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MAST UPDATE #8
Sunday, October 13, 2024 Hello MAST Athletes, Parents, and Friends: The last two weeks have been very busy and we have a lot of administrative tasks to accomplish before the start of the season. Most importantly, registration with MPS Athletics opens tomorrow! Please try to do this before your MEA break. We hope our athletes enjoy a few days off and wish you safe travels if you’re headed out of town! These are our action items:
Please keep those registrations coming in. For those who still haven’t registered, please do so now: REGISTER HERE II. Registration With Mpls Public Schools Athletics Opens TOMORROW, October 14! Registration for MPS Winter Sports opens On Monday, October 14th. This is an online registration. You will need to pay the $75 MPS Athletics Activity Fee and complete all the forms before your high school athletic director will clear you to participate. WE ASK ALL ATHLETES TO REGISTER FOR ALPINE SKIING BEFORE NOVEMBER 1ST SO THAT YOUR ATHLETIC DIRECTOR HAS AMPLE TIME TO CLEAR YOU TO PARTICIPATE BY THE OPENING DAY OF THE ALPINE SKI SEASON. Here is a link to begin: MPS Winter Sports Registration III. Captain’s Practice Begins. MONDAY, OCTOBER 28 Practice dates are Oct 28 and 30, and Nov 4 and 6 (Mondays and Wednesdays). These practices, led by the team captains, will be held at Lynnhurst Park from 4:00-5:15PM. Bring a water bottle and wear layers of athletic clothing and athletic shoes so that you can run, jump, hop, skip, glide, leap, spin or whatever the captains challenge you to do. Meet your teammates, play some games, ask questions about the team and the season, and just have some fun. IV. Reminder: Have you purchased your Season Pass to Hyland Hills? MAST practices are held at Hyland Hills Ski Area. If you aren’t one of the skiers who paid for Season Passes last Spring already, save the sales tax on your Hyland Season Pass by sending a check for $499 made out to “Mpls Alpine” to Hope White to arrive before Oct 28, 2024 at the address below. Season passes will be available for pickup at Hyland Hills Nov 11 at the Season Pass Pick up night. Hope White 4945 Clinton Ave Minneapolis 55419 Alternatively, passes are on sale on-line with Hyland for $499+tax until Nov 1, then increase to $524+tax IMPORTANT: HYLAND SKI WAIVER - In addition to buying your pass, skiers/ parents MUST complete and sign an online waiver. It only takes five minutes. Hyland Hills Ski Season Waiver Hyland will not release your season pass until the waiver is signed. Athletes who have already turned 18 must complete the waiver on their own. V. Have You Secured All Of The Equipment You Need For The Season? Thank you to the coaches and Pierce staff who assisted with the MAST Equipment Day on Wednesday and a special thanks to Cyrus Vahhaji for managing and editing the Equipment Swap page on our website. If you have any equipment you would like to sell, fill out our MAST Equipment Swap Sale Form and send detailed photos to Cyrus at [email protected] For those interested in checking out what’s available, items are posted here: MAST ON-LINE ONLY SKI EQUIPMENT SWAP Additionally, the 2024 Team Gilboa Ski Swap at Hyland is Friday - Sunday, October 25-27 Team Gilboa Hyland Ski Swap
VI. Concussion Baseline Testing: State law requires that coaches and trainers remove anyone suspected of having a concussion from athletic activity of any type. To return to play, the athlete must be assessed by a medical professional trained in concussion management. For Minneapolis students, the athletic trainer at your school must be involved in the post-concussion management and your return to play protocol. One of the tools that physicians and athletic trainers utilize to assess whether someone is healthy to begin the return to play protocol is an online cognitive test called the Impact Concussion Baseline Test. Athletes take this test when the brain is healthy and alert. Following a concussion and after the athlete’s concussion symptoms have resolved, the trainer may ask you to retake the Impact Concussion Baseline Test. The trainer can then compare your post-concussion test results to your baseline test results and determine if you are still suffering any cognitive deficits. Even though your symptoms have gone away and you