Welcome to the Winona Youth Ski League!

Schedule and location

 We will meet January 5-March 1, 2012.  We will meet on Thursdays from 4:00-5:15pm at the St. Mary's trails.   There will be NO session Thursday February 23, 2012.

CHANGE IN LOCATION:  We will be meeting on the field across from Yons on lower campus.  I'm working on getting the lower entrance to St. Marys (off of Hwy 14) to be open on Thursdays for you to enter campus without driving thru the upper campus. 

Parking is free in the Yons lot, DO NOT park in spots designated for the Music students.  Last year part of the field was plowed out for extra parking, hopefully that will be the case this year.

Registration

Registration will be online at mysl.org  Fees go up mid Nov and mid Dec., check mysl.org web site for  fees and dates.  Rental will be $20 per skier, also paid online.  Please supply the email address of the person that needs to know cancelation/announcements information.

Announcements

Announcements will be relayed via email (please supply the email address of the person that needs to know current announcements/cancelation information when registering)

Weather and cancellation policy

Practice will be canceled on any days that school is not in session/canceled due to weather closings or the air temp is below O degrees Fairenheit. 

Check weatherchannel.com at 2pm, parent discretion is always advised.  I will try to send out an email before 2:30pm.

Equipment

Brad Skillicorn wrote a grant to the Birke Foundation, if accepted we will be able to purchase more equipment for this year. Thank you Brad!

Equipment will be handed out Thursday Dec 15 at the YMCA from 6:15-7:15pm.  Please register early so we can have the correct sizes for your skier.  Those registering after mid Dec, we can not guarantee correct sizes for your skier. People who register before Dec 15 will be given priority in equipment.

Equipment will be collected the last session, March 1, 2012.  If you are not at that session you will need to make arrangements to return equipment in a timely manner.

Parents can rent equipment from SMU for $40 for the season.  You will need to return it daily so it can be available to SMU students during the week.  Equipment is located upstairs in the Power Plant building, next to the clock tower.  Rental is also available weekends from 1-4pm for $5 a day.  It is strongly recommeded that parents wanting to help their child during the lessons be on skis. The groomers spend lots of volunteer time and energy grooming the trails and we don't want to give them extra work by erasing boot footprints.  This especially goes for the youngest groups.

Contact Brother John Grover for adult equipment rental  jgrover@smumn.edu  457-1404

Take care of equipment.  Only ski on snow, DO NOT ski in parking lots or across bike paths.  Misuse of equipment will not be tolerated.  i.e.) skiing over man made jumps, skiing down the sled hill, or skiing off trail.

Any broken equipment will need to be purchased so we can replace it.

Volunteering

MYSL is a volunteer-run organization. The more volunteers, the more groups we can have!  We have lots of interested kids, let me know if you can lead (coach) a group. 

Parents are encouraged to attend practice and learn with the kids, while on skis.

Parking and other fees

Parking is free in designated lots.  Trail fees are on a volunteer basis, we recommend contributing to the trail fund to help defray the costs of grooming and trail maintence, all done by volunteers!  The groomers actually do special grooming for us to make our play areas. You will receive more information about trail fees at some point during the season.

Miscellaneous

1.  Bathrooms are not easily accessible from the trail. Yons is a college dorm that houses music practice rooms, their bathrooms are not for public use.  Please make sure children have taken care of bathroom needs before practice.  Coaches CANNOT leave the group to take someone to the bathroom, parents can.  Which would be the Toner Center on upper campus.

2.  Clothing:  hats and mittens are required.  Snow pants and mittens that resist water are best.  We also recommend wool socks to keep feet warm and maybe long underware.  You may also want to try hand/feet warmers, found at Fleet Farm.  Sole sports on 3rd St. carries children wool socks!

3.  Please be ON TIME!!!  We have a limited amount of daylight and will be getting going right away.  We do not want kids standing around getting cold while waiting for group members to arrive.

RACING

Mysl does sponser youth races, mostly in the Twin Cities.  You will recieve this information in the mysl newsletter.  We added a children's race to the SMU Invite in late January.  More info to follow.

5th and 6th grade option

More info to follow.........

Contact info

Kelly Skillicorn

kellyskillicorn@gmail.com

454-1621