The Ski & Snowboard Team will have a booth tomorrow at the Welcome Back Concert in McCarthy Quad from 5pm-9pm. Come stop by and chat with the officers, meet some new faces, see some old faces, and have a ball!

Afterward, follow us all down to Ellendale for our annual post-concert get together.

Click here for the Ellendale Map

Bardia Zandian Hits the Slopes & the Books

As someone who already possesses a Master's in electrical engineering from USC and is continuing study for his PhD in the field, Bardia Zandian never ceases to amaze. Despite his intense workload, he continually shows his smiling face and outgoing personality up in Mammoth as one of the regulars on the team.

Bardia is originally from Iran and grew up loving the outdoors. He got into skiing when he was 7 and switched to boarding about 8 years ago and hasn't looked back. Aside from snowboarding as much as he can, Bardia loves to hike and camp. If you ask what Bardia has been up to recently he'll probably tell you about bungee jumping, traversing the Grand Canyon, or camping in Joshua Tree (thanks Facebook).

Putting his expertise of electrical systems to good use, Bardia offered to help rewire our ancient built-in-house speaker system last New Year's Eve. Equipped with his headlamp and a few screw drivers Bardia got to work. After everything was up and running Bardia kept happily assuring us that "everything is perfectly normal and okay!" whenever we'd question the strange burning plastic smells coming from all of the wall sockets.

Bardia, thanks for the great times and we're glad you're back for another few years!

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Fashion Guru & Photographer Extraordinaire is Spotted on the Slopes - March 2008

Nelson De Castro, former snowboard captain and Mustache March participant, is seen here doing just a few of the many things he's mastered thus far in his life. In this case it's snowboarding and photography. Equipped with his new Canon 40D, Kevin Chang's O'Neill retro glasses, Chris Farro's asparagus beanie, and his tall-t, Nelson embodied all that is awesome in this wild generation.

Nelson showed up in Mammoth just about every weekend over the past two years while attending USC. If you're on the team there's no doubt that you know him. Besides ripping it up in the terrain park as one of the few dedicated snowboarders on the team, he's also skilled in guitar playing and making sweet beats in Garage Band.

I know we all look forward to seeing Nelson on and off the slopes again in the Fall. See you soon Nelson!

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May 14th marked the end of finals for the spring semester at USC so a few of us used our study days to go up and goof around for one last time in Mammoth (and study of course). Here is our edit from our final days in Mammoth.







We hope you all have a great summer. Check back for summer updates as the team members go on trips and camp-outs!

For incoming freshman, we look forward to having you on the team, feel free to email the officers to find more about the team.

The weekend of April 12 & 13 marked the last SCCSC race weekend of the season. Competitions included slopestyle and skier/boarder cross events. USC took home 4 top 8 spots in skier/boarder X and had 8 participants in the slopestyle event. Chris Farro and Alex Clarey of USC took home first and second place for skier slopestyle.


Alexis getting ready to hit the boarder cross






We're all friends on the SCCSC!

Thanks to UCSB for hosting a great tailgate and party. Getting everyone together on a sunny afternoon was definitely a good time.

We had a great season and are looking forward to next year already.

Next year we'll have clips of the week, so we thought we'd start now with a video recap of the weekend.

Enjoy!

Hey everyone, thanks for coming out to the meeting to show your support for the team and the officers.

Let me give a big congratulations to all those who ran and want to be a part of the team. We'll be implementing some new things next year so we'll have plenty of ways people can get involved with the running of the team.

Here are the new officers for the 2008/2009 year -

President: Kristen Kamei
Ski Vice President: Alex Clarey
Snowboard Vice President: Mark Leffingwell
Treasurer: Chris Nelson
Secretary: Abe Kislevitz

Congrats to all and we hope you guys are stoked for another great year next year.

That being said there are still 3 weeks remaining. If you aren't going to Vegas the last weekend you will need to head up there over the next 2 weeks and grab all of your stuff.