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SKIING into our 80th Season Welcome to the inaugural newsletter of Berkshire School’s Ski Team (BSST). In an effort to reach out to our extended ski family of alumni, parents and friends, we will be publishing this digest bi-annually to provide up-to-date season news. BSST is proud to be attracting a competitive and international breed of skiers, many of whom come to us from ski academies. These skiers are yearning for a more diverse and rigorous curriculum where they have the opportunity to take AP classes and compete in other sports, while at the same time continue their skiing career by competing in school and USSA competitions. Recently, BSST has recreated our USSA Club Program, allowing our skiers to be fully supported as they compete in nationally sanctioned competitions. In addition, our experienced coaches have created a teaching plan utilizing an on-snow daily progression that targets individual development. In the past four years, BSST
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2 2013 Boys and Girls Varsity & Junior Varsity Rosters
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2013 Season Highlights
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Coaches Corner
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Wish List and Contact Us
Message from the Captains
has won the New England Class B Championships, twice; the Brigham Ski League GS and SL Championships, six times; and helped qualify our skiers into the Eastern USSA J3 Junior Olympics, Eastern U16 Championships, U16 AM-CAN (top 60 girls in the U.S.), the Eastern USSA U21/U18 Finals, the Eastern FIS Championships and the Elite FIS Spring Series! BSST is proud to be heading into its 80th season. As we continue to match the levels of interest and the growing numbers of our program, we need your support! We have included a Wish List for our program on page 4, as well as a return envelope. Thank you in advance for any support you can provide. Your gifts will greatly enhance our continued endeavors to maintain a strong, competitive team. Go Bears! Coach John Borwick ’81, Coach Evan Clary, and Coach Maura MacKenzie
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An Honorary Coach – Bob Brigham Bob Brigham joined Berkshire School in the fall of 1968 during which he taught chemistry, was a referee for the school’s club soccer team, and all the while maintained order in Eipper dorm. In this time, he was also tasked with assisting at Berkshire’s own ski hill behind Berkshire Hall, where he helped run the lift system. Bitten by the skiing bug, he eventually was named Head Ski Coach in the fall of
Mr. Robert H. Brigham, III in 1977 • Chairman of Science Dept., Chemistry Parent of Christopher ‘84 and Iona Michelle Smith ‘87
1971 and entered his team in the private school race league, appropriately named the Berkshire Ski League. The league was created by the triumvirate of private school skiing powers at the time: the head coaches from Suffield (David Rockwell), Salisbury (Carl Williams) and Hotchkiss (Jim Marks). As Bob explains, he was “taken under their wing,” taught ski racing, and ultimately became their president in
1977. Bob extols the beauty and purity of ski racing at the time, when races were held at the schools instead of a commercial ski hill. Along with Berkshire, Millbrook, Salisbury, Darrow and the Cranwell Schools all maintained their own ski hills. Nowadays, only Dartmouth, Middlebury, Proctor Academy and Eaglebrook School run their own ski race hills on campus. In his time at Berkshire, Bob coached continued on page 2