Carrabassett Valley Academy
| Carrabassett Valley Academy | |
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3197 Carrabassett Drive Carrabassett Valley, Maine 04947 United States |
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| Coordinates | 45°04′44″N 70°18′39″W / 45.0788°N 70.3109°WCoordinates: 45°04′44″N 70°18′39″W / 45.0788°N 70.3109°W |
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| Type | Ski Academy |
| Established | 1982 |
| Headmaster | Kate Webber Punderson |
| Staff | 50 |
| Enrollment | 84 Students |
| Average class size | 12 students |
| Student to teacher ratio | 6:1 |
| Campus | 25 Acres |
| Color(s) | Green, White |
| Athletics | Skiing, Snowboarding |
| Mascot | Big Dogs |
| Website | www.gocva.com |
Carrabassett Valley Academy is a private ski and snowboard academy offering most downhill winter mountain sports. Carrabassett Valley Academy is based in Carrabassett Valley, Maine at the base of Sugarloaf Mountain. Established in 1982, the school has trained and schooled the likes of Olympic competitors Bode Miller, Seth Wescott, Kirsten Clark, and Emily Cook. Jeremy Jones, nine-time Snowboard Magazine Big Mountain Rider of the Year, also honed his snowboarding and academic skills at Carrabassett Valley Academy. Since 1982 CVA has produced 12 Olympians, 92 National Titles, 11 X-Games competitors, 26 NCAA and USCSA All-Americans, 39 national team members, and six world champions.
The SRSEF was founded in 1968 as non-profit organization offering high-level ski training. In 1972 they were approved by the Maine State Board of Education as a tutorial program. Tutorial programs were held for four to five weeks during the winter. Student-athletes skied in the morning and were tutored in the afternoon. Their home schools provided work while the SRSEF provided tutors and a space to study. The SRSEF helped these student-athletes take their training to the next level. In 1982 the SRSEF helped start Carrabassett Valley Academy as a five-month tutorial program, and the following year, in 1983, CVA evolved into a nine-month ski academy. The SRSEF hosted all competitions at Sugarloaf from high-school level races to the US Alpine championships until 1992, when Sugarloaf created the Competition Center. In 1995 Sugarloaf and CVA took over the SRSEF’s weekend program. The program was first called the “Junior Competition Program.” Later Sugarloaf and CVA changed the name to “SCVA” (short for Sugarloaf Carrabassett Valley Academy). Now it is called the “CVA Weekend Program.”
Jean Luce is the woman who had the idea to start the first school in Carrabassett Valley. CVA grew out of the SRSEF. Jean was very involved with junior ski racing in New England. SRSEF’s Tutorial Program students did their schoolwork at her dining-room table. With the help of Julie Bronson and Margaret Arbuckle, Jean wrote a prospectus and formed a board of trustees. Jean went to great lengths to get King Cummings to be on CVA’s board of trustees. The reason she wanted him on board was because of his experience forming other schools and his relationship with Sugarloaf. In June 1982, the papers were legally signed to form the academy. After going around to many people with “good deep pockets,” Jean met with a man from the Kellogg Foundation and received the advice she needed to help her raise the money to start CVA. The school bought the former Capricorn Lodge, which was an old inn, as the new campus for the school. In the following year, 1983 the school became a full nine-month program. Twenty students started the first school year. Since then CVA has expanded its programming athletically and academically and attracts students from across the nation and around the world. Jean was secretary of the board of trustees until the early 2000s.
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