Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Show SSWSC

 

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Meet hometown hero Jasper Good - Steamboat kid turned Olympian through a unique path! Jasper is humble, thoughtful and openly shares his insights on a wildly successful nordic combined career that took him from a Howelsen Hill rugrat to the Olympics via the Army's WCAP Program. What he learned along the way paved the foundation for success in whatever endeavor he chooses to do in life. Today we talk about the following and more:
His Steamboat roots including his family's involvement in winter sports
Falling in love with nordic combined at age 9!
The importance of learning your own unique signs of burnout & finding a team to help you stop, recalibrate and find a new track
The Army's World Class Athlete Program (WCAP)
When it's time to let go of the thing that defined you
The utmost importance of building and utilizing your team and network

For more on Jasper Good, check out his instagram @jaspergoody
As always, please share your questions, comments, feedback and requests. Go to sswsc.org! Now get out there and support, lead or be a champion on and off the mountain!

Look out! This guy just might trick you into training! (more on that below)
Meet David Norris - someone who is not only an inspiring coach, but also an incredibly inspiring athlete. Most athletes move into coaching when they are done with their careers. David Norris is not only the assistant cross country coach at the club for the U16 to U20 athletes, but he is still kicking butt himself - not only on snow but on dry ground too! David is the 2019 US XC National Champion, named to multiple national teams, as recent as 2023, previous winner and multiple podium achiever of the famed long distance American Birkie in MN, 4-time winner and current record holder of the epic Mt Marathon in Alaska and consummate adventurer.
 

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David is a the complete package: Elite athlete in the prime of his career, consummate adventurer always seeking out new challenges, thoughtful and supportive coach and role model to the next generation of stars and insightful entrepreneur giving back to the community he hails from. Today we talk about the following and so much more:
His Alaskan roots: how David's love for an active lifestyle was formed
The Arctic Winter Games: He was the youngest member of the team
How lasting friendships form through sport
His coach "tricked him into training" through games as training tools. David uses that philosophy today!
The difference between craving "The Suffer" and being addicted to "The Suffer"
Fun stories about Mount Marathon and other athletic adventures
The beauty of surprising yourself
At some point in the interview, David simply says this about his career as an athlete, "I just like it." So simple and so perfect. Follow what you like! 

For more on David Norris, check out his instagram @grandmasternorris
And watch this video of his 2016 record setting Mt Marathon glissade!

 
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Today we sit with the Club's new Snowboard Director, Olympic bronze medalist, Alex Deibold. Not only is he running our entire snowboard program with huge events coming up soon, he's also chasing around his almost 2 year old daughter on the side, all the while doing the hardest work of all - the work on himself. Today we talk about all of it - his path to glory, his transition to the other side, and what happens when an athlete moves out of the center of their own universe. 
 

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You will hear the following and so much more:
Alex's ski & snowboard origin story
What a 20 year career as a pro snowboarder really looks like
His philosophies for himself as an athlete, dad, and human!
His philosophies for the athletes he coaches
We talk about opportunity, about grit, gratitude & humility
The work does not end when the career ends - that's when the hardest work actually begins
You'll learn what the "unzippering of Alex Deibold" really means
And so much more...
For more about Alex Deibold, follow him on Instagram @adeibold or email him at adeibold@sswsc.org

Check out his bio here:
Born and raised in New England, Alex found his passion for snowboarding at an early age in the mountains of Vermont. He competed professionally in every discipline of the sport before narrowing his focus on snowboardcross. He was named to the U.S. Snowboard Team in 2004. During Alex’s 19-year tenure on the team, he stood on numerous World Cup podiums, captured multiple national titles, and won a bronze medal in the 2014 Sochi Olympics. As an avid outdoorsman, he loves cycling, golfing, and flyfishing and has worked with Protect Our Winters for over a decade to protect the places and experiences he loves.

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Today we get to pick the brain of our Head U10 & U12 Nordic coach Deb Rose. Deb is no stranger to coaching kids - she’s the longest tenured coach at the club; she’s been here for 40 years, probably longer than many of you have been on skis! And there's a reason for that - you're about to hear it, but first a word from our amazing sponsor...
 

