Exciting New Camps to Explore in 2024! Check Out the Latest Additions
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Ellie Hartman
Featured Image: Dryland training at summer camp. Credit: ELITEAM
As the winter of 2023/2024 comes to a close, it is essential to start looking for an alpine Ski Racing Camp for the upcoming year! These camps offer a great opportunity for athletes to enhance their skills, engage in cross-sport activities, and build lasting friendships. The growth experienced at these camps goes beyond just skiing, fostering confidence, leadership, independence, and camaraderie both on and off the slopes.
There are a multitude of diverse camps available for selection, all listed in alphabetical order (A-Z). Rest assured, you will undoubtedly discover the perfect camp that caters to your specific requirements. Please visit the Ski Racing Media Camps Page for more details of all camp offerings.
Alta Badia Ski Academy and GB World in Aprica (Bormio)
(Les Deux Alpes, France and Sölden, Austria)
(Ages: U12 and U14)
Drawing upon the combined extensive experience of Alta Badia Ski Academy and GB World in Aprica (Bormio) – decades of coaching and racing worldwide – the programs are meticulously crafted. Through collaborative efforts, they are able to tailor a variety of programs to effectively meet the diverse needs of the athletes, while still remaining a small program focusing on individual attention. During the late spring, summer, and autumn seasons, Alta Badia Ski Academy typically trains at Stelvio, Austria, and indoors. The routine consists of alternating between training on snow and dry land exercises.
The training camps are not commercially oriented; hence, they only accommodate a select few athletes, primarily those committed to our full-season program at the Alta Badia Ski Academy. A small group of athletes will train in the United States before heading to Latin America. Our camps are for FIS racers, though exceptionally skilled second-year U16 may be admitted, depending on availability.
Apex2100 Perform
(Les Deux Alpes, France and Sölden, Austria)
(Ages: U12 and U14)
The Apex Perform Camp in Les Deux Alpes, France, offers motivated ski racers a fun and inclusive environment to improve their skills. Athletes engage in free skiing and gate training for GS/SL disciplines, focusing on the fundamentals of ski racing. With experienced coaches, the camp aims to provide an opportunity for skill development, camaraderie, and an enjoyable experience for all levels of ski racers.
Both open camps are for U12 and U14 ski racers to work on their ski racing fundamentals while experiencing life with Team Apex. Athletes will engage in free skiing and gate training for GS/SL disciplines, focusing on the ‘basics’ of ski racing with our experienced coaches. Off the hill, afternoons will consist of team building, serious fun with Tag Lamche, and team sports.
Austria Racing Camps
(Kühtai Ski Resort, Hintertux Glacier, Alpenpark Indoor Neuss, El Colorado, Chile and Alpincenter Hamburg-Wittenburg)
(Ages: FIS)
The Austria Racing Camp’s model is specially geared to intensive, individual training. In order to guarantee this, the groups consist of only three to at most six athletes – training conditions like successful National Teams. This first-class ideology makes sure that there is a maximum of personal mentoring and that the given time is most efficiently used on snow training, video analysis, and physical training. Furthermore, this customized training program contains daily video analysis, personal training journals, short carving training, and more.
Burke Mountain Academy Camps
(Burke Mountain Academy, VT)
(Ages: U10-U14)
The Burke Mountain Academy offers an annual December Development Camp that provides three days of early-season training and racing for promising young ski racers. Open to U14, U12, and second-year U10 athletes. This camp focuses on building fundamental skills with our top Burke Mountain Academy coaches at our world-class training venue. Key Features: Focused small group instruction with BMA coaches in our world-class training venue! Full boarding is available to 2nd year U12 and U14 athletes. Experience dorm life, enjoy meals in the dining hall, and try out living like a Burkie! Day camper options are also available for all ages. All U10 and 1st year U12 athletes will be day campers.
