Gratitude Time! Calling all Team Summit Members!  We are designating this Saturday and Sunday, 4/3 and 4/4 as the day to show our resort partners how grateful we are for them this year!  We need them to know that their tireless efforts to create a fantastic season for us have not gone unnoticed.  Please take the time to bake your favorite cookies or put together your favorite treats in a baggy with a little thank you note and hand out to all of the front-line employees at the resort you'll be at this weekend.  This includes lifties, parking attendants,  guest...

Congratulations! Team Summit is so proud of our Summit Middle School Student-Athletes!  Please congratulate these awesome kids for excelling in school and on the slopes!   6th Grade Gold Honor Roll Taylor Dean Hannah Webb Trent Granshaw 7th Grade Gold Honor Roll Annika Broecker Collin Harris Saige Heflin Riley Hughes Forrest Woodard Jaxon Redhorse 6th Grade Silver Honor Roll Arabella Agee Aaron Green Wyatt Lyman Jay McDonald John McDonald Madeline Morton Beckham-Doyle Boddington Richmond 7th Grade Silver Honor Roll Asher Cockrell Axel Crawford Noah Dippenaar Madison Haser Lauren...

Snowboard Updates – February 16th, 2021 We all knew it would be a challenging year.  Warmer and Dryer weather patterns have not made it easier.  Contests are being canceled and rescheduled rather quickly at this time.  USASA has also extended the competition season into April.  There are still a lot of contests on the Horizon.  We are also working with Woodward to host some spring camps through the month of May.  As these contests come and go it is important to remember that snowboarding is a sport where practice can actually be more fun than the games. ...

Academy Program – It's Time to Think About Next Year! Hello Team Summit Families!  I am not only the Academy Coordinator for Team Summit but also a parent of two Alpine athletes.  I am extremely grateful for the efforts of our leadership team and coaches this year.  Although it has been hard on so many, how lucky are our kids to get to ski and snowboard this year! Our Academy Program is our full-time ski and snowboard program, on snow 5-6 days/week.  This year our membership has seen a huge value in this program!  Our numbers are way up and families have...

Paul Cuthbertson Foundation Scholarship The Paul Cuthbertson Foundation is pleased to announce applications for the Second Annual Live for Those Who Cannot scholarship are now being accepted. The Live for Those Who Cannot scholarship, is awarded periodically to mountain youth with a passion for life and dedication to achieving excellence in their pursuits. The purpose of The Paul Cuthbertson Foundation is to invest in the next generation of young women and men by providing merit-based scholarships or grants that help them pursue their goals in life with a focus on competitive skiing, outdoor...

The Crushing It Awards Throughout the year, families and staff recognize members of the team with what is known as the Crushing It Awards.   The criteria is simple: Do you feel this person needs to be publically recognized?   Crushing It Awards can me nominated by parents, athletes, or staff. If you would like to nominate a staff member, please email info@teamsummit.org.   

Snowboard Updates – January 21st, 2021 We have been working with the Woodward at Copper Team to come up with some spring and Summer Camp options for our snowboarders.  We are expecting to hold spring camp in late April/May.  We are aiming to have that info ready in late February/March. Woodward put together a great summer camp program for us last year and we are looking to do something similar again this year.  We are planning to run summer camps in July and also planning to have a week, after their normal camps are over, where we can push all the snow into bigger jump...

Tips and Tricks: Riding the Wave Great adjustments with your skiing in the wave tank last weekend. This tool lets us see things that will make your skiing easier and more fun. When you watch this video pay close attention to the guy in the yellow pants. He is Mikael Kingsbury, the most successful mogul skier of all time. Watch for these key points in his position in the wave tank: 1- knees pulling up to absorb the wave 2- feet pulling backward (when his knees are up) to have the tip of the ski contact the downhill part of the wave 3- feet staying under his body at all times When you work in...

Registering for Competitions with USASA I wanted to let everyone know that the first USASA slopestyle on Jan 27th there are only 8 Spots left for competitors.  Once these spots fill up there is no way to get kids in to the contest. go to rockymountainseries.com to sign up. I also made a video on the registration process and how to make sure you did the process correctly.  check out the video here. https://drive.google.com/file/d/13D8pimCDa1uywLNdc8XjsWTvFSKt_Qgz/view?usp=sharing Thank you -Matty V

Snowboard Updates – December 30th, 2020 As the holiday training comes to a close competitions begin.  I want to remind everyone of the three ways parents can help their kids be good competitors, good people, and good snowboarders.  Many of our contests are judged events.  Judged events are quite subjective.  What scores well one day might not score so well the next event.  A kid can place well one week and not so well the next.  Sometimes kids place poorly with their best performances and place well with mediocre performances.  The three points help...

Cleans, also Snatch, are Jumps….Not Back Extensions During the clean and the snatch the bar should always move in a mostly vertical line above your feet. At no point should the bar move in front of your toes nor behind your heels. If you find yourself having trouble keeping the bar in this plane, then you might be using either back extension or hips driving forward towards the bar rather than a jumping movement throughout the second pull (when the bar is explosively moving from just above your knees all the way up to the crease). There is a simple fix to keep the bar moving in a vertical...

Clean, Catch It In a Full Squat So you’ve reached the point where you have mastered all of the bar patterns we use to warm up prior to every strength training session. Now it’s time to start adding some load slowly, then some speed to the Olympic Lifts. Let’s dive right into the Olympic Lift, the clean. When you receive (or catch) the clean in an upright, standing position, it’s called a power clean. This is fine, but let’s try to be more athletic and catch the lift in a full squat. The best way to learn to do this is to start the lift at the crease. Once you...