The UVM Ski & Snowboard Club (UVMSSC) is a non-competitive, non-profit, student run organization dedicated to bringing together UVM's winter sports community and making skiing and snowboarding more accessible to UVM students. We work to encourage the already popular winter sports culture at UVM by providing discount season passes, free shuttles to the mountains, on/off-campus skiing and snowboarding film premieres and other events, group trips around the world, cheap trips around the Northeast, discounts to local businesses, proforms direct from manufacturers, and include some pretty sweet t-shirts with membership.
UVMSSC is the largest collegiate ski and snowboard club in the U.S. Our mission is to provide the UVM skiers and snowboarders with the opportunity to foster and develop relationships with the greater ski and snowboard community of Northern VT. This includes individual club members, ski resorts, sport shops, and national sponsors. It is our purpose to provide a framework by which all of these establishments can meld and become incorporated into an epic community of winter sport enthusiasts.
Sophia Roukounakis
El Presidente
This president is giving the Oval Office a run for its money by regularly shaking what her momma gave her at Morgan Wallen concerts. Move over, political formalities. This past May, half of the SSC crew was detained for attempting to carve Sophia on the face of Mount Rushmore. We received a heavy fine for erecting a landmark of a snowboarder from Massachusetts on protected public lands (Pub. L 69-420). Sophia is this year’s head honcho and next year’s Miss USA, as long as they don’t see the footage from last year’s Tremblant trip. The only thing scarier than seeing Sophia hunt for turns is watching her devour a plate of unlimited All You Can Eat Boneless Wings, Riblets & Shrimp from AppleBee’s. What a nightmare.
Morgan Wallace
Director of Pass sales
Theres only one language that Morgan talks and thats money. If you aren’t talking about them Benjamin’s then Morgan don’t wanna talk, understand? Wallace was raised by a wild pack of well-groomed wolves, each of which obtained their PhD in Resort & Pass Sale Coordination. She’s a mediator, a negotiator, and wears an extraordinary amount of sunscreen. We look forward to Morgan wheelin’ and dealin’ with the local ski resorts as we pursue new contracts for pass sales! Morgan is also a serious sender and an even more serious sommelier. Catch her on the slopes one hand on the phone day trading like a fiend, poles in the other hand shredding a line you’ve only skied in your dreams.
Ava Perryman
Trips and Transportation
No silly, thats not Blake Lively, thats Ava Jolie, she’s only the best trips and transportation manager on the East Coast! You’ve heard of Amelia Earhart, you’ve heard of Carmen SanDiego, but you haven’t heard of Ava Jolie. Well good, thats the whole point because she travels in secret using clever disguises and aliases. We send Ava all over the world so she can better experience trips and transportation literally. Whether it be a camel, yak, speed boat, motorcycle or helicopter we have made sure the Ava has been on it all so we can ensure that you can get to mountain by any means necessary. Oh I forgot to mention she’s from Lake Tahoe, the one with the big blue lake.
Colton Glasgow
Graphic Design
At the ripe age of 32 months, Colton learned that he was unable to wear camouflage, as it began to blend into him. This hardship, as well as his mild nut allergy, has provided significant inspiration for his art, allowing him to breathe passion into his work. Each creation is articulately crafted and polished, following a similar strategy to that of Monet. Colton is notorious for his ability to rapidly peel clementines and straight lining down Wachusett mountain. He loves drawing, going in the ocean with socks on, and driving five below the speed limit. Stay tuned for some sick posters and designs headed your way!
Sarah Shipman
Events Coordinator
Skier and snowboarder, Sarah Shipman is the Renaissance woman of snow sports. Born with a full set of teeth, an inability to swim, and a passion for event coordination, Sarah is anticipated to blossom in her position, similar to that of a fruitful, delicate flower amongst a rainy spring. Sarah is the queen of herding cats, putting milk in her ramen, and making inappropriate mom jokes that occasionally land.
Ian Robertson
Assistant Director of Pass Sales
Ian is a true maple leaf lickin’, (1)snow blowin’ Vermonter. Any time you make Ian happy, he does cartwheel circles for a couple minutes, so be wary when cracking a fart joke in a china shop (learned the hard way). His ancestral relation to Emily Dickinson made him fall in love with poetry and a good juicy 4 for 4. Ian consistently skis a minimum of 100 days each season and only occasionally gets booed for cutting children in the bunny slope lift line. As the newly elected Assistant Director of Pass Sales, Ian will be hustlin’ with Morgan Wallace this year to bring you the best deals our ski mountains have to offer.
