Good Afternoon:
I keep forgetting to ask you to look around in your ski bags and anywhere in your house, car, garage, basement, bags or chicken coops for any MAST things that might be still in your possession. Bibs, radios, radio chargers, clipboards.... anything. Bring to banquet please. We will be taking inventory of everything we own next week and packing it away in storage for 2024-25. Thank you. Mark MAST POST SEASON UPDATE #2
Friday, March 8, 2024 Dear MAST Athletes, Parents, Coaches and Fans: Please read for some very important announcements regarding
I. Voting For Next Season’s MAST Captains BEFORE you arrive at the banquet on Sunday, please click on the link below to learn who wants to serve as a captain next year and why. You will be able to cast your vote for 2 girls and 3 boys. A fantastic slate of athletes has expressed their interest in serving as your captain next year. Please honor the courage it takes to put your name in the ring and read their statements carefully before voting. When you log in, use your name (your vote will be kept secret) and use your MPS email address. One vote per current athlete only. We will keep your vote secret, but we will make sure that those who vote are only voting once and are associated with our team. No ballot stuffing. https://forms.gle/6i8ZQUqZAzB6xyqUA Submit your vote no later than 4PM on Sunday, March 10. The link will close at 4PM sharp. This means that if you want to vote, you need to do so BEFORE you come to the banquet. PARENTS: PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR ATHLETE HAS SEEN AND READ AND ACTED ON THIS OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE. WE REALIZE THAT THEY DON'T CHECK EMAIL OFTEN. II. 2024-25 Hyland Season Pass Spring Sale Once again, we are offering you the opportunity to save some money on your 2024-25 Hyland Season Pass by purchasing the pass with MAST. The price is the same as if you were to purchase it online ($474), but you will not be charge MN State Sales Tax. You can purchase your pass with MAST in one of two ways. A. Bring a check made payable to Mpls Alpine in the amount of $474 to the banquet on Sunday. Hope White will be collecting payment for season passes at the banquet. B. Mail a check made payable to Mpls Alpine in the amount of $474 to: Hope White 4945 Clinton Ave S Mpls MN 55419 Deadline: Checks must be received by Wednesday, March 27. You can also purchase your pass directly from Hyland HERE. The online price increases to $499 on April 1 through October 31. The price increases again to $524 on Nov 1. III. Athlete Race Day Lift Tickets This season we did not ask parents/athletes to pay for lift tickets in advance of our away races as we did last year. As you will learn from the letter posted below from our Board, we made the mistake of thinking that Team Snap gave us the capability of applying athlete credits to the TS invoicing capabilities. We were wrong. So, we are coming to you after the season to collect payment for all tickets purchased for away races this winter for your athlete. Read on for more information on how to pay. Hello, MAST parents. When we made the decision to use Google Spreadsheets for race intentions, we circumvented Team Snap's payment process and lost the ability for parents and athletes to apply athlete credits from coffee and salsa sales against amounts due for their away lift tickets. Next year we will revert to using Team Snap for race intentions to simplify your payment process. For the 2023/24 race season, we've created a list of any away race lift ticket costs by athlete. This list will be posted at the banquet on Sunday where you can pay via either Venmo or check. Any available credits have been applied to balances due and you will see this reconciliation in the list. Apologies for any confusion. Many thanks. The MAST Board IV. Banquet Reminder 2023 - 2024 MINNEAPOLIS ALPINE SKI TEAM BANQUET Sunday, March 10, 4:45 PM to 9:00 PM Arrive at 4:45, Program starts at 5:15. LOCATION: Annunciation Church 509 W. 54th Street, Minneapolis Enter from the parking lot at W. 55th Street, north on Harriet Ave. BANQUET DETAILS: The MAST end-of-the-season celebration will be held at Annunciation Church with dinner and awards. Bring your own water and/or non-alcoholic beverage. All attendees, show your MAST pride! Rock your MAST gear: flannels, race suits, shin guards, hats, goggles, vintage ski wear… Or, show up in MAST colors (red, blue, white). Wear anything that celebrates this community’s love of MAST and skiing. ADDITIONAL INFO: MAST Season 2023-24 Photo Books have been created! 20 books have been pre-printed and will be available for purchase at the banquet. (First come, first served!) If needed, we will take orders for additional photo books to be printed and picked up - same price, payment taken at the banquet. Photobooks are $26. Pay by cash/venmo/check. Thank you to Janna Fraboni for the many hours creating the book and Janna Fraboni and Brien Spanier for their dedication all season long to photographing the team! Follow MAST Facebook and MAST Instagram for Senior Posts and Banquet updates. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: We are still looking for volunteers, especially two photographers, two adult clean-up coordinators for the 8th, 9th, and 10th graders and we will need 20 more 9th and 10th graders for clean up! All VOLUNTEER SIGN UP Contact Dianne McConville (mcconville4@comcast.net) or Wendy Moore (moore5029@yahoo.com) with any questions. I look forward to seeing you on Sunday, March 10th! Mark 612-275-8392 Hello MAST Families!
