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Hello MAST Athletes & Families! Temps are supposed to drop tomorrow night and stay that way, which is great snow-making weather! We’re hoping to ski soon after Thanksgiving. That means Monday and Tuesday could be our final two Dryland sessions. To ensure we’re ready to go, please read this entire update carefully. We all want to be on snow, but please keep showing up and working hard at Dryland. It would be awesome to see 80 kids at Dryland on Monday and Tuesday! Coach Joel has been focusing on teaching visualization strategies to the athletes. All elite skiers use this skill to help reduce anxiety and be more prepared for the race course. We don’t have time to teach this when on snow, and if you don’t show up you will not have the opportunity to learn and practice visualizing. See you all Monday and Tuesday! *** Coaches Corner*** What a great week of Dryland. I want to congratulate each and everyone one of you who attended our sessions on relaxation and guided imagery. You’ve shown intense focus, patience, trust, and the coachable spirit required to elevate all aspects of your training and skiing experience. We will be implementing more imagery this week. If you are struggling to stay in focus, I would suggest you spend some time watching videos of the skills we are focusing on.
-Coach Joel DRYLAND TRAINING Monday & Tuesday ONLY this week 4:30-6PM -Washburn Stadium Bring a jacket, hat, gloves, athletic shoes, layers of athletic clothing with shorts underneath in case we end up training inside the school for part or all of the session. And don’t forget a water bottle! APPAREL is READY for PICK UP!!! If you ordered MAST Apparel, it is ready for pickup TOMORROW. PLEASE PICK UP your apparel at the end of Dryland training on Monday, November 25th. We will have a table set up on the east edge of the parking lot. You’ll see it as you walk down the hill from the field. Everyone should be attending Dryland, so there should be no apparel orders to re-load into Coryn’s car at 6:10PM tomorrow night. If you do not pick up your order tomorrow evening, please make arrangements to pick it up from Coryn by texting 612.910.2560. ***Thank you to Coryn Petersen for working with the captains to produce and manage our apparel sale this year. Stay tuned for a team buff/neck gaiter sale in early December! MNSAA SKI AREA WAIVER - Required for all Parents! (Click here to see list of those still needing to sign) If you think you signed but it isn’t showing, let your Core Parent know. It takes a day or two for the updates to be visible to us. You can’t ski at Hyland next week without having this signed! Important! When you fill out this waiver, please use the exact same skier name that you used to sign up with Team Snap. Click here for MNSAA Ski Area Waiver Form ***online and takes only 5 minutes! List of Skier Names to match with waiver form. (Please verify the waiver name you enter for your skier(s) matches the name in this list EXACTLY (spelling, hyphens, etc). If the name isn’t right in this list or is missing, let your Core Parent know right away.) GIANT’S RIDGE TRAINING CAMP - SIGN UP BEFORE NEXT SUNDAY, DEC 1! If you are planning on attending, please register THIS WEEK for our 17th Annual Giants Ridge Training Camp. Registration will close at 11:59PM on Sunday, December 1. Click HERE for Registration and more info! When: Tuesday, December 31 at 6AM to Friday, January 3 at 10PM. Where: Training at Giants Ridge Recreation Area; Lodging at Camp Chicagami. Transportation: Northfield Bus Lines and Shubat Bus. Meals: Breakfasts and Dinners at Camp Chicagami. Lunches at Giants Ridge. Cost: $650 includes four days of lift tickets, lane fees, training; three nights lodging; three breakfasts, four lunches, three dinners; AWESOME coaching. *****BIG THANKS to Wendy Moore, Elizabeth Renz, and Coryn Peterson for orchestrating the many details in planning Giant’s Ridge Training Camp!!***** AFTON ALPS SKI AREA WAIVER is ATTACHED Find attached the Afton Alps Ski Area waiver form. Please print and sign a hard copy. We’d like to collect all of these by Dec. 10, but tomorrow at Dryland would be even better. If you have Adobe Acrobat, you might be able to fill this out before printing and signing (to make it more legible). If not, please print clearly. Athletes: Please bring the signed waiver to practice to give to Massi Bray (or your coach) to give to Bill Bray. Or you can mail or drop off at Bill Bray’s house: 5329 Dupont Ave S, Mpls, 55419 SUPPLEMENTAL TRAINING #1 - Saturday, December 7, 2:30-10:30PM Our first Supplemental Training Session will be held on Saturday, December 7 at Wild Mt. This could be one of our first training sessions on-snow, depending on when Hyland opens. Consequently, we will be doing more directed free skiing than gate training. Nonetheless, we hope to be able to set some short sectional drill courses of brushes, stubbies, and panel gs gates. Cost: $60 includes bus transportation, coaching, and lift ticket. Bring a water bottle and a sack supper. (We take a short break for supper. We do not want you spending time waiting in line to order a ski area dinner so bring your own supper.) Here is a link to register for our first supplemental training session: https://go.teamsnap.com/forms/424681 TEAM SNAP TIP If your skier doesn’t have access to the Alpine ski team on Team Snap, but the parent does, have the parent go into the team on the TS app, click “+”, then “invite”, and invite your student to join. MAST Family Roster is ATTACHED The attached roster is to be used only for MAST ski purposes - for instance, coordinating carpools to ski practice or connecting with people for ski tuning advice. This roster ALSO contains columns that signify if your waivers have been completed. Scroll all the way to the right and look for an ‘X’ by your skier’s name and get those waivers in if they’re missing! CONCUSSION BASELINE TESTING If you missed the group concussion testing, you can schedule a 1:1 session with Kelsey Gleichwacker at Southwest High School, [email protected], 651-357-2154, no matter which school you attend. It takes about an hour. You can also schedule one with the trainer at your high school. MAST Trailer Assistance NEEDED We’re in need of parent volunteers to pull the MAST trailer to races and supplemental training. If you are available and have a truck, please email Owen Moldow! [email protected] Thanks! RACE WORKER TRAINING - Sunday, December 8, 4 - 5pm Dual Citizen Brewing Company Parents: We need race workers! No experience necessary, not even ski experience. Please attend the race worker training on Sunday, Dec 8 from 4-5pm, before the parent social from 5-8pm. Special invite to parents of new skiers! This training is designed to introduce you to the various race worker roles that parents will be asked to fill at every race of our season and give you some baseline skills to get started. Please set this time aside and join the training so we can provide our athletes with high quality race experiences. It also gives you a front seat to the action. SAVE THE DATES
~Have a wonderful THANKSGIVING~ and stay safe out there! COACHES and SUPPORT TEAM, Mpls Alpine Ski Team (Jen Peterson - Communications) 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) Daniel Polland [email protected] 612-558-0526 Head Coach MAST Girls (All other Schools) Daniel Polland [email protected] 612-558-0526 FOLLOW MAST: MAST Facebook MAST Instagram
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