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Paul Hothersall
Program Director

Paul has over 15 years of ski coaching and administration experience. Paul has coached with the Whistler Mountain Ski Club from 2006-2009 as Lead Coach of the Guest Racer program, Adaptive Race Coach for the Whistler Adaptive Sports Program and Disabled Skiers Association of BC, as well as a K1 coach. He was the Head K1/K2 coach for the Thredbo Ski Racing Club (2008) in Australia and more recently implemented their new E1/E2 program (2009). In the United Kingdom, Paul was Chairman of Alpine Racing for Snowsport England (2002-04), responsible for the running of the England National Ski Team program. Additionally, he was a ski team coach for the Royal Air Force (2004-06) where he developed a high performance ski program for adults. In the UK, he skied for the Loughbrough University Ski Team (1997-2002) where he was the captain and Pendle Ski Club (1995-1997).

Paul is a CSCF Performance Level (PL/Level 3) trained coach, a CSIA Level 2 instructor, a Snowsports England Level 2 Race Official and Snowsports England National Course Setter. He also has coaching and instructor experience with disabled skiers and park and pipe. He holds a Masters of Engineering (MEng Hons) in Systems Engineering.

778-227-5547
program.director@cypressskiclub.com
Rick Brown
K2 Head Coach

Rick is a Level 3 CSCA coach and Level 4 CSIA instructor, who has 36 years of coaching and ski instruction experience, including coaching the Whistler Mountain Ski Club Skier Cross Team this past season, Dave Murray Masters Camps, Apex K2 camps, and camps in Hinterex, Austria for Quebec ski teams. He also had the opportunity to coach with the legendary Swede, Ingemar Stenmark. Rick moved to Whistler in 1981 from Quebec where Mt. Tremblant was his home mountain. In discussing his skiing philosophy Rick states" Skiing begins with stance and balance, progressing with timing/coordination and then with the planes of movement. Once you have these mastered, skiing is easy! Passion for the sport is a necessary ingredient. Desire to succeed is important. Ski racing is hard work, but the results can be more than worthwhile. Look at the success of some of Canada's finest racers: Steve Podborski, Ken Read, Dave Murray, Dave Irwin, Todd Brooker, Eric Guay Karen Percy/Lowe and Felix Belczyk. We have the necessary conditions here in B.C. to build more champions like them. Let have a great winter!"

Luke Hadley
K1 Head Coach

Luke is a Level 3 CSCA coach and a Level 2 CSIA instructor. He began his coaching career as a K2/J1/J2 coach at Craigleith Ski Club in Ontario. Most recently, during the 2010-11 season he was a K2 assistant coach working with Rob Boyd at the Whistler Mountain Ski Club. For three years prior he coached for the British Ski Academy throughout Europe, based in Les Houches in the Chamonix valley in France. Les Houches is the home of the Chamonix World Cup Downhill. For over ten years he worked in various coaching positions, including head coach at Alpine Ski Racing Development, a family run summer ski camp on Blackcomb Mountain.

Luke grew up in Collingwood Ontario while frequently traveling to mountains in Europe and Western Canada to ski. He began skiing at age 2 and learned to race with his Dad at age 5 and entered the Nancy Greene League at age 7 at Craigleith Ski Club. He raced for two and half years at the FIS – J1/J2 Level at the National Ski Academy, Collingwood Ontario. He raced Pontiac Cup throughout the east of Canada and Eastern Cup in the U.S. with regular training experience in Europe and Western Canada.

Luke has a strong interest in fitness, training, nutrition and all areas of sport including all forms of cycling, climbing and mountaineering. He is also a musician and recording artist as well as an aspiring mountain guide. But skiing is his first love. He really loves skiing and ski racing and is passionate about creating a positive and effective learning environment the will help to create competitive and life-long skiers.