(1) His lover and longtime companion, Snow Smith.
Siena Webb
Director of Communications
Tone, tan, fit, Siena's mother is a lovely lady. Unfortunately, the apple fell so far from the tree that Siena is now the new director of communications. After she stopped growing taller in the sixth grade, Siena began compensating for her lack of height by referring to herself as the “bees knees” and mastering the art of rock, paper, scissors. She is a devout lover of pie, fart noise compilations, Plymouth Rock, and applying lipgloss before she gets on a chairlift. Siena often laughs at her own content for an extended period of time. Chronic hiccupper and cropduster, beware.
Alex Shuman
Clubhaus Manager
If you see Alex and a bear fighting in the woods, help the bear. Alex is a firefighter by day and a barefoot bighorn sheep lovin’ gentleman by night. He is always strapped with a set of collapsible nunchucks and a hardback copy of Winery Dogs of Sonoma. Never test him, this guy will do anything for a klondike bar (except take off his I heart New York shirt while flirting with women at the bar). Whether it’s bangin’ together a dubstep play list or dusting off the ‘ol archives, Alex will get the job done in the Clubhaus this season.
Maddie Marston
Director of Social MEdia
Picture this: you're at the club and you lay eyes on the most well-rounded, jaw-droppingly classy director of social media you've ever seen. It's Maddie Marston. You make eye contact. She rips a belch so loud you feel the ground shake. You look into her eyes. All you see is perseverance, this season’s trendiest Skida patterns, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. After rejecting an opportunity to become Liam Neeson’s stunt double, she was soon hired to manage SSC’s social media. Maddie is so good at her job that every time she posts on Instagram, an orphaned puppy finds its home. Lord, she’s talented.
Sam Polstein
Ski Sponsorship Manager
6’6 in heels, Sam Polstein was ranked the ninth best-looking ski sponsorship coordinator this side of the Mississippi. Every night before Sam goes to bed, he perms his hair and practices finger guns in the mirror. His genetics are so deeply rooted in the northeast that his left thigh has freckles which uncannily resemble the coastline of Maine. Sam has an affinity for frolicking barefoot in swampy fields, skiing without poles, and flossing daily. Smooth like jazz, fast like…something fast, we are incredibly fortunate to have this silly little muffin in charge of our ski sponsors.
Evan Strobl
Snowboard Sponsorship Manager
A man of suave and silky locks that resemble the black sand beaches of Panalu’u. A man who feeds his natural urge for decadence and swagger through his passion for snowboard sponsorships and spicy tuna. If we dive into his deepest dreams, we see clips of a lavender scented emperor penguin serving Evan a platter of raspberries and an ice cold corona. “Your demeanor and skill is comparable to Scott Stevens,” the Penguin says. Little does the Penguin know that Evan is the 4 time finger boarding world champion. Beat that, Scott Stevens.
Alan Misura
Director of Outreach
Alan catches a glimpse of his reflection, it is merely the silhouette of a flamboyant peacock searching for a mate. You’ve never truly seen perfection until you’ve seen him in skinny acid wash denim as he preaches his title as a self proclaimed “certified paint beast.” His main obligations in the club include maintaining our outreach program and charitably donating consensual kisses & good times to the local elderly home. In his free time he recreates Old Spice commercials. Fear him, loathe him, idolize him.
Ty Bears
Assistant Trips and Transportation
A bird? A plane? A curly headed fella trying to cage dance? No, that’s Ty “Busty Milk Maid” Bears, the assistant Trips and Transportation officer! He can lift a school bus with his right hand and a pitcher of lukewarm IPA in the other while effortlessly harmonizing to Lady Gaga’s greatest hits. Every evening he watches differential calculus compilations on youtube while applying his eyelash serum and trimming his toe nails. Aside from his hard to look past quirks and nose picking habit, Ty is the ideal candidate for assisting Miss Ava Perryman in her Trips and transpo endeavors. Get ready for the best this year!
Ben Linteris
Cinematography
His undies are gingham, his socks are plaid, and his eye for perfection is gold. He’s a master behind the lens and a class act on the streets. Ben won’t dare touch bedding unless it is sateen and above a 500 thread count, as he fears the poor quality will harm his money maker (right hand pointer finger). He’s slashed more neck deep pow days than Tarantino and is, therefore, the most eligible candidate for our cinematography position.