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a season oF reneWalSome things never get old. Renewing professional bonds. Making new ones. Spending time with family and friends. And, of course, the best springtime skiing in the world.

That’s why year after year when the cable industry takes a respite from its hectic schedule to travel to the Rockies for what many continue to call SkiTAM, there remains a sort of magic in the air.

It doesn’t matter that after 17 years we are now calling ourselves Adaptive Spirit, with a mission to provide unique cable educational experiences by connecting the leaders in our industry around a world-class event that supports the athletes of the U.S. National Paralympic Ski Teams. What really matters is that when cable people get together to meet, greet and raise critical dollars for these remarkable athletes, it somehow feels as special as it did the very fi rst time.

For those of you who don’t know of Adaptive Spirit, our work, or our annual marriage of business, pleasure, family and friends, all we can say is you should. And you should join us. Come to Vail next year to fi nd out for yourself how every April, high up in the mountains, the air gets fi lled

with something more than just a brisk chill and some random snow fl urries. Learn how, thanks to the cable industry’s bountiful sense of giving, the air fi lls with magic.

steve raymond, Co-ChairDisney and ESPN Networks

Joe rooney, Co-ChairCox Communications

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19SkiTAM ’12 .........................................................................................4

Kelly Underkofl er: Don’t Let the Packaging Fool You ...............................7

Heath Calhoun: A Question of Balance ..................................................8

Stephanie Jallen: New Kid in Town ......................................................12

Raymond, Rooney: Honored by Rocky Mountain WICT .......................... 17

Three Team Members Target London and the 2012 Games ..................19

Opinion: M.C. Antil on the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team ............................22

Race Results ....................................................................................24

skitam Headquarters2329 W. Main St., Ste. 207, Littleton, CO 80120303.797.9507 | www.adaptivespirit.comConnect:

Joe Rooney, SkiTAM Co-ChairCox Communications, SVP, Brand & MediaSteve Raymond, SkiTAM Co-ChairDisney and ESPN Networks, SVP, National Accounts, Affi liate Sales & MarketingNancy Heffernan, Sponsorship Co-ChairCox Communications, Director, Video MarketingTodd Stewart, Sponsorship Co-ChairBright House Networks, Corporate VP, AdvertisingSteve Apodaca, Sponsor Co-ChairCharter Communications, President, OperationsSusan Burgstiner, Social ChairMarketing On Demand, PresidentAnne Marie Hukriede, Marketing Chair, Race Co-ChairS&D Marketing | Advertising, Vice President, Client ServicesBrad Parobek, Race Co-ChairAmdocs, Executive Director, SalesColette Carey, Publicity ChairHDNet, Director, Media and Public RelationsPatty Bullington, Silent Auction Co-ChairCharter Communications, Corporate Senior Director, Marketing

Nomi Bergman, Silent Auction Co-ChairBright House Networks, PresidentBill Futera, APP Co-ChairBright House Networks, EVP/CFOSteve Havey, APP Co-ChairContec Holdings Ltd., SVP, MarketingAlex D’Addio, Video ChairD’Addio CommunicationsDebbie Barackman-Flippo, Communications ChairAvail-TVNLori Wood, Volunteer ChairDigitas, Senior Associate, MarketingAmy Bauer, Legal LiaisonUniversity of Colorado Law School, Legal Writing ProfessorCheryl Feingold, Gift Bag ChairEricsson, Director of Staffi ngKevin Jardine, Alpine Team LiaisonParalympic Ski Team, High-Performance Director, Paralympic Alpine SkiingJohn Farra, Nordic Team LiaisonParalympic Ski Team, High-Performance Director, Paralympic Nordic Skiing

2012 steering Committee

editorM.C. Antil

project managerAnne Marie Hukriede, S&DBruce Holmes, S&DJill Lovett, S&D

editorial designDenis Frolov, S&DMark Hunt, S&D

photographyDan Davis and Sean Boggs, Trekkerphoto.com

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For lovers of tradition, SkiTAM 2012 once

again offered hundreds of cable executives

and their families the chance to see old

friends, to engage in a little professional

networking, and, as always, strap in for

some of the greatest springtime skiing

in the world. But for those who like a

little wrinkle on the old tried-and-true,

the cable industry’s annual one-of-a-kind

networking event and fund-raiser for the

U.S. Paralympic Ski Team, held March

29 through April 1 in Vail, offered some

wonderfully refreshing new and exciting

things to do and see.

This year’s SkiTAM introduced its fi rst-

ever Casino Night, a combination cable

party/Vegas-style casino sponsored by

Halogen TV, which provided those in

attendance the opportunity to let their

hair down a little, dance to some lively,

foot-stomping music, and play a number

of real-life games of chance (as well as

cash in their winnings for a handful of

terrifi c real-life prizes). Industry veteran

John Smith of Avail-TVN, who with his wife,

Sloan Kennedy of HBO, has attended

SkiTAM “at least a dozen times,” said

simply, “I was really surprised by the

casino party. It was fun. It had a lot of

great energy, and frankly, it was nice to

attend a social event in the cable industry

that felt a little different.”

