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a season oF reneWalSome things never get old. Renewing professional bonds. Making new ones. Spending time with family and friends. And, of course, the best springtime skiing in the world.
That’s why year after year when the cable industry takes a respite from its hectic schedule to travel to the Rockies for what many continue to call SkiTAM, there remains a sort of magic in the air.
It doesn’t matter that after 17 years we are now calling ourselves Adaptive Spirit, with a mission to provide unique cable educational experiences by connecting the leaders in our industry around a world-class event that supports the athletes of the U.S. National Paralympic Ski Teams. What really matters is that when cable people get together to meet, greet and raise critical dollars for these remarkable athletes, it somehow feels as special as it did the very fi rst time.
For those of you who don’t know of Adaptive Spirit, our work, or our annual marriage of business, pleasure, family and friends, all we can say is you should. And you should join us. Come to Vail next year to fi nd out for yourself how every April, high up in the mountains, the air gets fi lled
with something more than just a brisk chill and some random snow fl urries. Learn how, thanks to the cable industry’s bountiful sense of giving, the air fi lls with magic.
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Joe rooney, Co-ChairCox Communications
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19SkiTAM ’12 .........................................................................................4
Kelly Underkofl er: Don’t Let the Packaging Fool You ...............................7
Heath Calhoun: A Question of Balance ..................................................8
Stephanie Jallen: New Kid in Town ......................................................12
Raymond, Rooney: Honored by Rocky Mountain WICT .......................... 17
Three Team Members Target London and the 2012 Games ..................19
Opinion: M.C. Antil on the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team ............................22
Race Results ....................................................................................24
skitam Headquarters2329 W. Main St., Ste. 207, Littleton, CO 80120303.797.9507 | www.adaptivespirit.comConnect:
Joe Rooney, SkiTAM Co-ChairCox Communications, SVP, Brand & MediaSteve Raymond, SkiTAM Co-ChairDisney and ESPN Networks, SVP, National Accounts, Affi liate Sales & MarketingNancy Heffernan, Sponsorship Co-ChairCox Communications, Director, Video MarketingTodd Stewart, Sponsorship Co-ChairBright House Networks, Corporate VP, AdvertisingSteve Apodaca, Sponsor Co-ChairCharter Communications, President, OperationsSusan Burgstiner, Social ChairMarketing On Demand, PresidentAnne Marie Hukriede, Marketing Chair, Race Co-ChairS&D Marketing | Advertising, Vice President, Client ServicesBrad Parobek, Race Co-ChairAmdocs, Executive Director, SalesColette Carey, Publicity ChairHDNet, Director, Media and Public RelationsPatty Bullington, Silent Auction Co-ChairCharter Communications, Corporate Senior Director, Marketing
Nomi Bergman, Silent Auction Co-ChairBright House Networks, PresidentBill Futera, APP Co-ChairBright House Networks, EVP/CFOSteve Havey, APP Co-ChairContec Holdings Ltd., SVP, MarketingAlex D’Addio, Video ChairD’Addio CommunicationsDebbie Barackman-Flippo, Communications ChairAvail-TVNLori Wood, Volunteer ChairDigitas, Senior Associate, MarketingAmy Bauer, Legal LiaisonUniversity of Colorado Law School, Legal Writing ProfessorCheryl Feingold, Gift Bag ChairEricsson, Director of Staffi ngKevin Jardine, Alpine Team LiaisonParalympic Ski Team, High-Performance Director, Paralympic Alpine SkiingJohn Farra, Nordic Team LiaisonParalympic Ski Team, High-Performance Director, Paralympic Nordic Skiing
2012 steering Committee
editorM.C. Antil
project managerAnne Marie Hukriede, S&DBruce Holmes, S&DJill Lovett, S&D
editorial designDenis Frolov, S&DMark Hunt, S&D
photographyDan Davis and Sean Boggs, Trekkerphoto.com
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For lovers of tradition, SkiTAM 2012 once
again offered hundreds of cable executives
and their families the chance to see old
friends, to engage in a little professional
networking, and, as always, strap in for
some of the greatest springtime skiing
in the world. But for those who like a
little wrinkle on the old tried-and-true,
the cable industry’s annual one-of-a-kind
networking event and fund-raiser for the
U.S. Paralympic Ski Team, held March
29 through April 1 in Vail, offered some
wonderfully refreshing new and exciting
things to do and see.
This year’s SkiTAM introduced its fi rst-
ever Casino Night, a combination cable
party/Vegas-style casino sponsored by
Halogen TV, which provided those in
attendance the opportunity to let their
hair down a little, dance to some lively,
foot-stomping music, and play a number
of real-life games of chance (as well as
cash in their winnings for a handful of
terrifi c real-life prizes). Industry veteran
John Smith of Avail-TVN, who with his wife,
Sloan Kennedy of HBO, has attended
SkiTAM “at least a dozen times,” said
simply, “I was really surprised by the
casino party. It was fun. It had a lot of
great energy, and frankly, it was nice to
attend a social event in the cable industry
that felt a little different.”
Also new this year was what turned
out to be a welcome change to SkiTAM’s
annual Saturday-night silent auction.
