Pasta Party Change

The next Pasta Party is being moved to Sunday, Jan 27 at 4:00 at the Heida's.  Please contact one of the Heida's or myself if you need directions.  The address is posted on the teams Facebook page.
Thanks
Denny

Conference Skiers

Here is who will be skiing and the order they will be going out for Monday's NWSC Meet:
Boys

Ricky	Petroff	12
Josh	Thoen	18
Jared	Heida	30
Noah	Christiansen	47
Myles	Gilyard	59
John	Przybilla	63
Peyton	Martinek	74
Caleb	Chesser	89
Jaxon	Lahner	99
Aaron	Casey	114

Girls

Sarah	Eichstadt	127
Abby	Ellenbecker	142
Olivia	Ellenbecker	156
Lilah	Gilyard	159
Izzy	Haberman	173
Josie	Ingvaldson	188
Maddie	Keran	195
Amelia	Blomberg	208
Rebekah	Weimholt	218
Isabella	Nortrom	238

Conference Meet Update

Here is the update for the NWSC Conference Meet:

Due to the predicted weather, the race was postponed for Wednesday and is now moved to Monday, Jan 28th, still being held at Theodore Wirth.  The Boys Skate will be first at 9:30 followed by the Girls at 10:30.  Then the Boys Classic Pursuit will start at 12:00 with the Girls Classic Pursuit at 1:00.  Because of the early start and having to deal with rush hour traffic going into Minneapolis, we will be leaving at 6:30 to make sure we have time once we get down there to get set up. 

At this moment, the sentiment of the coaches in the conference is to move the JV Conference Meet to Monday, Feb. 11th for purposes of transportation as well as not being at Wirth for 10 hours or so.  Once that is confirmed, I will let you know.

The roster for Conference will be posted at practice today and then after practice I will post it here.  Those that are racing on Monday and wax their skis with the team will need to wax our skis on either Saturday or Sunday, but Coach Nelson and Coach Jerlie and I will discuss this at practice today before we confirm to when and where.

Finally, we are going to do our team pictures today. We will be at the Event Center at Bunker and most of the pictures will be inside, minus the team picture, which will be staged inside and then quickly set up outside.

Thanks and if there are any questions, please let me know.  Also, as info keeps coming in for Monday, I will let you know as well.
Denny

Conference Meet Postponed

Just got word, due to the predicted High Temps of -9 next Wednesday, that the Conference Meet has been Postponed!  The AD's are working on when and where the Meet will be held.  As soon as I hear, I will let you all know.
Thanks
Denny

Classic Results

Our Individual and Overall Meet results are now posted on the right of the blog. 

Congrats to Abby Ellenbecker for taking the win and leading the Girls team.  The Girls had 3 in the top 15 with Olivia Ellenbecker 13th and Lilah Gilyard 15th in a very tough race and finished in 5th of the 6 teams.

Josh Thoen led the Boys with a 9th place finish followed by Ricky Petroff in 10th as they paced the Boys to 4th place team finish.

A lot of overall improvements for all of the skiers as we finish off the end of the regular meets this season.  The younger skiers are really showing solid improvements and have been moving up the rankings in the races as well.  A continued solid effort and competitiveness with the whole team.  Up next for the JV skiers is the JV Conference Meet on Monday at Theo Wirth, where they will get to chose which technique they would like to compete in and then Wednesday will be the NWSC Conference Meet at Wirth as well for the Varsity.  We will post the Varsity skiers tomorrow at practice.  As for practice tomorrow, we are going to move forward with the team pictures.  We probably will not ski though due to the predicted temps and wind chills.  Friday we will be going to Theo Wirth at normal time, 3:15, to get a workout in and then we will see if it will be safe and worth doing a practice on Saturday.

Thanks and think warm thoughts as we drop in temps for the next week or so!
Denny

Week Ahead

Here is our plan for the week ahead. It is not exactly what we want, but getting limited by the lack of snow and the availability of man-made venues:

Monday: 12:30 at the high school, weight training, possibly some double pole work in the pit, then a run inside. We also would like the skiers to go to Elm or Wirth before or after to get an hour of skiing in. Because of the holiday we are not allowed team practices at Elm and it is a hit and miss on the amount of skiers that will be at Wirth.

Tuesday: Elm Creek at 6:15, bus leaves at 5:30

Wednesday: Classic Race at Elm Creek, Boys at 3:30, Girls at 4:00.  We will then stay at Elm and ski until 5:30 to get some more time on snow.

Thursday: Team Pictures, 3:30, site TBD. If we travel some place we will leave at 3:15. The race that was supposed to be on Thursday was cancelled due to snow availability at Baker park.

Friday: Possible practice at Wirth, pending availability 

Saturday: TBD. We will most likely go some place since our time on snow was so limited during the week. More to come as the week progresses.

Thanks,

Denny

Saturday Practice

Due to the weather on Saturday, we will be staying at the high school for practice and will workout inside. Practice starts at 9:00am.

Denny