YOUTH NEWS May 2013 Edited by Tony Condon Volume 1 Number 1

Welcome!

Welcome to the inaugural issue of SSA Youth News! The purpose of this newsletter will be to help build the communi-

ty of young soaring pilots across the USA. There are plenty of exciting things going on right now for SSA Youth. First let

me introduce myself. I’m Tony Condon and am the Chairman of the SSA Youth Committee as well as editor of this

newsletter. I’m looking forward to getting to know you and helping you get started with your soaring careers! Please

keep me updated on what is happening at your local glider operation. There are scholarship deadlines, first solos and

check rides, badge flights, soaring camps and contests, and plenty of other activity to keep up on. My email is abcon-

don@gmail.com. Let me know what you’re up to and what the Youth Committee can do to help you!

-Tony

Badge Corner Congratulations to the following young SSA’ers who earned a

badge in March 2013:

A Badge: Cade Cavanagh and Grant Swift

The A Badge is awarded

for your first solo flight.

Click here for more badge

info.

Congratulations!!!!

Upcoming Scholarship Deadlines Sky Ghost - May 15 - $750 for Women under 25 for Private training. Short notice. Ladies only.

Women’s Seminar - May 15 - Two $750 for attending Seminar. Short notice.

Cadet - June 30 - $600 Desire Award - Non pilots or low time pre-solo.

Kolstad - Sept. 30 - $5000 for College Expenses. Now is the time to start on this! It takes months to complete.

Join the US Junior Soaring

group on Facebook!!!!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/USJRSoaring/

Stay in touch with other young

glider pilots from around the

country, the perfect opportunity

to network, learn, and talk soar-

ing when you can’t make it to the

field.

Minden Soaring Club Youth Scholarship Recipients to be Honored

The Minden Soaring Club honored eight young pilots from Northwestern Nevada to receive $1000 flight

scholarships to continue their flight training in gliders. The scholarships were publicly awarded on Saturday

April 6, 2013 at the airport in Minden, NV as part of the Minden Soaring Club banquet and annual member-

ship meeting. The scholarship recipients are Alex Garic of Minden, Grant Dunkelman of Gardnerville, Zach

Fisher of Dayton, Daisy Tanner of Minden, Donovan Harrison of Reno, Emma Justis of Reno, Ashley Cale of

Gardnerville and Collin Justis of Reno.

L to R: Laurie Harden, Minden Soaring Club President; Russell Holtz, Minden Soaring Club Vice President, Zach Fisher, Donovan

Harrison, Emma Justis, Fred LaSor, Minden Soaring Club Secretary, Daisy Tanner, Ashley Cale, Linda Mae Draper-Hivert, Minden

Soaring Club Trustee

From www.soaringcafe.com

Sazhin wins the day on the OLC 2012 Kolstad Scholarship Winner Daniel Sazhin had a great ridge flight on March 1st to register the highest

scoring flight for the day in the World! See the flight here: http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/

flightinfo.html?dsId=2832543. Daniel flies with Aero Club Albatross but logs his flights with the 1-26 Associa-

tion (www.126association.org) out of Blairstown, NJ and is a Freshman at Pace University in New York City.

Coming Next Month JP Stewart will report on his experience at the Cross Country

Camp held at Seminole Lake Gliderport in Groveland, FL. JP at-

tended with his clubs LS-4. Looking forward to it!

Cadet Introductory Membership

The SSA’s new Cadet Introductory Membership is off to a

great start. This new free membership class includes 3

complimentary issues of Soaring as well as this monthly

newsletter, access to the badge program, and more!

http://cadet.ssa.org to sign up. Tell your friends!

YouTube video of the month:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3rvF1HwqZI

Cadets at the Air Force Academy show off their Glider Program. Awesome!

SSA/CAP Certificates for O-Rides SSA has partnered with the CAP to provide Certificates for CAP cadets completing glider flights, as well as Ca-

det Intro Memberships in the SSA. Send us a picture of you with your Certificate!

Cadets Jacob Slattery and Hamilton Earle show off their Certificates after O-Rides in an L-23 Blanik in LaGrange, GA

Want to contribute to the US Junior Team, headed to Leszno, Poland this summer? Send your donation of

at least $100 and you will get an official US contest shirt. Boyd Willat will represent the US, with Garret Wil-

lat as captain and Ethan Staton as crew. You can mail your check to the US Jr. Team directly to Boyd at

31930 Hwy. 79, Warner Springs, Ca. 92086 or email him for credit card or PayPal instructions:

gliderpilot13@gmail.com Sizes S-XL, breathable fabric.

Do you have a soaring story, a soaring blog, or another way of presenting your soaring experiences? If so, e-mail

editors@cadet.ssa.org. We’d like to feature your experiences.

In the meantime, the SSA 18-meter Nationals are in progress at Bermuda High Soaring. The Sports Class Nationals

are starting at Mifflin , PA.

You can watch live tracking of several of the competitors using SPOT and InReach tracking devices on the SSA Sail-

plane Tracker.

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