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This Saturday we have our 3rd race. As always meet your teams at the Sugar House at 9 am, head over to the race arena for inspection. We’ll hope to start the race by 9:45, everyone get two race runs. Please meet your child immediately after the race for lunch. In the afternoon we’ll ski from 12-2, meeting at the Sugar House. Results and awards at 2 pm. Thanks to all the parents for their support of all the kids racing! See you Saturday.

Also, there are still a few jackets to be picked up in the Comp Center, please contact Ellen or Leigh to coordinate pickup.

Pam, Jim and the Hopeful Coaches

This Saturday we will have a normal training day, skiing from 9-11 and 12-2, meeting at the Sugar House. Last Saturday we had 93 kids race, I know that has to be some kind of record. WOW, so great to see all the kids having fun and parents cheering them on! Results are now posted on the website.

If you ordered a jacket in the first round of orders they have arrived. Many people picked them up last weekend but we still have several to be picked up (specifically, Waldron, Blake, Black, Visnic and Richardson). I will be upstairs in the Competition Center on Saturday morning from 8-8:30 am, please meet me there to pick up your jackets. If that time doesn’t work let me know and we’ll arrange something else. Thanks!

See you all on Saturday

Pam, Jim and the Hopeful Coaches

Hi All!

I know you’ve been waiting, and I’ve finally posted them, the Hopefuls results from January 21st are available!!

Click here to go see them!

Saturday 1/21 is our second race of the season. We’ll plan to meet at the Sugar House at 9 am, then ski directly to the start house on Bull Run to inspect. At this point we’ll plan on running a single course again and the race is scheduled to start at 9:30 so plan to come out and cheer on the kids. Each athlete will take two runs in the race course and we should be finished by 11 am. Parents, please plan to meet your child at the end of the race, we will not be returning in groups to the Sugar House. After lunch, we’ll meet again at noon and ski until 2 pm at which time there will be results and awards in front of the Sugar House.

The Hopeful Jackets have arrived. If you have ordered a jacket, you may pick it up in the Competition Center between 2:15 and 3:15 on Saturday afternoon. If you have not ordered one yet we are doing a second order to use up the remaining fabric, if interested please bring a check and sizing info on Saturday and give to Leigh or Ellen.

Looking forward to a great race on Saturday.

Pam, Jim and the Hopeful Coaches

We are getting some snow here in VT, the ground is covered and it is still coming down. Yeah!! We saw some great skiing in the race last weekend and the kids all seemed to have fun despite some nervous jitters. This Saturday 1/14, we’ll have training as usual. Meet at the Sugar House at 9 am ski till 11 am, regroup again after lunch and ski from 12-2. Keep hoping for snow and we’ll see you on the hill!

Pam, Jim and the Hopeful Coaches

The race arena will be open for business tomorrow so the expectation is that our race for Saturday is a GO! The race will be held on the new race arena on Bull Run. We will be running a single course format, rather than a dual so we would like to have the race start moved to 9:30 am. We’ll meet at the Sugar House at 9 am, inspect the course with our teams and first racer off at 9:30. Each child will take 2 runs in the course and scoring will be on combined time and team results. It is our anticipation that the race should be finished by our usual 11 am lunch time. Please meet your kids at the finish of the race, we will not return as a group to the Sugar House. After lunch we’ll meet again at the Sugar House at noon and ski until 2 pm at which time we will announce race results.

For those new to  ski racing and those who aren’t, any number of things can occur on race day. Timing issues, course maintenance and many other delay, it is often a hurry up and wait affair. Just enjoy and get to know the other parents. Hopeful races usually have the best turn out of most races on the mountain so get ready to cheer the kids on.

See you all at the Sugar House Saturday morning!

Pam, Jim and the Hopeful Coaches

We had a fantastic day of skiing today with all the Hopefuls. The coaches are really excited to be skiing with the kids. Just a reminder that we’ll be skiing again on Thursday 12/29 and Saturday 12/31, starting and finishing at the Sugar House 9-11 and 12-2.

