February 02nd, 2020

Good Evening Ski Racing Fans:

Another wonderful race today.   
Here is a link to race results: https://www.live-timing.com/report.php?r=205997&rp=964959

If anyone can find a way to digitize these, please send them to me.  Otherwise, you need to open one page of the results at a time and print each page separately.  Also note that the girls results follow the boys.  

Thank you to ALL the parents and coaches and parent coaches who came out and worked the race, took photos, cheered, and helped transport our athletes.  Our skiers were well supported today.

Congratulations to Oliver Mueller and Elsa Peterson who both finished first today.  They both put down two outstanding runs. Addie Streble placed second overall, posting the second fastest times behind Elsa on both runs.  Other noteworthy performances today:
Quinn Jurek --10th; Gabby Harritt --11th; Avery Taylor --13th; Kate Moore --16th; Sonia Svedahl --19th; and Meghan Abel --20th. Willem Robertson --7th; Charlie Smith --14th; Ryan Arnold --17th; and Simon McMahon --18th. The SW girls finished second in the team standings and the Washburn girls and boys both finished third.  We had some more breakthrough performances today.  Levi Ehlers put down two beautiful runs to finish 38th and Amelia Moertel and Reese Kuehn attacked the course to finish 30th and 31st respectively.  As I told you all after the race, it was so fun to watch each one of you compete today. Even if you had a mishap on a run today, I was really proud of the way you skied today.  You executed excellent tactics and much improved technical skills.  Two more weeks remain of our season.  Keep up the hard work.  You can make one or two more breakthroughs before the season ends.

Congratulations everyone.

Hyland JV Race
I have asked for a 2:30pm early release for all of you who are racing tomorrow. Attached is the early release roster I sent to the athletic directors on Wednesday. Here's who I have working the race tomorrow:

• Race Announcer: Shawn Eilefson
• Scoreboard: Abbey Showalter-Loch, Stephanie Loes
• Course Worker: Nathan Marsten

We could use two parents to help collect our Mpls bibs after the second run.   And I'm sure Abbey and Stephanie would appreciate an assistant at the scoreboard to help listen for times. If anyone else wants to help maintain the courses, please shoot me an email.

Saturday morning training: lanes 2, 3, and 4 at 7:45am-10:30am.   

Save the Date: Tuesday, March 10-- THE 2020 MAST Banquet
The MAST Banquet will be held on a Tuesday evening this year.  Yes, we will do our best to shorten it since it is a school night, but no guarantees-- so get your homework done ahead of time.  Look for an email in the next few days asking for help with banquet planning and execution.

Thanks everyone.

Mark