Spring Lake Park Schools

Nordic Skiing

Athletics and Activities

Nordic Skiing - Letter Policy

SPRING LAKE PARK NORDIC SKIING
TEAM MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES

Have a positive, cooperative attitude.
Do your best.
Follow team and High School league rules.
Wear school issued uniform in all meets.
Recruit more skiers.
Be willing to help less experienced skiers.
Complete all workouts to the best of your ability. (No short cuts. No stopping early.) You will be skiing on your own a lot. You are expected to do all workouts even when the coach is not with you.
Please pitch in for gas for drivers. We need to drive to practice a lot, so do your share and help out.
Be on time for practice. We have very limited daylight.
Buy a Minnesota Ski Pass. They are cheap and the proceeds go to groom trails we use. (Consider buying a 3 Rivers Park Pass so we can go to county parks for a change of pace.)
Ski outside of practice.
SKI SKI SKI!!!!

LETTERING STANDARDS
SPRING LAKE PARK NORDIC SKIING

POINTS: In order to earn a letter, you must accumulate 35 points. Points must come from all three categories.

Points are earned in the following manner:

POINTS	CATEGORY I (Attendance)
10 pts 5 pts 2 pts	90% attendance required. 85% attendance required < 85% attendance.
3 pts	Bonus for 98% or better attendance
2 pts	Bonus for 95 - 97% attendance
	CATEGORY II (Competition)
6 pts	Conference Meet Team Member
10 pts	All Conference
5 pts	Honorable Mention
6 pts (2 pts pursuit bonus!)	Section Meet Team Member
4 pts	First alternate to above teams
2 pts	Second alternate to above teams
10 pts	State Meet competitor
2 pts	Each time place in top 5 for team in meets. (Pursuit races count double)
	CATEGORY III (Extra)
5 pts	Attend a ski camp OR Participate in summer ski training with organized group (Team Birke, Minneapolis Ski Club)
1 pt	Extra kilometer points: One point for every 10k (6.2 miles) skied, roller skied, or run outside of practice (This means that if we have practice, you must attend practice that day and ski again to get extra k�s. If we don�t have practice any k�s are extra) No limit on number of points to be earned in this category. Register distance online. Honor system is expected!

NOTE: A portion of point total must come from each category .

Skiers with 100% attendance (not counting any "bonus" days) will earn a varsity letter.
Seniors with 2 or more years of participation and at least 90% attendance will be awarded letters at coach's discretion.
A skier must participate in all meets for which she/he qualifies in order to be eligible for a letter.
Coach reserves the right to withhold or award a letter in situations in which the point system is inappropriate (ex. lack of snow, illness, injury, or behavior detrimental to team).
Ski season is 14 weeks long (84 days). If you subtract Sundays and vacation days, there are about 62 days remaining. Subtract meet days and you end up with about 50 days of practice. Then subtract the days after November 15, when we don't have snow, there are 29 days (or less) of good snow. In a sport like skiing where technique is everything, you just HAVE to be at practice to ski well. Since we work on technique every day, missing a day hurts you, as well as the team. Practice is essential!

Note about attendance:

All absences, whether excused or unexcused, count against the total

Any absence from a practice or a meet must be cleared with the head coach
IN ADVANCE and IN PERSON (see team rules) or it is considered unexcused.

Three or more unexcused absences will result in an athlete's automatic ineligibility to letter for that season.

EXAMPLES OF UNEXCUSED ABSENCES:
Work, Overslept, Forgot.

EXAMPLES OF EXCUSED ABSENCES:
Family obligations, Religious obligations, School work.