Also new this year was what turned

out to be a welcome change to SkiTAM’s

annual Saturday-night silent auction.

This year the event planners opted to

move the silent portion of the auction

out of the dining hall area and into a

sprawling regulation-size gymnasium

just a short walk away. The slight tweak

not only made the dining and awards-

presentation experience far more relaxed

and comfortable, it allowed for an even

greater number of auction items and an

even greater demand for (and in a few

cases an even higher level of bidding

on) many of the highest-profi le and most

coveted items.

This year as well, the SkiTAM

committee broke tradition and built its

increasingly popular and

always-informative Thursday-

afternoon executive panel

discussion not so much

around industry leaders but

around a presenter from

one of the most marketing-

driven organizations in one of

the most hyper-competitive

industries on the planet.

Insights from the IBM Global

CMO Study, sponsored by

the Rocky Mountain Cable Association,

featured IBM Global Lead Rich Maraschi

leading a fascinating discussion on Big

Blue’s much-talked-bout worldwide survey

of chief marketing offi cers. The breakout

session also included some insightful

and on-point cable-specifi c insights from

some highly respected industry leaders:

Mark Greatrex of Cox Communications,

Brian Hunt of NBCUniversal, Allan Samson

of Charter Communications and Marissa

Freeman of Time Warner Cable.

At the end of the day, though, what

mattered most to those in attendance was

the same thing that has always mattered

most to anyone who has ever attended

a SkiTAM over its 17 years of existence:

the inspiring and fi ercely dedicated young

athletes who not only come to the event but

who through it realize enough in the form

of fi nancial contributions to continue their

dogged, single-minded and sometimes

lonely pursuit of World Cup and Paralympic

podiums for yet another season.

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4  adaptive spirit • 2012

This year, Adaptive Spirit used a

combination of corporate sponsorships,

admission and entry fees, a silent auction,

two not-so-silent ones, a 50/50 raffl e,

and a number of personal contributions to

raise approximately $1 million for the U.S.

Paralympic Ski Teams.

All of which means that in 17 years,

the organization—and more specifi cally,

the cable industry—has raised some $8

million on behalf of the U.S. Paralympic

Ski Team.

This year, like last, on the evening

of the awards banquet, silent auction

chairman, committee member and—we

kid you not—professionally trained and

fully accredited auctioneer Brad Parobek

led a spirited real-time auction in which

two all-expense trips were sold to the

highest bidder: a trip for two to the

Summer Paralympics in London and a

getaway trip for two to Paris.

It seemed to matter little to anyone

that unseasonably warm temperatures

this spring impacted the quality of the

snow. The attendees still skied under

brilliant skies, they still raced, and they

still, if only by degree, each helped to

make some rather lofty and otherwise

unassailable dreams suddenly seem

within reach.

And, as always, among the broad

menu of events were such traditional

family favorites as the John Davis

Memorial Race (youth race), the SkiTAM

Kids’ Film Fest, Chuck and Trygve’s

Excellent Adventure (tube race), and the

Disney Kids’ Party.

Event Co-chair Steve Raymond, of

Disney and ESPN Networks, said of the

event, “On one hand, it’s not like the

committee re-invents the wheel every

year. But on the other, somehow they

continue to add little touches year after

year that manage to improve the overall

SkiTAM experience. As a result there

remains something about this event that

still feels entirely fresh and remarkably

new.”

Raymond’s co-chair Joe Rooney of

Cox added, “I’m not sure what I’m most

proud of this year: the networking and

social events the SkiTAM committee

pulled together, as they always seem to

do—and in particular, the casino party—

or the Thursday executive session, which

so many have told me they felt was an

absolute home run. I think I’ll just toss a

coin and call it a tie.”

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It takes a different kind of person to

embrace an endurance sport such as

Nordic skiing or long-distance running.

The hours are long, the training tedious,

the pursuit solitary, and the competition

often painful. People who gravitate toward

such sports—especially those who aspire

and push themselves to become the best

in the world—are not like most people.

This is a part of what makes Kelly

Underkofl er so unique. Because, as much

as Underkofl er is driven to become the

fi nest woman biathlete and Nordic skier

in the world, and trains like the devil

to become so, there is a part of Kelly

that is about as normal, grounded and

unassuming as a person can be.

Born without the lower portion of

her left arm, Underkofl er was raised

in her native Minnesota to be just like

all the other kids. Her father, a former

competitive skier himself, taught Kelly

to cross-country ski at a local St. Paul

golf course, and by high school she had

become one of her school’s best skiers.

“Growing up, I never heard the word

‘disabled,’” she once said. “It was never

part of my vocabulary.” But it wasn’t

always easy for young Kelly, who at times

just wanted to fi t in. Her mother tells about

the time when her fi ve-year-old daughter,

before going off to school for the very fi rst

time, asked her mother for a hand so that

while she was in kindergarten she could

be like the other girls.

As an adolescent, Kelly went to

be fi tted for a prosthetic arm. Though

the arm ended up being too bulky and

cumbersome for racing, the visit to the

clinic turned out to be one of the most

important experiences of her life. Because

it was there that Kelly heard for the fi rst

time about U.S. Paralympics and heard of

Jon Kreamelmeyer, the coach of the U.S.

