US Ski and Snowboard names Team Summit coach as Rocky Mountain Division’s Ability Coach of the Year

Staff Summit’s head Federation of Global Skiing coach Doug Elsey was just lately named Capacity Coach of the Calendar year for the the Rocky Mountain Division by U.S. Ski and Snowboard following a profitable 2021-22 Alpine ski time.

Elsey been given the honor right after he coached 5 of his 11 athletes to a title in at minimum one Federation of Intercontinental Skiing-sanctioned race. The team also had three athletes at U18 nationals, where it was capable to notch the fourth most major 15 finishes by a plan — trailing powering only the Vail, Steamboat and Solar Valley teams.

Along with a 13-calendar year span as a Staff Summit coach from 1999 to 2012, Elsey has also coached privately, served as a coach in Vail and coached for the British Ski Academy.

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Four seasons ago, Elsey returned to Group Summit and turned the head mentor of Workforce Summit’s Federation of Worldwide Skiing software.

Prior to Elsey returning, it was typical for the application to see a truthful sum of turnover as athletes transferred to other packages to get the teaching they felt was essential to make it to the upcoming degree.

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“Over the past four seasons of commitment to his athletes, Elsey has stopped the outflow of athletes and elevated the overall performance degree of the athletes in his software,” Team Summit Alpine Director Aldo Radamus stated.

Elsey feels like the achievements of the software is not because of to exclusively his coaching, but instead an complete Team Summit effort and hard work.

“It’s a we more than a just me thing,” Elsey said. “Everyone (at Crew Summit) has been very integral in every thing we are doing. I have tried to make a tradition of workforce, exactly where young ones like every single other and assist every single other out.”

Elsey also contributes the accomplishment of his plan to the nearby ski resorts that have been essential in receiving the athletes what they require to conduct through top-tier schooling terrain that mimics the locations where by the crew often competes.

The day-to-working day, selfless operate that coaching involves and observing his athletes triumph at a higher level is what Elsey enjoys.

“At the stop of the working day, it’s (about) viewing the children develop and establish,” Elsey stated, “trying to mildew them and support them in any case you can — in each skiing — and as youthful humans.”