This year the event planners opted to
move the silent portion of the auction
out of the dining hall area and into a
sprawling regulation-size gymnasium
just a short walk away. The slight tweak
not only made the dining and awards-
presentation experience far more relaxed
and comfortable, it allowed for an even
greater number of auction items and an
even greater demand for (and in a few
cases an even higher level of bidding
on) many of the highest-profi le and most
coveted items.
This year as well, the SkiTAM
committee broke tradition and built its
increasingly popular and
always-informative Thursday-
afternoon executive panel
discussion not so much
around industry leaders but
around a presenter from
one of the most marketing-
driven organizations in one of
the most hyper-competitive
industries on the planet.
Insights from the IBM Global
CMO Study, sponsored by
the Rocky Mountain Cable Association,
featured IBM Global Lead Rich Maraschi
leading a fascinating discussion on Big
Blue’s much-talked-bout worldwide survey
of chief marketing offi cers. The breakout
session also included some insightful
and on-point cable-specifi c insights from
some highly respected industry leaders:
Mark Greatrex of Cox Communications,
Brian Hunt of NBCUniversal, Allan Samson
of Charter Communications and Marissa
Freeman of Time Warner Cable.
At the end of the day, though, what
mattered most to those in attendance was
the same thing that has always mattered
most to anyone who has ever attended
a SkiTAM over its 17 years of existence:
the inspiring and fi ercely dedicated young
athletes who not only come to the event but
who through it realize enough in the form
of fi nancial contributions to continue their
dogged, single-minded and sometimes
lonely pursuit of World Cup and Paralympic
podiums for yet another season.
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4 adaptive spirit • 2012
This year, Adaptive Spirit used a
combination of corporate sponsorships,
admission and entry fees, a silent auction,
two not-so-silent ones, a 50/50 raffl e,
and a number of personal contributions to
raise approximately $1 million for the U.S.
Paralympic Ski Teams.
All of which means that in 17 years,
the organization—and more specifi cally,
the cable industry—has raised some $8
million on behalf of the U.S. Paralympic
Ski Team.
This year, like last, on the evening
of the awards banquet, silent auction
chairman, committee member and—we
kid you not—professionally trained and
fully accredited auctioneer Brad Parobek
led a spirited real-time auction in which
two all-expense trips were sold to the
highest bidder: a trip for two to the
Summer Paralympics in London and a
getaway trip for two to Paris.
It seemed to matter little to anyone
that unseasonably warm temperatures
this spring impacted the quality of the
snow. The attendees still skied under
brilliant skies, they still raced, and they
still, if only by degree, each helped to
make some rather lofty and otherwise
unassailable dreams suddenly seem
within reach.
And, as always, among the broad
menu of events were such traditional
family favorites as the John Davis
Memorial Race (youth race), the SkiTAM
Kids’ Film Fest, Chuck and Trygve’s
Excellent Adventure (tube race), and the
Disney Kids’ Party.
Event Co-chair Steve Raymond, of
Disney and ESPN Networks, said of the
event, “On one hand, it’s not like the
committee re-invents the wheel every
year. But on the other, somehow they
continue to add little touches year after
year that manage to improve the overall
SkiTAM experience. As a result there
remains something about this event that
still feels entirely fresh and remarkably
new.”
Raymond’s co-chair Joe Rooney of
Cox added, “I’m not sure what I’m most
proud of this year: the networking and
social events the SkiTAM committee
pulled together, as they always seem to
do—and in particular, the casino party—
or the Thursday executive session, which
so many have told me they felt was an
absolute home run. I think I’ll just toss a
coin and call it a tie.”
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It takes a different kind of person to
embrace an endurance sport such as
Nordic skiing or long-distance running.
The hours are long, the training tedious,
the pursuit solitary, and the competition
often painful. People who gravitate toward
such sports—especially those who aspire
and push themselves to become the best
in the world—are not like most people.
This is a part of what makes Kelly
Underkofl er so unique. Because, as much
as Underkofl er is driven to become the
fi nest woman biathlete and Nordic skier
in the world, and trains like the devil
to become so, there is a part of Kelly
that is about as normal, grounded and
unassuming as a person can be.
Born without the lower portion of
her left arm, Underkofl er was raised
in her native Minnesota to be just like
all the other kids. Her father, a former
competitive skier himself, taught Kelly
to cross-country ski at a local St. Paul
golf course, and by high school she had
become one of her school’s best skiers.
“Growing up, I never heard the word
‘disabled,’” she once said. “It was never
part of my vocabulary.” But it wasn’t
always easy for young Kelly, who at times
just wanted to fi t in. Her mother tells about
the time when her fi ve-year-old daughter,
before going off to school for the very fi rst
time, asked her mother for a hand so that
while she was in kindergarten she could
be like the other girls.
As an adolescent, Kelly went to
be fi tted for a prosthetic arm. Though
the arm ended up being too bulky and
cumbersome for racing, the visit to the
clinic turned out to be one of the most
important experiences of her life. Because
it was there that Kelly heard for the fi rst
time about U.S. Paralympics and heard of
Jon Kreamelmeyer, the coach of the U.S.
