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Kms PURPLE PAGES Kenai Middle School Kenai, Alaska March 2021 Welcome to a Winter Wonderland! X-treme Skiers X-treme Skiing By Jasmine Brady By Tyler Van Sky There were 38 members of the ski team at KMS, What are the differences between classic and skate and the team has been around for over 20 years. They skiing? What do skiers do when it is time for practice? had a number of coaches like Mr. Carson, Mrs. What are the meets like? What do some of the skiers Boonstra, and Mr. Boonstra. I myself have had the think about it? Keep reading to find out! pleasure of being on the KMS ski team for a while. I never thought that I would ever ski, but when my Classic vs. Skate Skiing parents needed a way to keep me at school I decided What are the differences between classic and skate to join the team, and it has been one of the best skiing? With classic skiing you can buy classic skis or experiences of my life. We have a diversity of trails you can buy combi skis, which are just skis you can and almost every Friday we go to a race and get to use for both classic and skate skiing. When you go leave school early. We also go to the Tsalteshi trails classic skiing you need to put kick wax in the area right every Wednesday and ski around for about two hours under your foot, so you can push off your foot and and it’s so much fun! (continued on page 2) glide forward. (continued on page 3) Check out the full-color version of the Purple Pages online: KMS Facebook, KMS website, and in your school g-mail! 1 X-treme Skiers (continued from page 1) Indiana Jones has been skiing for two years and decided to join the KMS ski team because he didn’t want to be on swim team anymore. His favorite part of skiing is hanging out with friends. He likes the road trips because he can play truth or dare with his friends. Indie’s favorite ski trail is Seward because of the big hills. He likes to have the races every Friday so skiers can have more trips. He likes skate skiing more because he likes going fast. Indie says to stretch whenever you can because skiing really strains your muscles. Indie’s favorite race was the Homer race because with scales are better than skate skis with kick wax of the downhills and especially because he beat because classic skis are for classic skiing and skate Macalen Marion. He likes the skate skis with kick wax skis are for skating. because he has never tried classic skis with scales and This is Katie Van Sky’s first year of competitive because you can glide more. Before the race he thinks skiing. She decided to join the KMS ski team because about where to slow down and speed up and afterward she and her mom like to ski, she thought it was fun, he thinks about snacks. and her brother Tyler Van Sky skis as well. Her Tania Boonstra has been skiing since she was little. favorite part of skiing is the races and the road trips. She decided to join skiing because she thought it She really likes the road trips because of the random would be fun. Her favorite part of skiing is hanging conversations that pop up. Her favorite trail is the out with friends and the skiing part. Her favorite part Ohlson Mountain trails because they’re hard. Katie of the road trips was stopping for snacks but because likes the intervals so people don’t run over each of COVID she likes the skiing more now. Tania really other’s skis. She loves skate skiing because she goes likes the Tsalteshi trails because there are hills but not faster and she thinks it’s easier. too many hills. She says that before she races she is Katie Van Sky’s favorite race was the Homer race super nervous but afterward she feels happy. She because it was super action packed, very hilly, and prefers skate skiing because she goes faster. funny that everyone was falling over. She prefers skate Tania's favorite race was the Homer race because skis with kick wax because scales are slower. She of the hills. She prefers classic skis with scales because thinks classic skis are slower but you don’t have to sit she doesn’t have to find the right wax and she doesn’t there for five minutes putting on layers of wax. She even have to wax. She does say that going downhill in feels nervous before the race and happy afterward. classic skis is slower. The KMS ski team has so many kind people, and it Carter Felchle has been skiing for three or four has been an amazing months. He decided to join because his friend Eli experience. It has been a Smith showed him and he really liked it. His favorite great learning experience part of skiing is being in the snow and being with his and helped me learn some friends. His favorite part of the road trips is talking to responsibility. I would friends. He really likes the Tsalteshi trails because of definitely recommend the diversity in the trails. He prefers skate skiing skiing to anyone who because he goes fast. would like to step out of Carter’s favorite race was the Homer race because their comfort zone and try of the downhills, but he doesn’t like the uphills. He something new. It will feels nervous and shaky before the races, and when he change you physically is racing and sees the finish line he says to himself , and mentally in very good “let's get this over with.” Carter thinks that classic skis ways. Join the ski team next year and it will 2 change your life forever. What do skiers do during practices and meets? After X-treme Skiing school ends, the skiers walk downstairs to put on their gear (continued from page 1) and head down to the wax room. In the wax room there is a whiteboard where the coach writes down what we are working on for that day. Some days we do free ski, where we just ski around the golf course. Other days we do sprints or work on technique and form. On Thursdays we are placed into three groups and then each group will meet at the ski room at different times to wax their skis. While one group Example of waxes their skis, the other groups will be free skiing around classic skiing on the golf course. Fridays are normally race days. On Fridays we are When you go skate skiing you need to use glide released from school early so we can gather all of our gear, wax and when you ski you have to step out and then get on the bus to drive to where we are racing. We ski glide then step the other way like in the pictures through the course as a warm up, then we go to the starting below: spot and start the race. We would normally do mass starts where we all start at once, but because of COVID we all have to start 15-30 seconds apart. Elliot Hanson has been skiing for four years. His parents are forcing him to go skiing. His favorite part about skiing is going down hills because he says that it is way better than going up them. Elliot’s favorite part about the road trips is eating food while people try to steal it and trading food for other foods. His favorite course is Seward because he feels that it is an easier course. Austin Thompson has been skiing for around three years. Austin said, “I would join any ski team that the school does because it is fun to ski with friends and go to the meets.” His favorite part about skiing is going on the bus and playing games like truth or dare. His favorite ski trail is Tsalteshi because there are so many different trails to try there. He feels that the meets aren’t as competitive as they used to be because they are starting 15-30 seconds apart. He prefers skate skiing because he feels more comfortable with it and he thinks that it is easier to balance while skate skiing. Now you know some differences between classic and skate skiing. You also know what we do during practices and you know what some of the skiers like about it. If this sounds fun, come join the ski team next year! 3 Borough Meet Results KMS Ski Team Members X-cellent Ollie Boersma Chase Laker KMS Girls – Top 20 Tania Boonstra Keira Larson 1- Tania Boonstra Jasmine Brady Mac Marion Skiers 3- Ruby Davis Mason Butler Audrey McDonald 6- Leanne Gordon Lucia Carson Blake Morris 7- Keira Larson Luke Cole Joel Moss 9- Lucia Carson Vail Coots Mikey Nutter Ruby Davis Parker Richards KMS Boys – Top 20 Jackson Douthit Otto Rodrigues 2- Chase Laker Aislyn Downum Eli Settlemeyer 4- Parker Richards James Duffield Eli Smith 11- Vail Coots Carter Felchle Sophia Sorrell 12- Mason Butler Leanne Gordon Monica St. John 13- Eli Smith Alan Hack Levi Strong 15- Carter Felchle Kerensa Henderson Cooper Tallent-Darling 16- Austin Thompson Elliot Hanson Sailor Tallent 19- Elliot Hanson Jacob Joanis Lexi Taylor Indie Jones Austin Thompson Titan Jones Katie Van Sky Will Klein Tyler Van Sky Ice Fishing X-travaganza By Keegan Roumell Hello, ladies and gentlemen, I will be taking you on Here are some of the 2020 winners: an adventurous journey to learn about ice fishing.