First Session November 7

We will be having our first Jackrabbit session on Saturday November 7, 10:30am - 11:30am at the soccer field north of the Wildwood Community Centre. 

Everyone is Welcome. We will be opening Registration shortly (just getting online system setup). If you have time before that to register before the session, that would be great, if not, please come anyway. 

We will be playing some games, going for a run, and generally getting our bodies back into the skiing frame of mind. And of course, the Jackrabbit snow dance. Make sure to wear running shoes and clothes you can move in. 

If you have questions please email the coaches at wildwoodjackrabbits@gmail.com

Getting Ready to Ski

Plans are underway on all fronts for this year's skiing season.

The Cross Country Ski Association of Manitoba has published their first newsletter of the season. You can see it here.

Highlights include:
Swap Shop on November 21
First Wednesday Night Racing Starting December 2
Jackrabbit Jamboree February 7

Welcome Ted to the Coaching Team!

We are thrilled to announce an addition to the coaching team for 2015/2016. Ted Fisher will be joining Adam and James as a coach this year. Ted has been involved with Wildwood Jackrabbits for a number of years with his family, and we are very excited that he has agreed to take on the challenge of being a coach. We are also grateful to the Wildwood Community Club who have agreed to sponsor Ted as he becomes certified through the Cross Country Ski Association of Manitoba. Having three coaches this year will allow for more focused programming for the various age groups, and better backup when one of the coaches is away. James, Adam and Ted will be meeting in October to plan out the year.

If you have any suggestions or questions or want to be more involved, please email us: wildwoodjackrabbits@gmail.com

2015-2016 Season

We have had a few questions about the upcoming season, so here is some preliminary information.

Registration will begin towards the middle/end of October, with sessions starting November 7th (tentative). As we get closer, we will be sending out an email to all families that participated last year. If you are interested or would like more information, you can send an email to wildwoodjackrabbits@gmail.com and we'll put you on the list, or you can check back here.

Jackrabbits will be Saturday Mornings 10:30 - 11:30 (most likely).

New skiers and families are always welcome! Feel free to come out to a session and check us out!

Looking forward to snow! (just maybe not quite yet...)

Its a wrap

Baring unforeseen snow and colder weather, the 2014-15 skiing season is at an end. Thanks to all the families and kids who participated in Wildwood Jackrabbits this year. A particular thank you as we (James and Adam) got our skis under us in our first year of coaching.

Today's wrap-up party was great! I know there were quite a few sceptical parents out there when we said skiing was a go (we were a bit sceptical too), but I am happy to say that it all worked. The snowball biathlon was a hit and it was good to play some of our favourite games one last time. Thanks to the Wildwood Community Club for supplying the drinks and snacks for the party.

Here are some pics from the last ski of the year.
Have a great summer and hope to see you all next year!

Shorts and Skis!

Snowball Biathlon

March 14 Wind-up ON SKIS (and hopefully snow)

What would a Jackrabbit wind-up be without skis!

James and I were out with out skis tonight to check it out. It is pretty sketchy, but we think there is enough snow for some games (as long as there isn't too much melting tonight). There is too much snow for anything else so it is either skiing or nothing. Skiing it is!

We'll meet at the **baseball diamond** to the right of the clubhouse. The soccer field is awful and the hills on the golf course is basically grass. The baseball diamond has snow still (or at least did at 9:00 this evening).

The plan is to play some games including (if we can pull it together) a snowball biathlon. Chips, pop, and treats afterwards in the clubhouse (main floor). The jackrabbit toques are here as well as the progress books and stickers for the year.

See you Saturday for the last ski of the year!

Wrapup party this Saturday the 14th

The big question- will we have snow enough to ski on Saturday?

With the rather aggressively warm weather of the week, our snow is quickly disappearing. On the one hand, yay for warm. On the other hand, it would be great to have even one or two more weeks of skiing!

We are going to have our wrap-up party this Saturday. If by some miracle there is still snow enough to ski after this week, we'll keep going.  We'll ski 'til we see grass by gum!

We'll send out an email with more details Friday once we know what the trails will be like (or if there will be trails!). Plan A is some skiing with some games and a windup at the community club. There will be all sorts of goodies (provided by the community club - thanks!) and the Jackrabbit Toques are here! (sorry they are late - we are chalking that up to first year mixup on our part).

It has been a great season. thanks for being part of it!

James and Adam