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Ed Meltzer

Adaptive Examiner Adaptive CoordinatorAdaptive Steering Committee Chair

Home Resort/School Loon MA

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What is an interesting fact about you?	I have owned my own food packaging business for 36 years and recently started an exit strategy that will take a few more years.
Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about?	I am a professional orchestral musician and perform as the Timpanist of the Boston Philharmonic since 1986.
What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer?	Partner in a food packaging sales agency Teach at Loon Mountain and am a trainer at New England Disabled Sports. Perform with the Boston Philharmonic.
Where is the first place you participated in snowsports?	Camp Sargent in New Hampshire
What was your first job in the snowsports industry?	Teaching as a volunteer with New England Disabled Sports
What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career?	I generally gain more fulfillment teaching snow sports than I give back.
What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far?	Although there are many, teaching a never ever British soldier to Mono ski who lost his legs due to an IED. We spent a week together at Breckenridge Co. He was skiing pretty much everything the mountain could throw at him and went on to become a Paralympian fir the UK
Where is your favorite place to ski or ride?	Vail in the West. Loon and Stowe in the east.
If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be?	Being a ski instructor is an amazing experience for a young person that helps develop communication/people skills in a happy winter environment.
What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow?	Cycling, boating
What would be your personal motto?	Don’t be afraid to give of yourself to others. The feeling of self-fulfillment greatly out numbers the effort.
Name three words that describe you.	Fun Adventurous loyal
Who is someone you admire, and why?	Geoff Krill, our PSIA National adaptive coach. His attitude for living life and not letting the small inconveniences he faces as a person in a wheelchair impact his attitude or his ambitions.
When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grow up?	A fulltime professional symphony orchestra musician.
What goal would you like to accomplish in the next year?	Help, through my participation as a member of the national adaptive task force, align our processes and our mission of inclusivity within PSIA
What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years?	To still be physically and intellectually active as I am today.

David Micalizzi

Adaptive Examiner

Home Resort/School Loon Mountain/NEDS MA

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Terry Xie

Alpine Examiner Eastern Board Member

Home Resort/School Wachusett Mountain MA

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What is an interesting fact about you?	Outside of skiing, I am not really an outdoor person.
Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about?	I was an Architect in China.
What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer?	I am the owner of an outdoor store. But we don’t sell skis.
Where is the first place you participated in snowsports?	One of my friend took me to ski at Wachusett in 2010. Now that I think about it, he was the first one to teach me how to ski!
What was your first job in the snowsports industry?	I became a Ski instructor at Wachusett Mountain in Fall 2014.
What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career?	There is no failure in snow sports if you learned something from it.
Where is your favorite place to ski or ride?	Silverton, CO. It is just different.
If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be?	If you are in this industry anyway, you might as well try to get the most out of it.
What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow?	Occasionally I would go whitewater kayaking with friends in the Summer.
What goal would you like to accomplish in the next year?	Do something I have not done before and get the most out of it.
What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years?	Stay healthy and continue to learn something new every year.

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Benjamin Craig

Children’s Examiner

Home Resort/School Catamount MA

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What is an interesting fact about you?	I grew up in Ohio and I’ve coached 3 different sports at the college level.
Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about?	I can wiggle my lips/nose like a rabbit.
What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer?	I’m a staff trainer at Catamount in MA/NY, & Magic in Vermont. Outside of snowsports, I’m a sales manager working for MGM at the MassMutual Convention Center & Arena in Springfield Massachusetts. I focus primarily on sporting events such as boxing, curling (yes that curling from the Olympics), cheerleading, dance, mma, volleyball, basketball etc.
Where is the first place you participated in snowsports?	Brandywine, Ohio
What was your first job in the snowsports industry?	Instructor at Alpine Valley, Ohio
What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career?	This is supposed to be fun, remember this isn’t curing cancer so make sure it’s fun for you and your guests. We are getting the opportunity to do something most people in the snowsports industry or any industry would love to be able to do, so have fun with it.
What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far?	I have 2, getting to be on the chair alone with my kids when they first when up the chairlift, the excitement was awesome. The other was the look on my dad’s face when I surprised him with a new pair of skis, he didn’t really know what to do when the kid who he was buying toys for all my life turned the tables on him.
Where is your favorite place to ski or ride?	The place I’m at the day, I really just love being on the hill. I do have particular love for Dartmouth Skiway, Mt Snow, and Alpine Valley (OH).
If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be?	If you love this and really want to make a career in snowsports, treat yourself and the job like a professional. Get the certifications, stay late for the tech talks with the trainers (trust me we love to talk with new instructors), go home early from the social stuff and get on the hill early in the morning on your day off. Go to as many training sessions as you can, be the one at lineup ready to work! Don’t give up because it’s hard and know you may have to move to keep moving forward (I moved from Ohio to Vermont). Most of all keep the passion, and have fun.
What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow?	I love coaching my son’s little league baseball, watching my daughter run cross country, racing sailboats and golfing.
Name three words that describe you.	Loyal, Passionate, Kind
Who is someone you admire, and why?	Keith Rodney, he is so passionate, and has worked so incredibly hard for so long with so many setbacks to make the Tele National Team. His passion for the sport is undeniable and I can’t even venture to count the hours we have spent in tech talks over the years.
When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grow up?	My mom found this recently from a stack of old school papers while cleaning out the basement and I’m told it was Businessman, skier, football player for the Cleveland Browns.

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Hal Westwood

Cross Country Examiner Nordic Steering Committee

Home Resort/School Notchview MA

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Jim Pearce

Snowboard Examiner

Home Resort/School Stratton Mountain MA

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