Rep of the Year Award




Atlantic (NY/ PA/ NJ/ DE/ MD)

Kent Fried

I grew up around the ski industry. My Aunt and Uncle started Nazareth Sporting Goods in Nazareth, PA. From the time I was very young, I was around their shop and competed in freestyle skiing for a number of years.

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Eastern Lakes (MI/ OH/ IN)

Tim Parker

I grew up in a small town in central Minnesota. I attended college at the University of Minnesota Crookston, where I first discovered snowboarding. From that time on I was focused on working in the winter sports industry.

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Mid-West (ND/ MN/ WI/ SD/ IA/ IL/ NE/ MO/ KS/ OK)

Tom Blair

I grew up ski racing at Afton Alps Ski Area in Minnesota and then worked in the ski shop throughout high school and college. I formed a manufacturer’s sales representative agency in 1984.

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Northeast (ME/ VT/ NH/ MA/ RI/ CT)

Chad Waters

I began what has now become my career at age 16, working as a sales associate at The Alpine Shop in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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Northern CA

Josh Hoyer

I grew up skiing competitively in Colorado in the rocky mountain division of the USSA as a mogul/freestyle skier. I stopped mogul competitions and began competing in big mountain events, half pipe, slope style, big air events in the mid 90’s as a sponsored athlete.

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Northwest (WA/ OR/ ID/ MT/ AK)

Dane Stevenson

With 23 years as an independent sales rep in the ski/outdoor industry, I still get stoked with the anticipation of the upcoming season!

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Rockies (WY/ UT/ CO/ NM/ TX)

Jeff Braun

After growing up in the Colorado and completing college at Montana State University in Bozeman, I decided to move to Vail, with two very important goals: skiing as much as possible while finding a career that would allow me to live in the mountains and enjoy the mountain lifestyle.

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South (WV/ VA/ KY/ TN/ NC/ SC/ GA/ AL/ MS/ FL/ AR/ LA)

Mike Lamb

Originally from southern Colorado, I started skiing at the age of ten with my local Boy Scout Troop and from there, skiing has been the center of my life ever since!

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West (Southern CA/ NV/ AZ/ HI)

Mike Day

I started in the ski business in 1969, working for the Garcia Corp, who distributed Fischer, Rossignol, Marker and Dynafit. I was Garcia’s western warehouse and customer service manager and I moved into the sales division in 1971.

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