Nordic team. It would be Kreamelmeyer

who would introduce Kelly to (and excite

her about) Paralympic skiing and teach

her fi rsthand the thrill of representing

her country against some of the fi nest

athletes in the world.

It was not long before Kelly found

herself competing in the 2006 Paralympics

in Torino, Italy. The event turned out to be

one of the highlights of her career to date

as Kelly placed fourth

in the 7.5k biathlon,

just points behind the

bronze medalist, who to

this day she feels she

could have passed if

her shooting had been

up to her normal high

standards that day. She

needed more stamina,

which comes from years

of training.

This is why Kelly

fi nds herself working these days on her

strength, doing hours upon hours of

weight training and upper-body work. As a

28-year-old veteran of three Paralympics,

she knows that her peak years are most

likely still ahead of her. She is building up

her physical strength to be able to reach

the next level as a competitor. Underkofl er

says she has no idea how long she’ll ski

competitively but doesn’t see the end

coming anytime soon.

As for SkiTAM, Kelly can’t say enough.

She’s been aware for years just how

critical SkiTAM is in the pursuit of her

dreams, as well as the dreams of so many

others on the team, and she remains

forever thankful for the opportunities the

cable industry has provided her over the

years. “Every year, once again I have to

tell myself I’m going to make this work,”

she says, referring to the challenge of

balancing her training with her need to

make enough money to put a roof over her

head and food on her table.

“The simple fact is if you’re not

a Lindsay Vonn, or a Bode Miller or a

Michael Phelps, you have to work for a

living—and training and working at the

same time is not easy,” says Underkofl er,

who spends as many as 12 hours a day

in the gym, where she not only pushes

herself but works as a personal trainer

for others. “That’s why SkiTAM is so

incredibly important to us. It helps make

it possible for us to do all those things we

need to do to try to compete and hopefully

be the best we can be.”

KELLYUNDERKOFLEReXtrAordinArY in tHe moSt ordinArY WAY

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WarriorWounded

Former soldier and double amputee Heath Calhoun is still wearing his country’s colors,

is still fighting the good fight and, above all, is still committed to being the best he can be.

At first blush a lot of people might see Heath Calhoun walking by and think it’s hard being him. And to some

extent, they’d be right. But they’d be right for all the wrong reasons.

Heath Calhoun is not burdened by the fact that he now must do the simplest things wearing two prosthetic

limbs. Losing both legs was just something he figured happened as a result of being in the wrong place at

the wrong time. As a staff sergeant in Iraq, Heath was standing near the rear bumper of a vehicle that was

hit by a rocket-powered grenade, an ambush that killed one of his fellow soldiers while leaving him critically

injured. In his mind, what he’s doing now —and the extent to which he’s coping with his disability—is nothing

extraordinary at all. In fact, it’s just what most trained soldiers might do under the circumstances.

By M.C. Antil

No, these days Heath is burdened by

something that is far more difficult for

him. Today, he spends his time trying

to balance becoming the best adaptive

skier he can be—a sport he did not take

up seriously until after he lost both legs,

and a sport that has since both fueled

his competitive juices and consumed

his competitive desires—with trying to

become the absolute best he can be at a

job he considers just about as important

as any a man can ever have: being a

father.

Not too long ago, Heath got divorced

from the mother of his three children,

daughters Bailee and Brystal and son

Mason. The divorce was hard on him,

but not so much for what it did to him

personally as for what he knew it would

cost his three children in daddy time, and

in how much less frequently they would

have the chance to see, talk to and learn

from their father.

But divorce is only part of Heath’s

burden issue. At the very same time he

began trying to cope with not living with

his children, Heath was also ramping up

his commitment to helping other disabled

vets like himself, spreading the word of

the plight of disabled veterans, all while

trying to become the absolute best

sit-skier in the world. It remains a very

difficult balancing act and unquestionably

his biggest challenge as a man.

“The hardest thing I have to do is to

be a father,” he said recently about trying

to keep so many balls in the air. “As hard

as I try, I’m not there nearly enough for

[my kids]. And even when I try to be, I still

need more days on the snow.”

He added: “I know skiing is important,

because it’s my number-one goal. But I still

want to be able to give my kids something

for all they’ve invested in it as well.”

Back in 2004, when he was going

through the frustrating act of rehabilitating

his body, Heath first learned of the

Wounded Warriors program, and soon

became one of its biggest advocates.

It was through Wounded Warriors, a

program designed to help men and

women who have been injured in battle—

physically, mentally, emotionally and even

professionally—cope with their injuries,

that he first got introduced to adaptive

skiing and first came to understand the

power of peer support. “I wouldn’t be

where I am today without someone else

to help me,” he said. “In any way I could,

I just wanted to give back.”

