A mid-season check-in with NCAA Spyder Athlete Bobby Ryan͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
STUDENT OF THE GAME
The temperature hovers around 7° Fahrenheit, a strip of vibrant oranges, yellows, and pinks paint the sky to the East, and the snow is skiing ideally for the University of Colorado Ski Team at Eldora Mountain Resort. It's 6:45 a.m. and this group of college students are up more than two hours before you might start to find the majority of their peers emerging from their houses down the canyon road in Boulder, Colo. One face appears to be especially focused this frigid morning, and that is collegiate Spyder Athlete Bobby Ryan in between training runs as the CU Ski Team prepares for their next race of the NCAA Ski Season. It is obvious that the life of NCAA ski racers differs significantly from that of the average college student.
| | | | | | | | | | | "We'd be up early inspecting the course, then racing, and in the afternoon and evening we'd be in the hotel studying for finals or taking them", Bobby shared. Nonetheless, after straddling a gate and skiing off the course at Copper, Bobby picked up his first NorAm points at Panorama, before moving swiftly on to a Winter Classic series in Steamboat, Colo., a brief intermission for the holidays, and subsequently straight into the first two official NCAA races in Park City, Utah and Bozeman, Montana. If that sounds like the team has been on the road all Winter, well, it's largely because they have, while balancing the demands of school the entire time.
| | | | | | | Bobby has become a student of the psychology of ski racing in recent weeks as he considers what strategies might help him to succeed, he has embraced a willingness to try new things at the top of the start gate in order to better lock in for success, we were surprised to hear what his answer to this ongoing question is, for now at least. "I think for me, the biggest thing is focusing on gratitude–how much fun I'm having, how crazy my life is that I get to go to all these ski resorts around the world, and getting to ski with my teammates who become my best friends and letting go of some of the self-imposed expectations", Bobby says.
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