Cardigan Mountain School Summer Ski Camps
(Mount Hood, Oregon)
(Ages: U12-U16 Boys and Girls)
Cardigan Mountain School Summer Ski Camp is an excellent camp and training experience! We will challenge the athletes to think about their skiing and work on their individual needs while understanding and honing their strengths. Early mornings of skiing with afternoons of dryland, mental workshops, and exploration of the surrounding area add up to a really unique experience in this classic summer ski racing location.
ELITEAM Conditioning Camps
(Killington, Vermont)
(Ages: 8-14)
For over 30 years, ELITEAM’s mission has been to educate and inspire junior athletes.
With two summer sessions at Killington Mountain School in Vermont, ELITEAM’s focus on fun and education is what makes it unique. ELITEAM teaches young athletes the fundamentals of Sports Physiology, Psychology, and nutrition. Through its hands-on approach, ELITEAM involves the athlete in the education process. Activities such as ropes courses and race situations are used to teach focus, mental imagery skills, goal setting, and stress management. Running, agility workouts, and ski-specific exercises are used to understand the body’s physiological functions. Finally, by making Power Muffins and other healthy snacks, and nutritionally evaluating a variety of foods, athletes discover how diet can affect their health and performance. Throw in a heavy dose of ELITEAM’s laugh-inducing crazy relays, funky dance, and team-building games, and you’ll find the magic mix of hard work, learning, and fun!
Ultimately, ELITEAM provides athletes with the tools needed to become more “complete athletes physically, mentally, and nutritionally in order to pursue their dreams on the slopes and consistently perform at their very best, while feeling more confident and inspired every day!
Erich Sailer Ski Racing Camps
(Mount Hood, Oregon)
(Ages: All Ages (U8-Master’s))
Erich Sailer Ski Racing Camps are renowned for their unmatched approach to cultivating champions in junior ski racing. With a proven formula grounded in mastering the basics and learning from top-tier athletes, Erich’s camps instill an unwavering commitment to excellence. By integrating elite pacesetters and emphasizing repetition, it is an environment where success becomes second nature.
The camp is led now by Erich’s proteges, six-time Olympian Sarah Schleper and daughter Martina, to ensure that Erich’s legacy endures. As a Hall of Fame Junior coach, Erich’s coaching and wisdom have inspired champions, and Sarah and Martina are committed to inspiring the next generation of racers. Beyond medals and titles, the true measure of the camp’s success lies in the enduring achievements of its athletes, who embody the values of passion and perseverance year after year.
GMVS Camps
(Mammoth, California and BigSnow Indoor Skiing)
(Ages: Up to U14)
GMVS Camps offers six days of on-snow training at Mammoth Mountain, California, focused on building solid ski racing fundamentals in a GS environment this summer. Designed for U12 and U14 athletes (Years of birth: 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011), this camp will provide aspiring racers personalized instruction tailored to their skill level and goals. With access to world-class terrain and top-notch training facilities, participants will elevate their racing in a supportive and dynamic environment. Athletes born in 2015 and 2016 are welcome to join the camp, though they must stay with an adult chaperone, typically a parent, who books accommodations through Juniper Lodge. Chaperones are expected to secure their own travel/transportation, travel with their child, prepare their child for activities each day, and put them to bed at night.
The other camp provided by GMVS is at the BigSnow indoor facility. It is open to U14s and under. These indoor summer camps are designed to provide slalom training opportunities in a constraint-based environment. Their goal for these high mileage indoor private training blocks is to establish and develop the fundamentals of skiing, including fore/aft balance, carving, and pole plants (among other skills), as well as slalom skill sets in a variety of gate training elements.
GOULD Academy Camps
(Les Deux Alpes, France)
(Ages: U14 and U16 athletes)
GOULD Academy spring, on-snow camp will heavily emphasize fundamental skill building and movement patterns – the foundations of high-level skiing and fast racing. The timing of this camp offers the best opportunity to introduce, develop, and perfect skills and movements without the pressure of race season. Additionally, this camp provides an opportunity to gain mileage on new equipment for athletes moving up in size or switching manufacturers.
