We had a ski season. We had a successful ski season. We stayed masked. We stayed healthy. We made new friends. We learned how to ski and race really well in just eight weeks and two days. Forty-nine training and race days. We packed in a lot of edge sets, turns, gates, pole plants, chair rides, rope tow rides, race starts, drop offs and pick ups. We are sad to see the ski season end after waiting so long to see it begin. It is time to celebrate.
Let's make the banquet this year about gratitude. To help us develop this theme, we are asking the coaches, athletes, parents and friends of MAST to think about our season together. What about our ski season makes you grateful? But you don't need to limit your gratitude to your MAST experiences. If you wish, you can also share other experiences you have had in the last year that left you grateful.
Once you have a thought or two formed, you can share them by filling out the form below. The coachers will collect these reasons to be grateful and incorporate them into the banquet.
To get your brain engaged, here are just a few of Coach Mark's reasons for being grateful.
Let's make the banquet this year about gratitude. To help us develop this theme, we are asking the coaches, athletes, parents and friends of MAST to think about our season together. What about our ski season makes you grateful? But you don't need to limit your gratitude to your MAST experiences. If you wish, you can also share other experiences you have had in the last year that left you grateful.
Once you have a thought or two formed, you can share them by filling out the form below. The coachers will collect these reasons to be grateful and incorporate them into the banquet.
To get your brain engaged, here are just a few of Coach Mark's reasons for being grateful.
- Skating to South Chair for the 6:30 practice and seeing a bunch of Pod 7/8 athletes already performing "wedges and edges".
- Watching Christopher carve turns and complete two race runs when he couldn't even stand on skis without falling his first week of practice.
- Knowing that no matter how tired I was driving to practice that my energy level would increase tenfold at the first sight of a MAST athlete.
- Working with the most selfless and dedicated coaching staff on the planet six days a week.
- Learning how to use Instagram to share strength and conditioning workouts all summer and directed free skiing drills when the ski areas opened but we couldn't practice together.
- Because I have a wife who cares about this team as much as I do.