Whistler Mountain Ski Club

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• May 16, 2012 | Super Spring Camp
  Starts Friday May 18th    
  Starts Friday May 18th    
  
  

  WMSC Spring Super Camp  - As in past years, taking advantage of our plentiful spring snow and a long weekend (school break) we'll be training technical disciplines (SL and GS) with newly labled age groups (FIS, U16, U14, U12). Cost is $200. Registration NOW OPEN.
  
  Head Coaches Confirmed:
  
  FIS - Ryan Jazic
  U16 - Jeff MacLennan
  U14 - Jordan Williams
  U12 - Mark Anderson
  Assistant coaches TBA - depending on numbers
  
  General plan for all groups:
  
  For all days - Upload is scheduled from Wizard (Friday only) or Excalibur Gondola 10:00AM. However... depending on crowds they may open a half hour earlier. Check hotlines daily (604-938-7855) for respective program info. Download from hill should be 2:00 - 2:30.
  
  The forecast through the weekend looks like sun, sun, sun! Be prepared with sunblock, plenty of fluids, snacks and a light lunch each day. Tune your skis well as it should freeze each night and we may use hardner in courses.
  
  Fitness testing will be held in the afternoons of Friday and Saturday. Please fuel up with water and nutrition after skiing. Allow at least an hour of rest/digestion time before testing.
  
  Start times for each program are TBD - check hotlines.
  
  Friday May 18 - Whistler Highschool - 4 - 6pm.
  
  - Leger Beep test
  - Penta Jumps
  - 300yd shuttle
  - 5-10-5 agility
  Saturday May 19 - WMSC Cabin - 4 - 6pm
  
  - Anthro's (Ht. Wt.)
  - Vertical jump
  - Box test
  - Others TBD
  Sunday Dryland: Soccer Sunday - 3 – 5 Myrtle Philip School Field   
  

  As well, we have updated the hotline prompts so that it runs successively by age group.
  For the few non-club registrants you may not receive email updates via our mdaemon mailing list so please check the hotline for daily updates – or email the coach responsible for each group with any questions.
  
  Hotline number is 604-938-7855 and the various programs are as follows:
  
  U12 – prompt 1 (mark@wmsc.info)
  U14 – prompt 2 (jordan@wmsc.info)
  U16 – prompt 3 (jeff@wmsc.info)
  FIS – prompt 4 (ryan@wmsc.info)
  SX – prompt 5 (drew@bcsx.ca)
  Masters – prompt 6 (tomio@wmsc.info)
  Dryland – prompt 7 (jordan@wmsc.info)
  
  Note that you cannot leave voice messages (no voicemailboxes), however email addresses are usually checked regularly should you have specific questions for Head Coaches.
  
  Hope this all helps with your planning.
  Regards,
  
  Rob Boyd ChPC
  Sport Development Manager
  

  Posted by: Leighton on May 16, 2012

• May 16, 2012 | Congratulations to the Winners of This Year's BC Alpine Awards & Bursaries
  Rae Swette, Esme McTavish & Ryan Jazic are winners!  
  Rae Swette, Esme McTavish & Ryan Jazic are winners!  
  
  

  2012 Dave Murray Ski Foundation Bursary ($750)
  
  Levi Keay - Cypress Ski Club
  
  
  
  2012 Dave Murray Ski Foundation Bursary ($750)
  
  Emily Unterberger - Revelstoke Ski Club
  
  
  
  2012 Bob Parsons' Memorial Fund Bursary ($1,000)
  
  Jamie Park - Revelstoke Ski Club
  
  
  
  2012 Bob Parsons' Memorial Fund Bursary ($1,000)
  
  Rae Swette - Whistler Mountain Ski Club
  
  
  
  2012 Bob Parsons' Memorial Fund Bursary ($1,000)
  
  Lauren Armstrong - Vernon Ski Club
  
  
  
  2012 Ski Canada Bursary ($500)
  
  Courtney Hoffos - Windermere Valley Ski Club
  
  
  
  2012 Ski Canada Bursary ($500)
  
  Shawn Nydegger - Prince George Ski Club
  
  
  
  2012 BC Alpine Cary Mullen Award
  
  Max Scharf - Revelstoke Ski Club
  
  
  
  2012 BC Alpine Cary Mullen Award
  
  Esme McTavish - Whistler Mountain Ski Club
  
  
  
  2012 BC Alpine FIS Coach of the Year
  
  Ryan Jazic - Whistler Mountain Ski Club
  
  
  
  2012 BC Alpine Kinder Coach of the Year
  
  Ian Chernencoff - Vernon Ski Club
  
  
  
  2012 BC Alpine Coast Zone Official's Award
  
  Lisa Ferguson - Coast Alpine Event Club
  
  
  
