What More Needs To Be Said About the Unfairness?

... and they do at Hyland by asking:  

• Why don't we get to ski on the good lanes?  
• Why does our team have to crowd on 1 lane, getting 4-5 runs per practice while Team Gilboa gets up to 11 lanes per weeknight.   
• Why do we get the bad lanes all the time?  Why doesn't Gilboa ever get the bad lanes so we can have the good lanes?  Why don't they rotate these lanes fairly with all 18 teams?
• What's so special about the Gilboa kids?  Aren't we good enough?  This one hurts because it really speaks to harmful these inequities are.  All children need access to the best terrain and enough of it if they are going to improve.   When 1,000 children don't get fair access, something should be done to remedy the access.  Hence our complaint.  

• Why do the lanes that Gilboa gets nearly all the time (far left on schedule have the nice start ramp while the old start ramp is rickety and dangerous?  If our team pays for a new start ramp, can we get nearly exclusive access to these lanes?   When this question was asked of Hyland Manager Jeff May, he said, "NO".  We wonder why Team Gilboa gets nearly exclusive access of the ramp that they helped pay for when no other teams can get this type of deal.

The inequities are shameful and they occur year after year. 

Parents, Athletic Directors, School Boards should be concerned about this 2nd class treatment of their children.  Unless of course they don't believe their kids or programs deserve to be treated fairly. 

How does the public benefit from this arrangement?

• We know the public pays for this and is hurt by it with the discrimination and forced subsidization.  Multiple teams of children have left Hyland for these reasons.  
• It is inexcusable that all teams would not be welcomed and treated with fairness in their own public park. 

Teams training at Hyland Hills

High Schools

• Armstrong/Cooper
• Benilde St. Margarets
• Bloomington Jefferson   
• Chaska
• Eden Prairie
• Edina
• Hopkins  
• Holy Angels     
• Minneapolis - Southwest, Washburn
• Minnetonka
• Mound Westtonka/Waconia/
• Orono 
• Wayzata           

Private Programs

• Four Degrees (USSA alpine ski racing)
• GTeam (Snowboard Competition)
• Lake State Alpine Racing (Development alpine ski racing)
• Team Gilboa (Development & USSA alpine ski racing)

Please 

Please note:  The first letter with questions was delivered in May of 2023.  As of December 2023, seven months later, no information that counters anything we have presented to TRPD has been given to Friends of Hyland by TRPD.   We welcome any information that would provide better insight to these issues presented.