Mission

To create champions on and off the mountain by developing life skills and providing growth opportunities through participation in sports.

We support our mission by:

• Celebrating and leveraging Steamboat’s unparalleled winter sports heritage to instill life-long passion for sports, health, and physical fitness
• Embracing and mobilizing the resources and participation of our community for the long term benefit of our athletes
• Providing opportunities through scholarship and financial assistance
• Cultivating and living a culture of “excellence”, with high academic, athletic, and personal standards
• Providing first class training and mentoring
• Delivered by passionate and committed coaches in alignment with our mission and vision,
• Enabled by competitive and diverse terrain, programs, and facilities
• Developing the “complete athlete”, both on and off the mountain.

Vision

SSWSC is the model community youth organization for long-term personal development through sport.

In short, we aspire to develop the “complete” athlete – coaching every individual to achieve their highest level of human and athletic performance – resulting in healthy, contributing members of our community as well as skilled and passionate athletes.

Core Values

Teamwork, Integrity, Fun, and Achieve

Teamwork

• Celebrate success – your and others

• Hold yourself and others accountable

• Promote, leverage and celebrate each other

• Collaborate

Integrity

• Respect and support others

• Be honest

• Do the right thing

• Honor the legacy

Fun

• Emphasize the positive

• Enjoy the process

• Be playful (sport is play)

Achieve

• Learn from your mistakes

• Pursue excellence

• Exhibit passion everyday