🏠Hometown: Oro-Medonte, Ontario
⛷️Years Coaching: 26 years
🎖️Licences/Certifications: NCCP 3, ACA DL, Alpine Ontario EL Learning Facilitator, Official 2. Currently in the coach PL pathway. CSIA Level 3 and Level 1 Course Conductor.
👤 Currently Coaching: U16/U19 at Glacier Ski Club (MSLM – Mount St. Louis Moonstone)
🔎Coaching Experience: U8 through U19
☃️ First stepped on snow: Age 3
✍🏽Phrase of guidance: All athletes need a consistent practice of better nutrition and sleep to build strength, hypertrophy, endurance, speed, and focus. “Women are not small men” (Dr. Stacy Sims, 2023), so training, competing, fueling, and recovering are physiologically different for women.
Adrienne’s favourite…
🌄Mountain: Early snow and best groomed in the East is always MSLM. Deep, ungroomed and unforgiving, always exhilarating at Mt. Baker, WA. Favourite and spectacular views from Lake Louise (AB) and Le Massif (QC).
🍳Breakfast: A 6am CrossFit Workout of the Day (or WOD) followed by 40g of high-quality protein.
🎞️Memory: Training with Ryerson University at Milton, mixed-masters racing with the “chalet at Blue crew”, winning a cool snowboard at a Grouse Tyee race and then trying to snowboard for the first time in the VW beetle-sized moguls at Grouse Mountain, high-performance coaching environment with the Mackenzie Women in Coaching Project at the 2023 NorAms in Collingwood… and MANY more.
☃️ What are you doing within the ski community?
With support from Alpine Ontario, I am developing my skills and performance within the Performance Level pathway. Off the snow: Grinding enthusiastically through a molecular, performance-based, master of nutrition.
💡If you could put what ski racing taught you into one sentence, what would it state?
In a split moment, when the stakes are high, your (year-long) plan may completely change and uproot you at the worst possible time. Ski racing and coaching challenge you to handle excitement, anxiety, fear, panic, elation, and disappointment, which underpins an incredible lifelong skill.
