Week of December 16

Reach out anytime with questions, thank you!

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**Middle School Race Team (MSRT): 

We are excited for a great season, GTSC!
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**USSS Race Teams – Middle School USSS Race Team, Intro to USSS Race Team and High School USSS Teams: 
Thanks to all our athletes who joined us for a great weekend of training at both Crystal Mtn and Nubs! A reminder to all that we will continue to offer training opportunities to help our athletes prepare for the season – providing gate training as we are allowed by the venues. We are sensitive to lift ticket considerations and are hopeful our beloved Hickory Hills will open soon!

Weekend of Dec 21 & 22 – 
U16 & Younger SkillsQuest @ Nubs Nob –

This is a FREE event for all USSS athletes to attend – but you must register with USSS via your myussa account (reminder: by Wednesday). This event is run by CR3 coaches and works athletes in specific, intentional on-snow drills to help improve, and test, their skills. SkillsQuest followed by training on Saturday and Sunday @ Nubs. Please mark your AVAILABILITY in TeamSnap if registering to go.

Training – See TeamSnap Schedule for a training opportunity for those not attending SkillsQuest. Unless something changes at Crystal, this will likely be drills with coaches as they are not allowing gates at this time. Please mark your AVAILABILITY in TeamSnap if attending so we can send coaches as appropriate for the #s – reminder we need 4 skiers folks!

AVAILABILITY – We will continue to remind all athletes to MARK THEIR AVAILABILITY in TeamSnap for each weekend event (race or practice!).
This helps us ensure we send the appropriate # of coaches to service all attending athletes!
Also a reminder that we send a coach a minimum of 4 athletes at any event – so your attendance matters!!
We kindly ask that all mark their Availability by 48 hrs prior, we will notify skiers of 24 hrs prior if any changes with the information we have.

SKI PASSES – Reminder to please start purchasing your ski passes.:
Hickory Hills Passes: Now available online through the City of Traverse City website! Most families opt for the season pass over a daily pass, but this is your choice.
https://www.traversecitymi.gov/government/city-departments/hickory-hills/season-passes.html

Crystal Mountain Passes: Our GTSC athletes get a discount racer passes. Racer passes are purchased by calling Megan Farfsing at Crystal Mountain, 231.378.2255. These need to be purchased by December 1, so please make it happen =)

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**FIS Race Team 
Great weekend of training, thank you to our FIS athletes for showing up and being solid leaders with our FIS/USSS teams. Our next FIS race is coming up, time to fire up the troops again!

Weekend of Dec 19 – 22 – 
FIS Searchmont MidAm Race –

Please see the FIS Schedule in TeamSnap for our anticipated departure time on Thursday morning in the team vehicle!

Training – We will train Thursday afternoon at Searchmont – more details TBA ASAP. (love those acronyms!?!?!)

Documents – Reminder to all families – PLEASE CHECK THE BORDER CROSSING DOCUMENT REQUIREMENTS and ensure your athlete has everything necessary to safely cross with GTSC.

House Parent – Thank you to Marc DeCubber for offering to be the GTSC house parent at the beautiful Mountainview Lodge. =) At least we know what we are getting into with this awesome accommodations!

Food – Our good buddy Karen at the Mountainview Lodge cooks breakfast and dinner for the FIS team – woohoo! The kids only need to pack their daily lunches and snacks for this event. Here is an optional food signup if you want to send some favorite goodies – see Searchmont tab:

Reach out with questions or anything I may have forgotten!