2014-2015 Racing Team Photos
Raiders of the Lost Fjord
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Coordinator: Brian Johnson |
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2015 Team Photo: Raiders Of the Lost Fjord
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Left To Right:
684 Lee Erickson, 687 Kim Taraschi, 682 Jim Habeck,
683 Lezley Johansen, 688 John Kasprick, 685 Brian Johnson
Not Shown:
680 Torch Dorn, 686 Katie Connolly |
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| Photos by: Brian Johnson |
680 Torch Dorn
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682 Jim Habeck
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683 Lezley Johansen, Team Captain
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Torch
Dorn wins the prize for the most colorful outfit in the race
league. When Torch isn't busy racing he takes most of his time to
work with the severely challenged skiers at Highland Hills. A lot
of the equipment that Torch and the other instructors use on Friday was
donated by our ULLR Foundation.
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Jim
is one of two very senior racers on our team, going back to 2001.
He always makes it to the morning gate practice, and still has the
strength to come back and race flawlessly in the afternoon.
Always positive, he has a gentle word of encouragement for everyone on
the team.
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Our
captain Lezley Johansen, worked hard to perfect the ULLR cheer and then
teach it to both our teams. Every Friday she's at Highland Hills
working with former Olympian racer Cindy McDonald, and as the year
progressed there's no question that Cindy McDonald is an excellent
teacher and Leslie's times went down.
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684 Lee Erickson
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685 Brian Johnson
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686 Katie Connolly
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in the 80's Lee captained the Thursday night ULLR race team.
Someone on that team taught him the ULLR cheer. Being the
skulldugerous character that Lee is, he taught the cheer to Lezley, who
taught it to both teams. | | Brian (he's
the one in the lower right) is being comforted by his teammates.
He found that after dealing with injuries for three years, he would
have to spend more time then he had counted on regaining his skiing
skills and learning his new skis. You could find him every
Wednesday morning running practice gates, but, by the afternoon would
be too exhausted to race Next year he plans to join Lezley on Friday at Highland so he will have strength for Wednesday. | | Also
new to our team this year is Katie Connolly, who celebrated her
marriage to Drew Raun just before the season started (If you look close
you can see the sparkle on her diamond). This was the first year
that Katie had ever raced in her life. It took her a while to get
the feel of it, but she wound up being not only the most improved
member of our team but also the most improved racer in the entire
league. She’s very proudly holding her awards. |
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687 Kim Taraschi
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| | 688 John Kasprick
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Kim
(also known as "frozen foot") is also new to our team this year.
Kim is from Solvang, California and grew up aspiring to be a ballerina
or a ski bunny. Her dad was an airline pilot and her family
enjoyed ski trips to Colorado and Austria. Kim is the proud owner
of New Movement, her small Pilates studio in Southwest
Minneapolis. The wind chill was 30 below the day this picture was
taken and probably a lot colder at the top of the hill. She's
working very hard to get her feet thawed out.
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Kasprick says: A couple years ago I met Torch Dorn at a
Professional Ski Association of America ski event. Chatting on
the lift, Torch said he raced on ULLR's team, and I asked to
join. He gave me Brian Johnson’s number, and nervously I
called. Brian was great as he told me all about ULLR and the Ski
Challenge. Two years with ULLR and I love it! Recently, I
sent dues to join the ULLR club, making me a full fledged ULLR
member. Thanks to everyone at ULLR who make this possible.
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