The Last Best Ski - Nick Michaud / US Paralympic Team Coach / Crosscut Mountain Sports Center

After missing the Olympics, by one spot, Nick Michaud turned his focus to coaching a diverse population of Nordic skiers including the US Paralympic Team partnered with Crosscut.

Yeah, I think skiing is for everyone—it just requires some collaborative, creative pooling of organizations & resources. People from all backgrounds are coming here. We have a couple of the best sit skiers in the world as part of our program and we have athletes that have just learned to ski this year. There are all these unique stories in a sport that is less widely unique. That is a huge motivation for me and the other staff. It makes our sport more special. We are bringing in more people; it makes it more accessible. Our goal as the paralympic team is for the sport to keep growing from the bottom up. They are thriving in that community.

Asking questions, questions, questions, good coaching is good coaching. In an ego-free way, let’s learn together. Meeting people where they are at to help them become the best version of themselves.

At some level we are all adaptive.

- Nick Michaud
US Paralympic Ski Team Crosscut Mountain Sports Center

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Athlete racing at Crosscut Mountain Center