Part of Heath’s giving back was his

relentless work in 2005 to try to convince

a number of Washington lawmakers to

pass what was termed the “Wounded

Warriors Bill,” which eventually became

law on the strength of his grassroots

lobbying efforts. Heath’s impassioned

but plainspoken oratory, his rugged

good looks, and his ease in front of the

camera made the wheelchair-bound

Calhoun, a small-town guy raised in the

tiny Appalachian community of Grundy,

Virginia, something of a media darling.

Soon he began appearing in news

features on national television networks,

including the Today Show and in major

dailies. He had his own website, rang the

bell to open the New York Stock Exchange,

threw out the first pitch at a Major League

Baseball game, shared a stage with rock

stars, starred in a series of professionally

produced videos, and even had a NASCAR

race named in his honor.

In 2005, Heath participated in the

Soldier Ride using only a hand-cycle.

Heath and his fellow riders eventually

completed their eight-week, 4,200-mile

odyssey from Marina del Ray, California to

Montauk, Long Island, on the easternmost

tip of New York. Their moving effort was

documented in a TV special called Home

Front, which aired on Showtime. President

Warrior

After the race Mason looked up at Heath and asked, “Dad, will you run with me?”

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George W. Bush would later call their

Soldier Ride “the most inspiring athletic

event in the country.”

But all that was just prep work for

what might be viewed as arguably the

most game-changing moment in Heath’s

adaptive life. In 2006, at the behest of

a friend, Heath traveled to a convention

in Minnesota and witnessed firsthand the

kind of remarkable things that were being

done with prosthetics, and how they

were fundamentally changing the quality

of life for so many disabled Americans.

After the trip, Heath decided to revisit

his attitude toward prosthetics and soon

found himself being fitted with a brand-

new state-of-the-art pair of legs.

A year later, now out of his wheelchair

forever, Heath did what just a short time

earlier had seemed impossible. He raced in

the Endeavor Games in Oklahoma, a track-

and-field competition for adaptive athletes.

The fact that he finished second in the 100-

and 200-meter sprints seems, even now,

secondary to the fact that he raced at all.

But even racing wasn’t Heath’s

takeaway from that remarkable day. That

occurred when Mason—his son, who had

traveled to see his father compete and

who had watched his father go off to war

an able-bodied man only to return without

legs—was walking with him afterward,

and looked up and said, “Dad, will you

run with me?”

And that’s exactly what the two did,

laughing and racing all the way to a

nearby tree and back.

These days, Heath is continuing

to train and to work on his skiing in an

attempt to earn himself both Paralympic

gold in 2014 and a steady stream of

World Cup podiums in the interim. “Each

year, I’m getting more technical and

learning that much more about technique.

It’s an evolution as much as anything

else,” he said. “The key is really getting

enough miles under your belt and putting

in a sufficient number of days on the

mountain, and then just going for it.”

He also still finds himself struggling

to walk that fine line between dedicated

ski racer and dedicated father, while

continuing to stay true to all his brothers

and sisters who gave up so much for their

country. “No matter how hard I try, there’s

always an impossible decision to make,”

he said recently. “I mean, how do you

make the choice between speaking to a

group of wounded veterans in Oklahoma

and being there for your son’s first

baseball game?”

Such tough decisions are the reason

Heath continues to rely on so many

things he learned in the Army, despite

its often unwieldy size and bureaucratic

tendencies. As he said recently, “A lot

has changed since I first enlisted. My

values may be the same, but my attitude

toward so many things has changed. But I

will say this: the Army helped me grow up,

and in the end taught me how to become

the man I wanted to be.”

On Heath Calhoun’s right wrist can be seen a round, beaten up, scraped and scratched

band of well-worn metal.

When he was first injured, and during the time of his recovery at the Walter Reed

Army Hospital almost a decade ago, Heath started wearing a bracelet he had made

for himself, one he still continues to wear today. The thin copper band, which at

one point bore a painted rendering of the Stars and Stripes—long since chipped,

faded and worn to nothing—now bears only the name, rank and serial number of one

Morgan D. Kennan, a soldier from Calhoun’s old battalion in the 327th Infantry, along

with the date November 7, 2003.

That was the date that a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) fired by an unseen Iraqi

rebel, came out of nowhere, destroyed the Humvee they were standing next to, forever

robbed Calhoun of the use of his legs and, in its wake, killed Kennan—native of

Memphis, on the western end of Calhoun’s adopted state of Tennessee.

And despite its constantly being caught, nicked and otherwise beaten up, Calhoun

has never taken off his tribute to his fallen brother. In fact, to anyone looking at it,

Calhoun’s bracelet seems ready to give up the ghost at any minute and fall apart

altogether.

That’s why the adaptive ski racer is thinking of replacing the bracelet permanently—

with a tattoo.

“I’ve been thinking about it,” said Calhoun, when asked about whether or not

he’s seriously considering replacing his bracelet with a permanent version of the

band embedded just beneath the skin. “It’s a part of me now and will be a part of me

forever, so why not do something like that, rather than running the risk of losing it or

having it destroyed? I just seems like that might be the right thing to do.”

An Aging, Brittle reminder

10  adaptive spirit • 2012

Proud Sponsor Of Adaptive Spirit’s SkiTAM 2012

Stephanie Jallen’s first time on skis was not necessarily the stuff

of legend, much less fairy tales.

