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News!!
Highlights!!
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Upcoming
Tournaments/Events
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Sunday, May 18 Blackhawk
Candy Comp -
Click Here for Invite
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June 18-22 Blackhawk
Nationals Women's Development Camp..
Saturday June
21/Sunday June 22 will be our spring
sanctioned
tournament...yes boys too!!
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- Let Women Ski
Jump in 2010!
Sign the petition: www.wsj2010.com
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Central Award Winners
- Congratulations to the following winners
of the USSA Central Division 2008 Skier
Awards. The voting took place at the
Spring Panel meeting.
- Skier of the Year
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Johnny Lyons
- Theresea Altobelli Award for Central
Female Skier -
Karin Friberg
- John R Lyons Award for Best Overall
Junior Jumper -
Adam Loomis- Best NC Male -
Daniel Englund- Best NC Female -
Nita
Englund
- Art Knudsen Award for Most Improved
Junior Male Skier -
Trevor Edlund- Milt Aasen Award for Most Improved
Junior Female Skier -
Michaela Arneson
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Central Division
Junior Olympic Team Named
WOMEN
Nita Englund—Kiwanis
Nordic Combined and Special Jumping
Emilee Anderson—Eau
Claire Flying Eagles Nordic Combined and Special
Jumping
MEN
Adam Loomis—Eau
Claire Flying Eagles Nordic Combined and
Special Jumping
Nick
Nalbach—Tri-Norse Special Jumping
Brian Wallace—St.
Paul Special Jumping
Connor Jacobsen—Norge
Special Jumping
A.J, Brown—Norge
Special Jumping
Tyler
Hutchins-Itasca Nordic Combined and Special
Jumping
Christian Friberg—St.
Paul Special Jumping
Andre
Denney—Itasca Nordic Combined and Special
Jumping
Tyler Baran—Tri-Norse
Nordic Combined and Special Jumping
Trevor Edlund—St.
Paul Special Jumping
Kyle
Rodgers—Itasca Special Jumping
Philip Millimaki—Ishpeming
Special Jumping
James Cady—Iola
Special Jumping
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Westby Recap
Saturday was a
great turnout with many spectators (not sure on
an exact count yet). Snow fell through most of
the training and competition causing some pretty
slow conditions. Still a great day.
Wow, what a
great day of jumping Sunday! The spectators
that chose to stay home today because of the
cold missed one of the best competitions we've
ever had. We saw many beautifully styled jumps
to the bottom of the hill. Snowflake has a new
official hill record at
an astonishing 130.5 meters by Andre
Fedheim from Trandol, Norway.
Overall, snowflake had a great weekend and
thanks all those who helped with or attended the
tournament.
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Madison Recap
Madison's claim to be a winter wonder land
turned out to hold true !!! ( 0.6" inches to go
and we will set the winter record for snow fall
in this area and it is expected today!)
Thank you all for coming and jumping our hills.
There were over 65 jumpers and many more who
enjoyed playing in the snow piles and having
snow balls fights.
Snow mid afternoon made the 30M jump more
challenging, but the skiers were up for it...not
all the vehicles were up for the treck up the
big hill, but that all worked out too.
Nordic combined Coordinator Paul Loomis had some
challenging courses laid out and the skiers rose
to the challenge.
Hope you all had
a safe trip home and thank you once again for
attending, As always, results can be found at
www.skijumpingusa.com
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Silvermine Recap
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This
past weekend the Eau Claire Ski Club held its
122nd
Annual
Silver Mine Invitational Ski Jumping
Invitational.
Despite
weather challenges, we were able to host a
successful tournament and give the
jumpers excellent conditions for 3 days of
practice and competition. The
crowd was
estimated at over
4000 for the 2 day event, one of our largest
in years. We
hosted nearly
40 skiers, including 3 skiers from Norway
and members of the US Ski Team.
Our “Longest
Standing” competition
produced many
exciting
jumps past
K-point.
Please check www.skijumpingusa.com
for results.
