Whitefish Schools and Whitefish Mountain Resort to Offer Ski Academy

WHITEFISH, Mont. – Whitefish Mountain Resort, in conjunction with Whitefish School District 55 and the Flathead Valley Ski Education Foundation (FVSEF), announced today that all three entities have cooperated to create the Whitefish Alpine and Freestyle Ski Academy for middle and high school student athletes for the 2008-2009 school year and ski season.

Flathead Valley Ski Education Foundation president Richard Kramer has worked closely with the three groups in creating the program. “The creation of the Whitefish Alpine and Freestyle Ski Academy has been a goal of FVSEF since our inception in 1973,” said Kramer. “Now our children can achieve world class on-snow training while remaining in the Whitefish School District. This is a real windfall for our Valley. No longer will elite athletes have to move away from their families in order to train. Kids as young as eleven years old can now live, train, and go to school in their home town.”

For more information on the Whitefish Alpine and Freestyle Ski Academy and other competitive team programs, contact Roy Loman at royl@skiwhitefish.com or (406) 862-2912. You can also visit the Whitefish Mountain website page for the Ski Teams.

For the complete story, see the online magazine Ski Racing, The Journal to Ski Racing Competition. You will find it under their Top Stories.

Our story has also been covered by:

• KXMC Sports, a Minot, ND News and Sports coverage site
• SAM - the Ski Area Management Magazine website
• First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine
• The Flathead Beacon
• Ski Press World.com
• Sports.MyLot.com
• NewsEro.com
• All About Skiing.info (from the Billings Gazette)

2008 Summer Ski Camps at Mt Hood

This Summer we were able to do two Summer Ski Camps at Mt. Hood. Our first camp was late June and was attended by, Scott Kahle, Zander Wold, Colter Christian, Nick Matlitch and coach Zak Anderson. They had a great camp and you can see comments in another window later.

In early August, we also had a great trip to Mt Hood that incorporated on snow training and afternoon dryland activities including hiking, rock climbing, field games and trampoline. See the slide show above for some of the fun…

Attending were Madeline Williams, Nick Becker, Nevada Kramer, Erin Tabish and Annie Jobe. We saw and met skiers from all over the world including Italy, Slovenia, Canada, Great Brittan, France and the US Ski Team.Our group was great and responded to the training with a ton of improvement for all. They skied awesomely! We will plan for similar trip(s) for next summer. Likely that schedule will be a mid to end of June trip and an August trip; both dates fairly similar to what we did this summer.