WMC Championship Race on Saturday!

Details about the last race of the season have been determined. Please note this is the last week of ski team this year, so we'll have practices every day (as long as conditions/weather permit) and a race on Saturday. Here's what we've got to look forward to on Saturday:

Who:

All MCWS skiers are eligible to ski in this event.

This will be a question on the ParentSquare ski team questionnaire on Monday morning to find out who wants to participate in this race.

When & Where:

Saturday, March 6

Stark’s Mountain, Fryeburg - Click HERE for map to Stark's
10:00am - Boys start
11:15am - Girls start

Race info:

SKATE ONLY

15 second interval individual starts
5.7k – 2 lap course

Transportation:

As per usual this year, we can take some skiers in a van but believe that many skiers will have their own transportation, either via driving themselves or being driven by a parent.

There will be a question on the ParentSquare ski team questionnaire on Monday morning to find out who has their own transportation and who needs a ride.

Those of you who have been on the team in previous years will recall that this final WMC Championship event is usually two days, where one day is a classic race and the other a skate race. This year due to a variety of covid related reasons, it will be one day only, one race only. The reasons for Skate only are:

• Many teams have had limited time classic skiing and don’t feel comfortable putting kids on a championship level race course.
• Only 2 coaches per team will be allowed which will make waxing more difficult, particularly for larger teams and the likelihood of klister conditions.
• Low or no snow around Portland venues would mean 2 races at Stark’s. This additional travel during COVID is not wanted by many teams.

All schools felt it was important that we allow all kids to race that want to (with no limits on number of entries/team). Therefore a plan was developed to split Stark’s into 2 venues, which is valid per state event guidelines. This will allow us to race all kids in each gender on the same day in the same location.

Venue #1 will be the race course and Venue #2 will be a separate loop for skiing/warm-up/entertainment for the other gender not racing. Click HERE to see course/site map.

No outside spectators will be allowed but they are looking into setting up a streaming option (which might or might not pan out). They will also have live timing available on the web.

Girls will have a 25 minute window for race course preview prior to their race – from 10:50 to 11:15. (remember it is a 2 lap course so they only need to preview about 2.7k).

Awards will be given, but distributed through individual schools – there will not be the usual group ceremony.

Although this race won't look exactly like what it has been in other years, this is still all good news! Us having a safe nine team Championship event to end the season is a very good thing, something which many other sports have had to forgo this year. Fryeburg has plenty of snow so we will hope for a nice day.