Lisa Segal
Alpine Examiner Emeritus
Home Resort/School Park City Ski Resort NH work
About Me
Presently Part time PSIA-Eastern Clinician/Examiner and Park City Ski Resort Trainer/ Instructor and Head Farm Team Coach. Spent my last 20 years coaching young athletes on basics of alpine ski racing. Head Coach/ staff trainer for three different club and academy programs. Summers I spend on the New Hampshire seacoast working as an event supervisor and planner at the Abenaqui Country Club, I am all about fun and good times.
Notes
| What is an interesting fact about you? |
“Love to create”- painting, ceramics, stick sculpture and clothing. |
| Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? |
Went to Culinary School-Pastry Chef- once owned/ran a bakery in Cape Porpoise Maine. |
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? |
Summers- I work as a events supervisor, my weekends are filled with catering party’s and weddings for other’s on NH Seacoast. |
| Where is the first place you participated in snowsports? |
Indian Head little resort in southern New Hampshire. |
| What was your first job in the snowsports industry? |
Ski Instructor at Cannon Mountain Franconia NH. at 16 years old. This was one of my first jobs in high school, teaching others how to ski. |
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? |
Failure is Growth- “Press on” |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? |
USST Women’s D Team Project at Mt. Hood. The opportunity to be the PSIA liaison on this project-helped to create free ski curriculum. Worked in conjunction with female head coaches and U19-U16 athletes from across the country. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? |
Snowbird Ski Resort- never ending challenges! |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? |
Be kind to yourself-spend time learning about your emotions and what makes you tick….”Positive Self Talk”! |
| What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow? |
I enjoy painting -landscapes right now… |
| What would be your personal motto? |
Breath…Slow down
“Empathic Joy” |
| Name three words that describe you. |
Creative
Hardworking
Kind |
| Who is someone you admire, and why? |
My father- Buzz Harrington
INTEGRITY, HARD WORKER, PERSISTENT and GRIT created a person who was admired, loved and a shining example of what you can be! |
| When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grow up? |
Still growing up…. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next year? |
Working and training with my colleagues in the Intermountain/ Eastern Divisions along with USSA Leaders to increase my knowledge and growth. To then share with our PSIA members USSA athletes and coaches. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? |
Being a leader/coach/trainer who can share consistent information from division to division and organization ( PSIA) to organization (USSA). Give back to those who have helped me grow so much. |