During the eight days on snow, the camp will dedicate time to the following: freeskiing (both directed and undirected), drill courses, traditional SL and GS sets, and daily video analysis. Afternoons will feature dryland activities such as hiking, agility, field sports, swimming, and more.
Keely’s Camps For Girls
(Big Snow- Rutherford, NJ, Mount Hood, Oregon, Copper Mountain and Big Sky, MT)
(Ages: 8 – 18)
Keely Kelleher believes that every girl deserves to work with a female coach. However, Keely only had male coaches growing up, and she noticed she was one of the few female coaches on the hill when she began her coaching career. Keely, who has a top 20 World Cup result on her resume and years of coaching experience, identified that female coaches are hugely underrepresented in sports, including ski racing. Her idea for Keely’s Camp for Girls originated from this gender inequality. Her camp not only effectively creates space for female athletes on Mount Hood, but it also provides opportunities for female coaches in a traditionally male-dominated space.
Keely’s Camps are not exclusive to the Mount Hood Ski Racing Camp; there are a variety of other programs that run throughout the year: A Spring Big Snow Slalom Camp, Fall Big Snow Slalom Camp, Copper Slalom Camp, Copper Thanksgiving Camp, Big Sky Ski Racing Camp, as well as several backcountry skiing camp offerings. All camps feature female coaches, who often become mentors to their campers. There are five sessions at Keely’s Mount Hood Ski Racing Camp, running from June through July. All offer quality training, video analysis, dryland activities, team building, and inspirational talks from notable female coaches and athletes.
Killington Mountain School Camps
(Killington, VT, Mount Hood, OR and Saas Fee, Switzerland)
(Ages: U10-U14)
Killington Mountain School athletic programs run year-round, providing student-athletes with the building blocks they need to reach their goals. They work throughout the preparation period—the time between the end of one competition season and the beginning of the next—to be ready for that next season’s competitions. KMS provides a variety of five camps. Among them are the BOOST Camps, namely the November, Holiday, and Spring camps, which take place at Killington Resort in Vermont. Additionally, the program organizes on-snow BOOST Camps during the summer in Mount Hood, Oregon, and Saas Fee, Switzerland.
Ligety Weibrecht Ski Camp
(Mount Hood, Oregon)
(Ages: U10 through Masters (U8 w/parent))
Since the summer of 2006, Ligety Weibrecht Ski Camp has been inspiring ski racers to reach their potential by learning from the best. They set the standard with coaches like Ted Ligety, Andrew Weibrecht, and World-Class skiers. Names like Winters, McJames, Tommy, Chodounsky, Kasper, Nyman, Biesemeyer, Marno, Delaney, McCoy, Veenis, Anderson, and Mahre lead an ever-growing list of top athletes with ski racing skills who join coaches with experience from the club to the Olympic level.
Ligety Weibrecht Ski Camp focuses on the fact that great ski racing takes more than great skiing! The coaches bring unmatched enthusiasm as they teach athletes the moves on snow and share their experiences with mental prep, equipment, fitness, nutrition, teamwork, rest, and the other aspects critical to success. Join the camp to be encouraged, inspired, challenged, and learn in a fun, friendly environment. Come with a positive attitude and a desire to learn- leave with new friends, new skills, and memories to last a lifetime.
Mt. Hood Summer Ski Camps
(Mount Hood, Oregon)
(Ages: 7-adult)
Mt. Hood Summer Ski Camps are open to all ability levels, from entry-level first-time racers to FIS, college, and adult racers. The camp focuses on the fundamentals of current race techniques and teaching the fastest line through a slalom and GS course. Mt. Hood Summer Ski Camp’s success is based on 45+ years of experience running ski camps on the Palmer Glacier. They have an experienced coaching staff to set a variety of drills, tactical, and full-length courses. Daily video analysis, combined with proven race training progressions, allows our camp to maximize learning and skill improvement. Their motto is “Everybody gets better here.”
