Ida B. Wells High School Athletics

The IBWWSC takes the school's  snowboarders and skiers up to the Mt. Hood Meadows to ride for nine weekday nights in January and February. The buses leave Ida B. Wells at 2pm and return at 11pm on every Wednesday or Thursday night depending on which program your athlete is in. Both programs include rides to the mountain, chaperons, food and drinks provided on the way to the mountain and snacks on the way back, insurance provided thru OISA, and the opportunity to become a part of our fantastic IBWWSC community!

The Recreation Team is made up of both skiers and snowboarders and goes up to the mountain on Wednesday nights. The Recreation Team is an opportunity to free ride, make new friends, and progress at your own speed. While there is no formal coaching in this program, our peer mentor coaches and adult coaches are there to help out by request at any time.

The Competition teams (both skiing and snowboarding) go up to the mountain on Thursday nights. The snowboard team competes in four events that lead up to the OISA State Championships in March. The events are: Banked Slalom, Boardercross, Slopestyle and Half-Pipe. Team riders must compete in at least one event. New riders will be coached to compete in at least Banked Slalom which is a timed, solo, self paced event not requiring advanced technical skills.

This season we are adding buses to the scheduled Metro League competition weekend events.

Web: https://www.ibwwintersportsclub.org/
Advisor: ibwsadvisor@gmail.com
Head Coach, Jason Elstad, jasonelstad@gmail.com

About Jason Elstad: From Colorado, was a cert 2 AASI instructor, 12th person to get the AASI advanced freestyle certification (without an ACL), coached for the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club and worked with kids 7-23: including 5 future Olympians, an X-Game gold medalist and hundreds of other talented kids. One of his favorite things in this world is the look on someone's face when they learn something new, pure happiness.  

The Learn-to-Ski Race program is brand new this year. Take your skiing to another level this year with our expanded ski program that covers drills on a variety of terrain, as well as furthering skills in the park and trying your abilities in slalom/giant slalom courses. 
- Improve your turn radius- Increase comfort in the gates, parks,
   trees and variety of terrain
- Enhance wider GS arcs and shorter SL turns
- You may be able to try racing or just enjoy night training with no
   pressure to race.  

About Kirsten Klug
Kirsten brings 30 years of coaching skiers and ski racers to improve their confidence on and off the hill. She provides ideas and lessons that improve athletes ability to ski all terrain, conditions and courses/parks. Kirsten places emphasis on sportsmanship, teamwork and self confidence.  Go to http://HealthyFunChoices.com/skiteam for more information about Kirsten.

All comp coaching skiing/snowboarding takes place in groups of 5-9 riders with one of our many coaches that have years of experience instructing to all levels and in all events.

See https://www.ibwwintersportsclub.org/ for registration information.

2025 Competition Dates 
Banked Slalom 1 1/12 Sun
Banked Slalom 2 2/2 Sun
Boardercross 1 1/27 Mon 
Boardercross  2/9 Sun
Slope Style1 2/22 Sat
Slope Style 2 3/2 Sun
Halfpipe1 2/23 Sun
Halfpipe3 3/1 Sat