Sun Valley Co. Season Passes

For the 2017-2018 season, SVSEF athletes will purchase Sun Valley season passes directly from Sun Valley Company. For Blaine County students, season passes are $415. Passes will be available at the River Run ticketing office beginning October 27, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Athletes will not be able to pick up passes during the weekend of Thanksgiving – please pick up by Wednesday, November 22.…

SVSEF Assumes Rotarun Ski Area Operations

© Glen Allison   Since its inception in the early 1950s, the nonprofit Rotarun Ski Area in Hailey, Idaho, has been geared toward building community through engagement in affordable alpine skiing. The Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation (SVSEF) will continue to foster this initiative through its recent agreement to take over the management of ski operations for the 2017-2018 season. The…

2017-2018 Cross Country Gold Team Preview

Jack Hegman and Cole Morgan lead the group at Lake Creek. It’s a big year for the SVSEF Cross Country Gold Team athletes. Although months away, the 2018 Winter Olympics are doubtless on the minds of many, as they stand as a pinnacle of success. The Olympics are not a short-term, spur-of-the-moment goal; competing at the international level takes commitment, as well as requisite competitive…

Back on Snow: An Update from New Zealand

An update from Cross Country Gold Team Head Coach, Chris Mallory: For the past two weeks, we’ve had part of the SVSEF Cross Country Gold Team training down in New Zealand at the Snow Farm, putting some good time in on snow. A few other U.S. clubs along with the National Team also made the trek down, so the training group has been terrific. While we had spring like conditions for the first…

FIS Summer: Training in Argentina

  For a high-level alpine athlete, training on snow in the summer is an opportunity to develop strength, slow down and get a feel for the surface – it’s a chance to focus on fundamentals and movement, and to build an athletic base for the upcoming winter season. Seven SVSEF alpine FIS athletes are taking advantage of the fact it’s winter in the southern hemisphere; they’re nearing the…

Preview of the 2017 Cross Country NNF/U.S. Ski Team National U16 Camp, Sun Valley, July 23-30

Athletes on the new rollerski sprint training loop at Community School's Dumke Family Sagewillow Campus. Photo by Paul Smith. Although the U16 camp is held in a different region and location each year, the focus remains the same. Athletes are here to train hard, walk away with some new sport knowledge and build community; ultimately becoming better athletes in every way. This year’s camp…

Janss Pro-Am Classic 2017: A Recap

The Flintstones. © Glen Allison If there’s anything this group does well, it’s costumes and celebrating SVSEF. The theme for this year’s 20th annual Janss Pro-Am Classic was “Cartoon Classics,” and participants did not disappoint. The Flintstones made a memorable appearance, rolling in with a footmobile to the show’s intro music. Where was Waldo? An anomaly of the books that had you…

Cross Country – West Yellowstone Rendezvous Results

Rogan Brown in the men's 10km skate race. On Saturday, November 26, SVSEF cross country skiers got back into the swing of racing in West Yellowstone, Montana, after spending a week of training on the Rendezvous Ski Trails there. West was hit with about a foot of snow the day before the Comp and Prep contingents were to depart Friday, November 18 – the athletes, who were prepared for a…

Update from Alpine Fall Europe Camp

The SVSEF alpine contingent that is currently training in Europe has left the land of pretzels and brats to ski in the open air at Solden, Austria. GS training starts today for the 24 athletes and five coaches after a travel day Friday and an off day Saturday. The team completed a four-day slalom block in Wittenburg, Germany, on Thursday. The block consisted of seven 2-hour sessions,…

Alpine and Freestyle Equipment Day – September 25

    It’s time yet again to tackle the conundrum of outfitting an athlete who has sprouted an inconceivable ten inches in a matter of mere weeks. This may be a slight exaggeration – I wouldn’t know as I grew at a steady rate and I haven’t had any children. Regardless of the intensity of their growth spurt, your athlete can get all set up for the fast-approaching season THIS SUNDAY,…