MAST Update #9 Sunday, November 14, 2021

11/14/2021

MAST Update Week 1: Season Pass Pick Up Night, Fundraising Orders Due, Sprongo, Dryland Training Begins, Waivers, Team Roster
Sunday, November 14, 2021

Dear MAST Athletes, Coaches and Parents:

Finally, we begin. Hyland is making snow. Temps are getting colder. And we start training together this week. But first....

Season Pass Pick Up: Monday, November 15 from 6-7PM.
All MAST athletes should come pick up your Hyland Season Pass between 6 and 7PM tomorrow. You do not need to arrive promptly at 6. Just be sure to be there before... 6:45...
A bit more about the evening.
We will be taking care of many administrative details tomorrow night. Attached is a SEASON PASS NIGHT CHECKLIST. Print the checklist and bring it with you. We will have copies as well in case you forget it. The point of the checklist is to guide you through the many stations we will have set up. By moving through the stations, we will be able to check off a lot of administrative tasks in one quick hour. And this won’t even take up an hour of your time.
If you are selling coffee and salsa in the MAST Individual Fundraiser, bring your sales order forms and payments. The sale ends tomorrow and all forms need to be submitted tomorrow.
REMEMBER TO BRING:

MPS Transportation Waiver
Hyland Hills/3 Rivers Park District Waiver
MinneSalsa and Urban Venture Coffee Sales Order Forms and Payments

Speaking of Waivers. Please be sure to complete the waiver for the MN Ski Areas Association. When it asks for your team, type in: Mpls Alpine Ski Team. Don’t use your high school or MAST. This waiver is completed online and will cover you for Welch Village Ski Area and possibly other ski areas in Minnesota. All MAST athletes need to complete this waiver. Here is a link:
MN Ski Areas Association Liability Release

Sprongo
All new MAST athletes should have received an invitation to join the Mpls Alpine Ski Team Sprongo site. I sent the invitation to your MPS email account. If you did not receive an invitation, send me an email at [email protected]. Be sure to give me your correct email address. You will need to create a MAST Sprongo Account User-Name and Password. I suggest using your personal email account as your username rather than your MPS email account. And use a password that you are willing to share with your parents so they can watch your progress through the season and over the years. This will make them happy so no arguing about it.

I also sent invitations to the following returning MAST skiers who do not have a Sprongo account set up. I know you have a lot of video clips from last year sitting as orphans in the many playlists from last season. Unclaimed. Unloved. Unnamed even. Looking to return home. Just like E.T. Show your clips some love. Get yourself set up with a Sprongo account.
Mia Collins
Evalie Hedrick
Cormac Hofmann-Geye
Carys Johnson
Ava Lindseth
Julia Maurice
Francesca McConville
Sam Vahhaji

Some Other Do’s:

The account needs to be opened using the FIRST and LAST NAME of the SKIER. No nicknames or monikers. Just your boring old first and last names.
You may add a picture of yourself to your profile. By uploading a photo of yourself you will help the coaches learn names and faces. With 130 skiers on the team, this is not an easy task, especially for our volunteer coaches who don’t get to be on the hill with you every day.

Some Do Nots:

Do not set up the account in a parent’s name. Only the athlete’s name will do.
Parents, we can only allow one account per athlete so be sure to ask your athlete for the Log In and Password so you can watch your son or daughter ski from the comfort of your own computer.
Do not set up a second account if you already have one, even if you forgot your username and password. We have ways to recover those. Just get ahold of me and I will help you recover access to your account. Call me if you are having trouble getting your account set up.

Dryland Training
MAST Strength and Conditioning begins Tuesday, Nov 16 at 4:30PM at Washburn Stadium. Please be on time. I know it might be hard for some of our middle school athletes to make it by 4:30 due to a later school release time. Do your best. Remember:

Wear good running/workout shoes.
Layers of athletic clothing, hat, gloves, jacket.
Water bottle (with water of course).

If the weather is wet or the fields dangerous to use, we will move inside. That is why you need to dress in layers.

MAST Athlete-Family Roster and Car Pooling
Finally, I am ready to send out a roster of MAST Athletes and Families. However, I am sensitive to sending out a roster to the team with your contact information on it without first giving everyone a chance to OPT OUT of sending this information. The roster will include the following information:
Athlete Name- Gender- Grade- School- Address and Zip
Parent/Guardian Names-Cell Phone-Email.

Parents would have this information for the purpose of forming carpools or seeking advice about the team, or racing, or tuning, or just for reaching out to that really nice parent you met at a race. Please do not use this information for any nefarious reasons.

IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO HAVE ANY OF THE ABOVE LISTED INFORMATION ABOUT YOU OR YOUR FAMILY LISTED IN THE ROSTER, PLEASE EMAIL ME DIRECTLY AT [email protected] AND I WILL REMOVE YOUR INFORMATION FROM THE ROSTER. PLEASE EMAIL ME BY WEDNESDAY EVENING. I WOULD LIKE TO SEND OUT THE ROSTER ON THURSDAY SO FAMILIES HAVE TIME TO FORM CARPOOLS BEFORE HYLAND OPENS.

See you tomorrow evening.

Mark Conway
612-275-8392