  2012 BC Alpine Kootenay Zone Official's Award
  
  Lyle Skaien - Fernie Alpine Ski Team
  
  
  
  2012 BC Alpine North Zone Official's Award
  
  Ross Rustad - Prince George Ski Club
  
  
  
  2012 BC Alpine Okanagan Zone Official's Award
  
  Keri Pasin - Apex Ski Club
  
  
  
  2012 BC Alpine Moira Jaatteenmaki Official’s Award
  
  Mark Schwenck - Revelstoke Ski Club
  
  
  
  2012 BC Alpine Volunteer of the Year
  
  Rob Moffat - Big White Racers/Kelowna Ski Club
  
  
  
  2012 BC Alpine Event of the Year
  
  K1 Provincials - Big White Racers/Kelowna Ski Club
  
  
  
  2012 BC Alpine Mountain Resort of the Year
  
  Apex Mountain Resort
  
  
  
  2012 BC Alpine Club Development of the Year
  
  Lightning Creek Ski Club, Quesnel

   

  
  
  
  

  Posted by: Leighton on May 16, 2012

• May 11, 2012 | Whistler Mountain Ski Club Survey
  Do it online now.
  Do it online now.
  
  

  Dear WMSC Member;
  
  I am conducting a member survey on behalf of the Board of Directors of Whistler Mountain Ski Club.
  
  This survey is your opportunity, as a Club member, Alumni or Racer to give some feedback and weigh in on issues that you feel are important to the performance and future direction of the WMSC. The electronic survey is designed to be quickly and easily completed, and gains power when all members respond.
  
  Please take the time to complete the survey that was emailed last week. Individual results will not be published.

  Tony Peiffer
  Director
  Whistler Mountain Ski Club
  

  Posted by: Leighton on May 11, 2012

• May 10, 2012 | Conrad Pridy named to CAST
  Joining Manny, Robbie, Mike, Madison and brother Morgan.
  Joining Manny, Robbie, Mike, Madison and brother Morgan.
  
  

   

  

  CALGARY, ALTA. (May 10, 2012) – Twenty-nine athletes were named to the Canadian Alpine Ski Team on Thursday as Alpine Canada continues its preparations for the 2012-13 World Cup season and the 2013 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships.
  
  The squad of 19 men and 10 women features three new additions and nine racers who have recorded World Cup or world championship podiums – including reigning world downhill champion Erik Guay, who has 17 top-three World Cup results.
  
  Guay, of Mont-Tremblant, Que., headlines a strong men’s team that features several big names returning from injury and is hoping to add to an impressive streak of world championship podiums at the 2013 event in Schladming, Austria. Canada has claimed medals in three straight world championship men’s downhill events, including back-to-back golds for John Kucera, of Calgary, Alta., and Guay in 2009 and 2011, respectively.
  
  Meanwhile, Erin Mielzynski, of Guelph, Ont. – who last season became the first Canadian to win a World Cup slalom race since 1971 – and fellow podium newcomer Marie-Michèle Gagnon, of Lac-Etchemin, Que., are part of a youthful women’s team that is hoping to build on a breakthrough year.
  
  “It’s the start of three very important years for us with world championships, the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games and then the 2015 world championships,” said Paul Kristofic, Alpine Canada’s vice-president of sports. “The goal is come into the season with a healthy team, a full complement of podium-potential racers, and to try to defend our streak of world championship podiums. We’re very much looking forward to that challenge.”
  
  Calgary’s Jan Hudec – the top-performing Canadian alpine racer on the World Cup circuit in 2011-12 – is part of a strong speed squad that includes Guay, Kucera, downhill sensation Ben Thomsen, of Invermere, B.C., returning star and three-time World Cup winner Manuel Osborne-Paradis, of Vancouver, B.C., plus Robbie Dixon, of Whistler, B.C., who came agonizingly close to his first podium with a fourth-place finish in super-G in Beaver Creek, USA, in 2011.
  
  Michael Janyk, of Whistler, B.C., Julien Cousineau, of Lachute, Que., and Calgary duo Brad Spence and Trevor White lead an experienced slalom team, while Jean-Philippe Roy, of Sainte-Flavie, Que., returns as the team’s giant slalom specialist. Overall Nor-Am champion Erik Read, of Calgary, is one of several talented youngsters on the men’s squad, which also includes national team newcomers Trevor Philp, 20, of Calgary – a student at the University of Denver who is a former member of the Raymond James Alberta Ski Team – and Whistler’s Conrad Pridy, of the B.C. Ski Team. Pridy, 23, is the older brother of fellow national team member Morgan Pridy, 21.
  
  “Trevor (Philp) was a named prospect athlete and he showed he’s an amazing talent,” Kristofic said of the 2012 Canadian slalom champion. “We are working with him to balance school in the U.S. and starting to race in the World Cup. Conrad is a great story of an athlete who fought his way from invitee status to full-time status. For him, building consistency will be the key.”
  