The deadline to purchase banquet tickets is tomorrow, Wednesday, March 6th. Here is the information you need about the banquet... 2023 - 2024 MINNEAPOLIS ALPINE SKI TEAM BANQUET DATE & COST: Sunday, March 10, 4:45 PM to 9:00 PM $15 Per Person ($60 Max Per Family) Under 12 Free Arrive at 4:45, Program starts at 5:15. *Please contact Mark Conway if you need assistance with the banquet fee* LOCATION: Annunciation Church 509 W. 54th Street, Minneapolis Enter from the parking lot at W. 55th Street, north on Harriet Ave. REGISTER HERE DEADLINE IS WEDNESDAY, March 6th! Contact Dianne McConville (mcconville4@comcast.net) or Wendy Moore (moore5029@yahoo.com) with any questions. We look forward to seeing you on Sunday, March 10th! MAST Facebook MAST Instagram 2023 - 2024 MINNEAPOLIS ALPINE SKI TEAM BANQUET
DATE & COST: Sunday, March 10, 4:45 PM to 9:00 PM $15 Per Person ($60 Max Per Family) Under 12 Free Arrive at 4:45, Program starts at 5:15. *Please contact Mark Conway if you need assistance with the banquet fee* LOCATION: Annunciation Church 509 W. 54th Street, Minneapolis Enter from the parking lot at W. 55th Street, north on Harriet Ave. REGISTER HERE DEADLINE IS WEDNESDAY, March 6th! BANQUET DETAILS: The MAST end-of-the-season celebration will be held at Annunciation Church with dinner and awards. Bring your own water and/or non-alcoholic beverage. All attendees, show your MAST pride! Rock your MAST gear: flannels, race suits, shin guards, hats, goggles, vintage ski wear… Or, show up in MAST colors (red, blue, white). Wear anything that celebrates this community’s love of MAST and skiing. Please reach out to Dianne McConville (mcconville4@comcast.net) with any dietary restrictions. *We will not have live-streaming this year, but the event will be recorded. ADDITIONAL INFO:
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: We are still looking for volunteers, especially two photographers, two adult clean-up coordinators for the 8th, 9th, and 10th graders and we will need 20 more 9th and 10th graders for clean up! All VOLUNTEER SIGN UP Contact Dianne McConville (mcconville4@comcast.net) or Wendy Moore (moore5029@yahoo.com) with any questions. We look forward to seeing you on Sunday, March 10th! MAST Facebook MAST Instagram Good Evening MAST Families:
Three short announcements. Please read. 1. MAST In The News Fox 9 News and Maury Glover did a good job telling the story of the Washburn boys and girls. See the link below to view the piece. Thank you to all the athletes who came out to Hyland yesterday. It was really nice to see you and watch you ski again. Once again, you made me so proud to be YOUR coach. I know Joel feels the same way. Minneapolis alpine ski team wins state for first time in 48 years (fox9.com) 2. Senior Superlatives.. a request for athlete and coach input. Josie and Lucy are producing the MAST Video. They would like all athletes and coaches to answer the questions posed in the google form. If you have questions, reach out to Lucy Hugunin and Josie Bitney. Senior Superlatives Form 3. A Friendly Reminder To Purchase Your Banquet Ticket By purchasing this sooner than later, you are helping the banquet organizers plan and prepare and enabling them to sleep restfully. Here is a link to order your tickets. https://www.mplsalpineski.org/20232024-mast-banquet.html Thanks Mark Good Evening:
Just wanted to alert you to a story that will air tonight on Fox 9 News at 9:45 and 10:15PM tonight. Maury Glover came out to Hyland today with his cameraman and interviewed our Washburn boys about their victory at the State Meet. Enjoy the early Spring. Mark Good Evening MAST Athletes:
Hopefully you were cheering on Jessie Diggins in today's Loppet Cup World Cup race at Theodore Wirth Park. What a great day for Mpls and for skiing in general. We have a banquet approaching and we are in need of some help from our Seniors. One of the highlights of the banquet every year is the Senior Tribute Video that Daniel makes. He starts with a video clip from your first year on the team that flows into a video of you ripping it up in a course your senior year. Because we have so many seniors on the team, we need your help. Here are some instructions Daniel sent for me to send out: If you want to be in the senior tribute video please email dpolland@gmail.com the following, a video of your first year on the team, a video of your best skiing senior year, and 2-3 pictures of yourself with the team. You can submit picture of yourself at different ages on the team if you want. Pictures can be found on the MAST website. If