August 13, 2024
LAKE PLACID – The White Castle USA Luge Slider Search, wheeled sleds in summer and fall to locate long-distance national team members and Olympians, will arrive in Lake Placid on Saturday.
USA Luge’s premier recruiting event, aimed at youth ages 10 to 13, will take place at the Olympic Sports Complex. Three clinic times will be offered: 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. to 11 a. m. , from 11 a. m. to 11 a. m. to 1 p. m. and from 2 p. m. to four in the afternoon Parking will be available in lot C, upon registration at Mountain Pass Lodge.
Cursor Search hosts the luge team’s offseason recruiting efforts. The sessions are free and all participants get a White Castle USA Luge Slider Search t-shirt.
Lake Placid is one of several stops on the summer and fall recruiting excursion across the country. Cursor search graduates include Erin Hamlin, 2014 Olympic bronze medalist and four-time World Championships medalist, who was known in a 1999 cursor search, and Brian Martin, 1998 Olympic bronze medalist and 2002 Olympic silver medalist, who was discovered in a cursor search. . in 1987. Eight members of the U. S. Olympic bobsled team. UU. de 2010, six athletes from the U. S. Olympic bobsled team were on the Olympic bobsled team. UU. de 2014, six sliders from the 2018 Olympic team and four from the 2022 Beijing team graduated from this research.
The project of this core program, established in 1985, is to identify, exercise and qualify young athletes for the U. S. Junior Luge Development Team. U. S. Team Candidate, Junior National Team Selection, Junior National Team, National Team Selection) are hopeful that one day members of the National Team and the Olympic Teams of Luge.
Over the years, USA Luge Slider Search has traveled more than 225,000 miles and brought the game of luge to more than 20,000 enthusiastic young athletes. In the prevention series, guided by coaches and athletes from the U. S. Olympic and national teams, the U. S. In the U. S. , participants receive information on the basics of operating a speed-controlled sled, as well as positioning, orientation, and prevention. Once those qualifications are developed, athletes complete several races on a paved toboggan run on wheeled sleds. Finally, athletes test their physical talents through a series of fitness checks if time permits. Those who show promise in the summer program are invited to Lake Placid or Park City, Utah, to try their hand at ice sledding at a USA Luge-approved educational site. The most productive young athletes in this organization are decided for next year’s progression team.
Most of the existing members of the US Youth National Team were recruited through USA Luge Slider Search, so it is no surprise that the training staff believes that the long-term national and Olympic groups will come from this recruitment program. Register by phone at 1-800-USA -LUGE or online through a secure online site at www. usaluge. org/try-luge/slider-search.
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