  Philp is looking forward to completing the step up to the national team after making his World Cup debut in Adelboden, Switzerland, in January.
  
  “I’m very excited,” said Philp, who is currently wrapping up his school year in Denver. “The plan is to come to Calgary in June and start working out. I’m very pleased to be joining the Canadian team.”
  
  On the women’s side, veteran speed stars Kelly VanderBeek, of Kitchener,Ont., and Larisa Yurkiw, of Owen Sound, Ont., will continue their comeback from long-term injuries. Newcomer Elli Terwiel, of Heffley Creek, B.C., a student at the University of Vermont, made six World Cup starts last season and was crowned the overall ladies’ Nor-Am Cup slalom champion.
  
  “We have two new podium athletes on the women’s side so it’s important to keep the momentum going,” Kristofic said of Mielzynski and Gagnon. “For them, as well as Ben Thomsen on the men’s side, it’s the first time they are going into major events as podium contenders. It’s great timing to have a big event like the world championships this year so they can learn to deal with that kind of pressure before Sochi 2014.”
  
  The 2012-13 FIS World Cup season is due to get underway in Sölden, Austria, at the end of October. The 2013 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships are due to be in held in Schladming from Feb. 4-17, 2013.
  
  Men’s Canadian Alpine Ski Team:
  (Athlete, Hometown, Ski Club)
  
  Philip Brown, Toronto, Ont., Craigleith
  Dustin Cook, Lac-Sainte-Marie, Que. , Mont-Sainte-Marie
  Julien Cousineau, Lachute, Que., Mont-Tremblant
  Robbie Dixon, Whistler, B.C., Whistler Mountain Ski Club
  Erik Guay, Mont-Tremblant, Que., Mont-Tremblant
  Jan Hudec, Calgary, Alta., Banff Alpine Racers
  Michael Janyk, Whistler, B.C., Whistler Mountain Ski Club
  John Kucera, Calgary, Alta., Calgary Alpine Racing Club
  Manuel Osborne-Paradis, Vancouver, B.C., Whistler Mountain Ski Club
  Trevor Philp, Calgary, Alta., Banff Alpine Racers
  Conrad Pridy, Whistler, B.C., Whistler Mountain Ski Club
  Morgan Pridy, Whistler, B.C., Whistler Mountain Ski Club
  Erik Read, Calgary, Alta., Banff Alpine Racers
  Jean-Philippe Roy, Ste-Flavie, Que., Mont-Comi
  Brad Spence, Calgary, Alta., NATC/Panorama Ski Club
  Ben Thomsen, Invermere, B.C., Windermere Valley Ski Club
  Andy Trow, Canmore, Alta., Sunshine Ski Club
  Trevor White, Calgary, Alta., NATC/Fortress Alpine Ski Team
  Sasha Zaitsoff, Queens Bay, B.C., Red Mountain Racers
  
  Ladies’ Canadian Alpine Ski Team:
  (Athlete, Hometown, Ski Club)
  
  Marie-Michèle Gagnon, Lac-Etchemin, Que., Mont-Orignal
  Madison Irwin, Toronto, Ont., Craigleith
  Madison McLeish, Whistler, B.C., Alberta Ski Academy
  Erin Mielzynski, Guelph, Ont., Georgian Peaks
  Brittany Phelan, Mont-Tremblant, Que., Mont-Tremblant
  Marie-Pier Préfontaine, Saint-Sauveur, Que., Mont Saint-Sauveur
  Ève Routhier, Sherbrooke, Que., Mont-Orford
  Elli Terwiel, Heffley Creek, B.C., Sun Peaks Alpine Club
  Kelly VanderBeek, Kitchener, Ont., Chicopee
  Larisa Yurkiw, Owen Sound, Ont., Georgian Peaks
  
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  INFORMATION:
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  Posted by: Leighton on May 10, 2012

• May 1, 2012 | Spring & Summer Camp registration NOW OPEN
  Sign up NOW
  Sign up NOW
  
  

  To sign up click on the camp of your choice under upcoming events, and choose SIGN UP FOR THIS EVENT. Each camp will have it's own separate payment link.

  Non-Club members must register as a guest member - click here on "How to"

  Posted by: Leighton on May 1, 2012

• April 30, 2012 | New age classifications to take affect June 1
  No more K and E groups as the alpine world changes to"U" for under
  No more K and E groups as the alpine world changes to"U" for under
  
  

  To learn more about what these changes will look like follow this link.

  http://wmsc.info/pages/Age_group_change_2012/

  If you have specific questions about the change, please contact Rob Boyd at x108 or by email.

  Posted by: nloring on April 30, 2012