2012 Summer camps

The off season is a very important time in the development of winter athletes. We are providing many opportunities for all of our riders to continue to train this season both on snow and off. This season we will be offering a series of indoor camps at the freestyle center in Williston as well as trips to France, Mt. Hood as well as Lake Placid in NY. We will also make available a series of local physical training days and group hikes through out the summer. Our hope is to provide as many opportunities as possible for all of our riders to continue to develop through out the offseason in order to come out stronger and better then ever next season.
Here are some on the dates that have already been established.

June 19th-June 30th Le Duex Alps France.
Le Duex Alps includes 2 Halfpipes multiple jump lines for all abilities, a BX coarse, air bags and a rail line that continues on forever.
Traveling to Le Duex with experienced top notch MMSC coaches and training HP, Slope and BX for 10 days is an invaluable opportunity.

Attached below is additional information on our France trip and registration forms.

ON Snow camps.

July 6th-13th Mt Hood Or.

MMSC coaches will take a group of riders to Mt. Hood for a camp which will focus on freestyle elements including HP, Jumps, and rails. We will focus on building our bag of tricks as well as continuing to develop the trick we already have established. Through video review each day as well a guided drill we will work on the ground work needed for future success.
 Please contact me for more details.

July  16th-23rd Mt Hood Or.
This camp will be scheduled if needed. Depending on the interest in on snow camps.


GMFC Camps

July 9th-13th
July 23rd-27th
Aug. 6th - 10th
Dry land Physical Training camp Aug 13th-17th

Please contact me to reserve a spot or call GMFC

Water ramp camp

July 30th-Aug 3rd
Aug20th-24th

Our MMSC coaching staff will lead camps at The Lake Placid Olympic Jumps center. Camps will focus on specific trick development using trampolines to learn the body movement and then taking the tricks to the water ramps in order to further develop the skills on our boards. Repetition will be the key performing each new skill multiple times in order to build the comfort level to take the new skills learned to the snow in the up coming season.



Please contact me for details on any of our camps.

Enjoy spring everyone, I am looking forward to seeing you all very soon.

Hannah Merson: USASA National Champion

Hannah Merson USASA National Champion - Stowe Reporter | Celebrating 52 years as Stowe areas hometown newspaper: On Snow: Thirteen-year-old Hannah Merson came home to Stowe this week a snowboard national champion.

Riders Ascend Nationals Podium

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USASA 2012 Saturday training schedule.

Saturday's training day is very packed it will be necessary to bring a back pack with water and lunch. For the riders competing in all events. It will not be possible to eat lunch inside. Riders training during our pre camp may opt to not train in all events during Saturdays scheduled training sessions. That decision will be made by the coach for each group on a by case basis.


Coach; Scott
Group 2 HP 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM
Group 2 SS 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Group 2 BX 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM
Group 2 GS/SL 2:00PM-3:00 pm
Group 2 RJ 3:15Pm-4:00Pm

Coach:Nick C
Group 3 GS 9:00am- 945pm
Group 3 SL 10:00am-10:45am
Group 3 HP 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Group 3 SS 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM
Group 3 BX 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Group 3 RJ 3:30pm-4:00pm

Coach: Jamal
Group 4 BX 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM
Group 4 GS 9:30Am-10:45Am
Group 4 SL 11:00am-12:15am
Group 4 HP 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM
Group 4 SS 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Group 4 RJ 3:30PM-4:00

Coach: Nick P
Group 5 SS 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM
Group 5 BX 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM
Group 5 GS 11:00am-12:15pm
Group 5 SL12:30pm-1:45pm  
Group 5 HP 2:00PM – 3:15 PM
Group 5 RJ 3:30pm- 4:00pm

MMSC snowboard year end celebration!

As all of you know nature has decided to bring an early spring in full force. With the past week in the 60's and 70's we have lost much of our snow. The mountain is looking like it's the end of April not March. However this weekend we will celebrate our season and roll into nationals with our energy at an all time high level.

Our weekend is packed full of events, starting with the end of the season celebration at the Huber's house on Friday at 6pm. There will be an amazing spread of food and a ton of fun for all. The coaching staff will recognize all of our MMSC snowboard team riders, as well as hand out a few special awards. This is a special chance to recognize our riders in our small private community setting.

