Day 4 Morning Session - Speed

We awoke here in Stowe as the rain from the night before cleared and the sun began to burn off the clouds. This helped dry up the parking lot at the resort, and we were on to the bus to head up for a great session on skates led by Danny Noyes.


Danny has done a great job this week as the camp director, but today he was able to jump in and run a session as our featured coach. He currently works as the Head Men and Woman's Head coach at Colby College in Maine. During his tenure with the Mules, both his athletes and he have shared in a lot of success. With multiple NCAA competitors (Jim Ryan - Team USA) and a 2010 EISA Coach of the Year Award for Danny, the Mules trophy case continues to grow.

Today's focus was applying the basic skills we have worked on to standing on our skates. We started the session stepping back to basic athletic stance to make sure the camp had a great understanding of that position. We then translated that position on skates, as we moved through a few drills to help get comfortable. The counselors did a great job helping the kids, and also with some great demos. That balance athletic stance was then used to work on making some turns and we introduced some terms that will be consistent with what the athletes will hear on snow this winter.


We ended our session with the annual SL Challenge which was won this year by Cole! Thanks Danny for a great session, it is a pleasure to work with you each year! We are headed to the bike park and Lackeys this afternoon!

Matt Maloney
Assistant Camp Director