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Ski & Snowboard Club Vail joins U.S. Ski & Snowboard High Performance Center Program

Minturn Fitness Center’s new partnership with national governing body will lead to better exchange of knowledge, systems

The Minturn Fitness Center.
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U.S. Ski & Snowboard announced the addition of Ski & Snowboard Club Vail as the newest member of its High Performance Center Partnership Program. The High Performance Center program was initiated in 2017 to share knowledge, systems and processes of athlete development between ski and snowboard clubs and the U.S. Ski & Snowboard’s High Performance Department.

The program encourages certified gold and silver clubs that have excellence in athletic development, sports science and sports medicine to become a designated High Performance Center with U.S. Ski & Snowboard to maintain strong and robust talent pathways that can consistently identify and develop world-class athletes.

“The High Performance Center partnership program is critical to our success in developing our future athletes and we are delighted to have Ski & Snowboard Club Vail officially on board,” said Troy Taylor, director of High Performance for U.S. Ski & Snowboard, in a news release. “This is something really special and Vail, along with our other elite partnerships and High Performance Centers, will play a key role in our athlete development strategies and the effectiveness of a shared, collaborative system for years to come.”



5 years at Minturn Fitness Center

Ski & Snowboard Club Vail has a long and storied history of developing champions and mentors with more than 650 young athletes who participate in its on-snow programs across five disciplines: alpine, freeski, moguls, Nordic and snowboard. In 2019, SSCV also announced the launch of a full-time cycling program for dedicated, year-round competitive mountain bikers. 

SSCV’s Minturn Fitness Center opened its doors in 2014 as the first club-run facility to provide full human performance and medical services to its athletes. The 9,000-square-foot facility has been training SSCV and U.S. Ski & Snowboard athletes, as well as the general public, for the past five years.

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The Minturn Fitness Center requires its staff to have and maintain the highest standard of education. The Minturn Fitness Center was the first club in the nation to form strategic partnerships with Keiser, Plae and Woodway equipment companies, and was a club leader in developing programs using periodization and a 12-month collaboration with on-hill staff.

This new High Performance Center designation will further ensure SSCV is able to provide world-class services to its athletes, coaches and clients. (Photo Special to the Daily)

This new High Performance Center designation will further ensure SSCV is able to provide world-class services to its athletes, coaches and clients.

“We are overwhelmed by this accolade from U.S. Ski & Snowboard, which recognizes SSCV’s expertise and dedication to the health and performance of its athletes,” said John Cole, Ski & Snowboard Club Vail’s director of human performance. “As we continue to innovate our training and periodization systems, we will look forward to our new partnerships and collaborations, not only with the Center of Excellence in Park City, but also our fellow High Performance Centers throughout the U.S.”

“It’s an honor to officially partner with U.S. Ski & Snowboard,” said Jimmy Pritchard, Ski & Snowboard Club Vail’s director of strength and conditioning. “We are thrilled to further support the athletes with highest level of service and expand our educational relationships with the staff.”

Ski and Snowboard Club Vail’s commitment to athlete development culminates annually during Mountain-Con, a sport performance conference geared specifically for the mountain sport athlete professional that provides access to information from the most highly-acclaimed sport performance professionals in the industries of physiology, strength and conditioning, performance psychology, nutrition and altitude/sea level performance. Participants of Mountain-Con may use their attendance as continuing education credits with U.S. Ski & Snowboard’s coaching certification program.

For more information about U.S. Ski & Snowboard’s High Performance Partnership Program, contact Tom Webb, director of marketing and communications, at tom.webb@usskiandsnowboard.org.


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