• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Zen Ski Portal

Snow Skiing | Water Skiing | Wakeboarding

  • Home
  • Snow Skiing
    • Snow Skiing Basics
    • Cross Country Skiing Tips
    • Ski Tips
  • Wakeboarding
    • Wakeboarding Basics
    • Maintaining Longevity in Wakeboarding
    • Optimization Of Hull Shapes For Water-Skiing And Wakeboarding
  • Water Skiing
    • Water Skiing Basics
    • What Factors Influence Water Skiing?
    • Water Skiing and Wakeboarding Safety
  • News

/ November 12, 2015

20 Many years and Counting: Pepa Miloucheva on Coaching in Craftsbury

98c92 ski CP 07990

ed1cf ski rowing

ed1cf ski CP 07744

ed1cf ski CP 08007

b75c1 ski IMG 0313

Recently, FasterSkier interviewed the youngest elite female coach on the American circuit. This week, FS shares the story of one of the most knowledgeable elite female club coaches in the U.S., Pepa Miloucheva of the Craftsbury Green Racing Project (CGRP) in Craftsbury, Vt.

Like numerous in the area, ahead of Miloucheva &#8212 better identified as “Pepa” &#8212 was ever a coach, she was an athlete. Unlike numerous, she is also a globe champ.

“I was a competitor for the Bulgarian [ski orienteering] women’s team and won the world championships in 1994,” she said in the course of a latest mobile phone interview. “I’ve been competing considering that I was 15, sixteen years old. Sports activities, in general, produced me who I am.”

Sports activities like nordic skiing, ski orienteering and sculling are just a handful of that appear on the elite coach’s listing of experience.

While Miloucheva, 48, claims she no longer races, her question “does the New York Marathon from last yr count?” problems that claim. Rather, she devotes her time, exclusively the final 20 years, to becoming a coach.

“I have my master’s in sports activities science, so coaching is my education,” she said. With a master’s degree from the Bulgarian Sports activities University and concentrations in physiology, biomechanics and science of sports activities instruction, Miloucheva has the education to back up her enterprise in coaching.

For Miloucheva, college never stops. “Coaches need to have to be prepared to continually find out,” she mentioned. “When I have a new athlete, I have to get to know them in and out. Each and every individual has diverse strengths and you learn from every single a single.”

Meanwhile, she prioritizes the instructional development of her skiers. “A massive element of [coaching] is educating the athlete,” Miloucheva mentioned. “I talk to my athletes a great deal about what they’re performing and why they’re performing it. Each and every time I send them a coaching routine, I make confident they understand it and if they don’t understand anything, then I describe it to them.”

Miloucheva and Ida Sargent discussing a workout in early Nov., whilst education in Foret Montmorency, QC. (Photograph: Caitlin Patterson)

Miloucheva (l) and Ida Sargent during a exercise in early November while education at La Forêt Montmorency in Quebec. (Photo: Caitlin Patterson)

Even if the phone for that explanation comes for the duration of her hours of rest.

“Pepa puts an incredible sum of time and hard work into her coaching and is always available to help,” Ida Sargent, a U.S. Ski Group member now in her sixth season with the CGRP, wrote in an e-mail. “I’ve called her in the middle of the night just before when I’m in Europe and she usually picks up the cellphone.”

Sargent, 27, describes Miloucheva’s coaching type as one of “complete commitment,” and she feels Craftsbury delivers something most packages do not.

“I adore the mission behind the GRP plan,” Sargent wrote. “It’s actually neat to have skiers, biathletes, and rowers in the very same area in direction of similar objectives of achievement. &#8230 Operating with Pepa and has provided me a continuity in coaching that enables me to train with no missing a beat.”

Having been coached by Miloucheva given that she was 8 years previous, Sargent, from Orleans, Vt., just north of Craftsbury, has enjoyed a rare continuity of coaching.

That&#8217s stemmed from Miloucheva’s ambition. When at first asked to aid work at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center, Miloucheva recalls, “they had a nordic junior program and a master’s system, but were missing the level of individuals who were graduating university. So we began [the CRGP].”

Even so, Miloucheva explained she never ever intended to coach competitively in the U.S.

“I wasn’t organizing to stay in Vermont,” she stated. “I had a buddy residing in Craftsbury and planned to just keep for the winter. Then I stayed 19 a lot more many years.”

