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For those that can't make it to the banquet this year, below is a link to attend the event virtually.
https://avforyou.zoom.us/j/82260109170 If you have any questions or issues logging in, please reach out to Wendy Moore at 612-250-0775. The deadline to register for the end of the season banquet is TODAY! Volunteer spots are still open, so please consider signing up.
A light meal will be served, so we need to get an accurate head count. Don't delay and purchase your tickets now! Registration ends today, March 7. Link to register: https://www.mplsalpineski.org/2022-2023-mast-banquet.html Link to Volunteer: https://signup.com/client/invitation2/secure/247253190476280117/false#/invitation 2022 - 2023 MINNEAPOLIS ALPINE SKI TEAM END OF THE SEASON CELEBRATION BANQUET DATE & COST: Sunday, March 12, 5:00 PM to 8:30 PM $20 Per Person ($80 Max Per Family) *Under 10 Free **Please contact Mark Conway if you need assistance with the banquet fee** LOCATION: Southwest High School Atrium 3414 W 47th Street Minneapolis, MN 55410 * Enter through Door 1 - Main Entrance REGISTER HERE BANQUET DETAILS: The MAST end-of-the-season celebration will be held in the Southwest High School atrium. A light meal will be served. Please bring your own 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. 2023-2024 Hyland Passes will be for sale. Bring your checkbook. ADDITIONAL INFO: MAST SWAG For Sale! Neck gaiters, coffee mugs, ski straps, patches and stickers will be for sale prior to the banquet. Bring cash, Venmo or your checkbook! Swag purchased earlier in the season that has not yet been picked up, will be available at the banquet to take home. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Calling all 11th graders! Sign up to help set up and greet guests. 8th, 9th, and 10th graders! We need your help with cleaning up. 7th graders! We need your help with serving ice cream sandwiches during the program. Parents! We need your help with various volunteer roles. All VOLUNTEER SIGN UP Contact Dianne Catapano (mcconville4@comcast.net) or Wendy Moore (moore5029@yahoo.com) with any questions We look forward to seeing you on Sunday, March 12th! The deadline to register for the end of the season banquet is fast approaching!
A light meal will be served, so we need to get an accurate head count. Don't delay and purchase your tickets now! Link to register: https://www.mplsalpineski.org/2022-2023-mast-banquet.html 2022 - 2023 MINNEAPOLIS ALPINE SKI TEAM END OF THE SEASON CELEBRATION BANQUET DATE & COST: Sunday, March 12, 5:00 PM to 8:30 PM $20 Per Person ($80 Max Per Family) *Under 10 Free **Please contact Mark Conway if you need assistance with the banquet fee** LOCATION: Southwest High School Atrium 3414 W 47th Street Minneapolis, MN 55410 * Enter through Door 1 - Main Entrance REGISTER HERE BANQUET DETAILS: The MAST end-of-the-season celebration will be held in the Southwest High School atrium. A light meal will be served. Please bring your own 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. 2023-2024 Hyland Passes will be for sale. Bring your checkbook. ADDITIONAL INFO: MAST SWAG For Sale! Neck gaiters, coffee mugs, ski straps, patches and stickers will be for sale prior to the banquet. Bring cash, Venmo or your checkbook! Swag purchased earlier in the season that has not yet been picked up, will be available at the banquet to take home. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Calling all 11th graders! Sign up to help set up and greet guests. 8th, 9th, and 10th graders! We need your help with cleaning up. 7th graders! We need your help with serving ice cream sandwiches during the program. Parents! We need your help with various volunteer roles. All VOLUNTEER SIGN UP Contact Dianne Catapano (mcconville4@comcast.net) or Wendy Moore (moore5029@yahoo.com) with any questions We look forward to seeing you on Sunday, March 12th! Good Evening MAST Families:
I. 2023-24 Hyland Season Pass Sale Hyland Season Passes for the 2023-24 season are now on sale. The cost is $449 for an individual pass. The sale price will increase to $474 in April and then again to $499 on November 1. You can purchase your pass online or you can purchase your pass through MAST. If you purchase your pass online directly from Three Rivers Parks/Hyland Hills, you will pay MN state sales tax on your purchase. If you purchase the pass through MAST, you do not need to pay the sales tax. Hope White has graciously agreed AGAIN to collect and track season pass payments. To purchase the pass through MAST, please send a check made payable to Mpls Alpine Ski Team in the amount of $449.00. Please mail your payment to: Mpls Alpine Ski Team Attention: Hope White 4945 Clinton Ave S Mpls MN 55419 Please include a note indicating the name of the athlete for whom you are purchasing the pass. If you are new to MAST or have a current sixth grader who plans to join the team next