{"id":2445514,"date":"2019-06-19T23:05:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T05:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=308220"},"modified":"2019-06-19T23:05:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T05:05:28","slug":"frisco-native-riley-campbell-named-us-ski-team-moguls-program-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/frisco-native-riley-campbell-named-us-ski-team-moguls-program-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Frisco native Riley Campbell named US Ski Team moguls program coach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Frisco local Riley Campbell will play a crucial role in the immediate future of the U.S. Ski Team\u2019s moguls program.<\/strong>
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After seven years on the other side of the Gore Range with Ski Club Vail, Frisco local Riley Campbell will play a crucial role in the immediate future of the U.S. Ski Team\u2019s moguls program.<\/p>\n

In time for next season, the 30-year-old Campbell, who was born and raised in Frisco, will join U.S. Ski Team moguls head coach Matt Gnoza as a World Cup coach along with fellow assistant Joe Disco. Effectively, the trio are the three mogul skiing coaches for the United States\u2019 best men\u2019s and women\u2019s mogul skiers.<\/p>\n

Resigning from his post as Ski Club Vail\u2019s moguls coach, Campbell said a large part of his coaching role moving forward will be to build and maintain relationships between regional teams, such as Ski Club Vail or Team Summit, and the U.S. national team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s something that in past years, perhaps, has necessitated some improvement,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cAnd Matt (Gnoza) has made it a priority to build strong relationships and work with regional teams to help athletes transitioning from the regional to the national team. Because, largely, in the past, that transition process was difficult because there was kind of an iron curtain between the national and regional teams.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campbell, who grew up competing in moguls for Team Summit under Ski Club Vail\u2019s current moguls program director John Dowling, has coached under Dowling for many years in Vail and for Team Breckenridge. Since they\u2019ve worked together at Ski Club Vail, Campbell said the club has placed eight skiers on the U.S. team in that time, including four Ski Club Vail athletes \u2014 two men and two women \u2014 on the Olympic team last year in South Korea.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of this past year, 50% of the U.S. team was from Vail,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cSo I think that had a huge part in my getting hired.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thanks to his time with Ski Club Vail, Campbell is no stranger to World Cup- and Olympic-level competition. Campbell traveled to Pyeongchang last year to help coach Colorado native and Vail skier Casey Andringa at the Olympics. Campbell said he\u2019s also worked in the past as a private coach for U.S. Olympic mogul skier Morgan Schild.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlready, in many ways, I was working in the hospice of the U.S. team as a Vail coach,\u201d Campbell said.<\/p>\n

Campbell has found a life competing and coaching in mogul skiing after he, as he put it, was \u201cborn into a skier family\u201d here in Summit, as both his parents were avid skiers. After his mother taught him how to ski when he was a young child, Campbell joined the Team Summit racing program at the age of 8. But Campbell remembers at an early age that, though he definitely loved skiing, he wasn\u2019t connecting with racing. His Team Summit coaches at the time began noticing Campbell would take roundabout routes back to the top of the ski race course, such as through mogul runs. Campbell said that led him to give moguls a try, particularly once he met some new friends at Summit Middle School.<\/p>\n

\u201cMogul skiing drew me in. I just really responded to the culture that exists there,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cJust the whole thing, the whole culture ensnared me, almost. And that was kind of that. I don\u2019t remember all of it at once. And I think with moguls skiing, it\u2019s a fun sport to do as a kid, because you are training moguls, training on jumps, training on trampoline \u2014 it\u2019s very dimensional. That\u2019s something I responded to, as well, because I love jumping on the trampoline, water ramping and all of these different things that all go into being a competitive mogul skier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campbell competed in moguls from the age of 10 to 19, one of the state\u2019s best before a knee injury ended his competitive career. It was a year after he suffered the injury when his old childhood Team Summit moguls coach Dowling reached out asking if he\u2019d like to try coaching under him at Team Breckenridge. Campbell did that for three years before he joined Dowling when he departed for Vail.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think one thing that makes him such a great coach is he\u2019s constantly in a state of learning,\u201d Campbell said about his mentor. \u201cA lot of times, when you talk about somebody super technical like him, you\u2019re talking about somebody who is set in their ways, that they\u2019ve got a philosophy that is kind of hard line. But Dowling is constantly watching the sport and making these observations that kind of give him as a coach, myself as a coach, Ski Club Vail an edge. Constantly reimagining his philosophies, and I think that\u2019s something that made him such a strong head coach, and it\u2019s something I\u2019ve definitely taken away from working with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campbell said that element of setting an edge for an athlete as well as helping them through the inherent fear in moguls skiing are two of the more important parts of being a good moguls coach. He\u2019s hopeful his extensive past experience with many of Team USA\u2019s highest-level moguls skiers will help him to do that consistently and well in his new role.<\/p>\n

That said, Campbell also said the intricacies and strategies specific to competition will dictate his success as a Team USA coach.<\/p>\n

For example, Campbell said that in recent years World Cup and Olympic moguls judges have responded to the progression in the sport by asking for more refined and exact execution of ground-breaking, big tricks, such as a cork 720.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was competing, or even five or six years back, a cork 7(20) was kind of like a blurry trick where, as long as you throw it and land it and have a good cross and it\u2019s big, that\u2019s fine. Then they started using something called the pie chart, where they really start to track the shape of the trick, make sure it\u2019s on a flat axis. And it caused us to reprogram several of our athletes\u2019 corks so that they were scoring properly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking of those athletes, Campbell said that although mogul skiing is often thought of in four-year, Olympic cycles, his focus is on improving results for next World Cup season. In general, that means a goal of podium placements at World Cup events for some of the country\u2019s top skiers. But stronger results aren\u2019t out of Campbell\u2019s grandest hopes for what he can help do with the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, we had the No. 1 ladies team,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cSo, how to get the No. 1 men\u2019s team? Maybe we can get one of our top girls, Jaelin Kauf, maybe she can take the Crystal Globe? Maybe one of the new athletes can snag rookie of the year? There are a bunch of different benchmarks.\u201d<\/p>\n

aolivero@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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