Mt. Hood Summer Ski Camp is the longest-running camp on Mt. Hood. Everything they have built from scratch has been to enhance the total summer camp experience with no compromises! They have the perfect balance between high-quality training up on Palmer and engaging afternoon activities both on and off our campus, nestled in the Mt Hood National Forest. It is a great place to build skills and confidence while having fun!
Mt. Mansfield Academy Camps
(Mount Hood, Oregon)
(Ages: U12/U14)
The Mt. Mansfield Academy Summer Training Camp at Mount Hood, Oregon focuses on skills development through the use of drills, technical free skiing, and both Slalom and GS gate training. This is the great time to review the past season, re-visit any deficiency in skill and work to improve without the stress of a busy race schedule. The camp will be led by Naga Kusumi, MMA Head U14 Coach, along with other MMA coaches. The low camper/coach ratio of this camp allows the focus to be on the campers’ athletic development and maximize supervision.
National Alpine Ski Camps
(Mount Hood, Oregon and Copper Mountain, Colorado)
(Ages: U10-U18)
National Alpine Ski Camps (NASC) coaches are teachers. They use modern gate progressions (easier to more difficult) to maximize proper movement patterns. The camp also uses drills and skill development progressions to build each of the primary movements (skills). They then integrate the newly developed skills back into the athlete’s technique. In the evenings, NASC has tactical lectures along with video analysis, and may rollerblade in the gates to practice what we have learned. From there, they take it to the hill and work on drills and tactics via free-skiing and then move into brushes and gates. On Mt. Hood, NASC builds a WAVE-TRACK to train gates in. No other camp offers this terrain-based learning option. In short, NASC is terrific! Rapid improvements are guaranteed.
OL Ski Racing School Camps
(Mount Hood, Colorado)
(Ages: 7 – 22)
OL SkiRacing School defines itself as “higher education for ski racers.” Furthermore, OL has a strong focus on the mind game of ski racing because they know it can make or break an athlete’s performance – it’s an intellectual exercise of the body. OL brings specialized coaches to the table who are hand-selected experts delivering a curriculum skiers will soak up. They look for coaches who are passionate and comfortable thinking outside of the box, which creates the perfect combination for campers to develop their skiing skills in an immersive experience.
OL works hard to nurture a supportive culture where every athlete, regardless of ability, feels as important as the fastest skier on the hill. Everyone matters. Fun and camaraderie are cornerstones of the OL experience – where we welcome and encourage each other. Fun dryland and activities, along with rest and relaxation, foster an environment that plants a seed for lifelong friendships. Some very fast skiers have attended OL camps, including numerous current and former US Ski Team members. OL hosts summer camps in Mount Hood, Oregon, and fall camps in Colorado. The summer sessions are in July, while the fall camp is in late November.
PV Alpine Intensive Training Camps
(Winter Park, CO and Mount Hood, Oregon)
(Ages: 8 – 21 (if you are outside of this range please inquire to alex@pvalpine.com)
PV Alpine Camps are structured to unlock your maximum improvement above all else. The coaching the athlete will receive at PV Alpine has won World Junior Championships, multiple US Nationals, NorAm races, and NCAA titles. The coaches target the athlete’s areas for improvement and use easy-to-understand language and drills to help every skier excel.
PV Alpine Camps do fill quickly, so be sure to register to hold your spots. Aspects that set PV Alpine apart from other camps include but are not limited to, olympic coaching, personal feedback, focused training, daily timing, and instant iPad video.
Sam Morse F.A.S.T Camp
(Mammoth, California and Mount Hood, Oregon)
(Ages: U12-U18)
World Cup Ski Racer Sam Morse saw the need for affordable ski training opportunities that taught more than just skiing. Faith And Ski Training Camp, otherwise known as FAST Camp, was born in 2019 out of the desire for holistic athlete development. With the purpose of strengthening the skiing skills and faith of young ski racers through attentive coaching and intentional community.