year, please feel free to purchase his or her pass this month. You can also drop off a check when you come to the banquet. Please put all checks in a sealed envelope and print your name on the outside. The deadline for getting a check into Hope's hands is ... SUNDAY, MARCH 26. II. Banquet Registration The Banquet approaches. We have so much to celebrate. Please join us. The coaches are working hard on their introductions, tributes and comedy sketches. Daniel is producing another jaw-dropping, tear-jerker senior tribute movie. Food is on the docket. We'll be voting for some new captains. Coaches awards will be given out. We will announce which section teams earned all state academic honors this year, and by default you will learn which team has the best grade point average this year. Here is a link to register for the banquet: https://www.mplsalpineski.org/2022-2023-mast-banquet.html And here is the full banquet flyer. 2022 - 2023 MINNEAPOLIS ALPINE SKI TEAM END OF THE SEASON CELEBRATION BANQUET DATE & COST: Sunday, March 12, 5:00 PM to 8:30 PM $20 Per Person ($80 Max Per Family) *Under 10 Free **Please contact Mark Conway if you need assistance with the banquet fee** LOCATION: Southwest High School Atrium 3414 W 47th Street Minneapolis, MN 55410 * Enter through Door 1 - Main Entrance REGISTER HERE BANQUET DETAILS: The MAST end-of-the-season celebration will be held in the Southwest High School atrium. A light meal will be served. Please bring your own 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. 2023-2024 Hyland Passes will be for sale. Bring your checkbook. ADDITIONAL INFO: MAST SWAG For Sale! Neck gaiters, coffee mugs, ski straps, patches and stickers will be for sale prior to the banquet. Bring cash, venmo or your checkbook! Swag purchased earlier in the season that has not yet been picked up, will be available at the banquet to take home. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Calling all 11th graders! Sign up to help set up and greet guests. 8th, 9th, and 10th graders! We need your help with cleaning up. 7th graders! We need your help with serving ice cream sandwiches during the program. Parents! We need your help with various volunteer roles. All VOLUNTEER SIGN UP Contact Dianne Catapano (mcconville4@comcast.net) or Wendy Moore (moore5029@yahoo.com) with any questions We look forward to seeing you on Sunday, March 12th! 2022 - 2023 MINNEAPOLIS ALPINE SKI TEAM END OF THE SEASON CELEBRATION BANQUET DATE & COST: Sunday, March 12, 5:00 PM to 8:30 PM $20 Per Person ($80 Max Per Family) *Under 10 Free **Please contact Mark Conway if you need assistance with the banquet fee** LOCATION: Southwest High School Atrium 3414 W 47th Street Minneapolis, MN 55410 * Enter through Door 1 - Main Entrance REGISTER HERE BANQUET DETAILS: The MAST end-of-the-season celebration will be held in the Southwest High School atrium. A light meal will be served. Please bring your own 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. 2023-2024 Hyland Passes will be for sale. Bring your checkbook. ADDITIONAL INFO: MAST SWAG For Sale! Neck gaiters, coffee mugs, ski straps, patches and stickers will be for sale prior to the banquet. Bring cash, Venmo or your checkbook! Swag purchased earlier in the season that has not yet been picked up, will be available at the banquet to take home. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Calling all 11th graders! Sign up to help set up and greet guests. 8th, 9th, and 10th graders! We need your help with cleaning up. 7th graders! We need your help with serving ice cream sandwiches during the program. Parents! We need your help with various volunteer roles. All VOLUNTEER SIGN UP Contact Dianne Catapano (mcconville4@comcast.com) or Wendy Moore (moore5029@yahoo.com) with any questions We look forward to seeing you on Sunday, March 12th!  Good Afternoon MAST Families: Fifteen of our athletes competed in the State Meet yesterday at Giants Ridge. We had a marvelous morning of training on Monday: sunshine, great snow, moderate temps, a forty plus second course, an excellent directed free skiing session, high spirits. Our skiers were well prepared to compete at their best. And as it turns out, many did just that. The clouds moved in overnight as did the threat of rain. Thankfully, the rain held off until the second run. As is often the case, our race results were mixed. Although Andreas made a rare mistake and had to hike on the first run, our remaining five Washburn boys had very solid first runs and were well positioned to challenge for a spot on the podium in team scoring. After run one, Levi stood in 27th, Beckett in 31st, Finn in 35th. Jack had some trouble on the first run and lost a bit of time, but with a good second run he could still finish well and help his team make a run for a spot on the podium. As could Callum, who had a very good first run from the back of the pack. Unfortunately, things didn't go as well on the second