Warren Tanner
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Canadian Freestyle Ski
Team member
Adopted by: McMurrich PS
students
Letter From McMurrich
PS Students
Dear Warren,
My class is so excited about receiving your weekly emails
and updates. Thank you so much for agreeing to become our
Adopt an Athlete and we look forward to meeting you in the
spring. We will be sending you a class photo with our next
letter. Good luck with your competition this weekend and we
look forward to hearing from you soon.
Kamla
To the two grade
3 classes at McMurrich,
Hello everyone! My name is Warren Tanner, and I am a member
of the Canadian Freestyle Ski Team. Freestyle skiing is made
up of two seperate events: moguls, and aerials. I compete
in the mogul events. I grew up, just across the lake in Grimsby,
Ontario. I learned to ski across the border, in Ellicotville,
N.Y. I am 24 years old, and have been skiing on the Canadian
team for 7 years.
I started skiing with my family when I was 7 years old. I
skied with my family, mostly on the weekend. Then, when I
was 13 years old, I watched Jean-Luc Brassard win Olympic
Gold for Canada in men's moguls. Does anyone know what year
that would have been? I'll give you a clue: the host city
was Lillehammer, Norway.
Right now I am writing to you from Naeba, Japan. Last week
we were in Inawashiro, Japan. Maybe you can try to find these
places on Mapquest?
During the winter, I travel with my team from event to event.
Since Christmas, we have been to Mt. Tremblant, Quebec, Lake
Placid, N.Y., Fernie, B.C., Deer Valley, Ut., and Inawashiro,
Japan. We generally stay one week at each location. We have
two coaches, and there are seven guys and six girls on tour.
I generally ski between three and five days a week. This adds
up to between 150 and 200 days a year!
Well, I just want to end with saying that I am really exciting
to be"adopted" by your classes, and I also look
forward to meeting all of you soon (hopefully some time this
spring). Also, I would like to thank you for your financial
support. This means a lot to me.
Ok, study hard,
Warren
Letter From McMurrich
PS Students
February 18th, 2005
Dear Warren,
Hi we are a grade three class at McMurrich Junior Public School.
We are Room 209 and there are 26 students plus our teacher
Ms. Rambaran. Our school has been around for 84 years. We
do lots of fun activities such as, fundraising for other people,
painting murals and participating in sports.
Room 209 is excited about the Adopt an Athlete Program because
it is a good cause. We are excited about adopting you because
it is cool to meet an athlete, especially a skiing athlete.
We are really excited that you going to come to our school,
we can’t wait to meet you. We heard that you like skiing
moguls and that you are a really, really great skier.
So far in the Adopt an Athlete Program we have completed one
fundraiser, we raised $608 dollars. We all had to go home
and make popcorn on the weekend. Afterwards we brouht it back
to school, bagged it and sold it with water and hot chocolate
at the Winter Concert. We told the McMurrich community that
we were raising money for you. Some people even donated $20
bills.
Now to answer you two mini-trivia questions: Jean-Luc Brassard
won the gold medal in the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer,
Norway. Inawashiro, Japan is located in the northeast part
of the country.
We hope you do well in the competition in Italy. We have read
all your emails and are excited to answer your trivia questions.
We hope you have a great time in Italy and a safe trip back
to Canada.
Our class would like to ask you a few questions. When did
you compete in your first competition? What kind of tricks
did you do on the slopes? How many languages do you speak?
Do you have any pets?
Thank you for writing to us and we hope you have fun this
weekend!
Sincerely,
The Students of Room 209
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