Thanks for a fun filled 3 years.

Dear Friends, Family and MMSC members,

Over the past three years, MMSC has welcomed me to the clubhouse and allowed me to work with amazing young snowboarders. It has been an absolute pleasure and an honor to work with the incredible MMSC snowboarding community. As a team, we have had many great times, excellent results, and learned powerful lessons along the way – all while enjoying the challenge of our dynamic East Coast mountains and winters. I have come to love this northern Vermont community as family.

I eat, live, and breathe snowboarding. It has been an influential part of my life for many years. Sharing my passion for snowboarding with kids has been my mission. Supporting youth in developing their own unique skills and talents while having fun riding and competing, has been unbelievably rewarding. This mission will always be a part of who I am and why I do what I do.

At this time, I would like to inform you that I am resigning from my position as Head Coach of Mount Mansfield Snowboard Club, effective today.

I thank you all, for the support I have received over the past few years. I also want to thank Jamal Reid and Nick Citro for all of their hard work, dedication, and sacrifices made to contribute and support the MMSC team. They are the best coaches any program could ask for.

I will no longer be using Scott@teammmsc.org. I can now be reached at:

scott-adam@hotmail.com – Please stay in touch.

It is with fear and excitement of the unknown that I say farewell and best wishes to you all.

Sincerely,

Scott Adam

2012/2013 Final weekend update.

We have reached the final weekend of training for the 2012/2013 season.  This weekend will be a fun filled weekend with lots of opportunity for everyone to get some amazing turns in. With all of the snow we have had this week the conditions are going to be amazing.

This Friday we will offer a full day of training at the air bag set up at Sugarbush. Everyone will meet at 9am @ lincoln peek in the Main Lodge by guest services. We will be spending most of the day at the airbag, but will take some time to get in the park as well.  There is discounted jump tickets available through the US Airbag site. For more info check here. A Sugarbush lift ticket is required. Please email me if you will be needing a ticket for the day. (I am still working on setting up discounted tickets for all. Fingers crossed.)

Also on Friday for those staying at Stowe we will offer the last of our Friday program. Everyone will meet in the Den at Mansfield base at 12:30 and ride till 3:30. All MMSC riders are welcome to join.

This Saturday we will be meeting at the regularly scheduled time at the club. 8am-3pm.

We will be setting up a table through out the day in order to sell our remaining MMSC hoodies, stickers and hats in order to raise funds to help out with the nationals expenses. Any volunteer help would be appreciated.

On Sunday most of our coaching staff will start the drive to Colorado in the Twin State Ford Express. Thanks to Dan Keene and Twin State ford we will once again make the trek across the US to Colorado. (Keep an eye out for updates on the facebook page.) There will training offered at MMSC. We will have one coach available. Everyone will be at the club at 8am and ride till 3pm.

It has been an amazing season. A big thanks to everyone who helped make this season, one to remember. Good luck to all going to nationals!

See you all this weekend.

P.S. Stay tuned for info on an end of year party sometime after nationals.

2013 Nationals Info

We are fast approaching the end of our MMSC season. Last weekend was the last of our NVT events and our riders are now looking ahead to USASA nationals in Copper. National results are in all across the country and if you go to the EVENTS tab on the USASA.org page and click the 2013 nationals link you will see the first thing on the right hand list is NATIONALS INVITES. FIll in your drop downs and see where you are. The invite itself will be sent to the email that you used to register for USASA. PLEASE PAY ATTENTION to the deadlines, if you miss them, you are automatically out. The current deadline to accept your spot is 3/17. If you anticipate a National Ranking (NR) Invite, the best way to be sure is to go to the snowboard Nationals page under the events tab as well, scroll to Comp Groups and look at how many they are taking in your particular discipline. If you are ranked high enough to fall within that number you can anticipate that NR invite coming. All 1st in there series will be removed from the NR list as they receive their series invite. (ex: They are taking 50 total and you are nationally ranked 30th...it looks darn good! 32 series in the country...do the math : )...)THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY in this so please check often and be pro-active!! If you are not going decline immediately so that the invite can go to the next in line ASAP.

