• Coaches work with each student and family to design an individualized athlete management plan based on their goals, engagement in other sports, and interests. 
• Coaches work alongside Learning Specialists, Advisors, and EAST’s Academic Coordinator to plan, organize, and support students in their academic courses throughout the year, especially during the winter months. 

• A dedicated strength and conditioning coach works with all Eastern Alpine athletes throughout the year to ensure athletes are both physically well prepared and educated about the correlation of fitness and athletic nutrition to success on the hill. 
• Athletes may choose to engage in a dedicate fall strength and conditioning program or pursue a fall team sport in lieu of exclusive strength and conditioning. For all athletes, a custom strength and conditioning program is designed and supported. 
• Easter Ski athletes have daily access to Proctor’s new fitness center and athletic training facilities. 

• The Eastern Alpine Ski Team goal is to get its athletes on the best possible snow as many times as year as possible. 
• The team offers global ski training experiences throughout the year that align with Proctor’s global educational model with a training trip in August (Chile or Switzerland), mid-Fal (indoor training venues)l, November (Colorado and Panorama, BC), a New Year's Camp with alumni at the Proctor Ski Area providing high volume training, and a June camp at Mount Hood. 

• Open from  early December through late March, the Proctor Ski Area offers more than 100 days of training each season. This facility is a dedicated, elite training venue on campus that offers training priority to the Eastern Alpine Ski Team.  
• Use of a Prinoth 350 grooming machine guarantees superb conditions throughout the season. Additionally, newly widened training and racing trails offer fully netted, full length training. 
• The area hosts a variety of USS and regional FIS races, as well as College Carnivals. One veteran coach observes, “The Proctor Ski Area is doing more for snow sports--vertical foot for vertical foot--than any other mountain in New England. Period.” 
• EAST athletes also have dedicated training space at nearby Ragged Mountain Resort. 

More than two dozen Proctor Eastern Alpine Ski Team alumni are currently competing at the collegiate level around the world. Read more about Proctor’s Alumni in Athletics HERE.