Think kids, think fun on snow.
Now is the time to fire up our youth about fun on snow. The four letter “s” word has actually been in the U S Weather Service forecast for Albany on two separate occasions. To assure that our youth actually has fun on snow this year please focus on seven items:
1. Have you been thinking about forming a Bill Koch Youth Ski League club around your family, in your school, or in your area? Need that final boost of inspiration? I will send you a copy of a “Leaders’ Manual” that has all the good stuff, ideas, and details. This Manual can be yours with a simple request to Eric Hamilton, 67 Pico Rd, Clifton Park, NY 12065, 518-371-7548 or by responding to the comment section below.
2. For our established clubs, review your club’s entry in in the list of existing clubs and let me know if your club’s entry needs changes.
3. Please review the cross country schedule. A good many of these sanctioned events have BKYSL events attached to them. Please send me the details on the ones you are helping host: Date; registration window; first start time; technique; entry fees; location; etc.
4. Print and distribute the Ks for Kochers form for each of your youth.
5. Start talking up the Mid Atlantic Bill Koch Ski Festival at Lapland Lake the weekend of March 13 and 14, 2010. We will have registration on-line, I hope, within the next month.
6. Check your supply of ribbons. If you are low (less than a dozen each 1st through 5th and “participant”) let me know.
7. Insist that all your club members are NYSSRA – Nordic members. Membership is all handled on-line this year. Easy to do, but very important to your club, so that you have adequate insurance coverage. Remember first year membership fees are waved, but we DO need the waiver signed.
Just a little preparation now with guarantee a fun season for you and our youth. Think fun on snow.
December 30, 2009 at 5:19 pm
hello Eric, I would be interested in a copy of the leaders manual. I will be running the BK Program with the Lake Placid Ski Club. Thanks.
skiing has been great up here in the Olympic Village.
Pat Gallagher