If you are interested in seeing newspaper photos
from the competition, please click on
www.photos.leadertelegram.com .
On the left-hand side of web page, there are
several links that contain
Silver Mine pics including "photo gallery",
"sports features", "general news", and
"features". All photos can be purchased
on-line. In addition, the photographers have
put together an excellent slide show at
www.leadertelegram.com/multimedia.asp
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Please remember to visit Eau Claire
again and support our annual fundraiser, "Keeping
the Tradition Alive"
on
April 19th,
2008.
Watch for further info on this fun event. If we
are to keep this great tournament going for
another year, we need and welcome the support of
the whole Central Division.
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Norge Recap
Thanks for your participation in Norge Ski
Club's 103rd Annual Winter Tournament.
This encompassed the Masters National
Championships, Junior Olympic Qualifier and
SuperTour Events. There were 68 entries on
the small hills and 55 on the K70 both
Saturday and Sunday, making it one of the
largest fields we've had in years.
Unfortunately, because of time constraints,
we were unable to hold the Small Hills Award
Ceremony on Saturday afternoon, as planned.
We will strive to see that this does not
happen again. Otherwise, we were blessed
with perfect weather as temperatures hovered
close to 30 degrees and a large crowd that
responded appreciatively to the high level
of competition that was being displayed on
both days. We are grateful for the efforts
of our club members and volunteers along
with your attendance and support, which made
this tournament weekend a great success.
See you on the hills,
Gene
Norge Ski Club
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Itasca Recap
The
families and skiers of the Itasca Ski Club
of Coleraine, Minnesota, gratefully
acknowledge everyone who participated and
assisted with our successful
Northern Flights Invitational
Tournament last weekend!
We had full contingents on the 10, 20, 40
and 70-meter hills, in addition to
Nordic-combiners who made use of Mt.
Itasca's well-groomed, international-caliber
biathlon trails, for a grand total of 140
entrants in all!
We could not have pulled the tournament
together without the tremendous help from
our Central Division officials:
Dan Mattoon
(TD), and judges LeRoy
Martinson,
Jay Martin,
Dan Sydow,
Steve Sydow and
Rick Anderson.
Thanks also to Central's NC chairman,
Paul Loomis,
for assistance with the Nordic-combined
timing and results.
Because our tournament was a Junior Olympic
Qualification event (JOQ) for both ski
jumping and Nordic-combined, we are pleased
to announce these J2-class skiers who
competed on the 70-meter hill and in the 5K
NC race this weekend in the first of the
scheduled qualification events across the
division.
As announcer Doug Maki
made clear, these skiers really "panked"
some jumps down the hill! (Yes, "pank"
is really a word, although it may be
specific to this region and not found in a
standard Webster's dictionary! According to
the native Northern Minnesotans I spoke
with, it means to pound down on snow,
similar to "tamping" on ground!)
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Full results for
all of the weekend's competitions are
posted as always at
www.SkiJumpingUSA.com.
Be sure to also check out the results of
our special 3rd annual
Ole Mangseth Target Competition.
The trophy for this event is kept at our
clubhouse, with the new winner's name
added each year. Congratulations to
this year's winner,
Karl Denney! The
trophy was donated to the club during
our 100th anniversary year (2006) by Ole
Mangseth's grandson,
Kurt Mangseth.
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On behalf of the entire Itasca Ski
Club, especially your competition
organizers, thank you
for making the start of our 102nd year
of ski jumping in the Coleraine area
such a pleasure! We greatly look
forward to hosting more events at this
venue for many years to come.
~Sue Denney
Itasca Ski Club
Coleraine MN
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St. Paul
Tournament Recap from January 6, 2008
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The St Paul Ski Club would like to Thank all
the skiers and their families for attending
the John R Lyons Memorial tournament on Sunday
January 6. Despite the warmer than usual
temperatures we appreciate your competitive
spirit in supporting the efforts of the St
Paul Ski Club and helping make our tournament
a big SUCCESS!! It was by far one of the best
attended tournaments we have hosted in many
years!!!!!