run. Levi ripped the second run only to straddle the last gate of the course. Without the straddle he would have finished 25th. Beckett smoked the pitch on his second run only to run into trouble managing the delay gate on the flats, resulting in some hiking on his part. Jack bounced back from his first run bobble to finish in 47th place. Even with his first run mistake, Jack finished 23 spots ahead of his starting first run starting position. By the time Callum took his second run, the rain had picked up, saturating the snow with moisture and severely impacting visibility. Unfortunately, Callum got tossed out of the course, allowing gravity, combined with the slippery and steep Helsinki pitch, to put an end to Callum's second run. Only Finn skied two clean runs for the Washburn boys, finishing 34th overall. Our lone Southwest boy in the competition, Parker Hunt, had a terrific result. Skiing in his first State HS Alpine Championships, Parker finished 24th overall, earning All State Honorable Mention honors. Congratulations Parker!!! You saved your best race of the season for the State Meet. We had two mishaps on the girls' side. On her first run, Ellie Arbeiter straddled a gate on the top of Helsinki on and was disqualified when she misjudged which gate she needed to loop. But from the back of the pack on run two, Ellie skied very well in spite of the rain, ruts, and poor visibility to post an excellent second run time. Lea had a solid first run and was having an even better second run when she straddled a gate in the double hairpin near the finish and had to hike. I am pleased to say though that the rest of our girls were able to find success yesterday. Gabby Harritt and Lucy Renz earned All-State Honorable Mention honors for their back to back finishes--21st for Gabby and 22nd for Lucy. Impressive. Eva Voyakin, an eighth grader skiing in her first State Championship, showed that ice runs through her veins by putting down two very good runs to finish 43rd. Not far behind in 48th was Ingrid Hartzell. Ingrid skied the best race of her career, proving that it pays to study video. After Monday's training, Ingrid watched video with the coaches and decided to make some tactical changes for the race. She succeeded in doing so and her result yesterday is proof. Impressive determination Ingrid. Ninth grader Avery Patterson had one heck of a day, skiing fearlessly down the steep Helsinki pitch on run one and with poise and determination down Innsbrook for the second run to finish 52nd. Elli George, who has been an outstanding captain for the last two years and the backbone of this quickly improving SW girls' team, ended her MAST career with an excellent second run after being less than satisfied with her first. Elli finished 54th overall. So consider these move ups for our SW girls: Gabby started 31st and finished 21st. Lucy started 54th and finished 22nd; Eva started 70th and finished 42nd; Ingrid started 86th and finished 48th; Avery started 82nd and finished 48th, and Elli started 74th and finished 54th. Even with Lia's straddle, the Southwest girls had a great team result: fifth place! Congratulations girls! Race results are attached and all video from our training day and race day can be found on Sprongo. I want to thank the coaches who worked so hard all season to make our athletes increasingly competitive. Thank you to the parents who worked all of our races and did so in some very difficult and extreme conditions this Winter. Thank you athletes for bringing your brightest smiles, fierce determination, positive attitudes, and deep seated goodness to practice everyday. I sing your praises to anyone who listens. I plan to continue singing them at the banquet. One of my biggest frustrations about high school racing is how much skiing is left at the end of our season. Just when you are figuring out technique and tactics and are poised to make another leap forward in your skiing development, we have to shut down as a team. The MN State High School League prohibits coaches from offering training to their athletes after the State HS Alpine Championships. Were we to violate that rule and continue to coach you in the weeks ahead, we would be jeopardizing your eligibility to race in the future and our positions as high school coaches. Along with some other alpine coaches around the state, I will be working to get this rule changed in the years ahead. Nevertheless, I want to encourage you to continue skiing until Hyland closes for the season. You can continue to refine your skills. Watch a Deb Armstrong instructional video and then go to the hill to try out the skill she introduced. She has dozens of short videos that will keep you busy until the lifts are shut down for the season. Watch the instructional videos on the Burke Mt Academy website that are narrated by Mikaela Shiffrin and then work the same drills that helped her become the best ski racer of all time. Search online for other great racing and instructional videos and then put them to the test on your own. Better yet, find a friend on the team and make a pact to work together to make a big leap forward. https://www.youtube.com/@DebArmstrongSkiStrong and https://www.burkemtnacademy.org/ski-racing/alpine-instructional-videos And don't forget to see what we already have linked for your on our website: https://www.mplsalpineski.org/technique--tactics.html Banquet is March 12. More information about the banquet coming soon. Just reserve the date for now. Be well. Make good choices. Carve beautiful turns. In that order. Mark
