Greetings Eastern Region!
Save the date for our Fall 2025 Committee MeetingsWhen:
October 17th & 18th, 2025Where:
Lake Placid Olympic and Para-olympic Training Center and virtual on ZOOM
Prep Period Conditioning!
Our inaugural East “RDP” Conditioning Project this week was awesome! Big thanks to:
GMVS for hosting, housing us, letting us use their high performance facilities
FIS News
For Season 2025-26, to be implemented starting with the Base List for Season 2026-27:
An 8-point adder will be applied to the calculated penalty of Level 2, 3, and 4 FIS events
The Eastern Region is excited to share the 2025-26 Calendar Re-Design.
See below for details.
Golden Ski Award 2025
The New England Ski Museum has announced the 2025 recipient of the Eastern Ski Writers Golden Ski Award: Annika Hunt of Burke Mountain Academy. After a successful 2025 season, Hunt will be honored for a 3rd consecutive year.
2025 U.S. Ski & Snowboard Congress Update
Eastern Region staff has aggregated some summary notes from this year's USSS Congress. This isn't intended to be an overview of some of the more major topics that were discussed. For a more exhaustive set of meeting minutes, agendas, and proposals, please see the USSS Congresss FTP site.
U.S. Ski & Snowboard’s Eastern Region is pleased to welcome Scott Graham as the newest member of the team as the Youth Development Coach.
Big news from the Eastern Region staff: we’re hiring! Kathy Okoniewski is transitioning over to a role in Sport Education, so we are currently looking for a Youth Development Coach to help our young athletes advance.
Kathy Okoniewski caught up with Brad and Bo Underhill back in January. Bo is living and training at Sunday River with a few other Bates College teammates, while Brad is traveling, training and racing in Europe this winter with the US Ski Team.
U.S. Ski & Snowboard Monthly Membership Update for March 2021, including Pending Members, Coaching Fundamentals, Safe Sport, Background Screening, and more.
The 2021 World Junior Ski Championships recently concluded in Bansko, Bulgaria, where Team USA celebrated two SL medals.