heading up the Devo groups and will have some help depending on how many sign up. Allison Delong will be overseeing the large group of J4/5 skiers with many coaches working with those groups (this group includes Scotts, Aalsgards and some Kochs), and Jonathan Roatch is joining us to oversee the J6/7 (Kochs). Most of us will be at the meeting on Monday the 29th. We will have a great group of volunteer coaches covering all the age spectrum including: Paul Smith, Steve Oulman, Rob Crandall, Hanz Scholz, Sam Lucy, Kelleigh McMillan, Brian Fisher, Susan Prichard, Nellie Casey, Mark Rhinehart, Joe Riechert and Erik Brooks . And Pete Dickinson continues to lead our older skiers in Power Camp and help all athletes with injuries. Scott Johnston and Sam Naney both have helped with specific workouts or periods of time.

The following coaches will not be joining us regularly this season: David Lawrence resigned as director in the spring and is spending the winter traveling and being with his family and doing the PSIA stuff, Kyle and Emily Lints are not returning as coaches as they are due to have a baby any day! Annie B will be working for Don Portman at Methow Valley Ski School. Andy Miller has a newborn and will be busy with that. Heide Anderson may join us for some Holiday camp coaching but is busy with her horse. Emily Post is taking a break from helping out with the coaching to relax a bit after organizing the ski ball! THANK YOU to all of those coaches that have worked for the Team in the past or volunteered their time to make our program great.

New program director Leslie Hall takes the reins of the ski team as of July 1. Leslie has years of experience in nordic skiing from junior level racing through Olympic competition. She is enthusiastic about all the great young skiers in the program and looks forward to sharing her love of the sport with everyone involved.