Stephanie was a mere eight years old at the time and suffering

from a birth defect known as CHILD Syndrome, which caused her

to be born, among other things, without a fully developed left

side, leaving her with a very short left arm, tapered down to a

single digit, and a left leg that required amputation.

When the Camelback instructors from the Pennsylvania ski

resort first met little Stephanie, they were immediately drawn to

her energetic attitude, warmth and infectious smile. But when

they tried to put her in a sit-down bi-ski she balked. Stephanie

said she didn’t want to be harnessed to an able-bodied skier.

She wanted to ski on her own.

Fortunately, one of the instructors who was there that day,

Mau Thompson, a member of a Winter Park, Colorado–based

adaptive skiing organization visiting Camelback as part of an

outreach program, said that if she wanted to, Stephanie could

try to ski on one leg with an outrigger. But Thompson also said

that it would be extremely difficult, given the fact she’d never

skied before.

Regardless, Stephanie was game to give stand-up skiing a

try and was soon attacking the mountain with a borrowed ski

and outrigger.

Unfortunately, on that day the mountain struck back. And

time after time Stephanie would fall on the icy snow, sometimes

to the point that some of the instructors thought she would hurt

herself. Undeterred, she’d get back up, only to fall again—often

more violently than the last time.

The problem was, Stephanie found it hard to balance on

one leg and had not yet gotten used to leaning on and fully

leveraging her outrigger. That’s the way it was for Stephanie

for the next four days. Ski, fall, slide. Ski, fall, slide. But

16-year-old Stephanie Jallen

might look like a fresh-faced kid;

but make no mistake: she’s

a woman on a mission

By M.C. Antil

New Kid in Town

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over the course of those four days, Mau began to see something

special in Stephanie, something she knew only true champions

had. The bruised and battered little girl had some kind of heart.

And she had a fi re.

Eventually, Thompson invited Stephanie to be part of what

she called “Team Mau,” a group of young adaptive skiers united

by a common love of skiing fast. As Jallen would later say, it

was critical to her development because, in her words, “it made

us all feel like we were part of something, and for me that was

pretty cool.”

And the love that bonded Team Mau was exactly what young

Stephanie felt for her new favorite sport. “I knew from the very

fi rst day I loved skiing and that I would love it for the rest of my

life,” Jallen said. And her goal was a spot on the U.S. Paralympic

Ski Team and a chance to compete against the best adaptive

skiers in the world.

Finally in May of 2011, as a 15-year-old high-school

sophomore, Stephanie got a call. It was Kevin Jardine, head

coach of the U.S. Paralympic Alpine Team. Kevin asked Stephanie

if she had a minute to talk.

She was nervous, in fact alarmingly so, and so after saying

yes she went into her room and closed the door. It was there

that Jardine asked Stephanie if she’d like to become a part of

his team and ski on behalf of her country. “I want you competing

with us, I want you wearing our jacket, and I want to see you up

there on those podiums,” he said. “Would you like to join us?”

Stephanie was so excited she hardly knew what to say.

Her stomach was churning, and her nerves were crackling and

shooting through her like a charge of high-voltage electricity. By

the time she fi nally went outside to tell her family the incredible

news, she realized she’d been on the phone with Jardine for an

hour. Stephanie began to cry and found herself virtually unable

to stop. She wanted to tell the whole world she had made it and

spent the next few hours between laughter and tears, trying to

reach out to just about everyone she knew.

Kevin Jardine said his youngest team member, for all she

lacks in experience, makes up for it and then some in attitude.

“There’s no doubt Stephanie brings to the team a rookie’s level

of knowledge,” the coach said. “But she also brings energy and

enthusiasm, and she takes great joy in competing at the highest

levels. In a sport that can get emotionally draining at times, the

sense of fun is awful nice to have around.”

The phone call with Jardine was the highlight of Stephanie’s

year, until a few months later. In the National championships,

Stephanie shocked the fi eld by earning her fi rst-ever gold medal

as a member of the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team and edging out

her fi ercest rival, Alexandra Starker of Canada, by a mere .19

seconds. The event, perhaps not coincidentally, was Stephanie’s

personal favorite, the slalom.

“No doubt about it, that was the highlight of my skiing life. I’ll

never forget that day and that moment,” she said recently.

But now year two is beginning, and Stephanie realizes she

still has so much work to do in order to reach her goal of becoming

the fi nest stand-up adaptive skier in the world. Not only is she

coming off a major injury—a small fracture in her tibial plateau

near the top of her shin—but she continues to suffer as a skier

from the very same problem that affl icted her that very fi rst day

on the slopes: balance. Given the underdeveloped half of her

body, it is imperative that Stephanie constantly work to build up

the muscles on her left side, to keep her body and her muscles in

proper balance. And thanks to Ernie Baul, Stephanie’s personal

trainer for the past fi ve years, she’s gaining that strength needed

for this sport. But with the work comes sacrifi ce.

