Give your Olympic Dreams a Push
Picture yourself racing down the Olympic track at speeds over 80 mph. Come to the Utah Olympic Park and give the sports of bobsled and skeleton a try. Introductory and development clinics are available for athletes ages 14 and up. Learn the basics or fine tune your driving skills with guidance from our internationally renowned coaching staff.
Introduction Clinics to Bobsled and Skeleton
Introduction clinics are designed to give participants the basic sliding skills to safely navigate their way down the icy track at speeds up to 55 MPH. The clinic will start with participants being fitted to equipment, followed by a track walk with your coach. You’ll take your inaugural run from the junior start. After the clinic, if you find that you have “the need for speed”, take the next step in our Advanced Driving School.
Dates: Saturday November 15, 2008 4:00pm to 6:00pm, 2pm check-in required
Saturday November 29, 2008 2:00pm to 4:00pm, Noon check-in required
Saturday December 13, 2008 Noon to 3:00pm, 10am check-in required
Saturday January 31, 2009 2:00pm to 4:00pm, Noon check-in required
Saturday February 7, 2009 3:00pm to 5:00pm, 1pm check-in required
Sunday February 22, 2009 6:00pm to 8:00pm, 4pm check-in required
Sunday March 1, 2009 6:00pm to 8:00pm, 4pm check-in required
Cost: $250.00. No prior skeleton and bobsled experience necessary. Program fee includes: track time, equipment and coaching. Participants must be at least 5 feet tall and weigh 100+ pounds.
Advanced Bobsled and Skeleton Driving School
The Advanced Driving School will teach you more about the sports of bobsled or skeleton, participants spend the first few days driving from the junior start, based on progress and coach analysis, participants may move on to start three. After a day at start three, participants then move to the top of the track. The school will cover sled and equipment maintenance and the finer points of the sports. Based on coaches discretion, following completion of the school, you may be invited to train in our National Development program for the remainder of the season. Or, if you just find the sports “FUN” we have club sessions that provide recreational sliding opportunities.
Date: December 16-20, 2008
Cost: $600.00. It is recommended that participants complete an Introduction Clinic (listed above). Participants must be 14 years of age (skeleton), 16 years of ages (bobsled), and be at least 5 feet tall and weigh 100+ pounds. 2008-2009 United Sates Bobsled and Skeleton Federation athlete membership required.
Olympic Sliding Experience
Picture yourself racing down the Olympic Track reaching speeds of 50 to 80 miles an hour! This is a once in a life time experience – everyone needs to try it at least once. Exhilarating!
Your Olympic Sliding Experience will teach you about the sports of bobsled and skeleton. On March 12 you will have an opportunity to walk the track with our internationally renowned Head Coach Pat Brown. With his coaching, you will begin driving a bobsled from the Jr. Start, which involves 10 twisting curves to the finish line at speeds of 50 miles per hour. After sliding, you will be given a tour of the Utah Olympic Park including the 2002 Olympic Winter Games Museum, Olympic Ski Jumps, the Freestyle Pool and all elements of the Bobsled, Luge and Skeleton Track.
On day two, you will have the opportunity to learn how to drive a Skeleton Sled – on your stomach, head first. This is taking sledding on a “Western Flyer” to the extreme, as you navigate your way down 10 curves with your nose three inches off the ice at speeds of up to 50 miles per hour. In the afternoon, participants will have an opportunity to skate on the “fastest ice in the world” at the Utah Olympic Oval.
Day three will be the grand finale of your Olympic Sliding Experience and will start with a track walk with your coach from the top of the track to the finish. Then you will take a ride in a four-man sled from the top of the track, reaching speeds over 80 miles an hour. In the afternoon, a reception and awards ceremony will complete your Olympic Sliding Experience.
Dates: March 5 - 7, 2009 or March 12 - 14, 2009
Cost: $1,200 per person
For more information or to register please contact Utah Olympic Park Sport Services at
(435) 658-4208; www.olyparks.com
Click Here to Register Online
UAF Bobsled and Skeleton Development Program
Our Mission: Produce a Progressive sequence of training opportunities for young athletes helping them build a solid foundation of skills through professional coaching, consistency, confidence and safety.
Goals:
- Provide ice time and professional coaching that assists in putting athletes on podiums and on national teams, maximizing individual potential.
- Promote responsibility, dependability, accountability, respectability, leadership, teamwork and community involvement/giving.
- Provide “open-door”, any time communication.
Participation:
- Everyone must take the USBSF Fitness Evaluation Test administered by the UAF Head Bobsled and Skeleton Coach.
- A development minimum point/pass score for the UAF Bobsled and Skeleton Development Team will be set by the Head Coach.
- All athletes wishing to become a member of the UAF National Development Program or participate in the UAF Club Development Program must be approved by the UAF Bobsled and Skeleton Head Coach, Pat Brown; pat.brown@olyparks.com; 435-658-4252.
UAF National Development Schedule
(Subject to Change. Most sessions will be 7-9pm.)
First Half of the Season
- NOVEMBER: 4- 5- 7- 8- 11- 12- 14- 15- 16/ RACE -18- 19- 21- 22 -25- 26- 28- 29/ RACE
- DECEMBER: 2- 3- 5- 6/RACE- 9- 10- 12- 14/Race- 16- 17- 21- 23- 26- 27- 28/ Race 30
Second Half of the Season
- JANUARY: 2- 3-6- 7- 9- 10/ RACE- 14- 17- 20- 21- 22- 23- 24/ RACE- 27- 28- 30- 31
- FEBUARY: 3- 4/ RACE OFF FOR WORLD CUP FORRUNNERS- 18- 19- 20- 21
- MARCH: 3- 4- 5- 6- 7
UAF Club Development
(Subject to Change. Session times vary.)
- NOVEMBER: 9- 16/ RACE- 22- 23- 29/ RACE 30
- DECEMBER: 6/ RACE- 14 /RACE- 21- 26- 27- 28/ RACE
- JANUARY: 3- 4- 10/ RACE- 11- 18- 24/RACE
- FEBUARY: 1- 4/RACE- 22
UAF National Development Fees (includes track fees and coaching)
Drivers / Skeleton
First Half of Season November – end of December $600.00
Second Half of Season January – March $600.00
Brakemen/Pushers
Entire Season November – March $250.00
UAF Club Development Fees (includes track fees and coaching)
Drivers / Skeleton
First Half of Season November – end of December $300.00
Second Half of Season January – February $300.00
Brakemen/Pushers
Entire Season November – February $250.00
For more information, please contact UAF Bobsled and Skeleton Head Coach, Pat Brown; pat.brown@olyparks.com; 435-658-4252.
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