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AN ANNUAL BENEFIT FOR THE U.S. DISABLED SKI TEAM

To the US Disabled Ski Team: Good Luck in Torino and Bring Home the Yahtzee!

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SkiTAM05 CoverF-B.indd 1 5/17/05 5:35:45 PM AN ANNUAL BENEFIT OF THE U.S. DISABLED SKI TEAM

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Dear Friend of SkiTAM: Publisher Reed Business Information I learned a valuable lesson at SkiTAM this year from Jon Kreamelmeyer, my counterpart with the U.S. Disabled Nordic Team. When JK was introduced at the opening reception, Editor there was an undercurrent of cocktail conversation that made it impossible to hear what M.C. Antil he was saying. However, unlike the previous speakers who tried to rise above the noise by shouting, JK spoke softly into the microphone. Project Management Anne Marie Hukriede - Sadler & Dorchester At first, no one listened, so he stopped. Then he started again, and this time rather than Lorie Sadler - Sadler & Dorchester speaking louder, he spoke even softer. The second time, those in front began to quiet Doug Craver - Knotice Ltd. down and started hushing those behind them. But still there was a lot of ambient noise. So JK stopped again. Then he started again. This time quiet swept across the room, to Editorial Design & Layout the point that soon only a handful of people in the back were still talking. But even they Steve Hammond - Sadler & Dorchester sensed something had changed and you could see them looking around, wondering why the room had grown so quiet. Principal Photography The lesson is this: when you want to be heard, speak softly and get to the point. Rob Stuehrk - Agile Imaging Bob Sullivan - Agile Imaging So rather than hitting you over the head, I will simply say this once. And I take the lib- erty to use the exact line JK used the night he quieted the crowd with a whisper: Thank Additional Photography you so much for all your support. Without SkiTAM, this team, literally, would not exist. Miguel Priest - Sharpshooters Steve Hammond - Sadler & Dorchester Sincerely,

Kevin Jardine Head Coach U.S. Disabled Alpine Team

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CABLES ODD COUPLE ...... 2 S T E E R I N G C O M M I T T E E CHAIRPERSONS SILENT AUCTION THE CONSTANT/TOUGH AS NAILS ...... 5 Chuck Ellis Dena Bradshaw Time Warner Cable Broadbus Technologies Steve Raymond Juliet Randall PRIVATE WAR ...... 6 Disney & ESPN Networks Marcum Marcom Patty Bullington SPONSORSHIP Charter Media Mike Hayashi SKITAM AT 10 ...... 11 Time Warner Cable RACE Joe Rooney Anne Marie Hukriede Cox Communications Sadler & Dorchester RACE RESULTS ...... 12 Brad Parobek EVENT Janco Partners Susan Burgstiner WHERE ARE THEY NOW ...... 12 Marketing On Demand VOLUNTEERS Shannon Hancock MARKETING Ronda Dorchester, ATHLETE PARTNERSHIP GENERATION NEXT ...... 15 Anne Marie Hukriede PROGRAM Sadler & Dorchester Dena Bradshaw Doug Craver Broadbus Technologies THE TEACHER ...... 16 Knotice Ltd. Karen Woodruff DST Innovis PUBLICITY CHRIS WADDELL/GINNY KAUS ...... 16 Lela Cocoros GIFT BAGS LeRae Marsik John Hildabrand October Strategies Cox Communications 56 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ...... 19 COMMUNICATIONS Debbie Barackman SPECIAL THANKS/TEAM ROSTER ...... 20 iN DEMAND