Stephanie credits so much of her success to the support

she receives from family and friends, calling them “the best in

the world.” Still, as a 16-year-old smack dab in the middle of

her high-school years, she realizes she’s had to forego much

of the teenage experience in order to not only make the U.S.

Paralympic Ski Team but to put herself in a position to earn a

podium at the 2014 Paralympics in Russia. “I do lose a lot of

friend time, training as hard as I do,” said Stephanie. “And it is

hard to miss things like football games, birthday parties and

slumber parties. But my friends are very understanding and they

totally realize what I’m trying to do.”

One of Stephanie’s biggest challenges—and what has been

one of her biggest challenges throughout her life—is simply

trying to accommodate a device that will allow her to get around

without constantly hopping on one leg. (In fact, Stephanie said,

her father used to call her “Hopper” when she was a small girl

for how she’d hop around the house.)

When she walks with a prosthesis, she falls prey to a horribly

debilitating skin condition at her left leg’s point-of-contact, which

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is an incurable symptom of her disease.

Using a crutch causes the same skin rash, only under her

right arm rather than on her leg. And when she uses a wheelchair,

Stephanie—a young lady who is constantly in motion—not

only feels confi ned and pent up by a device that is contrary to

a constant doer, she also feels she’s compromising the peak

condition of her body that she continues to fi ght so hard to

maintain.

As a result she rotates all three.

“I knew from the very fi rst day I loved skiing and that I would love it for the rest of my life.”

That, in retrospect, is probably the reason Stephanie fell in

love with skiing in the fi rst place. Unlike those three devices,

the sport gives her a sense of freedom that walking or moving

around on fl at land doesn’t.

Plus, it’s a whole lot faster. “I love the adrenaline rush and

feeling so incredibly free,” Stephanie said of skiing at breakneck

speeds. “Being at the top of the hill before a run—I can’t

describe it, but it’s the greatest feeling in the whole world.”

Does she ever get frustrated by her disability? Hardly. In fact,

strange as it may be to some, she feels just the opposite.

“‘Handicapped’ is a mental disorder,” Stephanie said. “It’s all

in your mind. My disability has opened so many doors for

me and allowed me to do things I never could have imagined

before, and probably never would have been possible. I really

believe this; you’re not disabled. If you believe it and you have

the right attitude, you’re actually more abled than anyone.”

In 2010, SkiTAM co-chairs Steve Raymond and Joe Rooney were

honored by the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team by being presented

the torch used to light the Paralympic fl ame at the opening

ceremonies of the Paralympic Games in Vancouver. The torch

had been signed by each member of the team and thier coaches.

The same year, Steve was also honored by being named Chef

de Mission for the U.S. Paralympics, the highest recognition any

volunteer or non-participant can ever

achieve in Olympic competition.

And this past May, the cable

industry continued what has become

a trend and honored the two men who for the past seven years

have chaired the SkiTAM Planning Committee and who have

shepherded the seven most recent incarnations of what has

emerged as the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team’s single most critical

annual funding source. In May, the Rocky Mountain Chapter of

the Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) honored each

of the two long-time execs with his own individual spot on the

organization’s Walk of Fame.

Both men were cited for their career achievements in cable

and beyond, which in Raymond’s case meant not only his role

as the founding father of SkiTAM but his ongoing role as one of

the key fi gures in the affi liate-relations executive department of

Disney and ESPN Networks.

In Rooney’s case, he was lauded for his ongoing leadership

of SkiTAM and for over 30 years’ worth of cable marketing

leadership and brilliance—in particular his role in launching what

has since become something of an industry standard: cable’s

“Triple Play,” which, while Rooney was at the Cox system in San

Diego, combined for the very fi rst time cable-delivered voice,

video and data into one monthly package.

Rooney said he was delighted to have received such an

honor and called it unexpected. “I’m a big believer in WICT and

all that they stand for, and to have been selected by the Rocky

Mountain chapter is not only a surprise and humbling, it is truly

an honor.”

The Walk of Fame honor was presented to the two men

at a ceremony in Denver, during which each was presented a

certifi cate by WICT Rocky Mountain President Regina Hutchinson

of Comcast.

The WICT recognition comes on the

heels of yet another honor for Raymond

this year: In February he was nominated

for induction into the prestigious

Colorado Ski and Snowboard Museum

Hall of Fame in Vail for his work in

having both conceived and led SkiTAM,

as well as his ongoing efforts to provide

a number of world-class U.S. adaptive

athletes sponsorships, television

exposure and, especially, critical

funding to allow them to continue to

travel, train and compete.

Raymond’s Hall of Fame packet, which nominated him in the

category of Sport Builder, was signed by no fewer than 17 current

and former U.S. Paralympic Ski Team members and coaches,

Hall of Famers, members of the U.S. Olympic Committee, and

various other thought leaders, proponents and advocates of

adaptive skiing, including Jack Benedick and Trygve Myhren, who

spearheaded the effort.