Nordic team. It would be Kreamelmeyer
who would introduce Kelly to (and excite
her about) Paralympic skiing and teach
her fi rsthand the thrill of representing
her country against some of the fi nest
athletes in the world.
It was not long before Kelly found
herself competing in the 2006 Paralympics
in Torino, Italy. The event turned out to be
one of the highlights of her career to date
as Kelly placed fourth
in the 7.5k biathlon,
just points behind the
bronze medalist, who to
this day she feels she
could have passed if
her shooting had been
up to her normal high
standards that day. She
needed more stamina,
which comes from years
of training.
This is why Kelly
fi nds herself working these days on her
strength, doing hours upon hours of
weight training and upper-body work. As a
28-year-old veteran of three Paralympics,
she knows that her peak years are most
likely still ahead of her. She is building up
her physical strength to be able to reach
the next level as a competitor. Underkofl er
says she has no idea how long she’ll ski
competitively but doesn’t see the end
coming anytime soon.
As for SkiTAM, Kelly can’t say enough.
She’s been aware for years just how
critical SkiTAM is in the pursuit of her
dreams, as well as the dreams of so many
others on the team, and she remains
forever thankful for the opportunities the
cable industry has provided her over the
years. “Every year, once again I have to
tell myself I’m going to make this work,”
she says, referring to the challenge of
balancing her training with her need to
make enough money to put a roof over her
head and food on her table.
“The simple fact is if you’re not
a Lindsay Vonn, or a Bode Miller or a
Michael Phelps, you have to work for a
living—and training and working at the
same time is not easy,” says Underkofl er,
who spends as many as 12 hours a day
in the gym, where she not only pushes
herself but works as a personal trainer
for others. “That’s why SkiTAM is so
incredibly important to us. It helps make
it possible for us to do all those things we
need to do to try to compete and hopefully
be the best we can be.”
KELLYUNDERKOFLEReXtrAordinArY in tHe moSt ordinArY WAY
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WarriorWounded
Former soldier and double amputee Heath Calhoun is still wearing his country’s colors,
is still fighting the good fight and, above all, is still committed to being the best he can be.
At first blush a lot of people might see Heath Calhoun walking by and think it’s hard being him. And to some
extent, they’d be right. But they’d be right for all the wrong reasons.
Heath Calhoun is not burdened by the fact that he now must do the simplest things wearing two prosthetic
limbs. Losing both legs was just something he figured happened as a result of being in the wrong place at
the wrong time. As a staff sergeant in Iraq, Heath was standing near the rear bumper of a vehicle that was
hit by a rocket-powered grenade, an ambush that killed one of his fellow soldiers while leaving him critically
injured. In his mind, what he’s doing now —and the extent to which he’s coping with his disability—is nothing
extraordinary at all. In fact, it’s just what most trained soldiers might do under the circumstances.
By M.C. Antil
No, these days Heath is burdened by
something that is far more difficult for
him. Today, he spends his time trying
to balance becoming the best adaptive
skier he can be—a sport he did not take
up seriously until after he lost both legs,
and a sport that has since both fueled
his competitive juices and consumed
his competitive desires—with trying to
become the absolute best he can be at a
job he considers just about as important
as any a man can ever have: being a
father.
Not too long ago, Heath got divorced
from the mother of his three children,
daughters Bailee and Brystal and son
Mason. The divorce was hard on him,
but not so much for what it did to him
personally as for what he knew it would
cost his three children in daddy time, and
in how much less frequently they would
have the chance to see, talk to and learn
from their father.
But divorce is only part of Heath’s
burden issue. At the very same time he
began trying to cope with not living with
his children, Heath was also ramping up
his commitment to helping other disabled
vets like himself, spreading the word of
the plight of disabled veterans, all while
trying to become the absolute best
sit-skier in the world. It remains a very
difficult balancing act and unquestionably
his biggest challenge as a man.
“The hardest thing I have to do is to
be a father,” he said recently about trying
to keep so many balls in the air. “As hard
as I try, I’m not there nearly enough for
[my kids]. And even when I try to be, I still
need more days on the snow.”
He added: “I know skiing is important,
because it’s my number-one goal. But I still
want to be able to give my kids something
for all they’ve invested in it as well.”
Back in 2004, when he was going
through the frustrating act of rehabilitating
his body, Heath first learned of the
Wounded Warriors program, and soon
became one of its biggest advocates.
It was through Wounded Warriors, a
program designed to help men and
women who have been injured in battle—
physically, mentally, emotionally and even
professionally—cope with their injuries,
that he first got introduced to adaptive
skiing and first came to understand the
power of peer support. “I wouldn’t be
where I am today without someone else
to help me,” he said. “In any way I could,
I just wanted to give back.”
Part of Heath’s giving back was his
relentless work in 2005 to try to convince
a number of Washington lawmakers to
pass what was termed the “Wounded
Warriors Bill,” which eventually became
law on the strength of his grassroots
lobbying efforts. Heath’s impassioned
but plainspoken oratory, his rugged
good looks, and his ease in front of the
camera made the wheelchair-bound
Calhoun, a small-town guy raised in the
tiny Appalachian community of Grundy,
Virginia, something of a media darling.