you do not send a before/after video you will not be in the senior tribute video. It would be terrific if you can find the time to send these to me before Tuesday morning, but if you can't get it done by then, please have them to me by next Sunday, February 25. For Everyone: There is still a lot of skiing left this winter. Ski Racing Magazine just published this demonstration of five drills to use to improve your slalom, giant slalom, and speed skiing skills. We will be incorporating these into our training next year but watch these and give them a try this year. Just be careful with some of these. Remember to always look up the hill when doing the J Turn drill and be careful using the speed skiing drills on crowded slopes and never use them in Slow Skiing Zones. Here is a link: How To Train: Top Drills For Ski Racing And don't forget that we have video of the demonstration drills we use during our season. Continue to improve your execution of these drills whenever you get out to ski yet this year. MAST Drills To Build the Skills See you at the banquet. Mark Gentle nudge, please share your thoughts and memories this weekend!
-------------- Hello MAST community! As you might have heard, after decades of selfless service and coaching, Mark is transitioning roles within MAST. While he still intends to be part of MAST he will no longer fill a head coaching role. In celebration of Mark, we are collecting well wishes and memories from you. Your thoughts and tributes will be included in a team photo album and given to Mark at the end of the season. PLEASE NOTE: responses have to be submitted by February 18 Please share with others who know Mark, share this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScoKMKn7HW83zJ7zGye5daOwpb1EkQMC5ZlxF1WUQBxyxOVBA/viewform?usp=pp_url Thank you, 2023-2024 MAST families (a-d) 2023 - 2024 MINNEAPOLIS ALPINE SKI TEAM BANQUET
DATE & COST: Sunday, March 10, 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM $15 Per Person ($60 Max Per Family) Under 12 Free *Please contact Mark Conway if you need assistance with the banquet fee* NEW LOCATION: Annunciation Church 509 W. 54th Street, Minneapolis Enter from the parking lot at W. 55th Street, north on Harriet Ave. REGISTER HERE BANQUET DETAILS: The MAST end-of-the-season celebration will be held at Annunciation Church with dinner and awards. Bring your own water and/or non-alcoholic beverage. All attendees, show your MAST pride! Rock your MAST gear: flannels, race suits, shin guards, hats, goggles, vintage ski wear… Or, show up in MAST colors (red, blue, white). Wear anything that celebrates this community’s love of MAST and skiing. Please reach out to Dianne McConville (mcconville4@comcast.net) with any dietary restrictions. *We will not have live-streaming this year, but the event will be recorded. ADDITIONAL INFO:
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Calling all 11th graders! Sign up to help set up and greet guests. 9th, and 10th graders! We need your help with cleaning up. 7th and 8th graders! We need your help with serving ice cream. Parents! We need your help with various volunteer roles. All VOLUNTEER SIGN UP Contact Dianne McConville (mcconville4@comcast.net) or Wendy Moore (moore5029@yahoo.com) with any questions. We look forward to seeing you on Sunday, March 10th! Good Afternoon MAST Families and Fans: The Washburn boys and girls had a very successful day yesterday at the Minnesota State High School Alpine Championships. The Southwest girls had some bad luck and, like the Washburn boys last year, will learn from their experience. With continued hard work they will be more formidable than ever next year. The good news: All twelve Washburn boys and girls skied clean first and second runs. All raced knowing that they were skiing for the best possible team result. No one took undue risks or pushed their tactics to advance their own overall result over that of the team. It is rare for any team of six to put down twelve clean runs in a race. Even more rare: two teams putting down twenty-four clean runs in a row. Impressive. The result: Washburn boys are the 2024 Minnesota State High School Alpine Champions over the defending State Champs, Minnetonka. The Washburn girls finished second to the Minnetonka girls, who seem to win the championship every other year. Outstanding performance. In a field of 88 boys, Finn Cherveny led the way for the Washburn boys with his 17th place finish, followed by the always reliable and king of the one-liners, Jack Bajek, in 28th place. Beckett Wedren and Levi