If you are going to nationals and you have not already, please get your deposit in to me asap. I have booked most of our nationals reservations and should have a fixed price to you all by the end of the weekend. We are once again taking deposits for the trip on last years rate of $700 per kid. Our 2013 cost may be slightly higher or lower depending on the reservations we can find and the number of riders going. We will look for 50% of the projected total which equals $350 from all riders going to Nationals asap. The cost covers, coaches travel fee's, coaches transportation, coaches lodging, tuning supplies, daily coaches per-diem, and pay-rates. I will be collecting all of the funds and making the reservations with my own account so please make any checks out to Scott Adam. Once we have booked our reservations and the rest of the costs are added we will announce a final price, the balance will be due 10 days before the start of Nationals. We will also have the pre-national training costs set and announced by Sunday.

In order to help keep the costs of nationals down we are selling our MMSC hoodies and hats to raise funds to offset the cost of nationals. If any one is available I am looking for a volunteer to set up a table at MMSC this weekend and sell our hoodies and hats for us. Please email if you are available to help. All of us know how expensive nationals can be for everyone, so in order for us to keep our coaching costs down as low as we can, we need to offset the cost of Nationals with these extra funds. Please help us sell our hoodies and in return help all of those going to nationals. We have hoodies available for men and woman in sizes S,M,and L. All hoodies will cost $75 and hats cost $20 please make any checks out to Scott Adam.

Weekly update 3/7

We have an action packed weekend ahead of us. This is our final weekend of USASA NVT competitions.

All the fun begins tomorrow. We will offer training only in the afternoon. tomorrow. We will also offer up transportation to Sugarloaf, ME. for any rider that needs or would like to compete in HP at Sugarloaf. We will leave at some point tomorrow afternoon. Stay over night in Me. compete in both HP's Saturday and return Saturday night. Please contact me if you are interested in this trip.

There will be two options for training tomorrow.

A. Our normal Friday program training meeting at the Den at Mansfield base at 12:30.

B. Bolton Valley Air bag session. We will meet at 1:15 at Bolton Valley and ride till 4:30.

The pricing is as follows.

 3 jumps $10
10 jumps $25
25 jumps $45
(Cash only) for the Bag.
(All participants must also have a Bolton Valley lift ticket for the day or valid season pass.)

Saturday March 9th...5th Annual Molly Jam to benefit the Molly Fund 
Registration from noon -1pm at the Smugglers Notch Ski and Snowboard Club, estimated event start 2pm. Venue located on the lower race hill, left of the TBar, directly in front of the SNSC Clubhouse. Entry Fee $25

There will also be coaches at Stowe for any rider not competing.

Sunday March 10th..Donate Life Slopestyle and NVT End of Season Party

Registration is from 8-9am at the Smugglers Notch Ski and Snowboard Club, estimated event start 10am. Venue located in the ZONE, right of the TBar, directly in front of the SNSC Clubhouse. Event fee $40

Post event we will have our annual END OF SEASON BBQ and we ask that each family please provide a side dish/salad/snack enough for 10 people and we will have the BBQ items taken care of.

Members of the Donate Life Vermont Community will be in attendance and The Center for Transplant and Donation will be presenting the DONATE LIFE CHAMPION AWARD to NVT Alumni Dylan Peters for the gifts he gave.

Just a reminder we are selling our MMSC hoodies and hats to raise funds to offset the cost of nationals. All of us know how expensive nationals can be for everyone, so in order for us to keep our coaching costs down as low as we can, we need to offset the cost of Nationals with these extra funds. Please help us sell our hoodies and in return help all of those going to nationals. We have hoodies available for men and woman in sizes S,M,and L. All hoodies will cost $75 and hats cost $20 please make any checks out to Scott Adam. See Scott, Jamal. or Nick to pick them out.

Also in order to begin to book our nationals reservations, we will need to once again take deposits for the trip on last years rate of $700 per kid. Our 2013 cost may be slightly higher or lower depending on the reservations we can find and the number of riders going. We will look for 50% of the projected total which equals $350 from all riders going to Nationals asap. The cost covers, coaches travel fee's, coaches transportation, coaches lodging, tuning supplies, daily coaches per-diem, and pay-rates. I will be collecting all of the funds and making the reservations with my own account so please make any checks out to Scott Adam. Once we have booked our reservations and the rest of the costs are added we will announce a final price, the balance will be due 10 days before the start of Nationals. The longer it takes to book the trip the high our prices are so please get your deposit for nationals in asap, so we can lock in a fare price.

Weekly update for 3/1

We have reached another weekend.