The Sam Morse FAST Camp is proud to offer two camps this coming June! The addition is the ‘FASTer’ Speed Camp taking place in Mammoth, California the week before our traditional FAST Camp in Mount Hood, Oregon. The camps are all-encompassing from focused, on-hill coaching to detailed video analysis and daily dryland, which are all important aspects designed to help foster improvement in the athletes. But it doesn’t stop there! The camp’s mission is to not only make the athletes faster but also to tune into that inner joy and peace that comes with knowing we are part of something bigger. Their aim is to integrate the whole aspect of our being; mind, body, and spirit. Race training by day and faith training by night!
Ski Portillo Youth Ski Racing Camp
(Ski Portillo, Chile)
(Ages: 12 to 16)
Visit Ski Portillo for ski race training designed for junior ski racers ages 12-16 seeking extra skills and time on snow during Summer vacation. The slopes of Portillo Chile have been home to the world’s greatest ski racing athletes since 1966. With help from our coaches, kids can drill on the same terrain that give Olympic athletes a leg up on the competition.
Camp includes:
7 nights of lodging at the Octagon Lodge (in shared bunk rooms).
6 full days of training. Daily gate training, video analysis and freeski coaching).
4 daily meals (breakfast, lunch, tea time, and dinner).
Daily lift ticket with unlimited access to all slopes and ski lifts.
Round trip group transportation on the Santiago – Portillo – Santiago pre-establisheddepartures and routes.
Access to all hotel activities and facilities.Ski Racing Camp Price: $3,700 USD
Ski Zenit Ski Racing Camps
(Saas Fee, Zermat, and Chile)
(Ages: From 8 years old to FIS Age)
Ski Zenit Ski Racing Camps is a Swiss ski camp enterprise devoted to ski race training for athletes of all ages, levels and nationalities. Ski racing camps run from July to April using training methods and expertise in technical, physical and mental conditioning for alpine ski racers that are the result of many years of experience. Based in Switzerland and Chile, they offer ski camps and private training all year long.
The glacier of Saas-Fee is the best ski camp location in Europe for Summer and Autumn training due to its altitude and snow conditions. The pedestrian village allows a very healthy lifestyle and provides everything needed for optimal conditioning and activities on off snow. Glacier ski training camps with Ski Zenit mean long days full of activities both on and off the snow. Ski Zenit’s ski racing camps in Chile will allow you to benefit from Winter training conditions during the Summer. Long ski days, great snow, long and varied training runs and a great overall experience.
Stiegler Ski Racing Camps
(Copper Mountain, Colorado and Saas-Fee, Switzerland)
(Ages: U16 and older)
Join Stiegler Ski Racing Camps this summer in Copper Mountain, Colorado, and Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Their World Cup athlete coaching staff looks forward to providing you with a personalized quality experience. Athletes will have access to grippy snow, small group sizes, and quick turnarounds on fast lifts. Training projects are open to U16 and older athletes with coaching from Resi and Seppi Stiegler. Copper Camp! takes place June 6th – 14th, offering 7 days on-snow and Saas-Fee with Seppi runs July 26th – August 11th, offering 12 days on-snow. Registration is now open, and spots for camp will be held in order of deposits received. Stiegler Ski Racing Camps look forward to working with you.
Waterville Valley Academy Hintertux Summer Camp
(Hintertux, Austria)
(Ages: 12 and Up)
Athletes are coached by Tom Barbeau and other top coaches from Waterville Valley Academy using the latest techniques to strengthen fundamentals and address individual areas of improvement. Summer skiing is the perfect time to dial in athletic skills in order to build a strong foundation for ski racing success in the coming season and future.
The camp is conducted on the Zillertal glacier, located in the Tyrol Alps, 1.5 hours southeast of Innsbruck. Hintertux is the summer training site for top World Cup skiers from Austria, Slovenia, Germany, Canada, and the United States. Lodging is located at the Hotel Hintertuxerhof. Off-hill activities include Mountain runs, hiking, tennis, soccer, football, swimming, mountain biking, and sightseeing visits to Innsbruck and the legendary Kitzbuhel. Airfare is not included in camp pricing.
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