Park City Ice Miners. Photo: Shannon Bennett (Facebook)
PARK CITY, Utah — This weekend the Park City Ice Arena hosted hockey’s High Mountain Shootout. The Park City Ice Miners under 12-year-olds Travel Team won first place, under 14-year-olds/T2 took second place and the under ten-year-olds Travel Team took third.
Local hockey mom and elite ice skating coach Shannon Bennet wrote on Facebook about her daughter Savanah and her triumphant teammates, “Shootout Champions!!! Way to go Savanah and Miners as they took the banner last weekend in their home tourney! So proud of her and battling among the boys, rolled from her weekend in Denver at silver sticks with Lady Grizz to this, so proud kiddo! Thank you coach Flink for believing in her and coaching her up!!! Love watching you play!!”
Competitive teams in the division include those from Utah, Idaho and Wyoming.
Savanah’solder brother, Brady, is also a prolific hockey athlete who attends a specialized training school program in Nevada.
I've lived in Park City for 30 years but right off the starting line, my journalism professors expressed plaudits after class for writing more so about the small-town sports in the surrounding mountains than the urban updates they assigned. Therefore, I’m on par punning and penning Parkites' pastimes. Turning high and early through my career, I’ve worked communications for The Olympics, the Paralympics and the Special Olympics. Additionally, there's been National Geographic, Patagonia, NCAA, USA Nordic and the United States Library of Congress, so I guess you could say this ain't my first rodeo.
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