Alumni News
Reunions coming up!
The Reunions this year are for the Classes of 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990 & 2000. All alumni are invited to attend Graduation and all Reunion functions beginning June 3rd. LWS Graduation is the June 4th this year. We’d love to see you at Graduation and our Reunion events. Stay posted for details.
Watch your mailboxes for the February 2010 LWS Experience Journal…
Alumni Notes will be included in the journal and if we have more to share, it will appear here. If you have news to share, please send it to Connect@lws.edu or email Joe Roberts at robertsj@lws.edu.
We know you love news and we’d like to keep it coming to you in all formats. Many of you have shared your “Stories of Success” with us and we are spreading the word about you and the little school in the mountains which gave you your start.
What you can do for us….
LWS has always done well with “Word of Mouth.” We know alums are one of the best ways to bring in the students who will benefit the most from our programs. We ask that you continue to send us such students this way. Please talk about our little school in the mountains which did so much for you. Share how you were inspired by Mr. Roberts or boosted ahead in your college career by Mrs. Morse. Tell your friends about the way Doc teaches Shakespeare. You know there is no other teacher like her. Boast of your ski careers or the way you learned to climb mountains. If you know of a family whose son or daughter would benefit from a high school career at LWS, we hope to hear from you. Please let us know at Admissions@lws.edu.
Three Alums will attend Olympic Games in 2010!
Three LWS alums will be traveling to Vancouver; they are: Johnny Spillane, Michelle Gorgone and Ryan St. Onge. Four other LWS alums came close, Matt Ladley (Snowboading) ‘07, Eliza Outtrim ‘03, Freestyle Moguls, and Emiko Torito ‘99, Freestyle Moguls. Check out our Olympic page for more information.
1989 Alumni
Dave Jarrett, who went to the 1994 and 1998 Olympics will serve as the U.S. Nordic Combined Coach. He will accompany fellow alum and Olympian, Johnny Spillane to Vancouver. Expectations are running high for the 2010 U.S. Nordic Team with Steamboat native and World Champion Todd Lodwick also Olympic-bound. Dave took the Nordic Combined Head Coach position following one of the program’s most successful seasons in 2008. An ex-Alpine skier, Dave made the switch to Nordic sports in his teenage years and was a member of the U.S. Ski Team from 1992 – 1998. He enrolled in the University of Colorado after retiring and graduated with a degree in exercise physiology in 2000. Following graduation, he began coaching, working with the juniors at Soldier Hollow, the 2002 Olympic cross country venue, and joined the U.S. Ski Team in 2002 as the World Cup B coach. Jarrett married his wife Kelly following the ‘97 season. Today they live in Heber City, Utah, with their children, Jack and Angela.
Michael Kennedy, who attended LWS in 1989-90, is currently the CEO of the Australian National Ski and Snowboarding Organization. He will be announcing for Australia offering expert analysis and commentary on the 2010 Olympic Games’ freestyle events. According to his broadcasting site, http://www.foxtel.com.au/vancouver2010/our-broadcast/our-broadcast-team/michael-kennedy/default.htm, Michael retired as a moguls competitor following the 1992 World Cup season and became Australia’s first freestyle skiing Development Coach. He was also the Australian moguls coach for the Nagano 1998 Games and moguls and aerials coach at Salt Lake City in 2002, resonsible for guiding Alisa Camplin to Australia’s first winter Olympic gold medal.
1999 Alumni
Johnny Spillane will attend his third Olympic Games in 2010 on the Nordic Combined Team, leading a team of Steamboat grown Olympians, including Todd Lodwick, husband of alumna Sunny Lodwick. Johnny’s Parents, Jim and Nancy Spillane were honored in February 2010 as Marshals of the Winter Carnival Parade. Jim was a past LWS Head of School.
2001 Alumni
Ryan St. Onge, 2010 Olympian
Ryan St. Onge will attend his 2nd Olympic Games in 2010 in Freestyle Aerials. The New York Times recently published a training video of Ryan breaking down one of his more difficult tricks so viewers are better able to understand the complexities of the moves that make up the aerial events. Check Out Ryan St. Onge Aerials Step by Step.
Michelle Gorgone will attend her third Olympic Games in 2010 in Alpine Snowboarding. Michelle is expected to lead the pack. In her spare time, she likes to sing and she has auditioned for American Idol prior to her first Olympic appearance in Torino.
2008 Alumni
Isabella (Izzy) Cedercreutz will be announcing the Olympics for Norway this year. She continues her own freestyle career and visited LWS this summer with fellow alumna Natay Storie. Natay has joined a Scottish Marching Band at the University of Alaska!
2010 Alumni
Molly Newman who will graduate this year, is the 2010 Winter Carnival Queen. This is fun to note as teacher Erin Davis (Gilbo) was Queen in 1994 and Heidi Nunnikhoven (Business Manger) was Queen in 1980. Trenia Sanford (Director of Technology/Horse Program Director) is a third generation LWS teacher and her mother (Jo Semotan Schipper) who taught with Lowell in the 60’s was Winter Carnival Queen in 1957! The Carnival Crown is passed down from generation to generation here at LWS!
How to watch the 2010 Olympic Aerial & Snowboard events
If you’re like most people, you might have trouble figuring out what’s going on in the air as an aerialist twists and turns and puts his or her arms in this or that position. Perhaps superpipe completely baffles you. What is a MUTE GRAB anyway?
Here are some videos to help you unravel what all those maneveu.
How to Watch Arialists – starring our Alum, Ryan St. Onge