College slopestyle team?

Kyrilmo

Kyrilmo

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starting to look at colleges as I'm a junior in hs, does anyone know if there are any schools with slopestyle teams? a club team would be fine but I've looked and only been able to find ski clubs.
 
They didn’t let me join the freestyle team when I went to college. I started hanging out with pot smokers and drop outs instead. I’d recommend it to anyone.
 
Ucsd, ucla, usc and a bunch of the other California colleges have teams that do slope, pipe, ski/boarder cross, gs and slalom

its a good time
 
Do you know if those teams are actually consistent and competitive? I wanted to do skiercross for UCSD, but I ended up only being there in the depths of covid. I got the feeling the teams were usually kinda desperate for participants

Also, the 6 hour commute to Mammoth every weekend probably makes getting a real degree pretty hard.

14552525:lastskier said:
Ucsd, ucla, usc and a bunch of the other California colleges have teams that do slope, pipe, ski/boarder cross, gs and slalom

its a good time
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14552624:SlushSeason said:
Do you know if those teams are actually consistent and competitive? I wanted to do skiercross for UCSD, but I ended up only being there in the depths of covid. I got the feeling the teams were usually kinda desperate for participants

Also, the 6 hour commute to Mammoth every weekend probably makes getting a real degree pretty hard.
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when I was at UCSD 14 years ago (jeeze), it was fantastic. We had a team house, people would be driving up and down from mammoth to san diego all the time, there was always availability to get out if you had motivation. Competition was variable- most people in the SCCSC were just on the teams so they could get out and ride. There was a core group of competitive park and pipe riders from a number of the schools and an even smaller group of competitive racers. At the time they didn't allow straight inverts (frontflips, backflips, lincoln loops) in any of the freestyle events, but that may have changed. Corks and other off axis tricks were generally accepted as ok.

I would imagine it varies from year to year what the makeup and vibes of the various teams would be. UCSC and USC were the hard partiers, other team houses were good for kickbacks. I think the experience is generally really good for people in the conference.
 
topic:Kyrilmo said:
starting to look at colleges as I'm a junior in hs, does anyone know if there are any schools with slopestyle teams? a club team would be fine but I've looked and only been able to find ski clubs.
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Lees-McRae has one. Really good access to beech Mtn and app ski. Both have good parks for the area. You won’t get a lick of powder though?
 
most ski schools have something interesting called “crews” where groups of skiers ski with eachother instead of pointlessly compete
 
14552811:Jems said:
most ski schools have something interesting called “crews” where groups of skiers ski with eachother instead of pointlessly compete
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I know competitions are kinda pointless but I think it would be fun to try once or twice
 
It’s fun to try to put together a solid run and see what the other folks bring to the table. Just can’t take it too seriously

14552818:Kyrilmo said:
I know competitions are kinda pointless but I think it would be fun to try once or twice
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14552277:SchizoSkier said:
CU has one. Fort lewis college has a freeride team
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CU Freeskiing just cut the park team so it's now just a big mountain comp team. There is no longer any kind of park team/club for park but I'm trying to start a new club with some friends this winter.
 
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