A number of you were unable to accept your trophies for this season (or 2008)… as a result, we have still have them!

I have dropped them off with the ladies in the Administration building and they are available for pickup there.  Administration is the office building with the ramp leading up to it (above Snow Stars).

The list is below if you have one.

Congratulations to all the recipients and Thank You for a great season!!

The following trophies are available for pick up in the Administration Building:

Ingrid Backe – Devo

Kristina Bonnett – Devo

Mackenzie Laurion – Devo

Connor Laurion – Devo

Jackson Lovejoy – Devo

Coco Schaff – Devo

Ben Schwinn – Devo

Luke Valentine – Devo

Maggie Bonnett – Freestyle

Eric Rauch – Freestyle

Gwen Rauch – Freestyle

Sam Curt – J1 / J2

Chris Meckel – J1 / J2

Lauren Pierce – J1 / J2

Jeffrey Cole – J3

Ben Gilroy – J3

Kelsey Teague – J3

Natalie Wetmore – J3

Austin Aebetz – Snowboard

Lauren Jennings – Snowboard

Maeve Rabbitt – Snowboard

Mateo Riveros – Snowboard

Randall Reynolds – Snowboard

Jack Valentine – Snowboard

Thomas Williams – Snowboard

Chelsea Baum – ’08 J1 / J2

Colin Cox-Steiner – ’08 Devo PG

Alexandra Fuentes – ’08 J3

George Frick – ’08 Council

Palo Pierce – ’08 J1 / J2

Michael White – ’08 Devo

Kieran Mottau – ‘08 Council

Celeste Buitoni – ‘08 J3

We are having our annual End of Year Awards Party on Saturday, March 27^th.

The morning will have a dual course set up on Wardance for fun racing and beginning at noon we will have a BBQ (weather permitting of course) at the Yurt/Gate Shack area.  At 1:00 the season long awards from each program will be handed out.

So come on by and have a great time with us!

… OMS Freerider DALE TALKINGTON needs your help!

Below is Dale’s entry in the online video contest St. Sauveur Challenge — only 3 DAYS LEFT TO RACK UP THE MOST YouTube VIEWS and win $1,000!!!  Please click on the vid below, press ‘play,’ REFRESH the page, press ‘play’ again until your eyes fall out… you don’t need to watch the vid in its entirety to log a “view.”

His competition is creeping up on him so PLEASE help ‘im out!!

So PLEASE, watch this edit SEVERAL TIMES… EMAIL THE LINK BELOW TO FRIENDS… AND THEN WATCH IT SEVERAL MORE TIMES!!!

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

THANKS OMARA!!!

Dear OMARA communty:

In conjunction with our conferences scheduled for this Friday, OMS will be hosting an open house social for parents from 3:00-5:00pm. This is a fantastic opportunity to view the school, meet teachers and administrators, and find out how OMS might be a fantastic match for your child’s continued athletic and academic development.

Appetizers, beer and wine will be available.  As we travel into the final weeks of the season let’s gather together and toast our children and for what they have accomplished and you, their parents, for providing them with this opportunity.

Best,

WENDY

A note from Elizabeth Gilroy to the OMARA community; please read, as it points to our unity both on and off the slopes…

Okemommas…

We freeze at the slopes together watching our kids soar down mountains, celebrating when they do well, understanding our job at hand when they don’t, and supporting and hugging each other when they get hurt. We have fun skiing together, chatting on the chair lift rides, seeing each other in town at certain “establishments”, gathering at each other’s condos and houses, and those fun OMARA parties…we are women who love to ski, we are friends.

A few years ago, we had some awesome Okemommas shirts made (thx Lori Ford). While looking sharp, we also supported a great cause and sent a donation to the Susan Komen Fund, which as most of you know, seeks to find a cure for breast cancer – a disease that has touched many of us, our friends, sisters and mothers. This year we would like to take on a new cause, Pancreatic Cancer. 2009 was a sad year for us, we lost a fellow Okemomma and friend, Donna Saydek. Many of us have know Donna for years, and have watched with her as Hana has won numerous races and made all of us proud.

The organization that John has chosen is called Pancreatic Cancer Action Network – www.pancan.org <http://www.pancan.org/> .

Lori Ford is creating a 1/4 zip fleece for us made by Rossignol. OKEMOMMA will be embroidered in purple, the color of the pancreatic cancer cause, on the left side of the front. It will also have the Japanese character for “teruko”- Donna’s middle name and the name of her business – translates to “to shine”. Lori has ordered a few sizes/samples that I will have with me this weekend and the coming week for people to try on (sugar shack during lunch). You can also come over if it’s more convenient. My email is eegilroy13@gmail.com.  My cell is 315-725-3442 or the condo 228-7507. At this point we think they will cost around $75. Lori is working out the numbers now – I’ll let you know as soon as we know.

If you would like to join us and order a fleece please respond to this email, call me or find me in the sugar shack. Also, please feel free to forward this email to anyone you think would like to join us. The more orders we have the bigger the check we can send to the Panceratic Cancer Action Network. Help us help them find a way for earlier detection, let’s do this for Donna.

Elizabeth

Are you, as parents, doing all you can to help your children?

Greetings OMARA community… In this post you will find some more materials from USSA regarding effective and appropriate parenting of competitive snowsports athletes.

• Parents 10 Commandments
• Parents Do’s and Don’t’s
• Parents Peak Performance
• Parents Readiness for Competition

The following was posted recently by the Chairperson of Eastern Freestyle and is something all parents of competitive athletes — of all ages and levels — should read, just to keep everything in perspective!!

How to be a Winning Parent…

This document is a favorite of mine. Let your kids own their sport – be a supporter, a fan and the bill payer!! We can’t thank you enough for all that you do to support our athletes – but, please, just do that. No need to solve the world’s problems at the bottom of the course/venue. Nothing will ever be perfect in freestyle or the world – except your child!!

(more…)

Thanks again guys for another great race.  I know the weather was a bit rough on you unlucky souls outside all day, but we had a great time and a great fun event!

Here is the link to visit the VARA site for the results.

(This will open in a new window so bypass that pop-up blocker)

Again, big Thank You to all of the Staff, Coaches, Volunteers and Racers!! See you soon!

We ran our first race of the season today, a J1/2 & Sr GS on Wardance!  91 Competitors Started the run and the results are available on the VARA website by clicking here.

A big THANK YOU goes out to all the volunteers, coaches and athletes who made this race a great success from registration to final results!!

–Eric

The first person to guess the names of ALL THREE OMARA athletes in the three pictures at the bottom of the page that link to ALPINE, FREESTYLE, and SNOWBOARD wins a piece of OMARA apparel.

Submit your guess using the Comments feature at the end of this post.

Good luck!