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Shannon Miller coaches participants Tuesday during the weeklong Shannon Miller Hockey Camp at Howelsen Ice Arena.
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More than X’s and O’s
Shannon Miller’s hockey camp teaches young girls the mental side of sport Luke Graham
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When Shannon Miller runs a hockey camp, it goes far beyond the X’s and O’s of the game. Sure, there are plenty of onice moments, but after a closer look, it’s easier to understand why Miller — one of the most respected figures in women’s hockey — runs her camps the way she does. “The one thing I’ve noticed for women’s hockey changing, is the women have become better athletes,” Miller said. “When I coached Team Canada for
the first time in 1991, they were good hockey players but not good athletes. Ten years later, they’re all good athletes. You want the same effect to go through to the grass-roots level.” So while the 46 girls, ages 9 to 16, attending this week’s Shannon Miller Hockey Camp at Howelsen Ice Arena will no doubt leave with better on-ice skills, Miller said she hopes they’ll also take away a lot more. In addition to skating and playing, the girls work on the mental side of the game, as well as learning about dryland training.
“Why wait until you’re 15 or 16 to start becoming a good athlete and learning about good nutrition, the mental side and dryland training?” Miller said. “Why not start when you’re 9, 10 or 11 years old so it’s second nature when you’re 15 or 16?” Miller might be the best person to teach young girls about the game. The veteran coach has helped lead the University of Minnesota-Duluth women’s hockey team to four Division I national championships in nine years as a coach. She coached Team Canada for seven years, including winning a silver medal at the 1998
Winter Olympic Games. Miller’s knowledge of the game has players from across the region coming to Steamboat for the camp. In addition to a plethora of local players, skaters from all across Colorado descended on Howelsen Ice Arena to attend what many said is the best hockey camp in the area. “It’s the best hockey camp we knew of,” said Marisa Danos, a 13-year-old who traveled up from Gunnison for the four-day camp. “I learn stuff I’ve never learned before and improve on See Hocky, page 31
Alpine team to meet with former Olympians Luke Graham
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Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Alpine coach Rob Worrell knows there are a lot of things that go into becoming an Olympian.
But he also knows that Olympians are regular people. So in conjunction with running the Winter Sports Club’s summer conditioning camp, Worrell is bringing the young athletes to a unique event. Members of the Alpine team will have breakfast at Johnny
B Good’s Diner with former Olympians at 9 a.m. Thursday. Worrell said he invited more than 80 former Olympians but isn’t sure how many will show up. Regardless, the information the Olympians can provide the young Winter Sports
Club Alpine skiers is priceless, Worrell said. “I want them to understand you have got to have a winning attitude,” Worrell said. “It’s having a positive attitude, trying your best and having simple See Breakfast, page 30
Evan Longoria, Carlos Pena and the Tampa Bay Rays powered their way past Colorado, 124, on Tuesday night, snapping the Rockies’ 11-game winning streak with a franchise-best 11 extrabase hits. Longoria and Pena hit two of the Rays’ five homers. Kapler, Ben Zobrist and B.J. Upton also homered. Colorado’s winning streak was tied with Boston for the longest in the majors this season and also tied for the longest in Rockies’ history, matching the mark set during their 21-1 run to the 2007 World Series. Leading Tampa’s 17-hit onslaught, Kapler and Zobrist finished a double shy of the cycle, and Upton was a triple short. The Rays won their sixth straight and right-hander Jeff Niemann (6-4) benefited from the offensive outburst. Niemann (6-4) allowed three runs, all earned, on five hits and two walks in five innings in his first career start against the Rockies, who lost for the first time since June 3 at Houston. Kapler tied his career high with four RBIs and would have had extra bases on a shot that center fielder Dexter Fowler caught on the warning track in the sixth. Colorado is 13-5 under manager Jim Tracy, who replaced Clint Hurdle after an 18-28 start. Aside from Jason Hammel’s start Sunday being stunted to 5 1/3 innings by a tornado warning and a long rain delay, all of the Rockies’ starters had pitched into the seventh inning in June. Not so Tuesday night. Jorge De La Rosa (2-7) was tagged for seven earned runs on eight hits in just 2 1/3 innings. After giving up Longoria’s 15th home run in the first, De La Rosa allowed a two-run triple to Kapler after third baseman Ian Stewart let his foul ball drop to the grass.