{"id":24887,"date":"2019-06-05T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/rocky-mountain-ski-racing-club-achieves-public-charity-status\/"},"modified":"2019-06-05T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T00:00:00","slug":"rocky-mountain-ski-racing-club-achieves-public-charity-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/rocky-mountain-ski-racing-club-achieves-public-charity-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Mountain Ski Racing club achieves public charity status"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rocky Mountain Ski Racing, a first year Summit County-based Alpine ski racing club, was represented in March at the U.S. Alpine speed and tech national championships in Maine and New Hampshire. Making the trip were three club members pictured in this photo: Coach Crawford Pierce (right) and skiers Abigail Murer (center) and Camryn Glick.<\/strong>
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The Summit County-based Rocky Mountain Ski Racing Alpine club is now a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization.<\/p>\n

Club founder and National and Colorado Ski Hall of Fame inductee John McMurtry, of Silverthorne, said the designation is huge for the club considering its goal to reduce the cost of Alpine skiing for the youth skiers it serves.<\/p>\n

McMurtry said the designation effectively means the club can now accept tax-deductible donations. In turn, he said the club\u2019s vision is to have philanthropic support fund program development, scholarships and operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is important and critical for the kinds of programs we envisioned eight months ago,\u201d McMurtry said. \u201cWe are eight months old, and I think it\u2019s remarkable we were able to achieve this right off the bat. We are trying to become a community charity to support youth in sports and through the medium of ski racing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are finding more and more, because of the cost of the sport, it\u2019s not as accessible any longer,\u201d McMurtry said. \u201cWe want to find a way to make it affordable and give people an opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

McMurtry emphasized he is a firm believer of the importance sports play in helping young people grow up, but he\u2019s concerned it\u2019s getting out of reach financially for many. McMurtry founded the club, which serves skiers 14 and older, in September 2018 along with former U.S. Ski Team coach Crawford Pierce. This past season, the club had several athletes qualify for national competitions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really is going to hinge on community support,\u201d McMurtry said. \u201cAnd we are, because of this designation from the IRS, we are a public charity, and we are serving the greater good. It depends really how much we can raise. But if \u2026 we can reduce that to where a child is starting out paying $200 to 300 bucks for a season, that\u2019d be terrific. As you get up into the more elite levels, the expenses are just tremendous.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rocky Mountain Ski Racing, a first year Summit County-based Alpine ski racing club, was represented in March at the U.S. Alpine speed and tech national championships in Maine and New Hampshire. Making the trip were three club members pictured in this photo: Coach Crawford Pierce (right) and skiers Abigail Murer (center) and Camryn Glick.Courtesy John […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 22:36:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}