SPONSORS ...... 20

SkiTAM05 TOC.indd 1 5/17/05 4:03:39 PM In 1992, Ralph Green was a 15 year old like a lot of a great story.” And when he does he’s so authen- BROTHERS others. He was a good kid, a great athlete and a tic, so real, people love it. It’s not often these days capable enough student that he had realistic expec- that you see a public speaker being real, and Ralph tations of becoming a Division I college quarterback. Green, first and foremost, is real.” IN ARMS But then one night in Brooklyn, during a drive-by In fact, Green has gotten so good at his portion of gang shooting, a bullet severed the artery in Ralph’s the Rooney/Green one-two punch that a few months Don’t be fooled by appearances, upper thigh, causing irreparable damage to his leg. ago he shared the stage with Cox CEO Jim Robbins Soon both his dreams of athletic greatness and his and COO Pat Esser for a state-of-the-company Joe Rooney and Ralph Green are leg were gone. address. The experience made a lasting impression a lot more alike than you’d think. Rooney made the on Green. “At first, Jim Robbins didn’t know who Following over a year’s worth of surgery, at a cost of I was, but when we started talking he treated me By M.C. Antil well over $1.5 million, Ralph Green made a decision. decision soon after like I mattered. And I treated him like a fellow Cox He still wanted to be a great athlete and would go employee. I think he liked what he saw in me and On the surface they are polar oppo- to great lengths to make that happen. He had heard their first meeting felt that as an athlete I was a good representative of about the disabled skiing program at Winter Park, his company.” sites in so many ways, it’s difficult to Colorado and determined that it was for him. So, that Green would know where to start. One is white with the support of his strong and loving mother, Cox’s level of commitment to Green is perhaps best Green gathered up a few hundred dollars and took a be the perfect spokes- evidenced by two gestures of corporate largesse the and able-bodied, the other black and train west. company made this spring. During the closing din- missing his left leg. One was raised man as Cox rolled out ner at SkiTAM 2005, Rooney got up in front of the He and Rooney met at SkiTAM in 2004 and immedi- packed room and announced that Cox would not in upper-middle class suburbia, the ately struck up a friendship. Rooney explained that its program. only renew its sponsorship of Ralph for 2006, but for at the time Cox was getting ready to launch “Take four full years after that. other in the unforgiving and often it to the MAX,” an internal campaign designed to violent Bedford-Stuyvesant section of instill in Cox employees a sense of ownership and a greater appreciation for And as much as that sponsorship renewal meant to Ralph, what Rooney had the level of competition in the marketplace. When Rooney met Green, the done just a few weeks earlier made an even greater impression. Prior to the Brooklyn. One is a well-compensated wheels started to turn. He explained, “What struck me about Ralph, as I got World Championships in Vail, Rooney made arrangements for Grace Green, senior executive of a major media to know him, is that he embodies the Cox spirit. He is genuine, and in fact who had never seen her son ski, much less compete, to travel to Vail on an genuinely nice, but he is also aggressive and demands even more of himself all-expense-paid trip. Mrs. Green had never been west of the Hudson River, company, the other a still-learning than others do.” much less to the Rocky Mountains, so the trip represented much like the one professional skier who counts every her son took just a few years earlier in pursuit of his dream. “I was scared to Rooney made the decision soon after their first meeting that Green would death to travel that far, but I’d do it again tomorrow if it meant being able to last nickel, not because he is by be the perfect spokesman as Cox rolled out its program. Their first road trip see my son ski again,” she said. together was to the Cox system in San Diego, which for a young black man nature frugal, but because he has to. from Brooklyn is a lot further than just 3,000 miles and five hours in a plane. As for the partnership and the unique bond between Rooney and Green, “Ralph had never seen the Pacific Ocean, so we were able to mix a little each offers their take on why it runs so deep. Said Rooney, “One of the business and pleasure and let him experience things that makes this thing work between Yet in a very basic and real way, Joe something special.” Ralph and Cox is that neither of us is just Rooney and Ralph Green are like twin looking for a simple write-the-check sort At the Customer Care center Rooney and of sponsorship. We want something more, sons of different mothers, two people Green gave the employees what Green now something with value that goes beyond calls “the old one-two punch.” Rooney led mere money.” whose bond goes beyond the mutu- off with a power point outline of Take it to ally beneficial sponsorship agree- the Max, and Green followed it up with a Green added, “Sure we’re different in many from-the-heart talk about things like losing ways, but the one thing that Joe and I ment that Rooney’s company, Cox his leg and the decision to leave everything share is that we both strive for excellence. Communications, and Green currently he knew behind to follow his dream. The Cox He started out selling cable door-to-door customer service people loved it and a year and is now senior vice president of Cox enjoy. Their bond has to do with pas- later, still ask their supervisors how Ralph is Communications. Me, I started off skiing sion and a burning desire to be the doing. late in life and now I’m on the U.S. Ski Team. It was a tough climb for both of us, but we best, but more on that later. Said Rooney, “Since we’ve started making both share determination and a great work these presentations, Ralph has learned to tell ethic.” 2 3

SkiTAM05 p2-3.indd 1 5/17/05 4:07:40 PM The Constant

Given a different set of circumstances, one could easily see SkiTAM co-founder Steve

Raymond as a world champion disabled skier, rather than a world-class advocate. Had Congratulations to the entire U.S. Disabled Ski Team he been born inflicted with a crippling disease it’s not hard to imagine Steve racing on a successful SkiTAM 2005 event. We admire your courage, strength and determination. Looking forward against the best in the world, much like the disabled athletes he’s helped over the past to supporting your efforts next year. ten years. Steve was a ski-bum after college, so your sense is he’s got the chops. But it’s

much more than that. It’s what’s inside him that makes you believe that he and the U.S.

