Why I love Big Mountain
by Daniel McFadden
Growing up, soccer and skiing consumed my life. The summer months meant running around in the heat, and winter meant playing in the snow. Eventually, I parted ways with soccer and began to focus my athletic efforts more on alpine racing. I never really placed well but was consistently good in training, and ultimately loved racing and the sport of skiing – at the time.
Over the course of my later years of racing, my frustrations grew with each race as I wasn’t achieving the results I expected of myself. However, at a young age the idea...
The Golden Brick Award
The Golden Brick Award
For Exemplory Dedication & Effort
Theresa Eckert
Alpine Updates – April 26th, 2021
Alpine Updates – April 26th, 2021
Dear Team Summit Alpine Ability, Age Class and SRD parents; Full-Time Academy and Ability Athletes and Interested Parties:
ENROLLMENT
Tomorrow – Tuesday, April 27 – Confirmations of enrollments for 2021-22 Team Summit Alpine Part-Time Programs will begin.
The rolling enrollment period will continue as outlined below. New athletes will begin to be confirmed for enrollment on May 7.
Beginning April 27 – Returning athletes enrolling in Part-Time Programs (Age Class U10, U12, and U14, Ability Part-Time)
Beginning May...
Alpine Updates – April 19th, 2021
Alpine Updates – April 19th, 2021
Dear Team Summit Alpine Ability, Age Class and SRD parents; Full-Time Academy and Ability Athletes and Interested Parties:
The 2020-21 Alpine season came to a close with the Women’s SL at the US National Championships last Friday as the final race of the year.
The Alpine staff have been busy with an Alpine Retreat to de-brief the season and plan for next year, completing year-end evaluations for all of the SRD, Age Class and Ability athletes, finishing budgeting tasks, tearing down training venues, repairing and inventorying equipment...
Alpine Updates – April 11th, 2021
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...