About Us

The University of Alberta Ski Team, coached by Mark Stein and Herb Stark, is a group made up of skiers of various skill levels from intermediate to racer, who get together to train, ski, party, race, go on trips and generally have a good time. The goal of the team is to provide an environment in which skiers of all levels can improve their skiing and enjoy doing it. Although we train slalom and GS, the focus is not on racing; we believe that by learning to ski technically through racing-style training, you can improve your skiing all over the mountain, enabling you to tackle harder terrain and make more runs during the day.

From the time school starts to the time snow falls, we do dryland training outside on Monday and Wednesday at 5PM. We meet at the doors to the Van Vliet Centre that are accross from SUB and our coaches lead us through a program strength, agility, balance and endurance training. Dryland is usually followed by a trip to the Windsor to exercise our pizza-eating and beer-drinking muscles.

Once the snow flies, we meet for training Wednesday nights at 6:30PM at the Edmonton Ski Club (by the Muttart Conservatory in Downtown Edmonton). We do some technical free skiing at the beginning of the year just to get the feeling back, but pretty soon we move into some gate-bashing slalom and the occaisional night of five-gate GS. Training is always followed by wings-and-beer exercises.

We organize various trips to the mountains throughout the year for those interested. Typically, we have two week-long coached training/free-skiing camps (one at Christmas time and one at reading week) as well as assorted uncoached free-skiing trips throughout the winter. Getting involved with the team is a great opportunity to meet other skiers who love the sport and ski at a high level.