Disabled Ski Team share a separate peace. It’s his quiet dignity, his relentless pursuit of

noble goals and his dogged determination. And much like many of the members of the

team, he also has this odd habit of giving others credit and thanking them for the work Meeting the demands of an on demand world™. he’s done. And while

Steve is one of a handful of people who have been at every SkiTAM, his constancy is far

more than a matter of perfect attendance. Steve Raymond is a constant because year

after year he remains true to the person he was raised to be; a giver who constantly

trusts and follows his heart. MCA

Tough as Nails

There are different kinds of tough. There is that Jimmy Cagney/Humphrey Bogart kind of tough, with SeaChange Ad the steely eyes and the curled upper lip. There’s the garden variety, pro football kind of tough, that

relies as much on size and look as anything else. Then there’s the real tough; the Steve Cook kind of

tough. The head down, refuse to lose kind of tough. A tough that is not willing or able to acknowl-

edge your muscles are burning so badly you’re afraid they might tear away from your bones. A tough

so tough it pushes you forward even though your lungs are heaving, your heart is pounding, and your

back is dripping sweat – despite the fact that all around you the world is frozen solid. Years ago, old Proud Sponsor of SkiTAM 2005 soldiers used this as the measure of a man: Is he the type of guy you’d want in a foxhole with you? Trust us. If your back was against the wall, we’re sure there’s someone out there you’d rather have

with you than Steve Cook, the toughest skier on the Men’s Nordic Team. But for the life of us, we

can’t think of who that might be. 5

SkiTAM05 p4-5.indd 1 5/17/05 4:10:58 PM Early in 2005, Chris Devlin-Young was sitting at the opening ceremony Chris Devlin-Young of the annual meeting of the National Disabled American Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in Snowmass, Colorado, when a young boy approached him and asked, “Are you Chris Young?” When Devlin- THE WAR Young answered “Yes,” the boy said, “I think you know my father.” “Who’s your father?” he asked. “Him,” said the boy, pointing to a man in a wheelchair. WITHIN Across the sea of strange faces, Chris Devlin-Young saw one from his past, a face that had been seared into his memory. On July 31, 1982, Craig Michaels had been a young navigator on the Coast Guard C-130 Hercules heli- Chris Devlin-Young copter in which Devlin-Young had been riding, when on a rainy and foggy morning it crashed into a mountain on Attu, a small island off the coast of Alaska. The crash broke Michaels’ neck and crushed a portion of Devlin- spent years trying to Young’s spine, leaving them both paralyzed. And outside of one day a few months after that fateful morning, when their paths briefly crossed at a VA hospital in Palo Alto, California, until that moment they had not seen come to grips with the each other since. accident that left him Over that 23-year period, Devlin-Young had become increasingly haunted by the crash and its aftermath. Not in a wheelchair. But only did it rob him of the ability to walk, but he had to live with the fact that on that morning, as both young men lay there unable to move, the helicopter they had been riding in slowly became engulfed in flames and the the love of a good fire subsequently burned his buddy over 80% of his body – while not touching Devlin-Young, the 2005 World Cup disabled ski champion. His disability gave him an excuse to wallow in self pity, while his inability to help woman and a passion Michaels planted in his mind some self-destructive tendencies which would eventually root deep within his consciousness. And, as is often the case with dark memories, for years Devlin-Young refused to talk about his for skiing finally accident or the impact it had on him.

helped him finally All he knew of that morning was that he and Michaels were pulled from the wreckage of the chopper and placed side-by-side on the ground. At the time, neither realized the extent of their injuries; only that they bury his demons. couldn’t walk. Devlin-Young thought his problem was not so much physical as mental. “I just thought I was in shock,” he would say later.

By M.C. Antil As the two lay there, a small fire in the cockpit started to grow and soon engulfed the wreckage in a fire so hot that within a few hours it turned the C-130 into nothing more than a greasy spot on the ground. As the fire started to grow, Devlin-Young told Michaels they had to get out of there, and instructed his injured buddy to grab his legs so he could drag them both to safety. Unfortunately, Michaels’ injuries had paralyzed him from the neck down, and since he had lost all feelings in his legs, Devlin-Young had no way of knowing his friend had not even moved his arms, much less grabbed his legs. All he knew was that his job was to frantically pull himself and his friend over the cold, wet ground to safety.

As he felt the heat subside on the back of his neck and sensed he and Michaels were out of harm’s way, Devlin-Young looked back toward the wreckage. To his horror saw his friend still laying next to the helicopter, on fire and screaming for help. “I had struggled to get where I was, and I thought Craig was with me,” he said. “But then I looked back and saw him lying there, and no one went back to get him.”