Soon he began appearing in news
features on national television networks,
including the Today Show and in major
dailies. He had his own website, rang the
bell to open the New York Stock Exchange,
threw out the first pitch at a Major League
Baseball game, shared a stage with rock
stars, starred in a series of professionally
produced videos, and even had a NASCAR
race named in his honor.
In 2005, Heath participated in the
Soldier Ride using only a hand-cycle.
Heath and his fellow riders eventually
completed their eight-week, 4,200-mile
odyssey from Marina del Ray, California to
Montauk, Long Island, on the easternmost
tip of New York. Their moving effort was
documented in a TV special called Home
Front, which aired on Showtime. President
Warrior
After the race Mason looked up at Heath and asked, “Dad, will you run with me?”
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George W. Bush would later call their
Soldier Ride “the most inspiring athletic
event in the country.”
But all that was just prep work for
what might be viewed as arguably the
most game-changing moment in Heath’s
adaptive life. In 2006, at the behest of
a friend, Heath traveled to a convention
in Minnesota and witnessed firsthand the
kind of remarkable things that were being
done with prosthetics, and how they
were fundamentally changing the quality
of life for so many disabled Americans.
After the trip, Heath decided to revisit
his attitude toward prosthetics and soon
found himself being fitted with a brand-
new state-of-the-art pair of legs.
A year later, now out of his wheelchair
forever, Heath did what just a short time
earlier had seemed impossible. He raced in
the Endeavor Games in Oklahoma, a track-
and-field competition for adaptive athletes.
The fact that he finished second in the 100-
and 200-meter sprints seems, even now,
secondary to the fact that he raced at all.
But even racing wasn’t Heath’s
takeaway from that remarkable day. That
occurred when Mason—his son, who had
traveled to see his father compete and
who had watched his father go off to war
an able-bodied man only to return without
legs—was walking with him afterward,
and looked up and said, “Dad, will you
run with me?”
And that’s exactly what the two did,
laughing and racing all the way to a
nearby tree and back.
These days, Heath is continuing
to train and to work on his skiing in an
attempt to earn himself both Paralympic
gold in 2014 and a steady stream of
World Cup podiums in the interim. “Each
year, I’m getting more technical and
learning that much more about technique.
It’s an evolution as much as anything
else,” he said. “The key is really getting
enough miles under your belt and putting
in a sufficient number of days on the
mountain, and then just going for it.”
He also still finds himself struggling
to walk that fine line between dedicated
ski racer and dedicated father, while
continuing to stay true to all his brothers
and sisters who gave up so much for their
country. “No matter how hard I try, there’s
always an impossible decision to make,”
he said recently. “I mean, how do you
make the choice between speaking to a
group of wounded veterans in Oklahoma
and being there for your son’s first
baseball game?”
Such tough decisions are the reason
Heath continues to rely on so many
things he learned in the Army, despite
its often unwieldy size and bureaucratic
tendencies. As he said recently, “A lot
has changed since I first enlisted. My
values may be the same, but my attitude
toward so many things has changed. But I
will say this: the Army helped me grow up,
and in the end taught me how to become
the man I wanted to be.”
On Heath Calhoun’s right wrist can be seen a round, beaten up, scraped and scratched
band of well-worn metal.
When he was first injured, and during the time of his recovery at the Walter Reed
Army Hospital almost a decade ago, Heath started wearing a bracelet he had made
for himself, one he still continues to wear today. The thin copper band, which at
one point bore a painted rendering of the Stars and Stripes—long since chipped,
faded and worn to nothing—now bears only the name, rank and serial number of one
Morgan D. Kennan, a soldier from Calhoun’s old battalion in the 327th Infantry, along
with the date November 7, 2003.
That was the date that a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) fired by an unseen Iraqi
rebel, came out of nowhere, destroyed the Humvee they were standing next to, forever
robbed Calhoun of the use of his legs and, in its wake, killed Kennan—native of
Memphis, on the western end of Calhoun’s adopted state of Tennessee.
And despite its constantly being caught, nicked and otherwise beaten up, Calhoun
has never taken off his tribute to his fallen brother. In fact, to anyone looking at it,
Calhoun’s bracelet seems ready to give up the ghost at any minute and fall apart
altogether.
That’s why the adaptive ski racer is thinking of replacing the bracelet permanently—
with a tattoo.
“I’ve been thinking about it,” said Calhoun, when asked about whether or not
he’s seriously considering replacing his bracelet with a permanent version of the
band embedded just beneath the skin. “It’s a part of me now and will be a part of me
forever, so why not do something like that, rather than running the risk of losing it or
having it destroyed? I just seems like that might be the right thing to do.”
An Aging, Brittle reminder
10 adaptive spirit • 2012
Proud Sponsor Of Adaptive Spirit’s SkiTAM 2012
Stephanie Jallen’s first time on skis was not necessarily the stuff
of legend, much less fairy tales.