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Snowflake
Tournament Recap from January 5, 2008
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"Westby would like to extend a warm Mange Takk
(many thanks) to the Norge, Blackhawk,
Tri-Norse, Flying Eagles and Kiwanis ski clubs.
Your support is noted and appreciated."
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Marty Erlandson
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Likewise, those of us who attended wish to thank
Snowflake for their incredible efforts to pull
off this Competition. From registration to hill
preparations, concessions, and the Competition
itself, it was evident that they enjoyed hosting
the athletes. Congratulations and thanks! It was
a fun way to start off the winter jumping
season.
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Masters in Hiterzarten, Germany
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Tom Ricchio and Darcy
Oligney.......
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Ski Jumping Coach Inducted Into Masters Hall Of
Fame
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Click Here for a
Great Article on Brady Emerson by Tom Ricchio
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Article on
lack of Women's ski jumping in the Olympics
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There is an interesting article in the
New York Times by Maureen
Dowd
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re: lack of Women's ski jumping in the
Olympics. Click on link below to read:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/sports/othersports/22ski.html?ref=sport
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Club Invites
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Below is a checklist and example format for your
club invite to your upcoming tourney. This form
should help you include everything that needs to
be on there. We are hoping to standardize
these invites so that everyone can access info
they need quickly and easily.
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These invites should be sent out about 2
weeks prior to the tournament. Any
changes or cancellations need to be sent to me
by the Thursday evening before your tournament.
If possible, invites should be sent as a PDF
file attachment and a brief cover note with club
contact info and dates clearly stated. Please
contact me with questions.
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Click Here for Example
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Karyl Loomis
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- Team
Central - Park City '06
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Photographed at the K90 - K120 outrun during
SpringerTournee in Park City last week. Central
had 31 entrants and 5 coaches participate in
SpringerTournee this year.
Back row: Coach Jon Denney, Will Schott,
Coach Kip Kopelke, Dan Englund, Christian
Friberg, Adam Loomis, Jerry Jonas, Karin
Friberg, Nick Schott, Karl Denney, Kyle
Rodgers, Brian Wallace, Nick Johnson,
Elisabeth Anderson, Mike Glasder, Andrew
Schauer, Connor Jacobsen, Johnny Lyons, Elliot
Marracini, Chris Venaglia, Coach Brian Nelson,
Coach Scott Smith
Front row (kneeling): Nathan Mattoon, Ben
Loomis, Nick Mattoon, Natasha Mattoon, Emilee
Anderson, Elizabeth Wallace, Natalia Mattoon,
Ari Denney, Andre Denney, A.J. Brown
Not pictured: Chris Kowalczyk, Wludysluw
("Wally") Kwak, Coach Oleg Glyvka
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Placid July 4th Competition
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Great jumping was done by the boys and great
coaching provided by Scott Smith. Notable
performances: 4th place in the open class by
Will and Daniel's 97.5 m jump.
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Included are (not in order) Daniel Englund,
Zach Hammill, Nick Johnson, Adam Loomis, Mike
Glasder, Evan and Drew Schauer, Kyle Lockhart,
Will and Nick Schott, and Johnny Lyons.
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A
fun time was had by all especially the adults!
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This has a lot of
great information regarding the fees, etc. for
this year!
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SUPPORT WOMEN'S SKI JUMPING! * New Stuff
Available!
Central junior women's ski jumper
Karin Friberg sent the following
note regarding new women's ski jumping t-shirts
and souvenirs available via online order:
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I designed t-shirts for all the
girls. I especially thought it would be cool
for all the girls attending the girls camp in
park city to have one, but they are open for
anyone to buy! The URL for ordering is
www.cafepress.com/centralwomen.
Also note that even though it says Baby as one
of the headers, I really included a child's size
t-shirt, which happens to be put under that
category. Unfortunately the kid's shirts didn't
come in pink. So if you want a pink one, it has
to be in women's sizes.
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- If you find a broken link...please
email to let us know!
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