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SkiTAM05 p6-7.indd 1 5/17/05 4:14:37 PM Now, 23 years later, Devlin-Young looked across at the scarred, It was though that decision lit a fire under him, and he slowly 40-something man in a wheelchair that the young boy had began to emerge as, potentially, one of the best mono-skiers on pointed out, and he immediately recognized him as his old the team. At the 1996 World Championships, after having fin- Coast Guard buddy. Before he knew what was happening, a ished first in all the downhill training runs, Devlin-Young smile beamed across his face and he shouted out, “Craig!” crashed in the race itself, broke a bone in his shoulder and was forced to withdraw. The setback tore him up inside, and he “For some reason, it was not as emotional seeing Craig as I actually entertained thoughts of quitting. But his wife urged thought it would be,” said Devlin-Young later. “In fact, in some him not to give up on his dream. She convinced Devlin-Young ways it was like I just saw him yesterday. It was only later, after that the key to his success would not be to learn how to ski we had spent the second night of the event talking about the faster; it would be to learn to ski smarter – to find that fine line accident, that morning, and all the years in between that the between being in control and being out of control, and stay emotions started to rise up in me.” there for the entire race.

That night in the hotel room the two stayed up all night, and for This past season, after years of steady improvement, Chris the first time in Devlin-Young’s life he opened up and let all the Devlin-Young seemed to finally break through on so many pent-up guilt and anger flow from his heart. He told Michaels fronts. He won the coveted all-round World Cup, but perhaps he was sorry he was not able to pull him away from the fire, just as important – and surprising – is the fact that he emerged and Michaels told him to not give it another thought. He then as a team leader, as well as a coach and mentor to some of the told Devlin-Young about his life and the fact that his wife and younger skiers. had stayed by his side after the accident and through the painful rehab. He said he wouldn’t be alive without her, his five Joe Tompkins, who often roomed with Devlin-Young this past adopted children, and the love they shared. As his friend spoke, season, and who has been a teammate for over a decade, said Devlin-Young began feeling the tears well up inside him, for like the difference in the person Devlin-Young had been and the Michaels, the love a woman had helped save him too. person he became en route to the World Cup is remarkable. Tompkins says he has learned that Devlin-Young’s greatest attri- bute may not be his skiing – and make no mistake, he feels that This past season, after years of steady Devlin-Young is one of the greatest skiers in the world – but his willingness and ability to teach. In fact, Tompkins says, improvement, Chris Devlin-Young unequivocally, that if not for Devlin-Young’s work with them, seemed to finally break through on so such young lions as Tyler Walker and Laurie Stephens would not many fronts. be nearly the skiers they are today. To illustrate Devlin-Young’s willingness and ability to teach, Tompkins tells the story of how he was competing against Devlin-Young in a race Tompkins would eventually win. Even though the two At the very first SkiTAM in 1995 Chris Young was a still-angry were separated by the smallest of margins, Devlin-Young came up and not only offered Tompkins young man who had joined the U.S. Disabled ski team. And advice between runs, but encouragement. “He came up to me before my last run, looked me in the while he was a good athlete and a daring skier, he had not yet eyes and said, ‘You can do this.’ You have to understand, no one wants to win more than Chris,” reached world class status. That year he met a former actress said Tompkins. “He’s as competitive as anyone I’ve ever met. But he loves to teach and he’s and television producer named Donna Devlin, who was then become such a great teammate, that it seems he can’t help himself. I’ll never forget when he did managing teammate Chris Waddell. The following year she for me, and I guarantee you a few years ago he would have never done that.” approached Young and said that with his talent and personal- ity, he should take her on as his manager, and that if marketed Another thing that helped Devlin-Young this past season was an innovative new rig developed by For Devlin-Young the properly he could earn a living not despite his disability, but teammate Kevin Bramble. The mono-ski, which Bramble had originally designed for himself but biggest difference because of it. Young accepted her offer and Devlin not only never really embraced, is one that allows the skier to almost stand upright, rather than sit on a flat between the KBG rig (designed and built became Young’s manager; a few years later she became his wife. seat just a few inches from the snow. But for Devlin-Young, the biggest difference between the by teammate Kevin KBG rig and a traditional mono-ski is the specially-designed shock absorber that allows the skier Bramble) and a Around that time Devlin-Young also made a key tactical decision to feel the hill as never before. “It’s an amazing rig,” claims Devlin-Young. “From the front you traditional mono-ski is with respect to his career. As someone with limited mobility, look just like a stand-up skier, but the difference is it so quick – and I’m not talking about miles per the specially designed he began his career as a stand up skier in the LW1 class, and hour, I’m talking about edge to edge.” shock absorber. “Itʼs actually won the gold medal in the slalom during the 1994 an amazing rig. From Paralympics in Lillehammer. The following spring, however, Devlin-Young, who won the slalom in the World Championships in Bramble’s rig, says he will spend the front you look like he broke his leg and during the healing process began think- the next year honing his skills in it, so that he’s ready to go for gold at the 2006 Paralympics. a stand-up skier, but ing about how much strain stand-up skiing was putting on his the difference is it is back. It was then that he determined that when he came back As for SkiTAM, Chris Devlin-Young says the event will always have a special place in his heart, but so quick – and Iʼm not it would be as a mono-skier. Devlin-Young felt the fact that he not for the obvious reasons. “Sure SkiTAM is important, and you know all the reasons why. But talking about miles could shift his weight in a mono-ski, however slightly, would for me, SkiTAM will always hold a special place in my heart because that’s where I found Donna.” per hour, Iʼm talking help him tremendously at the highest levels of international about edge to edge.” competition. 8 9

