Eternally65 t1_j5rz23w wrote on January 25, 2023 at 3:30 AM

Reply to comment by MarketplaceMallBTV in Burke Mountain Academy's Mikaela Shiffrin Breaks Lindsey Vonn’s Record for World Cup Wins by jimfoxer

There's a reason world class skiers come to the north east for college, and it is indeed because this is where you learn to handle ice. The west is too soft and easy, with all that wimpy powder and such.

landodk t1_j5s56fu wrote on January 25, 2023 at 4:20 AM

Also… lots more colleges with established programs. There are probably more colleges in MA established before 1940 than there are west of the Great Plains. All those public colleges established since then are great, but they don’t have the athletic department legacy older colleges do. Keeping a downhill program around is a lot easier than selling it to an AD with a limited number of programs.

Sure, big D1 colleges have them, and can do well, but none of the little colleges can consider it