Stephanie was a mere eight years old at the time and suffering
from a birth defect known as CHILD Syndrome, which caused her
to be born, among other things, without a fully developed left
side, leaving her with a very short left arm, tapered down to a
single digit, and a left leg that required amputation.
When the Camelback instructors from the Pennsylvania ski
resort first met little Stephanie, they were immediately drawn to
her energetic attitude, warmth and infectious smile. But when
they tried to put her in a sit-down bi-ski she balked. Stephanie
said she didn’t want to be harnessed to an able-bodied skier.
She wanted to ski on her own.
Fortunately, one of the instructors who was there that day,
Mau Thompson, a member of a Winter Park, Colorado–based
adaptive skiing organization visiting Camelback as part of an
outreach program, said that if she wanted to, Stephanie could
try to ski on one leg with an outrigger. But Thompson also said
that it would be extremely difficult, given the fact she’d never
skied before.
Regardless, Stephanie was game to give stand-up skiing a
try and was soon attacking the mountain with a borrowed ski
and outrigger.
Unfortunately, on that day the mountain struck back. And
time after time Stephanie would fall on the icy snow, sometimes
to the point that some of the instructors thought she would hurt
herself. Undeterred, she’d get back up, only to fall again—often
more violently than the last time.
The problem was, Stephanie found it hard to balance on
one leg and had not yet gotten used to leaning on and fully
leveraging her outrigger. That’s the way it was for Stephanie
for the next four days. Ski, fall, slide. Ski, fall, slide. But
16-year-old Stephanie Jallen
might look like a fresh-faced kid;
but make no mistake: she’s
a woman on a mission
By M.C. Antil
New Kid in Town
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over the course of those four days, Mau began to see something
special in Stephanie, something she knew only true champions
had. The bruised and battered little girl had some kind of heart.
And she had a fi re.
Eventually, Thompson invited Stephanie to be part of what
she called “Team Mau,” a group of young adaptive skiers united
by a common love of skiing fast. As Jallen would later say, it
was critical to her development because, in her words, “it made
us all feel like we were part of something, and for me that was
pretty cool.”
And the love that bonded Team Mau was exactly what young
Stephanie felt for her new favorite sport. “I knew from the very
fi rst day I loved skiing and that I would love it for the rest of my
life,” Jallen said. And her goal was a spot on the U.S. Paralympic
Ski Team and a chance to compete against the best adaptive
skiers in the world.
Finally in May of 2011, as a 15-year-old high-school
sophomore, Stephanie got a call. It was Kevin Jardine, head
coach of the U.S. Paralympic Alpine Team. Kevin asked Stephanie
if she had a minute to talk.
She was nervous, in fact alarmingly so, and so after saying
yes she went into her room and closed the door. It was there
that Jardine asked Stephanie if she’d like to become a part of
his team and ski on behalf of her country. “I want you competing
with us, I want you wearing our jacket, and I want to see you up
there on those podiums,” he said. “Would you like to join us?”
Stephanie was so excited she hardly knew what to say.
Her stomach was churning, and her nerves were crackling and
shooting through her like a charge of high-voltage electricity. By
the time she fi nally went outside to tell her family the incredible
news, she realized she’d been on the phone with Jardine for an
hour. Stephanie began to cry and found herself virtually unable
to stop. She wanted to tell the whole world she had made it and
spent the next few hours between laughter and tears, trying to
reach out to just about everyone she knew.
Kevin Jardine said his youngest team member, for all she
lacks in experience, makes up for it and then some in attitude.
“There’s no doubt Stephanie brings to the team a rookie’s level
of knowledge,” the coach said. “But she also brings energy and
enthusiasm, and she takes great joy in competing at the highest
levels. In a sport that can get emotionally draining at times, the
sense of fun is awful nice to have around.”
The phone call with Jardine was the highlight of Stephanie’s
year, until a few months later. In the National championships,
Stephanie shocked the fi eld by earning her fi rst-ever gold medal
as a member of the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team and edging out
her fi ercest rival, Alexandra Starker of Canada, by a mere .19
seconds. The event, perhaps not coincidentally, was Stephanie’s
personal favorite, the slalom.
“No doubt about it, that was the highlight of my skiing life. I’ll
never forget that day and that moment,” she said recently.
But now year two is beginning, and Stephanie realizes she
still has so much work to do in order to reach her goal of becoming
the fi nest stand-up adaptive skier in the world. Not only is she
coming off a major injury—a small fracture in her tibial plateau
near the top of her shin—but she continues to suffer as a skier
from the very same problem that affl icted her that very fi rst day
on the slopes: balance. Given the underdeveloped half of her
body, it is imperative that Stephanie constantly work to build up
the muscles on her left side, to keep her body and her muscles in
proper balance. And thanks to Ernie Baul, Stephanie’s personal
trainer for the past fi ve years, she’s gaining that strength needed
for this sport. But with the work comes sacrifi ce.
Stephanie credits so much of her success to the support
she receives from family and friends, calling them “the best in
the world.” Still, as a 16-year-old smack dab in the middle of
her high-school years, she realizes she’s had to forego much
of the teenage experience in order to not only make the U.S.