SkiTAM05 p8-9.indd 1 5/17/05 4:24:23 PM Disney and ESPN Media Ne tworks proudly salutes

SkiTAM and the U.S. Disabled Ski Team for their extraordinary achievements, SkiTAM Celebrates 10 Years unwavering dedication In the fall of 1994 two people sat down over drinks and hatched and fighting spirit. an idea. Steve Raymond, then vice president of affiliate marketing for ESPN, and Ginny Kaus, then working as vice president of marketing for Time Warner Cable, were trying to put together an event for the Rocky Mountain chapter of CTAM, an association of marketers in the cable industry. What they came up with was a simple fund-raiser to help the U.S. Disabled Ski Team meet its financial commitment for the SkiTAM Welcomes coming season. Word had gotten out that the team’s funding had Olympic Hero Street been slashed to almost nothing by the USSA, and that for the remark- Many at SkiTAM were thrilled at the chance to meet able athletes on the disabled team to continue competing they’d have Olympic hero Picabo Street. to somehow find funding elsewhere. Street, who won gold in the Super G at the 1998 Olympics after earning silver in the Raymond and Kaus drew up their plans on the very first SkiTAM, and when he did two things 1994 Downhill, skied for the ©Disney proverbial cocktail napkin, plans that would happened that helped catapult the event Outdoor Life Network. She be presented first to the board of the Rocky into orbit. The first was the fact that, as an also addressed attendees at the awards dinner, tell- Mountain Chapter of CTAM, and then to the executive of one of the largest cable opera- ing them about the inspira- board of CTAM itself. With the blessing of tors in the industry, his presence brought both tion able-bodied Olympians draw from their disabled col- both boards the event was announced, and sponsorship money and other senior people to leagues. even though no one truly realized it at the time, SkiTAM. Later she admitted to SkiTAM history had ever-so-quietly just been made. ʼ05 that growing up her The event would be held the first weekend in But even more significantly, by attending that greatest rival, and the person who drove her harder April in Vail, Colorado, and would adopt as its first year Ellis got to experience first-hand than any other, was former name a phonetic variation of the what almost everyone Paralympian, Muffy Davis. As Soaring Success! junior racers in Sun Valley, organization under whose who has ever been to Idaho, Street and Davis were auspices it was conceived. SkiTAM talks about 1 and 1a, bitter rivals whose Every year SkiTam and our own Lacey greatness seemed tied to their afterward. He got to desire to beat one another. Heward both set high standards for Such is how SkiTAM came to meet the athletes, and Street claims that she and achievement – then surpass them. be. And while that first year the actually become friends Muffy are friends now, but turnout was limited to just over with many of them. says that Davis once told her We're proud to sponsor your efforts. the second hardest day in her 100 cable executives and dis- Chuck Ellis was able to life – after the day she broke abled athletes, all the elements take the broad, her back and was paralyzed – was when Street won her Congratulations on another that would help SkiTAM grow into one of the impersonal concept of corporate giving and first Olympic medal. “Muffy outstanding season! industry’s most highly regarded events were put a face to it. For that reason, he, like so told me she hated me at first, but later realized she didnʼt in evidence even then: the opening recep- many others, has rarely missed a SkiTAM since. so much hate me, she hated tion, the silent auction, the awards ceremony And SkiTAM’s growing reputation for giv- the fact that I was able to go and, of course, the race. Central to SkiTAM’s ing has not just been confined to the cable on and chase our dream.”

