Good Luck

I wish good luck to all those going to Snowbird for the PSIA National Teams Selection this week. I will not be able to attend as I have suffered an injury that has left me unable to ski.

I crashed while skiing at the end of March, and although physical therapy was going well, the training for the event in snowbird has injured me further. On Thursday the doctors restricted me to no skiing in any capacity.

I am honored to be considered in the same peer group as the other candidates, and I look forward to working with them in the future and competing for a spot in four years.

I visited Snowbird for the first time in the middle of March in preparation for tryouts and had an absolute blast. I got to meet Rob Sogard and he introduced me to a friendly snowboard instructor who donated some of his employee tickets to me. Everyone that we met was really friendly and the terrain was absolutely stunning. It looks like it will be a great and testing tryout. Good luck all!

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Tom is going to Utah

On February 15th, the Professional Ski Instructors of America's national office invited me to go to Utah at the end of April to attend the National Alpine Team tryouts. I am one of 45 instructors from around the country who made it through the first round.

PSIA is looking to form a team of 12 alpine instructors who they feel are inspirational educators and skiers. This team of 12 will travel the country for four years, providing clinics to instructors at ski areas all over the US. In 2015, the team will be attending the International Ski Congress or Interski, where all the skiing nations come together and share ideas and present to each other.

The team tryouts will be held at Snowbird, Utah from the 22nd to the 26th of April. There will be skiing tasks, teaching tasks and interviews taking place over the course of five days. I look forward to going to the event  and skiing with the top 45 teachers in the US.

And now the training begins ...