Thursday 12/29 we will have our annual parent informational meeting from 5-7 pm at Okemo Mountain School (53 Main St, Ludlow). This is a great opportunity to find out more about the program, ask questions, meet the coaches and other parents. Refreshments will be provided by OMARA (Okemo Mountain Racing Assoc). We would prefer no children please (mostly due to the size of the meeting area).

Jacket orders are due by Saturday, please see Leigh or Ellen.

Thanks for letting us ski with your kids and see you on the slopes

Hi Folks,

The OMARA Meeting that was postponed from December 3rd has a new date and location.

We will now be meeting at 6:00 PM at Willie Dunn’s Grille (at the Okemo Valley Golf Club) on January 7, 2012!

Click Here for Directions to Willie Dunn’s

Hello Everyone,

Hopeful’s will be meeting this weekend. We will meet in front of the Sugar House at 9 am and rumor has it that the Sugar House will be open this weekend. At that time, we’ll get everyone into groups and should be able to accomodate all requests of friends and siblings wishing to ski together. The coaches will be staggered by team in front of the Sugar House and if your child knows who he or she would like to ski with group up with those coaches when you arrive. If your child is new or unsure who to ski with look for Jim or Pam and we’ll get your child situated with an appropriate group. Saturday morning we’ll ski from 9-11 and then 12-2, we will start and finish each session at the Sugar House.

For those who are new, we’ll also be screening Saturday and Sunday morning. Please call Eric in the Comp Center if you have not already scheduled, his number is 802-228-1483.

Training over the next couple of weeks will be as follows:

Saturday 12/17

Tuesday 12/27

Thursday 12/29

Saturday 12/31

We always start and finish at the Sugar House and we ski 9-11 am and 12-2 pm each day we meet.

Our annual Parent Information meeting is scheduled for Thursday 12/29 from 5-7 pm at Okemo Mountain School, 53 Main St. OMARA provides refreshments and it is an opportunity to meet the coaches, learn more about the program and meet some of the other parents.

Between now and Saturday 12/31, we’ll be taking orders for the Hopeful jacket. The jackets should be finished by mid January. If you would like to order please see Leigh or Ellen. The jacket is a quilted, hooded jacket and will have “Hopeful Race Team” embroidered on it. We have selected the blue which is pictured in the photo below.

That’s it for now. We are looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend and over the coming holiday weeks. Safe travels.

Pam, Jim and the rest of the Hopeful staff.

*** SCREENING UPDATES ***

We are still anticipating the B Quad being open tomorrow; giving us access to the Sugar House.

In the event the B Quad is CLOSED – MEET AT THE BASE OF THE SACHEM QUAD

We will not be having any screenings on Saturday 12/10.  We are not planning to have skiing access to the Sugar House that day.

We are planning to have top-to-bottom skiing by Sunday!!!   No promises at this time, so don’t hold us to it.

That said here is the schedule:

ALL DEVO SCREENINGS – Wait for an email from Mariel regarding the regular training schedule.

Any screening scheduled for 12/10 or 12/11 will be held on SUNDAY 12/11 at 9:00 AM at the Sugar House.

ALL HOPEFULS SCREENINGS – NO REGULAR HOPEFULS GROUP THIS WEEK

Any screening scheduled for 12/10 or 12/11 will be held on SUNDAY 12/11 at the following times.

Last Name begins with:

A-F please meet at the Sugar House at 9:00 AM for your screening.

G-M please meet at the Sugar House at 10:00 AM for your screening.

N-Z please meet at the Sugar House at 11:00 AM for your screening.

Freestyle – Regular Programs – look for Mike’s info on training

Screenings meet at Base of A/B Chairs at 9:00 AM as scheduled.

Snowboard – Regular Programs – look for Luke’s info on training.

Screenings meet at Base of A/B Chairs at 8:00 AM (might be closer to 8:15 AM) as scheduled.

DEVO PG – Look for an email from Mike or Bill about where regular groups will meet.

Meet at the Sugar House at 10:00 AM on Sunday 12/11 for your screenings.