Camelback Mountain School

This year marks the Camelback Mountain School’s (CMS) fourth season offering snowboard/free-ski competition instruction. The program offerings are the only ones of its kind in Pennsylvania and consist of weekend, mid-week, and traveling competition instruction. This innovative discipline (freestyle and/or alpine) specific conditioning and instruction program includes a wide variety of training. Our off-snow preparation will include team and take home instruction, including aerobic and anaerobic workouts combined with a unique blend of snowboard/free-ski specific agility and plyometric movements. Our daily on-snow training will take place on Camelback Mountain’s slopes, the new Progressive Parks and F.I.S. Competition Certified Pipe. These new additions to Camelback Mountain are leading the region in park and pipe development, adding to the program’s ability to introduce the most progressive snowboard/free-ski competition training program.


This season we are proud to offer two separate programs for either snowboarding or free-skiing within the Camelback Mountain School. “Team Meadows” will be considered our stay at the mountain program. This program will focus on the younger athletes instructing them in all disciplines of competitive snowboarding or free-skiing. “Team Rhodo” is our elite program that will be traveling on a regular basis to regional competitions. This program will help individual athletes focus on their strengths and weaknesses to improve their competitive ability. Together “Team Meadows” will be the perfect training ground for “Team Rhodo” in creating talented riders to excel in the elite program and in competitions in years to come representing Camelback.  In our 3rd season, eight of our competitors received top 10 rankings, and most of our competitors were ranked in their top 20 categories nationally. Click here to see more.

Team Meadows $599 per athlete (season pass not included)

• Saturday and Sunday training only
• Complete overview of all disciplines of snowboarding or free-skiing
• (park, pipe, boarder/skier cross, alpine, and freestyle)
• Basic video movement analysis
• Snowboard/Ski tuning and maintenance
• 8:1 athlete to coach ratio (approx.)
• Feeder program for Team Rhodo
• Athlete must be an advanced beginner to join & able to ride a chairlift by themselves.

Team Rhodo $799 per athlete (season pass not included)

• Training Thursday and Friday nights, Saturday and Sunday days
• Competitive instruction at predetermined regional events
• Advanced snowboard/ski tuning and maintenance
• Athlete-specific training and direction as per discipline
• 5:1 athlete to coach ratio (approx.)
• USASA membership required (possibly USSA/FIS)
• In-depth advanced snowboard/free-ski specific workouts throughout the season
• Detailed training and competition video movement analysis
• Competitive mental preparation and awareness coaching
• Individual rider feedback – one-on-one coach/athlete interaction
• Athlete must be an intermediate rider/skier to join & able to ride the whole mountain.
• Team does involve selection process before allowing athletes to join

CMS Athlete Donation $159 per athlete (mandatory both programs)

• Athlete Donation begins to build the CMS Foundation Fund for both programs
• CMS Foundation Fund Benefits all CMS Athletes, Staff & Coaches
• Funds will be used for tuning equipment and waxes, video gear, lockers, coaches’ travel, outside education and training. Funds not used will remain in an interest bearing account.  Fundraisers throughout the year will be planned and implemented to increase the balance of this account.
• Family discounts to apply for multiple athletes in program.

PERSPECTIVE ATHLETES CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR SCHEDULE

CLICK HERE FOR PDF REGARDING REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT

BVG began snowboarding over 20 years ago and has not stopped since. He started competing as a young athlete in the Green Mountain Snowboard Series in 1988. Bill moved to Vermont to follow the competitions and attend Green Mountain College, where he was the founder and president of the college’s first snowboard club. His competitive run ended with the 1998 Olympic trials in Nagano, Japan. A few years after graduating with a degree in business, Bill moved home from Vermont to manage his family’s restaurant, the Jubilee. That same season, Bill took over the reins of the Mid-Atlantic Snowboard Series. It’s now 2009 and Bill is in his 10th season as series director of the Mid-Atlantic Snowboard Series. Bill is in his third year as the president of the USASA (United States of America Snowboard Association) and also works closely with the USSA (United States Snowboard Association) as a technical delegate, technical advisor, and chief of competitions at events including the U.S. Olympic Trials, FIS Nokia World Cup, U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix, and Revolution Tour. As the program director at Camelback Mountain School, BVG adds a wealth of competitive and organizational snowboard knowledge to the program.

Sean Naughton is the team director at Camelback Mountain School. He has been coaching competition snowboarding since 1998. Before leading CMS, he was the head snowboard coach at Jack Frost/Big Boulder ski areas. Long before coaching snowboarding, he coached ski racing, and he has taught skiing since his teenage days as a PSIA-certified Level II instructor. He is Level II certified with the American Association of Snowboard Instruction (AASI) and is a certified Level III National Coach with USASA. Sean is also a certified Level III judge with USASA.