Paralympic Ski Team but to put herself in a position to earn a
podium at the 2014 Paralympics in Russia. “I do lose a lot of
friend time, training as hard as I do,” said Stephanie. “And it is
hard to miss things like football games, birthday parties and
slumber parties. But my friends are very understanding and they
totally realize what I’m trying to do.”
One of Stephanie’s biggest challenges—and what has been
one of her biggest challenges throughout her life—is simply
trying to accommodate a device that will allow her to get around
without constantly hopping on one leg. (In fact, Stephanie said,
her father used to call her “Hopper” when she was a small girl
for how she’d hop around the house.)
When she walks with a prosthesis, she falls prey to a horribly
debilitating skin condition at her left leg’s point-of-contact, which
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is an incurable symptom of her disease.
Using a crutch causes the same skin rash, only under her
right arm rather than on her leg. And when she uses a wheelchair,
Stephanie—a young lady who is constantly in motion—not
only feels confi ned and pent up by a device that is contrary to
a constant doer, she also feels she’s compromising the peak
condition of her body that she continues to fi ght so hard to
maintain.
As a result she rotates all three.
“I knew from the very fi rst day I loved skiing and that I would love it for the rest of my life.”
That, in retrospect, is probably the reason Stephanie fell in
love with skiing in the fi rst place. Unlike those three devices,
the sport gives her a sense of freedom that walking or moving
around on fl at land doesn’t.
Plus, it’s a whole lot faster. “I love the adrenaline rush and
feeling so incredibly free,” Stephanie said of skiing at breakneck
speeds. “Being at the top of the hill before a run—I can’t
describe it, but it’s the greatest feeling in the whole world.”
Does she ever get frustrated by her disability? Hardly. In fact,
strange as it may be to some, she feels just the opposite.
“‘Handicapped’ is a mental disorder,” Stephanie said. “It’s all
in your mind. My disability has opened so many doors for
me and allowed me to do things I never could have imagined
before, and probably never would have been possible. I really
believe this; you’re not disabled. If you believe it and you have
the right attitude, you’re actually more abled than anyone.”
In 2010, SkiTAM co-chairs Steve Raymond and Joe Rooney were
honored by the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team by being presented
the torch used to light the Paralympic fl ame at the opening
ceremonies of the Paralympic Games in Vancouver. The torch
had been signed by each member of the team and thier coaches.
The same year, Steve was also honored by being named Chef
de Mission for the U.S. Paralympics, the highest recognition any
volunteer or non-participant can ever
achieve in Olympic competition.
And this past May, the cable
industry continued what has become
a trend and honored the two men who for the past seven years
have chaired the SkiTAM Planning Committee and who have
shepherded the seven most recent incarnations of what has
emerged as the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team’s single most critical
annual funding source. In May, the Rocky Mountain Chapter of
the Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) honored each
of the two long-time execs with his own individual spot on the
organization’s Walk of Fame.
Both men were cited for their career achievements in cable
and beyond, which in Raymond’s case meant not only his role
as the founding father of SkiTAM but his ongoing role as one of
the key fi gures in the affi liate-relations executive department of
Disney and ESPN Networks.
In Rooney’s case, he was lauded for his ongoing leadership
of SkiTAM and for over 30 years’ worth of cable marketing
leadership and brilliance—in particular his role in launching what
has since become something of an industry standard: cable’s
“Triple Play,” which, while Rooney was at the Cox system in San
Diego, combined for the very fi rst time cable-delivered voice,
video and data into one monthly package.
Rooney said he was delighted to have received such an
honor and called it unexpected. “I’m a big believer in WICT and
all that they stand for, and to have been selected by the Rocky
Mountain chapter is not only a surprise and humbling, it is truly
an honor.”
The Walk of Fame honor was presented to the two men
at a ceremony in Denver, during which each was presented a
certifi cate by WICT Rocky Mountain President Regina Hutchinson
of Comcast.
The WICT recognition comes on the
heels of yet another honor for Raymond
this year: In February he was nominated
for induction into the prestigious
Colorado Ski and Snowboard Museum
Hall of Fame in Vail for his work in
having both conceived and led SkiTAM,
as well as his ongoing efforts to provide
a number of world-class U.S. adaptive
athletes sponsorships, television
exposure and, especially, critical
funding to allow them to continue to
travel, train and compete.
Raymond’s Hall of Fame packet, which nominated him in the
category of Sport Builder, was signed by no fewer than 17 current
and former U.S. Paralympic Ski Team members and coaches,
Hall of Famers, members of the U.S. Olympic Committee, and
various other thought leaders, proponents and advocates of
adaptive skiing, including Jack Benedick and Trygve Myhren, who
spearheaded the effort.
Raymond, who knew nothing of the group’s Hall of Fame
nomination until it had been mounted and gained a full head of
steam, was characteristically humble and self-effacing. “Don’t
get me wrong: I’m blown away to have been nominated for such
an incredible honor,” he said, “especially given the fact that I’m
a guy born in this state and a guy who has skied here my entire
life. But what I’ve done is nothing special. Not in the least. What
is special are the athletes SkiTAM continues to help, and the
incredible things they do on the mountain year after year. Now
that’s Hall of Fame material.”
