Manitoba Cup 2 presented by Holiday Inn Express Polo Park

Mission: This event will be catered to all skill levels, and will be grouped according to ability, through seed times, and through advice from the high performance program coaches and club coaches, where appropriate. The aim of these events is to provide race training with mental, tactical and skill development for the intermediate to advanced skaters, and race experience and fun for the new and developing skaters. The pre-planned races will allow coaches a forum to provide advice on ideal groupings, and race events, to allow their skaters specific opportunities to practice racing with specific goals in mind. The MB Circuit will be a great tool for coaches to become involved in race planning.

Event Protocol: The groupings, race schedule, all race events, and starting line positions will all be pre-planned. This event protocol will be provided to appropriate coaches five days before the event, for feedback and suggested changes. Final changes will then be made, and the final event protocol will be distributed to all registrants two days before the event. One advantage of completely pre-planning all the race events is that it drastically reduces the number of volunteers required and negates the need for recorders, and can be run without a referee if necessary as all races are pre-planned and event results do not impact subsequent races. Also, it provides skaters with advanced knowledge of their races so they can practice planning race strategies.

Race Groupings and distances:

o Group 1 ( 100m Track) - 100m, 100m, 200m, 200m, bucket races and/or a fun relay, puck toss

o Group 2 (100m Track) - 200m, 200m, 400m, 400m, 1500m

o Group 3 (111m Track) - 500m, 500m, 1000m, 1000m, 1500m