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I'm Dave Lyons and I'm the program director head coach for ***
which is Stevens Pass Alpine Club
we teach kids from five years old all the way up the twenty-plus years old
how to race, how to ski,
and more importantly how to ski race
we have about a 100-250 kids depending upon the year
Ski racing is I believe an incredibly difficult sport to excel at
If you take the mind it takes to be a very good golfer and
the physical skill it takes to be a world-class athlete in a finesse sport
it's a conglomeration of all of those things in the one sport
that you're dealing with that is constantly changing and varying
and it really makes ski racing a very big challenge
So in nine days we're gonna be hosting a race and it's gonna finish right here
So I use Smartsheet to communicate with the ski area and making sure they're getting things groomed,
We're getting the banner tape up, getting crowd control fencing up,
all the stuff that we need to deal with
in the physical setting up of the race
We have 40-50 volunteers that we have to coordinate with
making sure that they're in the right places at the right times
we have to book hotel rooms, we have to find out who's planning on going to that race,
we have to get their registrations in,
we have to travel to that place,
so Smartsheet really allows us to do that officially and quickly so we're not
spending all our time doing paperwork
What Smartsheet has become for us is our one true place
that people can get information from
We started with athlete management and getting information out to the athletes
and the athletes getting information back to me
so I know the decisions they are making and we started using that and we realized
that it was going to be really good for our time cards for coaches
so we've been able to use it in a lot of different areas of the business
that we weren't necessarily looking at to start with
One of the the really cool things is the mobile app for Smartsheet
and it allows us to make last-minute changes
so if we're at a race and the race is supposed to be a giant slalom
and you know it turns out to be a day like today where
it starts snowing quite a bit
it's not safe to run the giant slalom
They might change what the race actually is that day and so I can go to Smartsheet
as soon as I find out about it and all the kids will automatically get updated
and know to come with the right pair of skis to the race
What's happened is that sports have gotten more and more complex
and getting information out there, accurate information,
takes more of the coaches time to do all that stuff
and what Smartsheet has allowed us to do is
is turn that world upside down so that now I don't have to worry about all that information
it goes out and it goes out accurately, efficiently,
and I'm able to do it very quickly
It lets the coaches and myself to do the reason why we're here
because the all have the passion to work with the kids
and helping the kids ski faster, to helping the kids ski better,
for creating the community for the club
and that's what this is all about
It's about actually interacting with the kids and it gives me time to interact with the kids
What you see in the background all morning while you do this
this is why I do this