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Three long-time members of the squad—Alana Nichols, Allison
Jones and Ralph Green—have carried over their Paralympic
dreams into the summer months. At press time each were
training hard to compete in the 2012 Summer Paralympic
Games, slated to open this coming August in London.
Nichols, who has already won Summer Paralympic gold as a
member of the women’s basketball team in Beijing, has made
the team and is working out daily in anticipation of the U.S.
defending its position as the leading women’s wheelchair team
in the world.
Jones, too, is a veteran Summer Paralympic competitor and
medal winner, having copped a silver in track cycling at the 2008
Paralympics in Beijing.
And Green, who prior to a few months ago had never even
seen the event, much less competed in it, is teaching himself
the shot put and hopes to qualify for the Paralympic track-and-
field team in the Paralympic trials, which will kick off June 29 in
Indianapolis.
Nichols, a veteran of the U.S. National Team, has been
associated with the club for eight years. She first cut her teeth
as an alternate on the 2004 squad, which earned gold in Athens,
then went on to become one of its on-court leaders. She has
since emerged as one of the finest wheelchair players on the
planet, a young woman whose shooting, passing and long-range
accuracy are legendary in international circles, but whose true
calling card may just be the stifling brand of defense she plays.
Nichols said she will train with the team in a series of camps
this summer. She’ll try to pace herself and her conditioning so
that she peaks right as women’s basketball is set to tip off in
early September. “When you’re competing at this level in two
sports, you need to learn how to prioritize,” she said. “At certain
times I’ve put all my eggs into skiing, but not this summer. I
won’t be skiing at all, and I’m not going to be worrying about
finding some kind of balance between the two. When it comes
to basketball, at least for the next few months anyway, I’m going
all in.”
Another multi-sport athlete, Allison Jones is a fiercely
dedicated cyclist. Initially, she found herself at odds with Alpine
Ski Team coach Ray Watkins when she ramped up her pursuit of
parallel careers in Paralympic skiing and cycling. Watkins, who
saw greatness in Jones, felt at first that she was hindering her
development as an Alpine skier by dividing her time and energies
by training for both sports. But once Jones earned her silver in
Beijing, and then came back the following year and was still able
to go toe-to-toe with the finest skiers in the world, he backed and
supported her twin pursuits.
This past year, Jones and six other former Olympic and
Paralympic champions, including Olympic gold medal gymnast
Nastia Liukin, starred in a series of whimsical yet informative
web videos titled Britain Bound—cool things to do and see in
Great Britain during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games—
everything from Shakespeare’s boyhood home to Stonehenge,
the Tower of London, and a personal tour of No. 10 Downing
Street.
On paper, Jones would appear to be a lock for the team.
But as she well knows, like so many other Paralympic hopefuls,
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she still must qualify for the
team and still must be at her
absolute best during trials
in order to earn what she
hopes for most this summer:
a chance to compete in
London’s all-new state-of-
the-art Velodrome, home of
the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic cycling events.
Ralph Green, on the other hand, fi nds himself entering
summer and the 2012 Paralympic qualifying season as the
longest of long shots.
Always a great athlete as a young man, and still strong as
an ox—even at mid-life—he started competing in the shot put
almost on a whim, and that was less than a year ago. But before
he knew what had happened, Green discovered he had both a
passion and a talent for the sport.
Unfortunately, honesty compels him to admit that’s about all
he has. He still has no coach. He has no shot-put mentor. And
he has no one in his corner to teach him the fi ner points of such
things as technique, weight shift and body control. In fact, he’ll
admit that much of what he continues to learn about throwing
the shot he is learning online.
But Ralph Green is driven to become the best he can be
at the sport; so much so, in fact, he’s working out like he’s
already on the team. And earlier this year in a competition at the
University of California at Davis, he fi nished a stunning second
in the event, within shouting distance of the fi rst-place fi nisher.
“All I can do is do my best,” said Green recently. “I have no
idea if I’ll make the team. But I promise you this: I’m training
and working as hard as I can. And whether I qualify or not, I
know I’m going to give this thing
everything I’ve got.”
For Alana Nichols, Allison
Jones and Ralph Green, the Summer and Winter Paralympics are
athletic competitions distinguished by more than just a change
in season. The Summer Paralympics are much better attended,
held in a higher profi le, larger urban area, and capable of drawing
signifi cantly more media attention, in large part because they
offer a far greater number of vastly different sports in more
highly traffi cked venues.
And yet both seasonal competitions have one thing in
common. Each of them remains a distant dream and a lifelong
goal for thousands of dedicated athletes the world over. Young
men and women with passion and determination have spent
untold hours of sweat and toil in the pursuit of one thing—not
merely getting there, but winning.
Given that, just getting there—and not once, but twice, and
in two different sports—remains an accomplishment in and of
itself, and an achievement most athletes would treasure for a
lifetime.
But to actually win a gold medal in both Paralympics? Well,
that just about defi es comprehension. Ask Alana, the only
adaptive athlete in history to actually do it.
And who knows? This year Allison and Ralph might just fi nd
themselves following in her footsteps to carve out a little history
of their own.
