Mike Edwards

Telemark took part in West Kelowna’s Community Celebration event – Westside Daze –  last weekend. The highlight of  Westside Daze is always the parade.  The Telemark parade entry was a live band being towed on a flatbed trailer behind our Team Telemark van with 17 roller skiers from the Team Telemark racing program and a couple of biathletes too showing off their skills with mini races, slalom courses and handing out SunRype Funbites to all the kids along the parade route. Our entry was a big success as we were awarded first prize in the Music category and second prize in the Novelty category.

Big thanks goes out to…

• The band – ‘CRISPRR’.  (Darcy Allen -Vocals, Mac Mackay-Keyboard, Curtis Kieres – Guitar, Joel Malin – Drums and Club members Deepa Filatow- Vocals  and Barry Allen – Bass guitar). This band was formed by Telemark board member Barry Allen specifically for this purpose.  Thanks to all the great musicians for their time and work to bring this band together in such a short time.
• Team Telemark race program kids for roller skiing and handing out treats.
• Telemark board members and coaches who came out to support everyone.
• Okanagan Nation Alliance for donating the Flatbed Trailer.
• SunRype for donating the ‘Funbites’.

We also had a booth at the Westside Daze night market in Memorial Park. Our biathlon laser rifle system was a big hit with everyone. The system simulates shooting a biathlon rifle and gave everyone – old and young alike – a sense of what biathlon is all about. Thanks to Biathlon BC for the loan of the system.

Thanks to the Westside Celebration Society for putting on a great event. We had a fantastic time and are already looking forward to next year’s Westside Daze.

Click here for a video (WARNING: 1.2 GB file!)

 

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2019 BOUCHERIE GRIND – Sponsored by Mt Boucherie Estate Winery

DATE : Sunday June 23, 2019
LOCATION: 2781 East Boundary Rd West Kelowna ,B.C.
DETAILS: Hiking Event to raise funds for a local non profit Charity C.R.I.S. Adaptive Adventures. All ages/all abilities. Come on out to support our friends at C.R.I.S. EVENT POSTER
COURSES:  9:00 am  9.2 km  Boucherie Grind Extreme $30
9:30  am  6.5 km Boucherie Grind Loop $20
9:45 am  3.4 km Boucherie Grind $10
REGISTRATION: ONLNE AT  www.zone4.ca or on site in the Park 30 minutes before start times.

GLENROSA COMMUNITY BBQ

DATE: Sunday June 23, 2019
LOCATION: 2974 Glen Abbey Place – Glenrosa Middle School
TIME: 12:00 noon to 4:00pm
DETAILS: Telemark is an important part of the Glenrosa community. We will have a tent at the BBQ with info and displays and the Team Telemark Racing Program kids will be out doing some roller ski demos.  This is not a fundraiser – just a fun community BBQ. Come on out and let’s show our support for our local community.
MORE INFO

 

KELOWNA APPLE TRIATHLON

DATE: July 4-7, 2019
DETAILS: This  is a FUNDRAISING opportunity for the Team Telemark Racing Program.  The Kelowna Apple Triathlon is a large and important local sporting event. They need many partners volunteers to pull it off. The organizers of the Triathlon offer Telemark  $2500 in exchange for volunteers.  If you are interested in volunteering for the Triathlon and also want to help out our Club Programs please click on the link for More Info and volunteer sign -up

 

Last week, Biathlon Canada announced their National Training Teams for the 2019-2020 season. After a successful season, Kira Friesen has been selected for the U20 National Development Team. Congratulations Kira!

Biathlon Canada Announcement

 

 

Telemark Nordic Club board, staff and race team representatives presented a framed photo of the Telemark Nordic Club Race Team to Kelowna Toyota to say thank you  for their strong support of the Club over the last two seasons.

 

 

 

Telemark Biathlon athletes Kira Friesen and Natalie Benoit have just wrapped up an outstanding week of racing in the Canadian Biathlon Championships at Whistler BC. Friesen and Benoit each qualified to compete at Nationals having achieved outstanding results this Winter in multiple sanctioned Biathlon races, including the Biathlon BC Cup #5, which was held right here at Telemark Nordic Club.

 

At the Canadian Biathlon Championships, 100’s of athletes and coaches from across Canada were hosted by Whistler. Dozens of race officials, scores of volunteers and many excited families and supporters all made it happen. Racing kicked off mid-week with the Canadian Championship Sprint and Individual competitions on Wednesday and Thursday. Natalie collected a 10th and 7th place respectively in a field of 25 Youth Women from across Canada. Kira, who raced a field of 20 Senior Girls racked up a Bronze medal in the Sprint and added an impressive Silver in the Individual competition.

 

Friday 29 March was a training day. Then on Saturday, the Pursuit race saw Kira dominate the entire Senior Girls field to bring home the Gold while Natalie scored another top 10 finish in the Youth Women category. The weather was warm with sunscreen being de rigueur!

 

On Sunday, Kira and Natalie both raced in the relays. Natalie was paired with Cole Bender from Omineca (Burns Lake) in the Single Mixed Relay and this dynamic duo scored a 7th place finish and the top BC Youth team. Kira and her relay partner Ksenyia Lypko from The West Coast Nordic Club (Fraser Valley) each cleaned all of their shooting bouts to finish 3 minutes ahead of the Silver medalists. That’s right, Kira Friesen not only got a full suite of medals, she also hit double gold at these Championships! Both of these Telemark athletes have worked so hard, representing our wonderful club and province, honouring Sport, their fellow competitors and having a good dose of fun along the way.

Kudos to Kira Friesen and Natalie Benoit!

Way to Go Telemark! Shoot clean, ski fast!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Telemark Nordic Club race program athletes recently returned from the XC Nationals in Quebec where they “Rocked It”.  Telemark finished a best ever 9th out of 61 clubs/teams entered in the Nationals and had several outstanding performances.  Telemark athletes all performed well and had many top 10 placings and personal bests. We won’t list all the results here but a few highlights include…

Silver Medal – Challenge Boys Team Sprint (Tristan Lee, Cole Turner)
Silver Medal – Junior Men Individual Sprint (Tallon Noble)
Bronze Medal – Junior Boys Individual Sprint (Cole Turner)
1st Overall  Aggregate Junior Men 1 – Ian Williams
2nd Overall Aggregate Junior Boys 2 – Cole Turner
2nd Overall Aggregate Juvenile Boys 1 Garrett Siever

Congratulations to all 20+ athletes and coaches!

Full Results here

You can tell that Spring is coming by the size of the icicles hanging from the roof of the lodge.

Conditions continue to be amazing at Telemark. The warm weather will be hitting us soon so come on out and take advantage of great skiing and snowshoeing while you still can. What could be better than taking the kids for some spring skiing/snowshoeing at Telemark during Spring Break!

Telemark will remain fully open until Sunday March 24th with the lodge open until 5pm daily and regular grooming.  After that we will have a modified spring schedule (TBD) for another week until March 31st. Final closure for the season will be determined based upon conditions.

Friday March 15th is last night that the lodge will be open for Night Skiing this season. After that the lights will be on until 9pm daily until March 24th but the  main lodge will be closed at 5pm.  The downstairs “Team Area” will continue to be open 24/7 so you always have a place to store your stuff, change and get warm. We plan to turn the lights off for the season March 24th.  So come on out and get in your last  night skiing of the season. Conditions continue to be incredible with lots of good snow.