Athletics

Snowboard Program

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  • Carve your path

    The Gould Academy Competition Program’s Snowboard Team helps riders reach their goals – whether competing for the first time at a local USASA event or standing on the podium at Junior World Championships and beyond.

  • U.S. Ski & Snowboard name Gould “Snowboard Club of the Year”

    From U.S. Ski & Snowboard:

    Gould Academy has produced key athletes for years and saw abundant success in the 2022-23 season. U.S. Snowboard Team snowboardcross rider and Gould graduate Tyler Hamel ’22 won the overall NorAm Cup Tour for the second time, and Nathan Pare came in third in the overall snowboardcross NorAm Cup standings. Gould also had six riders qualify for Junior World Championships and scored 16 podium finishes at NorAms, among many other highlights.

  • Three Gould Athletes Named to the U.S. Snowboard Team

    Gould is thrilled to announce that Snowboardcross (SBX) racers Bri Schnorrbusch ’24, Tyler Hamel ’22, and Nathan Pare ’23 have been named to the U.S. Snowboard Team! Bri and Tyler were named to the SBX Pro Team, while Nate secured a spot on the SBX Development Team.

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  • Tyler Hamel ’22

    “We have something special here at Gould. The snowboard program has taken me from local USASA contests all the way to the World Cup. All while providing a high-quality education in the classroom. Our level of academics and snowboarding can’t be found anywhere else in the world.”

    TYLER HAMEL ’22
    US Snowboard Pro Team (SBX) | 2021 FIS National Champion (SBX)
    2022 FIS National Champion (SBX) | 2022 Men's North American Cup Champion 

Snowboard Results (2015-22)

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  • 15

    AVERAGE USASA NATIONALS
    TEAM SIZE

  • 24

    USASA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
    (SBX, PGS, PSL, BSL, SS)

  • 50

    USASA NATIONALS
    PODIUMS

  • 124

    USASA NATIONALS TOP 10

  • 50

    US SKI & SNOWBOARD PROJECT GOLD
    INVITATIONS (SBX, SS, PGS)

  • 18

    FIS JR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
    INVITES (SBX, SS)

  • 24

    FIS CONTINENTAL CUP
    PODIUMS (SBX)

  • 2

    YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES
    INVITES (SBX)

  • 3

    WORLD CUP STARTS (SBX)

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    SNOWBOARD MAGAZINE
    LAUNCH INVITES (SS) 

  • 4

    US SNOWBOARD TEAM
    APPOINTMENTS (SBX)

Level Up

Riders benefit from the perfect blend of hard work, dedicated coaches, a high-quality training facility at Sunday River, and balanced programming that only a school like Gould can offer.

Year-round training tailored to the individual student-athlete and including their offseason sport of choice, such as competitive skateboarding, soccer, lacrosse, or mountain biking, is supplemented with plyometrics training and work in the Farnsworth Field House weight room and trampoline room.

  • Anna Yoshie Yamada - Program Director

    Anna Yoshie Yamada is the first female snowboard program director at Gould Academy. She started her coaching career here at Gould in 2020 as the prep snowboarding coach. Traveling with the competition snowboard team that following summer, Yamada started coaching under the guidance of KC Gandee and took on a new role as the Development coach for the 2021/2022 season. Coaching on the North American Cup Series Tour, Yamada took her previous racing knowledge and applied it to her own athletes.  A familiar face to those who have been at USASA nationals competing and working, Yamada is a six-time national champion in Boardercross, Giant Slalom, and Slalom. She was the starter at PSL from 2016 to 2019. Yamada competed as part of Team USA at the University World Games in 2015 on the Snowboardcross Team. Yamada then stepped into the role of the Traveling FIS Snowboardcross Coach in the 2022/2023 season that had her coaching primarily on the North American Cup Tour throughout the US and Canada, plus Europa Cups in Austria and France, and regional and national events hosted by USASA. Yamada capped her 3rd season of coaching with an invite from the US Snowboard Team to coach Team USA at the 2023 Junior World Championships in Passo San Pellegrino, Italy.

  • Dustin Holzweiss - FIS Slopestyle Snowboard Coach

    Coach Holzweiss graduated from Gould Academy in 2002 and served the Gould community as a Weekend Coach for eight years before beginning to coach full-time in 2014. Dustin has proven himself an incredibly versatile coach by leading the development team, FIS SBX squad and now as the FIS Slopestyle coach since 2018, a role that he truly loves. Coach Holzweiss is USASA and US Ski and Snowboard Team Level 300 certified and works as a chef for the US Ski and Snowboard Moguls Team in the off season as well as doing couples yoga with his wife Sarah.
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