Raymond, who knew nothing of the group’s Hall of Fame

nomination until it had been mounted and gained a full head of

steam, was characteristically humble and self-effacing. “Don’t

get me wrong: I’m blown away to have been nominated for such

an incredible honor,” he said, “especially given the fact that I’m

a guy born in this state and a guy who has skied here my entire

life. But what I’ve done is nothing special. Not in the least. What

is special are the athletes SkiTAM continues to help, and the

incredible things they do on the mountain year after year. Now

that’s Hall of Fame material.”

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Three long-time members of the squad—Alana Nichols, Allison

Jones and Ralph Green—have carried over their Paralympic

dreams into the summer months. At press time each were

training hard to compete in the 2012 Summer Paralympic

Games, slated to open this coming August in London.

Nichols, who has already won Summer Paralympic gold as a

member of the women’s basketball team in Beijing, has made

the team and is working out daily in anticipation of the U.S.

defending its position as the leading women’s wheelchair team

in the world.

Jones, too, is a veteran Summer Paralympic competitor and

medal winner, having copped a silver in track cycling at the 2008

Paralympics in Beijing.

And Green, who prior to a few months ago had never even

seen the event, much less competed in it, is teaching himself

the shot put and hopes to qualify for the Paralympic track-and-

field team in the Paralympic trials, which will kick off June 29 in

Indianapolis.

Nichols, a veteran of the U.S. National Team, has been

associated with the club for eight years. She first cut her teeth

as an alternate on the 2004 squad, which earned gold in Athens,

then went on to become one of its on-court leaders. She has

since emerged as one of the finest wheelchair players on the

planet, a young woman whose shooting, passing and long-range

accuracy are legendary in international circles, but whose true

calling card may just be the stifling brand of defense she plays.

Nichols said she will train with the team in a series of camps

this summer. She’ll try to pace herself and her conditioning so

that she peaks right as women’s basketball is set to tip off in

early September. “When you’re competing at this level in two

sports, you need to learn how to prioritize,” she said. “At certain

times I’ve put all my eggs into skiing, but not this summer. I

won’t be skiing at all, and I’m not going to be worrying about

finding some kind of balance between the two. When it comes

to basketball, at least for the next few months anyway, I’m going

all in.”

Another multi-sport athlete, Allison Jones is a fiercely

dedicated cyclist. Initially, she found herself at odds with Alpine

Ski Team coach Ray Watkins when she ramped up her pursuit of

parallel careers in Paralympic skiing and cycling. Watkins, who

saw greatness in Jones, felt at first that she was hindering her

development as an Alpine skier by dividing her time and energies

by training for both sports. But once Jones earned her silver in

Beijing, and then came back the following year and was still able

to go toe-to-toe with the finest skiers in the world, he backed and

supported her twin pursuits.

This past year, Jones and six other former Olympic and

Paralympic champions, including Olympic gold medal gymnast

Nastia Liukin, starred in a series of whimsical yet informative

web videos titled Britain Bound—cool things to do and see in

Great Britain during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games—

everything from Shakespeare’s boyhood home to Stonehenge,

the Tower of London, and a personal tour of No. 10 Downing

Street.

On paper, Jones would appear to be a lock for the team.

But as she well knows, like so many other Paralympic hopefuls,

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she still must qualify for the

team and still must be at her

absolute best during trials

in order to earn what she

hopes for most this summer:

a chance to compete in

London’s all-new state-of-

the-art Velodrome, home of

the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic cycling events.

Ralph Green, on the other hand, fi nds himself entering

summer and the 2012 Paralympic qualifying season as the

longest of long shots.

Always a great athlete as a young man, and still strong as

an ox—even at mid-life—he started competing in the shot put

almost on a whim, and that was less than a year ago. But before

he knew what had happened, Green discovered he had both a

passion and a talent for the sport.

Unfortunately, honesty compels him to admit that’s about all

he has. He still has no coach. He has no shot-put mentor. And

he has no one in his corner to teach him the fi ner points of such

things as technique, weight shift and body control. In fact, he’ll

admit that much of what he continues to learn about throwing

the shot he is learning online.

But Ralph Green is driven to become the best he can be

at the sport; so much so, in fact, he’s working out like he’s

already on the team. And earlier this year in a competition at the

University of California at Davis, he fi nished a stunning second

in the event, within shouting distance of the fi rst-place fi nisher.

“All I can do is do my best,” said Green recently. “I have no

idea if I’ll make the team. But I promise you this: I’m training

and working as hard as I can. And whether I qualify or not, I

know I’m going to give this thing

everything I’ve got.”

For Alana Nichols, Allison

Jones and Ralph Green, the Summer and Winter Paralympics are

athletic competitions distinguished by more than just a change

in season. The Summer Paralympics are much better attended,

held in a higher profi le, larger urban area, and capable of drawing

signifi cantly more media attention, in large part because they

offer a far greater number of vastly different sports in more

highly traffi cked venues.

And yet both seasonal competitions have one thing in

common. Each of them remains a distant dream and a lifelong

goal for thousands of dedicated athletes the world over. Young

men and women with passion and determination have spent

untold hours of sweat and toil in the pursuit of one thing—not

merely getting there, but winning.

Given that, just getting there—and not once, but twice, and

in two different sports—remains an accomplishment in and of

itself, and an achievement most athletes would treasure for a

lifetime.

