United States Mountain Bike National Championships at Solvista

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Chris

2010 US Mountain Bike Championships Winter Park

The United States Mountain Bike Championships are making a return to Solvista ski and golf club for the second year. This a huge event for the Winter Park area and Solvista specifically, another feather in the cap for “Mountain Bike Capitol, USA”

SolVista Bike Park is proud to host the 2010 USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships in Granby, Colorado. On July 15-18. 2010 thousands of professional and amateur races will come battle it out on world class terrain in Cross Country, Downhill, Super-D, Mountain Cross and Short Track races.

The four day event will be held on July 15th thru 18th, 2010. It is a great way to see some spectacular athletes competing on some great terrain. It also is a good week to bring up the n=bike and do some great riding and check out the event.

The resort will again host national championships for downhill, cross country and four cross events for elite, junior, master and amateur categories.

Sol Vista has huge potential. They’re going to tweak some things in the basin area this year. For example, they will re-do the cross country course, so you’ll be able to see more of it as your watching.

SolVista move the expo area over and open the main area up for teams and vendors. Hopefully, it’ll be even more of a festival like atmosphere than last year.

In an effort to reduce the contracting and administrative logistics involved in constantly moving the nationals, USAC has been moving toward a model in which hosts serve as venues for multiple years, though perhaps for different disciplines.

Hopefully, we will see SolVista hosting these championships in years to come. SolVist Bike Park is a great venue and the exposure it brings to the Winter park area for mountain biking is fantastic.

To keep up to date on the schedule for the Us Mountain Bike Championships got to www.solvistanationals.com for info. As of April 2010 the info is still about the 2009 event.

For lodging to the USA Cycling Mountain Bike Championships check out Winter Park Lodging Company rentals.

Winter Park’s Olympian Ryan St. Onge

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Valarie

We are proud to claim an Olympian amongst our own Winter Park circle. The freestyle aerial ski jumper Ryan St. Onge, one of Winter Park’s own, finished at fourth place in British Columbia on Thursday, Feb 26th, just 2.5 points off from winning the bronze. Congratulations, Ryan!

Ryan and his family, including his brother Chad, another US Ski Teamster, moved to Winter Park in 1991 when he was eight years old. Ryan then trained with the Winter Park Competition Center for the next eight years. At the age of fourteen, he was selected to compete with the US ski team, performing two our of four jumps perfectly at the selection event.

Since then, Ryan St. Onge has gone on to win seven World Cup victories, three national titles, a silver medal in the 2009 World Cup Grand Prix and a gold at the 2009 World Championships held in Japan in March 2009. What an athlete! This is his second time at the Olympic games.

See the footage of Ryan’s go for gold at the Olympics in British Columbia on Feb 26th.

Winter Park Competition Center has 28 current or former athletes that have gone on to join the US Ski Team. Wow! In 2009, Winter Park Alumni Liz McIntyre was inducted in the US Ski Hall of Fame, another Winter Park Alum, Michelle Roark, won the US National Moguls Competition and the Winter Park Head Aerials Coach, Chris Seemann, was selected as the USSA’s freestyle coach of the year.

Let’s hear it for the first-class athletes of Winter Park!

J4 Junior Olympics at Winter Park Resort

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Chris

Winter Park Junior Olympics

Winter Park Resort is hosting the J4 Junior Olympics March 16th to 20th, 2010. This event features the highest level of racing in the United States for the J4 age class (racers born in 1997 and 1998, ages 11-13) including the fastest racers from eighteen states covering the Central and Southern Rockies and the Midwest as selected through their qualification events.

The racing will take place on the fast and furious Lower Hughes on the Winter Park side of the Winter Park/Mary Jane Resort.

After watching Bode Miller snag the gold at the Vancouver Winter Olympics I think this qould be a great way to get out and see some of the USA’s future future Olympians.

This event will see the best 11- and 12-year-old racers in the region compete in super-G, giant slalom and slalom events.

Come on out and support our future Olympians at the J4 Junior Olympians at Winter Park Resort.

Junior Olympics J4 to be held in Winter Park March 16-20, 2010

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Amy

Apex Racing's Zak Kjos was crowned J4 Junior Olympic champion - Photo by SharpShooters The J4 Junior Olympics will be held again this year in Winter Park, CO. During the weekend of March 16-20, over 200 11 -13 year olds will be competing for the medals. The racers come from 18 different states, from the Central and Southern Rockies al the way to the Mid-West. They compete in the Grand Slalom, the Super G., and the Slalom. They hold the races on Hughes run and it is great fun to watch them speed down the mountain. For more information contact the Winter Park Competition Center at 970.726.1590. Get your lodging booked with us at a Zephyr condo and you can watch the racers from your balcony!