Lacey Heward growth and acceptance in those early days industry. SkiTAM is now a well-known entity Street, who herself recovered from many career-threatening Sponsored by Scientific-Atlanta was the blessing of Time Warner Cable’s in both the disabled and skiing communities, injuries, knows fate can be a Chuck Ellis, who was then on the CTAM and in 2005 received the prestigious John J. cruel and whimsical arbiter. national board of directors. Ellis, who owned Clair Jr. Award from the U.S Ski & Snowboard She said, “I had so many crashes in my career. To this property in the Vail Valley, Association for its significant contribution to day, I look at Muffy and ask, attended the the U.S. Ski and Snowboard teams. why her and not me?” 11

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SkiTAM05 p12-13.indd 1 In Full Bloom We saw her grow up before our very eyes. And we mean that literally. She was at the very first SkiTAM as an 11 year old, a kid from Colorado Springs who was just cutting her teeth at the disabled program at Winter Park. She was shy and had little experience dealing with business people from faraway places like New York and Los Angeles. But there was something about her. You could sense it. She had fire, and underneath that little-girl exterior you got the feeling there was a con- fident woman bound for great things. Now ten years later, Allison Jones is on a first name basis with MSO presidents and network heads. She’s also attending the University of Denver where, when she’s not listening to rock and roll, she’s studying to be an engineer. Allison figures she might just have the kind of insight and first-hand knowledge that will allow her to design products that will really help the disabled lead full and rich lives. And oh yeah, we almost forgot; the girl can ski. Don’t be fooled by the baby face, the constant stream of little chuckles that punctuate her speech, or her desire to have a prosthetic limb made with a built-in tattoo, on the slopes Allison Jones is one of the best in the world. And she’s all business. Like we said, the girl can ski. Boy can she ski.

After years of being led by 30-something champions the U.S. Disabled Women's Alpine Team has discovered mul050505ski_1-2h.indd 1 5/11/2005, 10:44:18 AM a new generation of emerging stars.

Driven Most people have at least one person in their lives whose shyness is so deep rooted it’s painful even for others, someone for whom public speaking and interacting with strangers is just about as uncomfortable as it gets. Most people also know at least one person who is relentless in the pursuit of his or her goals, someone whose single-minded drive to be the best is so powerful it could pull a freight train. Few people, however, know anyone who embodies all of the above. When you first meet Laurie Stephens you’re first struck by how incredibly quiet, reserved and painfully shy she is. Then you notice how powerfully built her arms and shoulders are. Then your eye catches a glimpse of the ring that hangs from the hole pierced just over her left eyebrow. Then you hear, not only that at 21 years old she’s the most dominant disabled skier in the world, bar none, but that her goal next year is to get even better. It’s about then that you realize there’s a lot more to this young woman than meets the eye, and that beneath that painfully shy exterior Laurie Stephens lets the world see beats the heart of a champion whose quest for greatness has only just begun.

SkiTAM05 p14-15.indd 1 5/17/05 4:40:53 PM The Teacher

The quiet calm that he exudes is so palpable you could slice it and sell it by the pound. Where it comes from is anyone’s guess. Maybe it was all those years he spent as a teacher, perhaps it’s his more than passing interest in Buddhism, or just maybe it’s his remarkable sense who he is and what his priorities are. To watch Jon Kreamelmeyer, the head coach of the U.S. Disabled Nordic team, work with his small band of remark- ably dedicated athletes is like watching the Dalai Lama offer spiritual advice. Kreamelmeyer is more about listening than talking, more about the mental than the physical, and, frankly, just as excited about learning as he is about teaching. But make no mistake; as gentle as he may appear, he’s also tough as nails. Maybe that’s his secret. But whatever the reason, this much can be said with absolute certainty about JK: the soft-spoken guy with the warm blue eyes and the Zen-like sense of peace is one heck of a coach.

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Chris Wadell Ginny Kaus

If SkiTAM ever had a matriarch it In December, 1990 at a train- was Ginny Kaus. A former Time ing camp in Winter Park, Massachusetts native Chris Warner Cable marketer, it was Waddell made what Ski maga- Ginny who, along with ESPN’s zine called simply, “the turn – a Steve Raymond, conceived of single audacious arc that proved SkiTAM and helped make it a what coaches had only begun to reality. Ginny was a fixture during think possible: monoskis could SkiTAM’s early years and always carve.” That was five years before greeted attendees like they were Waddell attended the very first guests in her home. She stopped SkiTAM, eight years before he was coming after she retired – though named one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People” and 14 years before his beloved Red Sox finally won a World Series. As not before a nasty fall on the last run of her cable career, one that the most decorated disabled male skier in history, and a man who required her to be taken off the mountain on a stretcher by the ski was as influential as any in elevating the status of competitive patrol. After leaving her job, Ginny moved to Arizona with her soul disabled skiing, it’s not unreasonable to think that Chris would mate, golf partner and husband, Mike Kaus. Today she spends her have outgrown SkiTAM. But even though he’s now retired from days as a wife, mother, grandmother, and sculptor. She also runs competition and busy with numerous projects in his adopted Ginny Kaus Studios and you can see some of her amazing work at hometown, Park City, Utah, he still makes it a point to return to www.ginnykausstudios.com. We were delighted to see her back Vail every April and reconnect with his old teammates, coaches this year to help SkiTAM celebrate its 10th anniversary, and we and cable friends. These days Chris is busy planning his next were blown away at the largesse of Mike, who at the awards career and at press time was hatching plans for an agency which will represent and market disabled athletes of achievement, dinner, with tears in his eyes, committed to an annual $5,000 providing them full-service support to the media and in the donation in the name of his beloved Ginny. business world.