Sean is no stranger to competitions, as he has judged for the Mid-Atlantic Snowboard Series for more than six years, but his true passion is working with young athletes to help them achieve their goals. Favorite quotes: "Go big or go home!" and "Speed is your friend!"

From racing cars, to swimming, to running gates, Brandon is no stranger to competition.  He started riding in the late 80's and actually took his first lesson on an alpine board.  He quickly found some soft boots and a freestyle board and hasn't looked back since.   With 20 years of riding experience, a few of skiing, and 6 years of instructing, Brandon is now AASI Certified Level 3, and a USASA Certified Level 1 coach.  He has been a staff trainer for the past 4 years and plans to work towards being a USASA Level 3 coach and an AASI Education Staff Member..




 Jarrod has been riding for 9 years and started instructing beginners at Bear Creek. He soon caught the freestyle fever and has since dedicated all his time on the mountain to understanding the physics behind flatland and aerial maneuvers. This led to working park crew for Bear Creek and Camelback Mountain which proved a great asset in understanding key concepts to freestyle riding. Since then, Jarrod has been competing with the Mid-Atlantic division of USASA and local competitions for 6 years. Last season, Jarrod also acquired his level II USASA coaching certification and plans to further his coaching career in the coming years.

CMS Coach Hayley Sedwin

Hayley has been snowboarding since the age of 5. Her home mountain is Camelback where she learned to ride and taught Snowboarding for 4 years. She competed in the Mid Atlantic Snowboard series for 4 years, each season qualifying and traveling to nationals when she could, and landed in the top 10% nationally in Halfpipe. Her credentials include certification as a USASA Level 200 Coach and certified Judge, membership in the USASA since 1999, and a member of the USSA since 2007. She has judged the MASS series for the past 3 years and was invited to and judged at national events like the Revolution Tour. She currently is a student at East Stroudsburg University majoring in Secondary Education in Biology and a coach for the Camelback Mountain School. Other interests are mountain biking, hiking and the preservation of our environment.

Marian has been coaching snowboarding for 14 years. He began his snowboarding career in his home country of Slovakia in 1987 when (to his mother's dismay) he dismantled his brand new closet in order to use the wood to craft his very own snowboard. As the saying goes, "practice makes perfect." Marian, one of the very first snowboarders in Slovakia, was crowned National Champion in 1992 (the first year of official snowboard competition in the Slovak Republic). He went on to enter the West Continental Open and then opened one of the first snowboard clubs in Slovakia in 1994. There he began by training 5 students, which quickly grew to 25. Two of his students went on to the World Cup. He continued his coaching career in the States as an alpine coach at Blue Mountain for 5 years. He has also competed with the USASA (and medaled at the 2004 USASA Nationals in the slalom & alpine combined). Marian is also a Level II certified coach with the USASA and is looking forward to his 2nd year with Camelback Mountain School. Ride like hell - Go to heaven!

CMS Freestyle Ski Coach Peter DuBois

 Peter has been skiing as long as he can remember, and he has been freestyle skiing since they started allowing skiers into the terrain park at Camelback. He started competing in local events including USASA as soon as they allowed skiers into the competitions and has been competing ever since. He enjoys halfpipe most of all, but loves hitting big jumps as well (however he has been known to shred a rail or two here and there). He has been an instructor at Camelback for the past 7 years and is now the first SKI coach in the CMS program.

You can e-mail Camelback Mountain School at cms@skicamelback.com.


Here are some videos of the team in action:








Click Here to see some photos of the team in action!

Click Here to see some shots of CMS riders in the halfpipe for the MASS finals.

Camelback will introduce the New Glen Terrain Park this season—This new park will consist of 6 trails, over 25k in new rails, new snowmaking including tower mounted fan guns and to top it off we have purchased a new Bison X terrain park groomer.  Visit our snowboading and Terrain Park pages to learn more. Click here to see shots from our parks.

Camelback offers two halfpipes for training. New this season will be a 650-foot handle tow lift at the halfpipe. A 300-foot-long, 14-foot-high walled halfpipe is featured on Oak Grove, and a 250-foot-long, 6-to-8-foot-high walled pipe is on Laurel Glade. Both pipes are groomed regularly by our new Zaugg pipe groomer from Switzerland. Click here to see the Oak Grove Pipe.

Snowmaking: All terrain parks and halfpipe areas are 100% covered by snowmaking equipment.