feel healed, your brain may still be injured. You do not want to suffer a second concussion when your brain is still healing from the first. So, the baseline test is designed to give health professionals one more tool to assess how well your brain has healed following a concussion. Who needs to take the test? Anyone who is skiing with MAST for the first time and has not taken the test for another sport during the 2024-25 school year or this Fall. You should plan on doing a baseline test every 2 years for MAST. Where can I take the test? You can take the baseline test at either Southwest or Roosevelt High School. Washburn is unable to host Impact testing due to technology restraints. *If you are a Washburn athlete, please sign up for testing at either Southwest or Roosevelt. Testing at Southwest High School *Students need to bring their Chromebook if testing at Southwest* Tuesday, October 29 at 3:15 or 4:15 pm. Thursday, November 7 at 3:15 or 4:15 pm. Wednesday, November 13 at 3:30 or 4:30 pm Athletic Trainer: Kelsey GleichWacker ([email protected]) Directions: Location is at Southwest HS, in the College and Career Center. It’s the room adjacent to the counselors’ offices. If you come in the front entrance, go all the way to the back and left of the cafeteria. Go up the half flight of stairs, straight ahead is a room with lots of windows, go to the right of that room and immediately to the left is 3 steps. Go down the steps and through the door on the left. Testing at Roosevelt High School Tuesday, October 29 at 3:45 pm Athletic Trainer: Sonya Eikum ([email protected]) Directions: My office is door 3A from the outside, or 159 from the inside. Walk past Door 4 and you will see a ramp. Go up the ramp. My door is at the top of the ramp. We will meet at my office and then go up to the computer lab together and take the test. LINK TO SIGN UP FOR TESTING VII. ADDITIONAL IMPORTANT DATES: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH, 6PM “Orientation to the 2024-25 Alpine Season” for athletes and parents, an On-line presentation. If you can’t attend, the presentation will be posted on our website so you can view it over and over again at your leisure. But real-time is so much better. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH 6pm-7:30pm First Official Day of the Season Hyland Season Pass Photo Night, Pass Pick Up, and Team Meeting at Hyland Park Ski Chalet. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 Start of Dryland Practice Dryland training will take place Monday - Friday from 4:30-6PM at the Washburn football field. All athletes are invited and encouraged to attend! *No Dryland the Thursday and Friday of Thanksgiving week. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Athlete Retreat and Tuning Clinic - Hyland Ski Jump Facility Upper Classmen and returning athletes from 9am-12pm. New Athletes from 1-3pm. There will also be a tuning Clinic at 2pm in which parents are welcome to attend. (more info to come) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2024 - FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2025 Giants Ridge Camp! - SAVE THE DATE - (more info to come) HAVE a FANTASTIC and SAFE MEA week!! Coaches and Support Team, Mpls Alpine Ski Team Key Contacts if you have questions (preferred to replying to this e-mail): CORE PARENTS for each school (for questions about registration, season schedule, etc): Washburn/Page Erik Addy [email protected] 952-270-0934 Southwest/Anthony Bill Bray [email protected] 507-301-7109 MAST-All Other Schools Owen Moldow [email protected] 612-730-4818 COACHES (for questions about ski equipment, sizing, skiing instruction and technique). Head Coach Southwest/Anthony Boys Joel Hedrick [email protected] 612-716-3186 Head Coach Southwest/Anthony Girls Paige Alampi [email protected] 612-718-1440 Head Coach Washburn/Page Boys Matthew Polland [email protected] 612-220-1010 Head Coach Washburn/Page Girls Eleanor Goodnow [email protected] 612-723- 9559 Head Coach MAST Boys (All other Schools) TBD (Contact Joel Hedrick for questions about ski equipment and sizing) Head Coach MAST Girls (All other Schools) TBD (Contact Joel Hedrick for questions about ski equipment and sizing) FOLLOW MAST: MAST Facebook MAST Instagram Comments are closed.
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