Mudbowl

Maja's Junior Development Soccer team took part in the

annual Mudbowl tournament in Port Mcneill on May 1-2.

It rained most of the weekend as expected but it was a

good time and a fun tournament. The Campbell River

team took home the title for the U-12 division, winning

all of their games.

This video clip can also be found on YouTube

in slightly better quality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8fhepVA0XI

Entrepreneur Fair

Maja has been working hard on her project for an

Entrepreneur Fair at her school. The students

had to come up with an idea for a product, then

produce the product and sell it at the fair,

trying to make profit after expenses. Maja's

product line was based around stones she collected

of varying sizes which were polished, lacquered and

drilled as needed to make necklaces, earrings,pocket

rocks and garden rocks. The fair was held

on April 23rd. She made $81 after expenses.

The profits will offset the cost of a field trip

to Strathcona Park in June towards which each

student needs to raise $175.

Speed Camp

At the end of the season the race program members get the

mountain for themselves for three days for a speed camp.

This is so they can set a Super Giant Slalom course they can train

on safely without other skiers on the hill. They start at 7am

and ski until noon to take advantage of the early morning icy snow.

Once the snow softens they can't make use of the snow due to ruts

forming and it simply gets too slow to be worthwhile.

They use a radar gun on the kids to check their speeds.

Maja's fastest speed was 86 kph coming into the first of two jumps.

She was skiing on Super G skis borrowed from her coach.

They were 175cm! Her longest skis, for Giant slalom are 155cm.

The fastest speed was put in by Gabe Pare at 98 kph.

Gabe is 15, in his 2nd year of K2.

Maja had to miss the last day of the camp due to her

entrepreneur fair for school being held that day.

Maja and her 175's

Maja cruising through the air at 86 kph

Rearview of Gabe at 98 kph

Ski Club Year End Awards and Banquet

The Mt. Washington Ski Club held their year end awards
presentation and banquet on April 3rd. It was a fun evening
and the food was excellent. There were numerous awards,
speeches and presentations throughout the evening.
Maja was presented with the K1 Fastest Female Award.
Kole Harle received Fastest K1 male.
Probably the biggest award of the night went to Lindsay Frame.
She received the Ben Bellamy award which is given to an athlete
based on sportsmanship, mentoring , teamwork and a supportive,
positive attitude toward everyone around them.
Ben Bellamy was a member of the race program who died tragically
and is remembered for his positive attitude towards sports, his
team mates and coaches.
The award was presented by his brother Lucien Bellamy.

Free Skiing with Pappa

With the last race of the season done and the season almost

over the girls took a Monday morning to ski with their dad.

It's pretty cool to see these young girls skiing gnarly terrain.

Not too sure if anyone but pappa likes this steep terrain though.

Coast Zone Finals

The Coast Zone Finals were held on Mt.Washington from April 2-4.

The club worked tirelessly to pull off this event but the weather just

wasn't going to cooperate. Friday April 2nd saw volunteers arriving

on the hill as early as 6:30 am with racers from around the province

waiting to compete. The snow had been pouring in all night and it

wouldn't let up all day with winds as high as 95 mph, that's right

mph, recorded at the summit. The entire mountain was without

power most of the day with no skiing operations and obviously no

racing. This spelled the end for the Super Giant Slalom which the

K1's would have been skiing for the first and only time this season.

Saturday brought a break in the weather but with all the new snow

the course was very soft and difficult to maintain. It was a lot of

work to clear all that new snow and set and maintain a slalom

course but a successful day of slalom racing was accomplished.

Sunday morning there was 15-20 cm of new snow with snow still

coming down to the point the race coaches decided the Giant Slalom

could not safely go on. It is impossible to hold an Alpine ski race in

fresh powder. At least the visiting skiers got to sample some of

Washington's fresh snow which we've been fortunate to have an

abundance of this season.

The Mt. Washington skiers did post some excellent results for the

slalom event and it was nice to see the race season end on such a

strong performance at home.

Maja finished 10th overall for the K1's and 3rd of the first year

racers, just a second behind her team mate Keegan McCooey who

placed 6th overall and 2nd of first years. Awesome!

The boys were also impressive with Liam Gilchrist placing 3rd,

Logan Frame 5th, Cole Anderson 6th and Robbie Yelland 9th.

Kole Harle raced hard but did not finish his race.

Maja's little sister Sylvi was selected to compete in an add-on race

for the K-Star group. She is actually 6 weeks too young for this

group but was invited to compete with racers one to two years

older. She finished in second place! Way to go Sylvi.

We didn't get too many photos of this event as we were all very

busy sweeping the course and working to keep the course in shape

for the racers. It was a very busy weekend for only getting in

one day of racing.

Maja out of the start gate!

Sylvi on course.

Maja and Sylvi with Robbie Yelland.