How to get on the team.
No tryouts. No racing experience required. Here is everything you need, in order.
Season fee
$1,105
Payment plans available.
Registration closes
November 16, 2026
$150 deposit; balance due January 9, 2027.
7th & 8th graders
Welcome
Seventh and eighth graders at Ida B Wells feeder schools can forerun our races — ski the course before the scored racers — weather and time permitting. Meet with the coach first; forerunners race under his sponsorship. Fees are about the same as for the full team.
Tryouts
None
No tryouts. The team is open to any Ida B Wells student.
No wrong door.
Three ways onto the snow, and none of them is the wrong door. Tell us where you're at and we'll point you to the right one.
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“I've never really skied”
Get on snow first
The IBW Winter Sports Club runs a First Time program built exactly for this — bus up, coaching, food, team gear, no experience assumed. It's a different organisation from ours and it's the best door onto snow at this school, so we'll say so.
Email us anyway and we'll help you work out which program fits. You shouldn't have to figure out which club is which on your own.
Winter Sports Club -
“I can ski, but I've never raced”
Come Friday night
From the first weekend in December to the first race, the team trains Saturdays and adds Friday-night practice in January, with optional supplemental sessions on top. Six weeks of that is a rocket ship. Kids who show up as decent intermediate skiers do not stay intermediate — whether or not they end up racing.
You do not need to have raced. Most of the team hadn't.
$1,105
Join the race team -
“I already race”
Come run gates with us
Slalom and giant slalom through OISRA and the Three Rivers League. Training from early December, a five-day camp between Christmas and New Year, six races from MLK weekend through February, and state finals in March for those who qualify.
$1,105
Join the race team
Included
- Coaching at every race
- Saturday on-mountain training in December
- Friday evening on-mountain training at Timberline or Ski Bowl, January and February
Not included
- Lift tickets or a season pass
- Personal equipment (skis, boots, poles, helmet)
- Team uniform and race suit
- Saturday supplemental training — optional, extra fee
- The five-day holiday camp — optional, extra fee
How to join
- 1
Fill out the interest form
Takes two minutes. Tells us you exist and gets you on the email list.
- 2
Come to the info night — Oct 15
Meet the coaches, meet other families, ask everything. Date is preliminary.
- 3
Register with OISRA
Racer registration and the FERPA release are filed with OISRA directly, not with us.
- 4
Complete the team forms
Team rules, resort waivers, and medical releases. All linked on the Resources page.
- 5
Pay the deposit
A $150 deposit holds a spot; the balance is due January 9, 2027. Payment plans available — just ask.
What else costs money
Saturday supplementals and the holiday camp cost extra on top of the season fee. Both are optional, and both are covered by the same quiet help as everything else — ask.
- OISRA league registration — $55 per racer, paid separately to OISRA
- Saturday supplemental training — $1,105 to prepay the full Saturday series, or $145 per drop-in day
- Five-day holiday camp — $650
Tell us you're interested
We'll be in touch with info night details and everything you need for the season.
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Everyone gets a lane
Ski racing has a reputation as an expensive sport for a particular kind of family. We know it. We are actively working against it, and here is exactly how.
- All levels
Every skill level, genuinely
Most of our athletes had never run a gate when they joined. Friday-night and Saturday practice, plus optional supplemental sessions, are where that changes — you don't arrive a racer, you become one here. And if you've genuinely never skied, we'll tell you honestly that the Winter Sports Club's First Time program is the better first step, and help you work out where to go.
- All kids
Every kind of kid
Every race, ethnicity, gender identity, income level and ability is welcome on this team, and that is a standard we hold each other to in the lift line and on the hill, not just a sentence on a website.
- No barrier
Cost is not the deciding factor
We have gear to lend and we work out payment plans, quietly and without paperwork. Nobody on the team knows who is on one. Ask before you rule this out — that is what the ask is for.
- Show up
You don't have to arrive with a crew
Plenty of kids sign up alone. By the second waxing party they're not alone. That's most of what this team is actually for.
If any of this doesn't match your experience of us, tell us. We'd rather hear it. skolluri@gmail.com
Things parents ask
Experience, cost, gear, time commitment, 8th graders — the common questions, answered plainly.