But to actually win a gold medal in both Paralympics? Well,

that just about defi es comprehension. Ask Alana, the only

adaptive athlete in history to actually do it.

And who knows? This year Allison and Ralph might just fi nd

themselves following in her footsteps to carve out a little history

of their own.

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Everything from TNN radically changing its

stripes and colors and becoming Spike,

to Cablevision slowly but surely evolving

into Optimum, we in this industry are

fully aware of what it takes to turn one

established brand into another, while

somehow still trying to conduct the affairs

of day-to-day business. We know how

much time, effort and, ultimately, money

a makeover like that takes.

That’s why what has happened to

an event many of you know as SkiTAM

has been nothing short of remarkable.

Right under our noses, what was once a

volunteer organization known as SkiTAM

has become Adaptive Spirit.

A team that had been calling itself the

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U.S. Disabled Ski Team has blossomed

into the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team.

And what had once been a small but

dedicated band of athletes piloted by the

United States Skiing and Snowboarding

Association has, and with very little

fanfare, started hitching its wagon to the

U.S. Paralympics.

The combination of the three is an

extraordinary feat. But that’s not why I’m

writing to you today. As I said, we know all

about re-launches.

Instead, I’m writing this today to let

you know that, when it comes to the U.S.

Paralympic Ski Team, not only do things

look, sound and feel different. Suddenly,

and for the fi rst time since the cable

industry fi rst got involved in adaptive

skiing, they are different.

This is a remarkable new day in

competitive ski racing in this country, and

you should take that from someone who

was at the very fi rst SkiTAM 17 years ago

and happened to be part of a group of

100 or so cable people who fl ew to Vail

one spring weekend to do a little spring

skiing and in the process help rescue a

woefully underfi nanced team of world-

class athletes.

That’s how the whole thing started.

And a lot has happened since then. But

as I said, this is a whole new day.

There is something truly exciting

about the team, and truly exciting in the

air. And there’s an energy surrounding

these athletes that I haven’t felt since

those very early days of SkiTAM. And it

crystalized for me the night of this year’s

awards banquet when I heard Charlie

Huebner, who heads up U.S. Paralympics,

get up and speak before the crowd of

athletes, coaches, cable people and their

families.

I’ve only known Charlie for a year, and

have only spoken with him a few times.

But I know conviction when I see it,

honesty when I hear it, and passion when

I feel it. And what I saw, heard and felt

that evening in Vail was the real deal.

Charlie talked about how under-

fi nanced the team is, relative to other

countries, and how the rest of the world is

If there’s one thing we know about in the cable industry, it’s a re-launch.

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outspending the U.S. 10 to one in support

of Paralympic athletes. He talked about

how much he believed in his coaching

staff and his team, and how dedicated his

entire staff was to supporting them. And

above all he talked about how incredibly

badly he wanted to win.

It was a stump speech, to be sure. And

I know that because when I researched

Charlie and U.S. Paralympics recently I

saw and read him quoted in newspapers

around the country saying much the same

thing.

But that doesn’t mean the man

doesn’t believe it. And that doesn’t mean

it wasn’t real.

And I could tell that the moment I

heard Charlie’s voice break with emotion

as he paraded back and forth on the

stage, with his eyes burning and his free

hand clenched as he held the microphone.

The man wants to win, and that’s one of

the reasons this is truly a brand-new day

in adaptive skiing.

I’m not sure anyone responsible for

the day-to-day operations of the U.S.

Paralympics has ever felt this way about

winning, or has ever done so much to

make it happen.

U.S. Paralympics under Charlie has

now established a series of feeder

programs around the

country, designed to fi nd

and support the fi nest

young racing talent.

And while it’s still a

fairly new initiative, it’s

already starting to pay

dividends in the form of

talented young racers

like Stephanie Jallen.

The organization

is deepening its ties to a number of

groups supporting the many disabled war

veterans who have returned home from

Iraq and Afghanistan looking for a way to

channel their desire to compete and to

feel physically whole again. And one need

look no further than the team’s own Heath

Calhoun to realize how war vets, with their

discipline, passion and dedication, come

through the door already armed with much

of what it takes to become a champion.

Charlie’s reached out and worked with

the Adaptive Spirit volunteer leadership

in ways that, to be honest, no one ever

has before. As co-chair Steve Raymond

said recently, “Charlie knows what this

organization and our industry mean in

terms of what he’s trying to accomplish,

and he’s let us know that wherever we

need him and whatever we need him for,

he’ll be there for us.”

That’s why this is a brand-new day

in competitive ski racing in this country.

That’s why the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team

fi nds itself so well positioned to compete.

And that’s why the entire cable industry

can be assured that its support is not

only being well-directed, it’s making a

difference like it never has before.

For the fi rst time in years the people

at the top of the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team

are not just taking care of logistics and

details for the team. For the fi rst time

since I’ve been going to SkiTAM, they’re

as dedicated and as passionate about

winning as the remarkable athletes

they’re supporting.

And regardless of what the team

is calling itself, we should all feel good

about that.

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