Ehlers completed the scoring with their 36th and 37th place finishes. Stuart Durand helped seal the result by finishing in front of the fourth skiers for both Minnetonka and Hill-Murray to keep an additional point away from those two teams who ended up with 151 points to Washburn’s 153. This was especially significant because Stuart lost his pole exiting the start on the first run, but managed to ski to a fine first run result to keep the Washburn boys hopes alive. And Stefan Drekonja had an impressive result for an eighth grader, finishing in 62nd place overall and gaining valuable experience that he can share with his Washburn teammates next year. Parker Hunt, our only skier in the race from the Southwest boys’ team, had a strong result as well, finishing in 22nd place. Finn earned All-State Honors and Parker earned All State Honorable Mention honors. In the girls’ race, Gabby Harritt and Lucy Renz both earned All-State Honors, finishing 14th and 19th respectively. Reese Kuehn put her quick feet on display to finish 29th. One second and eight skiers behind Reese was Kate Moore who finished in 37th place and third for the Washburn girls. And having a breakout race to complete the scoring for the Washburn girls was Amelia Moertel who finished in 49th. It was going to be impossible for our girls to catch Minnetonka, who had three girls finish in the top ten. The challenge now was to hold off the other teams, a feat that Ellie Arbeiter and Julia Westphal both accomplished by finishing in front of the fourth skier for Brainard. Washburn finishes second with 141 points to Brainard’s 137. The Southwest girls finished in sixth place. Considering that Eva had some bad luck as she approached the finish of the first run, and Lia experienced her bad luck on the second run, sixth place was very respectable. Avery Patterson (52nd), Mila Voyakin (57th), and Ingrid Hartzell (59th) skied very well and scored enough points to give the SW girls a very solid sixth place finish. Avery and Mila gained wonderful experience and hopefully a boost of confidence to take on the competition next year. The bad luck that Eva and Lia experienced will provide some useful lessons to share with our athletes in the years ahead. Let it be known that Eva was having the run of her life on her first run before bad luck hit and Lia had put down a fantastic first run before she got hit with some bad luck on the second. I am really proud of Eva and Lia for how they handled their disappointment. You demonstrated maturity and grace. I want to thank the parents for all of your support. The team dinner, the State Meet hats, the lunch and snacks on the hill, the tent city—ALL of that was so helpful. Thank you Janna for taking photos and thank you to the parents who helped with training on Monday. You gave our coaches the opportunity to focus on giving feedback. Thank you Chris Renz and Dimitri Drekonja for answering the call to gate judge. That was a big sacrifice you made for the good of the event. Much appreciated. And thank you to all the MAST athletes, parents, and alums who came up to the Range to support our team... and to those who followed the action on Live-Timing. I hope you enjoyed the day. Finally, a big thank you to Coach Liam who stayed back on Monday and Tuesday to give the rest of the team a chance to get in two more days of training. You kept the MAST train moving along for 2025. Thank you to all the parents who came out to the hill to assist Liam. We had a marvelous season. Every day on the hill with you was a privilege. You worked tremendously hard and made impressive improvements both technically and tactically. Your enthusiasm never wavered and the way you supported each other was inspiring. I am sad to see it end. Keep skiing. Keep working the drills. Hopefully you can get in a vacation to the mountains and enjoy the fruits of your hard-earned technique. I know you will turn heads with your perfectly carved turns. Save the date for the banquet: Sunday, March 10th at 5PM. Be well. Study hard. Make good decisions. Thank your parents. Mark 612-275-8392 PS. Congratulations to Vivian Pihlstrom who skied herself onto the top step of the podium yesterday. Vivian skis for Blake but is our neighbor living on Queen Avenue in Minneapolis. Her sister Ava skied for SW as an eighth grader and helped the girls team win the Section IV Championship in 2018. She attended Blake for high school and went on to win the 2021 State Championship. Once a MAST family, always a MAST family.
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