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Legacy Campaign

The decade-long legacy campaign helped us realize our dream of constructing the Center of Excellence, a state-of-the-art athlete training and education center in Park City, Utah. USSA coaches and trainers collaborated to design a structure that could house both ski and snowboard oriented facilities onto one campus, bolstering the respective teams' unity and work ethic. Sport science, sports medicine, and sport education all come together to not only benefit elite athletes training under its roof, but athletes around the country who benefit from the research and education.

"I see it as a dream realized. As we were watching it come together it had an impact on my motivation," Olympic gold medalist Billy Demong (Vermontville, NY) said. "No national governing body has anything to rival this Center of Excellence."

In the year after the Center's opening, U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding athletes accounted for 21 of the 37 medals won by the American team in Vancouver. If the successful first year is any indication of the future, the Center will prove to be invaluable for generations of athletes moving up the ranks of development teams.

Tremendous success to date has generated great momentum, but more remains to be done. Every gift - large and small - is important in reaching our goals and providing consistent training programs for our athletes.

Education

Support our athletes off the slopes by making a special gift to our scholarship program.  Educational assistance for college tuition is available to current, retired and injured athletes.  Help our athletes maximize their scholastic as well as their physical potential by supporting their college careers. 

"The U.S. Ski Team gave me the opportunity to achieve my goals.  I've passed the torch now, and my greatest ambition is to see that other young ski and snowboard athletes have the same chances I had."  -- Picabo Street, 1998 Olympic Gold Medalist