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SkiTAM05 p16-17.indd 1 5/17/05 4:45:37 PM 56 Things You Didn’t Know about the U.S. Disabled Ski Team

1. Kevin Bramble builds the equip- 22. Nick Catanzarite used to host a 40. One July at the Dallas Cowboys ment for all but two of the sit-skiers on philosophical discussion group called training camp in Wichita Falls, Texas, the team. Socrates Cafe. Allison Jones was invited by then-head 2. In his spare time Carl Burnett 23. Lacey Heward once took a freestyle coach Jimmy Johnson onto the field, where writes music reviews for the Dartmouth jump on her monoski, soaring 15’ in the over half the team signed her prosthetic College newspaper. air before landing in a swimming pool. leg. 3. During Ralph Green’s first year liv- 24. Dan Perkins was fired from a job as 41. Joe Tompkins once caught a 225 lb. ing in Colorado, Carl Burnett helped him a farmhand for doing wheelies on his trac- halibut. quit smoking. tor. 42. Perhaps inspired by the movie, Kelly 4. Nick Catanzarite has read 25. Hannah Pennington has worked as a Underkofler recently threw her arm out Dostoyevsky’s Brothers Karamazov from river guide on the Colorado and Animas playing dodgeball. cover-to-cover. Rivers. 43. Candace Cable was arrested as 5. At 14 years old Hannah Pennington 26. Chris Devlin-Young taught a pig teenager for breaking into an abandoned drove 5 laps in a race held on a dirt track; on his family’s farm to heel, come, sit and house to tell ghost stories. by 17 she had her own race car. stay. 44. When Ralph Green moved to 6. During her first year racing, Allison 27. While taking his 18’ fishing boat Colorado to learn to ski, all he had in his Jones told announcer Bob Beattie (whom out to sea to spread his father’s ashes, pocket were, in his words, “$300 and a she later called “the ESPN dude”) that she Joe Tompkins and his family came upon a dream.” couldn’t do an interview because she was once-in-a-lifetime scene: a super-pod of 45. Kevin Bramble was the first sit-skier going skiing with her mom. over 100 killer whales. ever to ski the legendary Big Couloir in Big 7. Nick Catanzarite once shared an 28. Tyler Walker once flipped his ATV, Sky, Montana. elevator with Jerry Springer. which landed on his head. The good news 46. Nick Catanzarite once performed 8. Lacey Heward sang a duet with was the helmet he was wearing held the Shakespeare with a southern accent. Patti LaBelle at the 2002 Paralympic weight of the ATV; the bad news was that 47. Following the terrorist attacks of closing ceremonies. while he was pinned there, hot oil from 9/11 Lacey Heward rode her hand-cycle 9. Dan Perkins once met guitar legend the crankcase poured down on top of him. 177 miles from ground zero in New York Eric Clapton in the men’s room of a Seattle 29. For three different family reunions, City to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. restaurant. Kelly Underkofler dressed up as Captain 48. Chris Devlin-Young once ate every 10. Since winning a gold medal at Hook, Howard Stern and a Playboy bunny. cherry from a cherry tree on his property the 1998 Paralympics in Nagano, Monte 30. Candace Cable once won a donut – while the cherries were still attached to Meier’s hometown of Hastings, Minnesota eating contest. the braches. has observed Monte Meier Day. 31. Between August 1992 and March 49. Candace Cable’s secret desire is to 11. In 1999, Hannah Pennington was 1993, Ralph Green had 27 operations at a ride in a fighter jet. named #1 BMX Supergirl for the state of cost of $1.2 million. 50. There are few things in life Hannah Colorado. 32. At 16 years old Kevin Bramble used Pennington holds more precious than 12. The first ticket Chris Devlin-Young to hydroplane 20 ft. deep lakes at 80 mph the Denver Broncos, and during the 2000 ever received was for jaywalking. He was on his four-wheeler. Super Bowl she was yelling so loudly at 8. 33. Hannah Pennington is a skilled EMT the television her teammates asked her to 13. While playing American Legion and, when she’s not skiing, she works out leave the house. baseball in Juneau, Alaska, Joe Tompkins of an ambulance. 51. Dan Perkins worked on an oyster hit the longest home run in the history of 34. Carl Burnett helped edit Lori farm in Puget Sound. Adair Kennedy Park. Batcheller’s 2002 book, “Alpine 52. When he met President William 14. As a senior, Allison Jones had the Achievement: A Chronicle of the United Jefferson Clinton in the White House, Chris (actual memory) fewest strike outs on any woman on her States Disabled Ski Team.” Devlin-Young addressed the most powerful high school softball team. 35. Nick Catanzarite appeared on the man in the world as “Bill.” 15. Tyler Walker claims to have once cable network Animal Planet scuba diving 53. Ralph Green, Carl Burnett, George had short hair. with sharks. Sansonetis and Nick Catanzarite once 16. Kelly Underkofler and her cousin 36. Lacey Heward once met WWE went mountain biking at midnight with (actual size) Ashley took a road trip out of the coun- wrestler Goldberg, who had donated flashlights taped to their helmets. try to get their belly-buttons pierced for money to benefit her ski career. 54. While studying abroad for a Ashley’s 18th birthday. 37. Dan Perkins won a beauty contest semester, Kelly Underkofler traveled to 17. Candace Cable once met Pope John aboard a U.S. Navy ship. Belfast, Northern Ireland to see the World Paul II. 38. While riding his bike as a young Championship of Irish Dancing. 18. Allison Jones owns over 10,000 boy, Chris Devlin-Young was hit head-on 55. This year Lacey Heward competed It’s here. 1GB of flash memory. baseball cards. by a car, flipped into the air and landed in the first-ever woman’s monoski cross at Introducing Samsung’s new Portable Audio Player. 19. Ralph Green is terrified of moths. on his feet. The first thing he did was run the ESPN X Games. A color LCD for bright JPEG images. FM tuner & recorder. Voice recorder. And 10 hours 20. Kevin Bramble once beat Mario back to see if his bike was OK. 56. Allison Jones collects Coca-Cola of battery life. It’s just one of Samsung’s new beautifully designed Portable Audio Players. Andretti in a go-cart race. 39. Tyler Walker once paddled 317 and Pepsi cans from around the world. From 256MB flash to 20GB HDD models, Samsung’s got it. www.samsung.com 21. Carl Burnett once went on a two- miles in two weeks from the source of the ©2005 Samsung Electronics America, Inc. All rights reserved. Samsung is a registered trademark of Samsung week road trip through 27 states plus Missinaibi River to Moosonee, Ontario, Electronics Co., Ltd. The Donnas appear courtesy of Atlantic Records. All product and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Screen images are simulated. Canada and Mexico. and then rode a train called the Polar Bear Express back from Moosonee. 19