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Today we cover 40+ years of skiing & coaching awesomeness:
Deb started out in the pool and only found cross country skiing when her high school didn't offer other sports for girls. Her mindset: "So I can't do that. What CAN I do?"
The importance of changing the semantics. Sometimes just using different words can change the entire outlook on a problem.
Deb's philosophy:
Give the kids an adventure outside.
Open up their vision - look around!
Create a safe zone
Make skiing about how things "feel" not about results

How the coaches are the beating heart of the club - they are what make it special.
What Deb still works on every day: Listen more, have more empathy, be positive
While Deb is very competitive and loves to go out and push her body, her coaching style is more subliminal - she helps nurture love for the sport - the competitive side comes out when it's ready.
Her fountain of youth? Coaching
We are so lucky that Deb has chosen to give her talents to the Club for so many years. Thank you! 
More on Deb Rose here:
Deb was born in Iowa City, Iowa and moved to Bemidji, MN at an early age. She began her athletic competitions in the pool and moved to winter sports. Deb competed in the 100km Minnesota Finlandia which led to numerous cross country ski competitions and triathlons in Colorado. Deb has been coaching the Nordic Development Team at the Winter Sports Club for many years and takes pride in the accomplishments of her athletes. She loves working with all abilities and seeing them acquire skills for a life-long sport.
As always, please share your questions, comments, feedback and requests. Go to sswsc.org! Now get out there and support, lead or be a champion on and off the mountain!

Get ready for this unique opportunity to listen to history from the person who made it herself, our former Executive Director, Sarah Floyd. For 35 years, Sarah was involved in the Club in a variety of positions including coach, athletic director, associate executive director and finally executive director for her last five years. Sarah stepped down last year, winding down slowly as she helped our new executive director, Brian Krill, transition into the role. Our conversation is genuine, open and full of nostalgia for how much the club has evolved in the last four decades.
 

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Today we talk about the following and so much more:
How it takes a little separation from a long career to figure out what buckets you need to fill - Sarah is working with kids & parents again, but in a different way - through our schools
Team: this theme surfaces again and again. Sarah was a master of creating, nurturing and motivating the best possible team (and we're not necessarily talking about athletes here!)
When you're submerged in a career, you often don't realize how consuming it is. The Club was "everything" to Sarah - her passion was to make it the best possible organization it could be.
"The leader of the Club is simply a caretaker of the legacy." - Rick DeVos  It's about setting it up for success in the next decade, always looking forward.
The struggle will always be to protect what we have while rolling with change...
The leaders are there at the time they are supposed to be, to take the club to the next level for each phase of its evolution
The Club is the Real Deal with these main objectives: 1) An experience for the kids, 2) A place to build friendships and memories, 3) Athletic development is a byproduct of the first two.
Fun is still the key; fun is always the key. How you get your fun changes over time. 
Thank you, Sarah, for your contributions to the club. Your legacy continues!
As always, please share your questions, comments, feedback and requests. Go to sswsc.org! Now get out there and support, lead or be a champion on and off the mountain!

It's not every day that you get to sit down with two of the most prolific Olympic athletes from their eras - who happen to live in your town - who also happen to be married - and who happen to have kids in the Winter Sports Club! Today is your lucky day because Nelson Carmichael & Caroline Lalive took a break from their busy schedules to share a mic (literally) and share their stories of passion, disappointment, success and heartbreak. 
By the way, the top photo is a classic - it's mentioned early in the interview - you'll have to listen to understand it!
 

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For those of you who aren't familiar with them, Nelson won Bronze at the 92 Olympics in Mogul skiing, 12 World Cups, countless National Mogul Championships and has a run on Mt Werner named after him - Nelson's Run to be exact. Caroline is the most successful female alpine skier to have come through Steamboat competing in the 98 & 02 Olympics & later as the Alpine Director at the Club. 

It's safe to say that they are not only Olympic level athletes, but after listening, you will agree that they are Olympic level humans!
Today you hear a fun storytelling session including their backgrounds, how they connected, their very different personalities, why opposites often fit better together, their parenting journeys, and how parenthood is agreeably harder than anything they did in sport - and they did a lot in sport! 
Sit back and enjoy - I think you'll agree that we need a part 2 for this one!

As always, please share your questions, comments, feedback and requests. Go to sswsc.org! Now get out there and support, lead or be a champion on and off the mountain!