MAST Update Week Fourteen Sunday, February 12, 2023 Dear MAST Athletes, Parents, and Coaches: Our final two days of the season are upon us. We had a terrific race on Friday to cap the competition season for our JV skiers. Corrected results are attached. If you missed out on an award, I will have one for you at the banquet. Phoenix and Stella should have been in the 7th/8th grade classification and would have placed first and second. Izabella Nahas should have received a fourth place medal in the jr/sr division. Thank you to all of the parents who worked our last race. Every race worker position filled and you did magnificent work. Thank you coaches for once again doing a terrific job with our skiers. And on Saturday morning, I was the first one to park in the paid lot at 7:27am. I thought that I would be walking into an empty chalet. But no, there were a dozen MAST athletes already inside putting on their costumes for our final Saturday morning practice. What a wonderful scene! Thank you to Brien Spanier for coming out to practice and taking pictures. Be sure to look for them on our website in a few days. Some people will spend a lifetime circling the globe to get just one glimpse of a skiing dinosaur. Who knew we have them right here in our own backyard. So unappreciated. I also shot a lot of video of various animals and characters skiing down the courses. Because of the costumes, I no longer recognize everyone. I would ask athletes and coaches to please help me out with tagging the clips. I want every athlete to get the credit they deserve. I would also encourage athletes to download their videos from the season to your computers so you have them for posterity. I. Two practices remain. Monday, February 13 5:00-7:15PM All Pods Lanes: 5, 6. Bring Rope Tow Gloves Tuesday, February 14 5:00-7:15PM All Pods Lanes: 3, 4. Bring Rope Tow Gloves Coaches Will, Jack, Liam and Drew will be running practices. Look for them on the assigned lanes at 5PM. Use these last two practices to build your skills for next season, and be sure to have fun while you are improving. II. State Meet Lift Tickets If there are any ATHLETES who plan to come up to Giants Ridge to watch the State Meet on Tuesday and who would like to ski, you can purchase a lift ticket through MAST for $32. I cannot purchase tickets for parents however. If you would like to ski on Tuesday during the race, purchase a ticket TODAY BY 10PM. You (and a parents) will also need to complete and sign the Giants Ridge Event Participation Waiver. Alternates, if you could also purchase a ticket for yourselves, that would help our budget. Those who are racing have a lift ticket supplied by the MSHSL. Purchase Lift Ticket Here. Sign the Giants Ridge Waiver Here. Thank you everyone for a fantastic season. There are not enough adjectives in the English language to describe how wonderful our athletes are to coach. The coaches and I will be singing your praises at the banquet on March 12th. Be sure to attend. Details to come. Be well. Keep skiing. Hyland will be open for another month or more. Take advantage of the open slopes. Mark 
... in case you don't remember or if you thought you had or....you want confirmation....
Good Morning:
PLEASE state your race intentions by NOON today for our race tomorrow at Hyland. I need time to pull the run orders together, sort bibs, and make all other preparations for our last race together. https://go.teamsnap.com/forms/358076 Thank you to everyone who has signed up to work the race. A few race worker positions remain. Here is a link to sign up to assist: https://signup.com/go/zcyRyqD Thank you. Mark Good Morning Race Fans:
Our last race is THIS Friday, February 10th at Hyland. The HYLAND JV Championships We have medals for the top five finishers in three grade classifications: Boys and Girls 7th/8th, 9th/10th, 11th/12th. We need race workers once again for the last time this season. Let's make this another great MAST racing event. Here is the link: Hyland JV Championships SignUp 2/10/23 And if your athlete still needs to state his or her race intentions, here is a link to do that: State Your Race Intentions for 2/10/23 Remember, NO TRAINING TONIGHT. Our coaches are attending the Section IV Championships. Training resumes tomorrow. Thank you. Mark |
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