SkiTAM05 p18-19.indd 1 5/17/05 4:48:50 PM Special Thanks Companies Event Guide Design & Copy Samsung Electronics C2 Media Sadler & Dorchester – Jeff Marlin, Steve Hammond, Scientific Atlanta Marketing On Demand Anne Marie Hukriede, Joan Garcia, Ronda Wolford- St. Anne’s Episcopal School Stampede Fulfillment & More Smith, Lori Wood, Suzanne Falkenstein, Linda Starz Hinman Vinyards Carpenter, Kathleen Holmes Time Warner Cable Vail Resorts Associates Time Warner/Road Runner/AOL InfiniteParadigm Event Video Prodution Turner Networks Alex D’Addio – D’Addio Productions Individuals Behind The Scenes Bart Garton – Garton Video Productions Media Partners Jane Shanley – Mentis Broadband Solutions SkiTAM would like to extend a special thanks to Anne Marie Hukriede – USDST Bios SkiTAM Marketing Services Multichannel News and Broadcasting & Cable for being Lori Wood – Race Committee Doug Craver & Brian Deagan – Knotice, Ltd. our exclusive media partner over the last 10 Years! All SkiTAM on-site volunteers Ronda Dorchester & Lorie Sadler – Sadler & Dorchester Printing For SkiTAM Donated By: THE MOD SQUAD Japs-Olson Company Robin Brisucso Athlete Partnership Program Suzanne Bryson AMC/WE Editor’s Note: The American flag used in the Chris Erin Elliot Broadbus Devlin-Young photos was provided by SkiTAM Hannah Harris Comcast Cable Corporation marketing co-chair Douglas Emerson Craver. Julie Luplow Comcast Media Center In 1944, the flag draped the casket of his uncle, Patricia Rothwell Cox Communications Naval Aviator Lieutenant William Emerson DST Innovis Race Photography INT2 Bartlett, killed when his B-25 medium bomber crashed at the end Sharpshooters Motorola of World War II. Lt. Bartlett, step-brother of Doug’s mom, Barbara, NBC flew in campaigns in both Northern Africa and the Pacific.

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SkiTAM05 p20-21.indd 1 5/17/05 4:52:53 PM AN ANNUAL BENEFIT FOR THE U.S. DISABLED SKI TEAM

To the US Disabled Ski Team: Good Luck in Torino and Bring Home the Yahtzee!

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