Despite not having any snow on the mountain right now, you would be wrong to think that I don’t have any connection with the resort until opening day in December. This past weekend we had the Park City Ski Town Lacrosse tournament. This was the largest attended tournament in its nine year history with a whopping 93 teams! There were teams from all over the west, Idaho, Colorado, Arizona to as far as Texas. This event is great for local businesses as it brings a number of out of town visitors (somewhere between 4,000- 4,500 people).
As my son’s lacrosse team, 212 Lacrosse, was in preparation for the tournament we got word that the head coach would be Brian Bilzi, none other than a Deer Valley ski instructor! I never knew we had a Division 1 defensive player on the ski slopes. Park City is home to top athletes in many sports. Mike Acee is the director of Park City’s 212 Lacrosse teams and a few of his accolades are All American, 4 time Atlantic Coastal Conference (ACC) Champion and NCAA national champion for the North Carolina Tar Heels (University of North Carolina) as their starting attack player. Park City’s 212 teams were very successful during the tournament, winning 23 games losing just four. Not a bad record, especially when that covers five different teams playing in different age groups! I have to take a minute to brag about the U11 boys’ team who won all of their games! Go Coach Brian and Mike!
Lacrosse is the fastest growing sport in the country! If you live in the Park City area and have children, you may want to head over to the website, 212lacrosse.com. I’m not sure who enjoys the games more, me or my sons… How lucky are we to have this type of coaching locally? Very.
