Alpine Updates – April 11, 2021 Dear Team Summit Alpine Ability, Age Class and SRD Parents; Full-Time Academy Athletes and Interested Parties:   REVIEW This season has been interesting, to say the least. The year was challenging in many ways. Athletes, parents and coaches were required to be better organized, more self-reliant and flexible. In some ways, the season was better than ever.   The benefits of day tripping to races, having more events at home and close to home, multiple races in one day and other necessary adjustments resulted in many cost and time savings and improved...

Alpine Updates – February 17th, 2021 Dear Team Summit Alpine Ability, Age Class and SRD parents; Full-Time Academy Athletes and Interested Parties:   Thank you to all who participated in the recent Team Summit Survey! Across all our programs, 718 parents completed the survey – a phenomenal response rate. A total of 570 or 79.4% of you rated Team Summit a 9 or a 10 resulting in a net promoter score of 74.4! The comments you shared are invaluable to us and provide important feedback.   We appreciate everyone’s understanding of the challenges that we...

Alpine Age Class Updates – January 29th, 2021 Dear Age Class Parents, Coaches and Interested Parties: Great news! The U14 Super G races Feb 8-11 are confirmed! Attached is the draft race announcement submitted to US Ski and Snowboard this morning following yesterday's event approval. The Race announcement will also be published at RMD's page at US Ski and Snowboard https://usskiandsnowboard.org/sport-programs/regions-divisions/rocky-central-alpine-region/rocky-alpine-division-calendar. Event registration is now open at MyUSSA. Please review the race announcement...

Alpine Updates – January 22nd, 2021 Dear Team Summit Alpine Ability and Age Class athletes, parents and Interested Parties:   FINALLY, all age groups have had their first competitions this month! In just the first few weeks of 2021 our athletes have been racing successfully in FIS, USSA, Age Class and FIS University competitions after a full preparation period this fall.   As we now move into the race season, the coaches will provide each athlete a written in-season/prep period evaluation and ask each athlete to set their competition goals for the year.   This is intended...

Alpine Age Class Email – January 4th, 2021 Dear Age Class Parents, Team Summit Alpine Coaches and Interested Parties: A Happy New Year in 2021 to all! The race season is scheduled to start for our Age Class Athletes in a week from today and there remains much uncertainty with only a few days to go. The Age Class Open races Team Summit was approved to host in Keystone January 10 and 11 are in the process of being moved to Breckenridge. While Vail Resorts and the County have not provided approval, we are HOPEFUL that this will come in the next few days.  In preparation...

Alpine Updates – December 17th, 2020 It has come to our attention that some members are experiencing problems receiving Team Summit messages originating in Campminder. This appears to be affecting primarily gmail addresses and may be related to the Google outages reported this week. Our apologies for this problem. It has been reported and will hopefully be resolved quickly   In the meantime, this message is being sent from Campminder and will be re-sent via regular email to the same distribution list. Our apologies to those who receive multiple, duplicate copies of these message.   Dear...

Alpine Updates – December 10th, 2020 Dear Team Summit Alpine Community: We recognize that the COVID induced protocols and new procedures place an additional strain on all our members and staff.   Our resort partners at A-Basin, Vail Resorts and Copper Mountain have gone to extraordinary lengths to facilitate Team Summit programs and athletes to continue to enjoy their resorts, TSC to provide programming and everyone to enjoy healthy outdoor activities. Exemptions from reservations systems, dedicated facilities for our kids to warm-up, exclusive pick up and drop off areas (never...

Alpine Updates – December 3rd, 2020 Dear Team Summit Alpine Community: With Copper Mountain resort open to the public, we have an increased responsibility to follow our COVID protocols and model exceptional compliance to mountain guests. Additionally, as the best skiers on the mountain, it is extremely important we model proper skiing etiquette, slow zone compliance, lift line behavior and respect for all mountain rules.   The resort has changed the approved drop-off and pick-up locations effective immediately.   The new drop-off and pick-up location for Center Village...

Alpine Updates – November 25th, 2020 Dear Team Summit Alpine Community: As is customary at this time of year; reflection of the things we are thankful for leads us to appreciate how fortunate we are to be able to provide our athletes the opportunity to engage in a healthy outdoor activity, improve their skills and pursue their dreams.   Thank you to our resort hosts, especially Copper Mountain over these initial 5 weeks of skiing and training. Thank you to our dedicated coaching staff who share their knowledge and passion every day and especially to our dedicated athletes and families...

Alpine Updates – November 16th, 2020 Dear Team Summit Alpine Community: We remain blessed by both the snow conditions and the extraordinary support of Copper Mountain Resort to be able to provide great training opportunities to our Ability Class and Age Class teams. With many athletes notching 15 days or more, there are few athletes in the country who have been able to ski as much.  The US 2020-21 Ski Race season began today with the 2020 US Women's National Championship GS at Copper. Congratulations to Team Summit's Olyvia Snyder who finished 25th in her first National...

Alpine Updates – November 9th, 2020 This and subsequent updates are being sent to the following groups: 2020-21 registered Team Summit Alpine Ability, Age Class Academy and U14 Athletes  All Ability, Age Class and Devo Program Parents All Alpine Ability, Age Class, and Devo Coaches Additional Interested Parties   Dear Team Summit Alpine Community: Winter has returned with new snow and colder temperatures. Conditions at Copper, for those already skiing and training, have been excellent! The team at Copper have done their normal amazing job preparing the training slopes for...

Alpine Updates – November 2nd, 2020 Dear Team Summit Alpine Community:   Our first week of training at Copper has been phenomenal! Thank you to the entire Copper Mountain team for providing our Team Summit Ability Class and Age Class Teams with the opportunity to get on snow.   Thank you also to our athletes, parents, and coaches for being nimble, organized, and following Copper Mountain and Team Summit protocols.   Snow conditions have been excellent with hard manmade snow that requires well-prepared edges for successful training and skill acquisition. Please...

Alpine Updates – October 23rd, 2020 Dear Team Summit Alpine Athletes, Parent, Coaches, and Interested Parties: The Alpine Coaching staff spent today on the mountain helping the dedicated Copper Mountain Race Department prepare the venue for training.   The width of the trail on the bottom half of Copperopolis does not allow training lanes to be designated. The available training lanes are less than one half of what will be available in the coming days. As a result of fewer lanes and COVID limitations on capacity, we will not be able to accommodate all of those who have expressed...

Alpine Updates – October 23rd, 2020 Dear Team Summit Alpine Athletes, Parent, Coaches, and Interested Parties: The PLANNED training calendar is published in the calendar section of the Team Summit website: https://teamsummit.org//members/calendars. ;Due to conditions, group size restrictions, venue capacity, visiting teams, and other factors these schedules are subject to change on a daily basis. Until further notice, an email message will be sent daily before 7PM the night preceding training detailing the next day’s schedule.  Thank you to everyone...