Year-End Ski Banquet

Our year-end Ski Banquet will be held Sunday Feb 21 at 5:00 PM at Grace Covenant Church on Riverwood Drive.  It will be a potluck meal and items are assigned by grade level:

Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores -  Main Dish
Freshmen and 8th grade girls -  Salad
Freshmen and 8th grade boys -  Dessert
6th and 7th graders -  Beverages (milk or juice).

See you all on Sunday at 5 PM.  Should be done by 7 PM.

State Meet Results & Photos

State meet results are posted HERE.  Thanks for a great season, Flyers!!

Brainerd Dispatch has PRE and POST state meet articles.

If you have any photos from Biwabik that you're willing to share, add them to this shared album.

There were a couple of photosets uploaded to SkinnySki with some great shots of Flyer skiers.  Must have been pretty cold up there....Molly's wearing gloves!

Girls Skate
Boys Skate

Kendal and Hunter even made the State Meet album on SkinnySki's Facebook page.

Videos:
Girls Classic
Boys Classic

State Meet Delayed Start / Charlie Banks Results

The MN State High School State meet being held at Giants Ridge tomorrow, February 11 will have a delayed start. The meet tomorrow will begin at 10:30 a.m. due to extreme cold temperatures. The originally scheduled start time was 10 a.m. The girls will be starting at 10:30 a.m. and the boys at 11:45 a.m. The pursuits will start as scheduled with the girls at 2 p.m. and the boys at 3 p.m.

SkinnySki's State Meet Preview 

Charlie Banks Relay Results are posted.  Congrats to our 10th place boys relay team!

If any of you who are at Giants Ridge have photos from Wednesday/Thursday that you're willing to share, please upload them to this shared album.

State Meet Details

Wednesday - Charlie Banks Relay
4 x 3k Relay (2 legs classic, 2 legs skate)
Up to 40 teams participating
2 pm start time for boys
LF Team: Gunner, Brady, Colton Y, Cormac

Thursday - State  Competition
SkinnySki's Final High School Rankings have Hunter back in the top 10 and the Flyer girls on the cusp of the top 10!

SCHEDULE:
Girls' 5K Freestyle 10:00 a.m.
Boys' 5K Freestyle 11:15 p.m.
Girls' 5K Classical/Pursuit 2:00 p.m.
Boys' 5K Classical/Pursuit 3:00 p.m.

**As of early Tuesday afternoon, the weather forecast for Thursday morning was still quite chilly. If they delay, it would most likely be an hour delay (first racers going out at 11 am), and they would double up the starts (two skiers every 15 seconds). However, there will not be an official decision on this until Wednesday after the coaches meeting (4 pm).

Girls Start List
LF Team: Kendal, Molly, Nica, Amelia, Hannah, Catherine, Christy / Alt. Elizabeth, Alice
Boys Start List
LF Participants:  Hunter, Seth


I'm looking for a link to real time results (if one is available).  Will post an update when I have a link and/or results.  Shoot me a note if you have a link please.  :)

Nordic Ski Updates

Hotel Rooms:
Waz has a few hotel rooms reserved at the Coates Plaza in Virginia for Wednesday night if anyone is planning on going up for the state meet.  Please contact him if you're interested.  If no one takes the rooms by Monday night, he'll let them go.

Area Female Athlete:
Congratulations to Kendal for being named Area Female Athlete by the Brainerd Dispatch!  Read the article HERE.

Good luck to the Girls Team, Hunter and Seth, and the boys competing in the Charlie Banks Relay!!

State T-Shirts

The State Nordic Ski t-shirts will go on sale tomorrow!

     Short sleeved -- $12
     Long sleeved -- $15

The front of the shirt is pictured below and the skiers names will be on the back.  Heather gray shirts with white lettering.

There are a limited number of shirts available, on a first come, first serve basis.  See Gloria in the Activities Office at the High School.

Section 8 Meet Results and Photos

SkinnySki's Section 8 Results:
Racing on the trails at Maplelag, the NW and central teams of Minnesota squared off in the Section 8 championships Tuesday. Kendal Hendrick collected the girls title and helped led the way for her team as Little Falls placed five skiers in the top 7 for the team title. St. Cloud Cathdral-Sartell was second, besting Bemidji by 4 points. Hunter Zupko, Little Falls and Robb Pike, Brainerd, had another tight match with Zupko holding Pike by 5 seconds for the boys title. The Brainerd and Bemidji boys both advanced to State. Results linked in.


PHOTO ALBUM 1
PHOTO ALBUM 2

Jay Richardson Photo Sets:
            Girls
            Boys

Brainerd Dispatch Article

Section 8 Meet - Additional Info

For those of you attending the section meet tomorrow:

Run Order

Classic Course

Skate Course