TMART - AUGUST 2019 NEWS

AUGUST 2019 Monthly Update

Athlete Strength & Conditioning - NOW!

Evaluation Sessions are Sunday August 18th

Please Reserve a Time Slot

TMART Strength and Conditioning Coach Christine is holding the evaluation sessions for you to begin your Fall strength and conditioning program next week.

The evaluations are specific measured activities that Christine will use to design your personal regimen of activities that will be tailored to your specific needs.

The evaluation session is step #1. This is the foundation to a new faster stronger you.

Sunday August 18th - 2:00 - 4:00pm

Rain Date - August 25th

Coach Christine - Leading the Pack!

Competing at World Master Athletics!

This is for ALL TMART Comp Athletes and ALL TMART Coaches.

For All Ages - All Abilities!

Please come out to YOUR strength & conditioning evaluation session. This will be a fun event where you rotate through fitness stations with Coach Christine.

Arrive 30minutes early to warm up.
U14 and younger will go first at 2:00pm.
U16 and older will go second starting at 3:00pm.
Might have some burgers & dogs afterwards!

It takes about 3 months of training to see measurable results - so THE TIME IS NOW - to get started.

There is NO EXTRA FEE for you to take advantage of your TMART training! Get out there and build a better you!

Questions? - email Coach Christine.

To participate you must do two things:

1 - Your US Ski & Snowboard Membership must be current. Click below to renew .

2 - You must reserve a time slot for the evaluation. Click below to reserve .

1 - Renew USSS Membership

2 - Reserve EVAL Session

TMART at Mt. Hood

Summer Training is in Session

Left to right: Elan Torretti, Nina Fonash, Drue Lincoln, Alec Fonash, Van Glantz

August 3, 2019 - Top of Training Lanes - Mt. Hood

Five TMART athletes have made the trip to Oregon for a little on-snow time. Reports are that the morning snow is firm and fast.

Lift loads at 7:00am and training concludes at 12:00 noon, followed by lunch and afternoon activities such as hiking to waterfalls, ultimate frisbee, and even a trip to a popular windsurfing beach known as Hood River.

You can follow their training video sessions here. Their video dates are August 1 - 6.

Great job athletes. Train as hard as you can! Cannot wait to see your new skills this winter.

Drue - Looking Fierce at 6:45 in the Morning

Alec, Drue, & Elan - Uploading to the Palmer Glacier with packs and gear

Coaches Dave and Josh with Dana and Brandy

Hiking on the Volcano 8/1/19

Drue & Elan at the Top!

Roundtop, Liberty, and Whitetail - EPIC Pass

EPIC Pass Covers Skiing at 76 Resorts

Roundtop Mountain Resort, Liberty Mountain Resort, and Whitetail Resort have been added to the growing list of mountains that are covered by a single season pass - the Epic Pass.

All three mountains hold qualifier races for U12 & U14 this year.

If you are planning to race at all three resorts, plus travel to any of the other resorts on the Epic Pass list (for Spring Break for example) you might consider the Epic Pass. Discounted pricing ends September 2.

Epic Pass - Now at Roundtop, Liberty, & Whitetail

There are MANY Northeast resorts on the list, plus also the big ones out west.

Just a small portion of the list includes:

Western:

Whistler Blackcomb, BC

Vail, CO

Keystone, CO

Park City, UT

Sun Valley, ID

Eastern:

Okemo, VT

Stowe, VT

Mount Snow, VT

Hunter Mountain, NY

Attitash, NH

Local:

Jack Frost, PA

Big Boulder, PA

Liberty Mountain, PA

Roundtop, PA

Whitetail, PA

World Cup Racing at Killington, VT

Looking for a Unique Thanksgiving Holiday?

You might consider attending the Ladies World Cup Race at Killington on November 29 - December 1. It is way MORE than just a race - it is a whole packed weekend event - music, fireworks, parades, and the world's best ski racing - all at just an easy 6 hour drive from State College.

Coach Frank worked on the race crew last year and he plans to travel and do it again this year. Imagine that - he's right out there working on the world cup surface!

Check in with Coach Frank for all of the details if you think you might like to travel to the weekend event and meet up with him there.

World Cup racing does not get any closer to home than this!

Coach Frank working at World Cup Race

Finish Area - Racer on Course

As with the last three years of the Audi FIS Ski World Cup, the 2019 races at Killington will be broadcast worldwide to more than 60 nations, along with national broadcast coverage across the US. The event has drawn an increasing number of spectators who converge in Killington each year to cheer on racers from around the world. Peaking at 39,000 spectators last year, the event is clearly incredible.