We will also hold an auction for a few items to raise funds to cover the wax order for nationals and other unforeseen trip expenses.

Next on the schedule will be a scheduled 1/2 day of training for select athletes competing at nationals in slope style. We will have coach's on hill to prepare riders for nationals.

Also for all MMSC snowboarders there is the MMSC club championship dual GS race on Slalom hill. All MMSC snowboarders are encouraged to race in this fun event. Registration is from 7:30am-9pm at MMSC. There are awards for snowboarders in traditional age groups. For any rider competing at Nationals this is one more great chance to get some

There will a BBQ for all MMSC families at MMSC following the race.

Saturday night at The Stoweflake resort at 5:30 MMSC will hold it's end of the season banquet. All MMSC families are invited. I have adjusted our travel schedule in order to make sure I can speak at this event and recognize our snowboard program and our riders in this MMSC public community venue. Dinner starts at 6pm. Awards @ 6:30. If you are interested in attending please contact Ashley Sargent ashleysargent@myfairpoint.net for more details.

Sunday there will not be training. Take the day relax and enjoy.


This has been an amazing season and we have received an incredible amount of support and help form many people. None of our success would be possible with out the dedication and support of the amazing parents that make up our program. I would like to thank you all for giving your child the chance to grow up in an amazing setting, in a great community, through such an incredible sport.

 I would like to thank a few of you who have made incredible donations both with your time and your resources.

1st a big thank you to Jeff Boliba! Jeff has spent an unmeasurable amount of time and effort helping me make this program what it is. His dedication to the sport of snowboarding and to our program at MMSC is unreal. Thanks for all you do Jeff.

Next Marjorie Fay and her Husband Jeff. Marjorie has spent countless hours compiling results and reporting them to the Stowe reporter as well as putting together a news letter for us on a regular basis. She has also spent her time fund raising for us through out the season.
Jeff has not only spent hours upon hours of time helping us build and design GMFC, but he has also spent weekends of his life driving a few athletes around the North East in order to get the training and competitions we needed for our riders.

An amazing thanks also goes out to Dan Keen and Lamoille Valley / Twin State Ford for sponsoring us this season with a brand new van. That van is the sole reason we were able to make any of our trips happen. We were able to get our riders the training they needed to have an amazingly successful season. Dan has also allowed us to drive the van to Copper on Sunday with our tuning gear and our riders boards saving us a ton of money in airfare and baggage fee's and insuring our boards and tuning gear gets to Colorado with out a problem.

Also a big thanks goes out to Bryan and Sandy Huber for the amazing party's they have put together for us in there wonderful home. Thanks to Bryan for all of his support on the medical side of our program as well.

Thanks to all who spent time on the PAC. Those many nights spent in conference calls were very helpful.

There are so many more I would like to thank however there is only so much time. So thank you all once again from myself and the entire coaching staff.

USASA 2012 Nationals Info!!

Invites begin rolling in the next 24 hours!!

If you are a Pre-Qualified invite, or our NVT Invite in a particular discipline you will see your invites first. PLEASE accept or decline these immediately as it will help roll the NR Invites quicker. There is a GREAT DEAL of individual responsibility in preparing for this event, so check your emails and check under the Events tab above for the Nationals updates.

There is TONS of info!!

Young riders, check out the Lil' Rascals Rail Jam sponosred by USASA and Burton on March 2nd!!

Each week kicks off with an Opening Ceremony and as always we are going to kick out in style in yet another year of Vermont Flannel Company flannel. Buying local and keeping it all Northern VT!!!

Order deadline on the flannel shirts is Friday March 16th, if you miss it we will not re-order, so get on it!!

Family members feel free to join us in the parade with your own shirts on!!

They are available in Men's XL-XS and Youth M, S, XS. Send size to paige@usasa.org.

Shirts are $50, checks made out to NVT and sent to 421 Vt Rt 15 Underhill, VT 05489.

GMG Training session will be moved!

Due to a Birthday Party at GMG we will have to move the training session. I am looking at 3:30pm-5pm. I will confirm asap. Please stay tuned.