Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Skills Event CANCELLED! Practiced Scheduled 9-1pm Saturday

Hello Team Afton,
Please see the previous message regarding the cancellation of the Skills Event this weekend.

In lieu of this, we will be conducting a practice session on Saturday, January 31st. Arrive at 9am, we will ski from 9:30-1pm. Bring both GS and SL gear.
We have several skiers competing this weekend in Duluth, and at Indianhead, MI (Speed Camp). We wish them success!

Team Afton

Friday, January 23, 2015

Spirit KZB

Don't forget our team dinner Saturday evening at the sports Garden!

Monday, January 19, 2015

Monday January 19th - NO PRACTICE

Hello All,

There is NO PRACTICE tonight, Monday, January 19th, for Team Afton USSA.
Originally, it was not listed, then re listed, and now - is not listed on our calendar. Sorry for the confusion and any inconvenience. We will resume practice tomorrow - TUESDAY. See you then. 

Saturday, January 17, 2015

Sunday Schedule change - all ages

https://twitter.com/cr1nonscored/status/556593664785281024

LUTSEN - No athletes will be allowed on the Lift until 7:45am, due to low light and dangerous free skiing conditions. When freeskiing, be sure to give plenty of space between you and other skiers; keep looking around - avoid collisions. 
More on revised schedule to come.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

LUTSEN deux - hope it's warming this time!

Hey Ya'll,
Here's the Lutsen schedule for this weekend - and it's a bit long. Attached is a link to the PDF of the schedules for all groups and all days. We will likely publish a KZB as well.

TonyO
http://www.teamafton.com/pdfs/LutsenNonscoredandScoredScheduleDRD11715.pdf






Monday, January 12, 2015

January 12th

Team Afton Families,

I hope you all have had a chance to thaw out from this past weekend at Lutsen. 

We have a lot going on this week with practice and preparing for our Super G races this coming weekend.  Please read the following announcements so you are properly prepared.


Tonight’s Practice Moved
Monday, January 12

We will be holding practice on chairs 16 and 17 tonight.  This will give us some great terrain for training GS/SG.  However, since these are the two chairs farthest away from our clubhouse, we recommend dropping off / picking up and booting up in the Highlands Chalet (Golf Course clubhouse).  We will focus mostly on GS and SG tonight, but bring your Slalom gear just in case.

Practice will move back to our usual hills for the rest of the week.

Sorry for the late notice.


Super G / Big GS skis + Slalom
All Week

In preparation for the SG and GS races at Lutsen this weekend, be sure to bring your SG and GS skis to practice every night this week.  Many of you probably haven’t skied much, if at all, on your longer GS / SG skis.  We need to get you comfortable with your equipment this week. 

IMPORTANT:  Be sure to have a coach (Tony, D.J., etc.) check your bindings this week on ALL your skis, especially your SG skis.

While we will be emphasizing more speed (SG / GS) this week, we will have some opportunities for Slalom.  Come prepared for anything.  I know this may mean lugging around extra gear, but it is what we need to do this week.


Special Announcement

Some of you may know the Kuznik family from Buck Hill through USSA racing.  Their oldest, Tony, who is now in college was just diagnosed with leukemia.  They will be at the Mayo clinic in Rochester for the next month.  You can follow his progress and send an encouraging note through his Caring Bridge website.  Go to Caringbridge.org and type in Tony Kuznik. 

Please keep Tony and the rest of the Kuznik family in your thoughts and prayers.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Lutsen Part 1

Hello All,
It's looking like a great weekend for Lutsen!
Below is the combined KZB which covers three fronts: MidAm/FIS, Scored, and Non-Scored.
One highlight not mentioned is on Saturday, after the MidAm GS is done, we have an opportunity to do some high-speed freeskiing on the same run that we will be using for SuperG next weekend. So, U12-14-16 don't forget to bring your speed skis (or at least your GS skis). More info on this to follow.



Friday, January 2, 2015

A Wild Weekend - coming up!

Hello All,
here is our information for this weekend. Click on the pdf (non-scored & scored) and save to your phone (in iBooks, Acrobat Reader, etc). Should be fairly nice weather - but chillier on Sunday.

KZBJan.3-4,2015-Non-Scored.pdf

KZBJan.3-4,2015-Scored.pdf