The World Cup includes women’s giant slalom and slalom races, attracting athletes such as U.S. Ski Team superstar Mikaela Shiffrin who has emerged victorious in slalom each of the last three years at Killington, for the hat trick.

General Admission Parking and viewing is free.

Enhanced Viewing & Parking Tix go on Sale August 21, 2019 - They Sell Out FAST!! !

Alumni Spotlight - Drew Holzwarth

An Interview with TMART Alumni Drew Holzwarth:

TMART Alum Drew Holzwarth

TMART Alumni - Drew Holzwarth, Jan Dutton, Gavin Fernsler (Left to Right)

at Jackson Hole 2019

What years did you ski with TMART?

" I was a member on TMART from 1982 until 1989. Those were some exciting years with some great coaches. Coach Bill, Coach Sandy, and Coach Mark were so much fun to ski for and really memorable to this day. One fun fact is that I live in the same small community in Virginia (Crozet) as Roscoe Shaw and Heidi Sonen who were PSU grad students and TMART Helpers during those years. Today, I hang out on the pool deck with them watching our kids participate in their summer swim league (together with Jan Dutton another fellow TMART Alum!). It is crazy that we all ended up in the small town of 6,000 residents ."

What are you doing now?

"I am a real estate developer and homebuilder with projects throughout the Middle Atlantic States. What I do now is not nearly as fun as what I did when I lived in Happy Valley. For five years, Chris Sylves (fellow TMART Alum) and I ran the ski shop for Geoff Brugler in the basement of Appalachian Ski and Outdoors. If l close my eyes I can still smell the wax and the P-Tex aroma of our shop. It was a great gig that I would gladly pay Geoff to do if he'll have me back! Growing up is a lot less fun...."

Are you still skiing?

"For sure! Days on snow remain my favorite days of the year. Fun fact, I have two boys – Andrew and Michael who spent several years racing in the SARA region on the Wintergreen Ski Team. Some of my favorite mornings are running gates as an old dude and showing the young bucks that the old guy could still patch together a run or two!"

You had a really snazzy one-piece ski suit in the 80's. You still wearing that thing?

"Oh yes I do! That Descente One-Piece is timeless. There comes a time in a man’s life when he hits fashion "lock-down." He hangs onto cool clothes for a bit too long then totally gives up on fashion altogether. Like my good friend Gavin Fernsler (fellow TMART Alum - nickname "Goob") has most recently experienced. On our most recent annual trip to Jackson Hole this winter, Goob showed up donning a pair of shiny white Nike Monarch's that he picked up on his pre-trip outing to Walmart."

"We kindly let him know he was on a slippery fashion slope and he was just one shelf and a couple of dollars away from these beauties:"

"But thankfully, with my Descente One-Piece in the closet, I never have to worry about fashion lock-down while on snow. Timeless Classics never run out of fashion. My biggest challenge is that I have to maintain my 1993 shape to continue to don this celebration to skiing fashion. I hit the gym three days a week with this in mind…."

What is your favorite memory from Tussey Mountain and your TMART days?

"There are so many fun memories. Having the TMART team crash at the Brown’s cabin before our Elk Mountain race one year. Believing that the top of Elk Mountain may be one of the coldest places on earth……Loving home races when the other teams would come in fear of the steep, icy terrain at the top of the race hill at Tussey….They are all good!"

H ave any advice for our current TMART athletes?

"Have fun and go fast. The terrain you ski at Tussey will prepare you for a great life of skiing after your racing years. There was a time when I used to pray that I would bring my two young sons home from the slopes, to their mother, in one piece. Now, I follow them praying that I make it home in one piece and they lead me into the craziest areas…."

"Skiing is a lifetime sport that gets better and better!"

Drew's Sons - Michael & Andrew

Racing at Wintergreen 2017

Drew in "The Suit" - Steamboat 1998, TMART Alums Chris Sylves and Gavin Fernsler to his right

Help Wanted - Event Coordinator

Board Seeks Help With Planning & Coordination of Event

Having added a January PA Cup race to our home mountain racing schedule, we have opened up an opportunity to hold a Saturday afternoon event as the day of racing concludes.

The board has several ideas for an event, we have the man power to pull it off, but could really use one volunteer to take the lead role in managing it.

You - Event Planner!

If events and/or fundraising are your sort of thing - we could really use your help! Step one would be to come to our next board meeting on August 22 to learn more and to help us hone in on an exact plan. (Board meetings are casual and fun!) Don't worry if you come and decide not to commit that's OK too. Want to talk about it? Let us know!