Just a few days away from the start of the US Ski Team’s biennial coaches education event, participant numbers have settled at just over seventy. With attendees traveling to Colorado Springs from Sweden, Canada, and all over the US, the 2007 roster includes nearly twenty-five women. This figure is a significantly higher ratio of female participants than what this conference has seen in recent years.
Kicking off the opening presentation this year is 1972 Olympic diving gold medalist, Micki King. Although the gold medal was brought home to the US that year from Munich, Micki’s career as a prominent female figure in sport was only beginning. Today, her bio boasts of many achievements, including capturing 9 US Diving Championships. She is a retired US Air Force Colonel, a charter Chairperson on the USOC’s Athlete Advisory Council, and was the first woman assigned to duty at the US Air Force Academy. Micki is a member of President Ford’s Commission to Study Amateur Sports, a charter member of the Women’s Sports Foundation, and was the first woman to coach a male to an NCAA Championship gold. This Friday, Micki will open the conference with a bit of perspective. Her presentation is titled, “That was Then and This is Nowâ€.
Attached to this posting is a finalized conference schedule and a list of corresponding abstracts to detail the upcoming education conference. Thank you to everyone that has carved out the time to come to Colorado to delve further into the sport of XC skiing. We look forward to seeing you there! For those unable to attend for the weekend, the entire conference will be filmed and burned to DVD. Distribution of the production will occur later this fall, and details will be posted to Faster Skier.
Please use the links below to view the schedule of events and associated abstracts in PDF form.
Final Schedule
Conference Abstracts
2007 Conference Participant Name and Club List
| Birgit Weaver | Hollyburn Jackrabbit Ski Club |
| Jake Weaver | Hollyburn Jackrabbit Ski Club |
| Adam St. Pierre | Boulder |
| Carina Hamel | Burke Mountain Academy |
| Lisa Patterson | Lakehead and Big Thunder Nordic Ski Teams |
| Reid Lutter | NCCSEF, Minnesota Valley |
| Pete Leonard | FXC/Nordic Ski Club Fairbanks |
| Dave Stewart | University of Denver |
| Patty Ross | Middlebury College |
| Andrew Gardner | Middlebury College |
| Eileen Carey | Maine Winter Sports Center |
| John Jaques | Rocky Mountain Racers |
| Alexei Sotskov | Vermont Academy |
| Sara Miller | Eagle River Nordic Racing |
| Joe Haggenmiller | Michigan Tech |
| Cami Thompson | Dartmouth College |
| Peter Graves | Harvard |
| Scott Jerome | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| Ethan Townshend | Saint Lawrence University |
| Ali Deines | Jackson Hole Ski and Snowboard Club |
| Dave Slovisky | Lander Valley High School Ski Team |
| JD Downing | XC Oregon |
| Mike Young | Copper Country Ski Tigers |
| Jenny Abraham | Crested Butte and Gunnison |
| Larissa Sigurdsen | Crested Butte and Gunnison |
| Justin Easter | Summit Nordic Ski Club |
| Rick Kapala | Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation |
| Abi Holt | Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation |
| Chris Mallory | Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation |
| Larry Bruce | Glacier Nordic Ski Team |
| John Callahan | Aspen Ski Club |
| Nathan Alsobrook | Bowdoin College Ski Team |
| Gro Aase Lunde | Bozeman Ski Foundation |
| Margaret Mahar | New York Ski Education Foundation |
| Kirk Nordgren | Carmichael Training Systems |
| Jason Cork | Durango Nordic |
| Eric Pepper | Boulder Nordic Junior Racing Team |
| Travis Jones | Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club |
| Dan Weiland | Vail Nordic Ski Team |
| Roger Archambault | National Team Head Coach-Biathlon Canada |
| Brian Tate | Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club |
| Donna Smyth | WILDXC and NENSA |
| Eli Brown | University of Utah |
| Kristina Casey | University of Utah |
| Grethe Hagensen | Montana State University |
| Johannes Thum | Colorado Rocky Mountain School |
| August Teague | University of Reno |
| Eric De Nys | Canadian National Ski Team |
| Celine Feagan | Paranordic Biathlon Canada |
| Tom Holland | Cross Country Canada |
| Bruce Cramner | University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Becky Woods | Bates College Ski Team |
| Joan Skinstad | University of Alberta (Augustana Campus) |
| Maureen Kershaw | Women on Skis for Cross-Country Canada |
| John Dyste | Holmenkol |
| Ben Grasseschi | Auburn Ski Club |
| Kateri Mills | Cross Country Ontario |
| Mike Elliot | Durango Nordic |
| Matt Whitcomb | US Ski Team |
| Pat Casey | US Ski Team |
| John Kremelmeyer | US Disabled Ski Team |
| Zeke | US Disabled Ski Team |
| Justin Carlstrom | US Ski Team (Physiologist) |
| Jon Hammermeister | Eastern Washington University |
| HC Holmberg | Swedish National Ski Team (Physiologist) |
| Chris Grover | US Ski Team |
| Peter Vordenberg | US Ski Team |
| Susie Parker-Simmons | USOC |
| Zach Weatherford | USOC |
| Micki King | |
| Jim Stray-Gunderson | |
| Nathan Shultz | Boulder Nordic Sports |
