2016-20 TEAM SELECTION
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2016-20 TEAM SELECTION: PSIA-AASI CHOOSES THE NEW BRICKLAYERS FOR
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Interski, you’ve benefited from snowsports education molded, in part, by the men and women who make up the PSIA-AASI Team. Indeed, if you’ve walked up to a class of eager students and had some concept of what you’d teach them, you owe your relative ease (or at least lack of dread) to these fellow instructors who’ve helped pave your path of professional development. And now, after a comprehensive process that culminated in April with four grueling days of on-snow competition and professional assessment at Breckenridge, Colorado, a new team has been chosen for the 2016-20 term. Representing the highest levels of technical skill, knowledge, and teaching expertise in the adaptive, alpine, cross country, snowboard, and telemark disciplines (including specialists in freestyle and children’s education), 30 Team members were selected from 81 candidates invited to Breckenridge. Working with a team manager, discipline-specific coaches, and an adaptive captain, they will help guide PSIA-AASI’s educational outreach to you and fellow instructors throughout the United States… and beyond. Turn to page 60 for an introduction to the new and returning team members, and read on for a glimpse into what Team Selection is all about.
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Watch this video to get a sense of the grueling four-day process in which 30 men and women were selected from among the best ski and snowboard instructors in the United States to represent PSIA-AASI as members of the 2016-20 national team.
“Te new PSIA-AASI team comprises 30 men and women
selected from among the best instructors in the country,” said Ed Younglove, chairman of the PSIA-AASI Board of Directors. “Tese individuals represent the full breadth of the ski and snowboard disciplines and, in many ways, are the faces of the association on the national and international level. A clinic with a team member is an experience no instructor will soon forget.”
A clinic with a team member is an experience no instructor will soon forget.
– PSIA-AASI Chair Ed Younglove
FOUR DAYS TO PRESENT A LIFETIME OF PREPARATION Of course, the journey for each candidate began long before they ever carried all their hopes and dreams into a Colorado conference room and the slopes outside it. Tey’ve devoted years – if not decades – to improving their own riding, improving the riding of countless others, and climbing the ladder of certification. As students and mentors alike, only the snow god Ullr knows what they have sacrificed for the cause of better ski and snowboard instruction. In a comprehensive process guided by a Team Selection Taskforce made
A CHANCE TO HAND-PICK THE VERY BEST Tose candidates, some of the best instructors in the United States, contended throughout the selection event with variable and challenging conditions as well as the pressure to be at the top of their game. “All candidates showcased their talents as some of the nation’s top- notch athletes and teachers,” said PSIA-AASI Director of Education Dave Schuiling. “Tey really showed their stuff on steeps, chutes, bumps, and park and pipe. Everyone was required to undergo extensive interviews and conduct teaching clinics, give presentations, and demonstrate spot-on movement analysis – all under the watchful eye of examiners and selectors assigned to separate the very best from the best.”
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up of members of PSIA-AASI’s volunteer leadership and other education stakeholders, more than 100 candidates submitted a professional resume, cover letter, writing sample, and video, as well as divisional endorsements, just for the opportunity to be vetted and invited to Team Selection. Once the 81 invitees were there, they competed for the opportunity to play an instrumental role in the ongoing evolution of the association. “Your years of training, selflessness, and dedication will help lift
all of us to new heights,” PSIA-AASI Team Manager Jeb Boyd told the assembled candidates on the eve of the selection event. “I’m excited to see where the new team will take us, and how all members will benefit in the growth of our association.” As one prospective team member wrote on his Facebook page,
“I’m super excited to ski with this inspiring group of the nation’s top pros. Best to everyone; let’s all bring our A-Game.” Te post had more than 200 likes and nearly three dozen comments just
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