Tomorrow we will once again offer a full day of training for all full time weekend riders. All groups will meet at the Club at 8am. We hope to set gates for SL in the afternoon.

Saturday all groups will meet at 8am and ride to 3pm. We will be setting GS gates on Exhibition hill under the gondi in the am. to prepare for Sunday's race.

A small group of riders will also be competing out of series HP at Mt. Snow. If your rider needs points to qualify for nationals through nationalranking this is a great chance to get the experience.  Riders will be leaving tomorrow to train in the HP and will compete on Saturday. Please contact me asap if your rider will be attending. Saturday registration is 7am-8am 9:00 event at the Carinthia base lodge. Entrance fee is $60.

Sunday Mar 3rd....NVT GS #3 and Slalom #3 @ Stowe

Registration is from 8-9am at the Midway Lodge. Anticipated 10am start. Event fee is $60 for the day.


Just a reminder we are selling our MMSC hoodies and hats to raise funds to offset the cost of nationals. All of us know how expensive nationals can be for everyone, so in order for us to keep our coaching costs down as low as we can, we need to offset the cost of Nationals with these extra funds. Please help us sell our hoodies and in return help all of those going to nationals. We have hoodies available for men and woman in sizes S,M,and L. All hoodies will cost $75 and hats cost $20 please make any checks out to Scott Adam. See Scott, Jamal. or Nick to pick them out.

Also in order to begin to book our nationals reservations, we will need to once again take deposits for the trip on last years rate of $700 per kid. Our 2013 cost may be slightly higher or lower depending on the reservations we can find and the number of riders going. We will look for 50% of the projected total which equals $350 from all riders going to Nationals asap. The cost covers, coaches travel fee's, coaches transportation, coaches lodging, tuning supplies, daily coaches per-diem, and pay-rates. I will be collecting all of the funds and making the reservations with my own account so please make any checks out to Scott Adam. Once we have booked our reservations and the rest of the costs are added we will announce a final price, the balance will be due 10 days before the start of Nationals. The longer it takes to book the trip the high our prices are so please get your deposit for nationals in asap, so we can lock in a fare price.

Weekly update 2/21.

More snow has fallen this week here at the Mnt, and we expect more throughout the weekend. All of this new snow has made for some great conditions on the Mnt, but may make for some changes to the schedule this weekend so stay tuned and keep your eye on the FB page or the USASA website for changes.

Friday- Feb 22nd.... We will offer a full day of prep training at Sugarbush. There will be discounted or free tickets available. (The details are still in the works) We will meet at 9am at Mt. Ellen Lodge.


There will not be training offered at Stowe this Friday. Stowe Schools Friday program is blacked out for the Holiday week.

Saturday Feb 23rd....Slopestyle #2 @ Sugarbush Mt Ellen Park Registration from 8-9am in the upstairs of Mt Ellen Lodge. Anticipated 10am start. Event fee is $40.
There will be coaches available for those not competing at Stowe.

Sunday Feb 24th......Halfpipe #2 @ Stowe Registration is from 8-9am in the Bears Den at the Mansfield Base Lodge. Anticipated 10am start. Event fee is $40

There will be coaches available for those not competing all groups will meet at the Den at Mansfield Base.

    In order to begin to book our nationals reservations, we will need to once again take deposits for the trip on last years rate of $700 per kid. Our 2013 cost may be slightly higher or lower depending on the reservations we can find and the number of riders going. We will look for 50% of the projected total which equals $350 from all riders going to Nationals asap. The cost covers, coaches travel fee's, coaches transportation, coaches lodging, tuning supplies, daily coaches per-diem, and pay-rates. I will be collecting all of the funds and making the reservations with my own account so please make any checks out to Scott Adam. Once we have booked our reservations and the rest of the costs are added we will announce a final price, the balance will be due 10 days before the start of Nationals.

    In addition we will begin to sell our MMSC hoodies and hats to raise funds to offset the cost of nationals. All of us know how expensive nationals can be for everyone, so in order for us to keep our coaching costs down as low as we can, we need to offset the cost of Nationals with these extra funds. Please help us sell our hoodies and in return help all of those going to nationals. We have hoodies available for men and woman in sizes S,M,and L. All hoodies will cost $75 and hats cost $20 please make any checks out to Scott Adam. See Scott, Jamal. or Nick to pick them out.

See you all soon.

MMSC Snowboarding Mid Season Social 2/13