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Everything from TNN radically changing its
stripes and colors and becoming Spike,
to Cablevision slowly but surely evolving
into Optimum, we in this industry are
fully aware of what it takes to turn one
established brand into another, while
somehow still trying to conduct the affairs
of day-to-day business. We know how
much time, effort and, ultimately, money
a makeover like that takes.
That’s why what has happened to
an event many of you know as SkiTAM
has been nothing short of remarkable.
Right under our noses, what was once a
volunteer organization known as SkiTAM
has become Adaptive Spirit.
A team that had been calling itself the
U.S. ParaLYMPiCS aND aDaPTiVE SKiiNG’S
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U.S. Disabled Ski Team has blossomed
into the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team.
And what had once been a small but
dedicated band of athletes piloted by the
United States Skiing and Snowboarding
Association has, and with very little
fanfare, started hitching its wagon to the
U.S. Paralympics.
The combination of the three is an
extraordinary feat. But that’s not why I’m
writing to you today. As I said, we know all
about re-launches.
Instead, I’m writing this today to let
you know that, when it comes to the U.S.
Paralympic Ski Team, not only do things
look, sound and feel different. Suddenly,
and for the fi rst time since the cable
industry fi rst got involved in adaptive
skiing, they are different.
This is a remarkable new day in
competitive ski racing in this country, and
you should take that from someone who
was at the very fi rst SkiTAM 17 years ago
and happened to be part of a group of
100 or so cable people who fl ew to Vail
one spring weekend to do a little spring
skiing and in the process help rescue a
woefully underfi nanced team of world-
class athletes.
That’s how the whole thing started.
And a lot has happened since then. But
as I said, this is a whole new day.
There is something truly exciting
about the team, and truly exciting in the
air. And there’s an energy surrounding
these athletes that I haven’t felt since
those very early days of SkiTAM. And it
crystalized for me the night of this year’s
awards banquet when I heard Charlie
Huebner, who heads up U.S. Paralympics,
get up and speak before the crowd of
athletes, coaches, cable people and their
families.
I’ve only known Charlie for a year, and
have only spoken with him a few times.
But I know conviction when I see it,
honesty when I hear it, and passion when
I feel it. And what I saw, heard and felt
that evening in Vail was the real deal.
Charlie talked about how under-
fi nanced the team is, relative to other
countries, and how the rest of the world is
If there’s one thing we know about in the cable industry, it’s a re-launch.
22 adaptive spirit • 2012
outspending the U.S. 10 to one in support
of Paralympic athletes. He talked about
how much he believed in his coaching
staff and his team, and how dedicated his
entire staff was to supporting them. And
above all he talked about how incredibly
badly he wanted to win.
It was a stump speech, to be sure. And
I know that because when I researched
Charlie and U.S. Paralympics recently I
saw and read him quoted in newspapers
around the country saying much the same
thing.
But that doesn’t mean the man
doesn’t believe it. And that doesn’t mean
it wasn’t real.
And I could tell that the moment I
heard Charlie’s voice break with emotion
as he paraded back and forth on the
stage, with his eyes burning and his free
hand clenched as he held the microphone.
The man wants to win, and that’s one of
the reasons this is truly a brand-new day
in adaptive skiing.
I’m not sure anyone responsible for
the day-to-day operations of the U.S.
Paralympics has ever felt this way about
winning, or has ever done so much to
make it happen.
U.S. Paralympics under Charlie has
now established a series of feeder
programs around the
country, designed to fi nd
and support the fi nest
young racing talent.
And while it’s still a
fairly new initiative, it’s
already starting to pay
dividends in the form of
talented young racers
like Stephanie Jallen.
The organization
is deepening its ties to a number of
groups supporting the many disabled war
veterans who have returned home from
Iraq and Afghanistan looking for a way to
channel their desire to compete and to
feel physically whole again. And one need
look no further than the team’s own Heath
Calhoun to realize how war vets, with their
discipline, passion and dedication, come
through the door already armed with much
of what it takes to become a champion.
Charlie’s reached out and worked with
the Adaptive Spirit volunteer leadership
in ways that, to be honest, no one ever
has before. As co-chair Steve Raymond
said recently, “Charlie knows what this
organization and our industry mean in
terms of what he’s trying to accomplish,
and he’s let us know that wherever we
need him and whatever we need him for,
he’ll be there for us.”
That’s why this is a brand-new day
in competitive ski racing in this country.
That’s why the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team
fi nds itself so well positioned to compete.
And that’s why the entire cable industry
can be assured that its support is not
only being well-directed, it’s making a
difference like it never has before.
For the fi rst time in years the people
at the top of the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team
are not just taking care of logistics and
details for the team. For the fi rst time
since I’ve been going to SkiTAM, they’re
as dedicated and as passionate about
winning as the remarkable athletes
they’re supporting.
And regardless of what the team
is calling itself, we should all feel good
about that.
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John Farra, Nordic Director
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Jonathan Mika, Alpine Coach
Kevin Pillifant, Alpine Therapist
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Shawn Scholl, Nordic Staff
Jessica Smith, Paralympic Ski Team Manager
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