March Newsletter

Head Of School

Winter is in full swing here in Oregon & all of the students got to take advantage of the fresh snow all the way down to campus. College acceptance letters have been rolling in for our seniors with the juniors preparing to apply for early acceptance applications to colleges all over the United States. Students have been stacking up medals on the road from Nevada to Colorado with more trips looming on the horizon. All of our staff & students have been making the most out of the amazing opportunities they have found in the rain, sleet, snow & sunshine of the Pacific Northwest in February. Our student representatives are now meeting with the staff weekly to further improve the lines of communication between the staff & students. Time is flying by & there never seems to be enough hours in the day but it has been fun to watch the students grow up & achieve their goals.

-Mike Hanley

Academics

February has been filled with lots of fun and snow! Students are in the zone and accomplishing academics with the overall GPA average of 3.27 (B+). We are almost to midterms already and our goal is to end the semester with an overall GPA average of 3.5.

Most freshman, sophomore and juniors practiced for the SAT by completing Reading, Writing and Math Sections weekly. We will have an SAT School Day on March 3rd, with the make up date being April 13th. Our students have the advantage to test in the classroom they regularly study in with the SAT School Day option. The cost is $54. Please reach out if you haven’t already told us that you would like your child to test.

Several of our seniors have received college acceptances this month! Colleges/Universities that our students have been accepted to include University of Redlands, New York University, Westminster, Sierra Nevada University, University of Utah, University of Montana, University of Vermont, Fordham University, and University of Colorado at Boulder.

Almost all teams were traveling this month, so this calls for a front load approach to academics. The teachers ask students to complete all assignments that will be due throughout the duration of their trip before they travel. We ask them to be proactive so they can be more focused on competitions when away from campus.

Students of Month:

Jaime selected Collin Schubert for his early arrival to the classroom, leadership among his peers and perseverance with schoolwork and college applications.

Kayla selected Konnor Ralph because of his tremendous literary efforts, his proactive work ethic, and his attention to detail.

Robbie selected Kade Kaluza for his consistent effort, wonderfully pleasant and respectful attitude towards others, and for seeking out help when he needs it!

The students tuning into an episode of Industry Insighters™, featuring the owner of Malakye, Chad Mihalick

Student Life

Skateboard

Greetings skate families,

This February we had a ton of snow on campus, our outdoor skatepark was completely buried! With this we were able to set up a bunch of jumps and rail features all over campus. You know, sometimes the skaters just gotta have some fun in the snow too! So that’s exactly what we’ve been doing. Our campus was a winter wonderland and the kids have been having the best time with it. Also, we’ve been going snowboarding at Timberline 1 to 2 days a week. It’s been so much fun. Lot’s of powder days and I think it’s so great to mix it up since we skate so much. The kids keep asking me to go more!

We’ve been getting a bunch of skating in as well. Lot’s of time in our indoor park but also we squeezed in a great trip to Eugene as well as a bunch of Portland double athletic days when the weather was nice. Right now we’re gearing up for our California trip. We’re planning on spending a week and a half out there chasing the sunshine. The kids have been wanting to go to California all year so I am very excited to be making this happen for them!

-Jamie Weller

Mountain Bike

Hello Bike Families,

February has been another busy month! We had a very successful trip to Bootleg Canyon outside of Las Vegas for our first race of the semester, where we took a number of podiums, camped and even played tourist and saw the Hoover Dam!

DH results - Congratulations to Etan and Taylor taking 2nd and 3rd in Cat 1 15-16, Brooke 1st in Cat 1 15-29(to young to race pro), Sierra 3rd in U14, Brandon taking 4th in(which would have placed him in 6th in an energy drink filled pro podium)

Enduro results - Congratulations to JT Fisher on taking 5th in Cat 1 17-18, Harper on 5th in Cat 2 15-18, Quinn on 3rd in JR 11-14, and Curran on racing his first race!!

We returned to a snow apocalypse and have been able to take advantage of it with some great turns at Meadows while remaining to keep the wheels moving and preparing for Tennessee National. We have had some great days particularly in Capitol Forest.

Wynn Berns & Tyler Vollopotto

Snowboard

Hello Snowboard Families,

We are delighted to be reporting to you from sunny Colorado, but before we get ahead of ourselves, there are some things worth mentioning that happened during the beginning of the month back in Oregon. We were finally blessed with a few snow storms allowing the team to enjoy some proper Pow Days! The team explored parts of Timberline outside of the terrain park that led to new tricks being landed by almost everyone. There’s something contagious about trying new tricks off of a pow jump with minimal consequences if you don’t find yourself back on your feet. With that mentality, the kids took full advantage! Also, we were able to do the legendary run from Timberline Resort down to Government Camp which could be considered a right of passage. If that wasn’t enough, the team took full advantage of snowy evenings riding the upper bowl cliffs at Ski Bowl and spending hours lapping the rail park via the rope tow. Needless to say it was difficult to leave Oregon amidst the snow storms blessing our home but Colorado was calling.

As most of you know, we’ve been here since February 17 and will be staying through March 5. Our time thus far has been nothing short of productive as Copper Mountain has quite possibly the best park we’ve seen them build. The sun has been shinning, the crew has been grinding, and there isn’t much more we could ask for. Some highlights include Isabella, Arianna, and Alessia competing in their first ever Rev Tour event over in Aspen! This is a big milestone for these 3 girls to see what the stage of professional snowboarding looks like being that the course they competed on was the actual X-Games course for 2021. We are proud to share that all 3 girls were able to handle the size of the course and are now that much closer to competing at that level. The rest of the crew has been stacking clips at Copper and pushing their abilities daily. We look forward to our finals days here in Colorado before heading back to campus where the winter storms haven’t seemed to let up.

Cheers,
Elijah Teter, Brandon Sorel & Luke Giacopelli

Greetings Ski Families!

The month of February has been kind to us! We had some beautiful sunny days lapping Timberline in the beginning of the month, and then right before we took off for our trip to CO, a massive storm system blew in dumping over 5 ft of snow in just a weeks time! The snow was deep and the POW skiing was all time! Everyone has been firing on all cylinders working through goals and training hard both on and off snow.

We successfully made it to CO and have been utilizing our time here training at Woodward Copper. The weather has been very beachy with multiple sunny days in a row! A nice little break from all the snow we had been seeing in OR. A lot of firsts have gone down already, including some new doubles corks, and as the trip starts to wind down everyone is hungry to check off their goals before we head back to OR.

We’ve have had a great month, and as March approaches we look forward to going home to all the snow, continuing to train hard, and springtime which is right around the corner!

-Brian McCarthy, Kevin Merchant & Griffin Dunne