In 2010, Milocheva (middle row) was named NENSA Coach of the Yr. Pictured here in a informal levitation with her team at the time (back row l-r): Ollie Burruss, Tim Reynolds, Matt Briggs (front l-r): Chelsea Minor, Lauren Jacobs, Hannah Dreissigacker. (Photograph: Craftsbury Green Racing Venture)

In 2010, Pepa Miloucheva was named NENSA Coach of the Year. Pictured here with her crew at the time (back l-r): Ollie Burruss, Tim Reynolds, Matt Briggs (front l-r): Chelsea Little, Lauren Jacobs, Hannah Dreissigacker. (Photo: CRGP)

Regardless of her authentic intentions, Miloucheva’s recent ambitions rest within the Vermont-based system.

“Right now, my biggest point [is] generating positive our ranges all the way from BKL to the elite [are] nicely developed,” she said.“I truly hope for us to have everybody, from 5 year olds to masters, ski all the levels.”

“She was hired by the Center as a ski instructor and soon had a flock of youngsters following her tracks close to the Soccer Fields,&#8221 John Brodhead, Craftsbury skiing director wrote in an email. &#8220At the identical time she had a following of Elderhostelers demanding her as their instructor. Pepa’s excitement about x-c skiing is contagious. She is in numerous approaches responsible for Craftsbury’s track record as a premiere Center for Nordic skiing.”

With a lot of of the nation’s top skiers and biathletes joining her team, the track record of Miloucheva and the CGRP says a good deal.

“Generally, I haven’t accomplished considerably recruitment,” she mentioned. “People know the plan. If athletes feel the plan is the greatest fit for them, then they apply. Acceptance depends on available spaces we have and how many athletes we can help. It’s really about the athletes and whether they want to be here.”

In accordance to Miloucheva, the athlete is accountable for choosing the system.

“I wasn’t preparing to remain in Vermont. I had a buddy living in Craftsbury and planned to just keep for the winter. Then I stayed 19 much more many years.” &#8212 Pepa Miloucheva, head coach of the Craftsbury Green Racing Project

 “Nothing is static with our instruction on the GRP,” 4-yr CRGP skier Caitlin Patterson, 25, wrote in an electronic mail. “Certainly we have workout routines that we return to time and time once more, and Pepa particularly has her favorites in which we athletes endure drastically (and grow more powerful for it) – but it’s excellent to have a system where I can usually inquire why and understand the reasons behind a exercise, or I can start a discussion and influence a adjust in how we structure our workouts in the potential.”

Ultimately, the combination of a effectively-driven system and driven athletes has made the CGRP effective. “Like every thing in lifestyle, occasionally you get discouraged, but we function by means of it together,” stated Miloucheva. “With skiing you’re always an person, but also a group.”

A Dash of Pepa:

Title: Pepa Miloucheva 

Age: 48

Hometown: Govedarsi, Sofiya, Bulgaria  

Preferred Memory:

1.The Bulgarian nationwide crew singing the nationwide anthem when I won in 1994. The organizers didn&#8217t have the Bulgarian anthem.

two. Hannah [Dreissigacker], Ida [Sargent], and Susan [Dunklee] walking at the opening ceremony in Sochi. 

Favourite Quote: The last a single I came across &#8220Pain is just a weakness leaving your body.&#8221 

Dream Occupation: I have it. Currently being in a position to coach from the BKL to the elite degree.

Pepa Miloucheva head coach for the previous 20 many years of the Craftsbury Green Racing Undertaking in Craftsbury, Vt. (Photograph: Clare Egan http://greenracingproject.com/blog/?tag=pepa)

Pepa Miloucheva head coach for the past 20 years of the Craftsbury Green Racing Task in Craftsbury, Vt. (Photograph: Clare Egan/GRP weblog)

&nbsp

&nbsp

&nbsp

&nbsp

&nbsp

&nbsp

&nbsp

&nbsp

&nbsp

&nbsp

&nbsp

&nbsp

Filed Under: Snow Skiing

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • Final Ski FREE Day at Howelsen Hill Ski Area Slated for Sunday, March 12
  • Dunklee Repeats in 5th; Eckhoff Gets First Win of Season in Kontiolahti Sprint
  • O’Harra, Frankowski Claim Solo Victories in Tour of Anchorage
  • Clean Podium Sweep for Norway in Lahti 30 k: Diggins Conquers 5th
  • How to Capture the Perfect Ski Instagram

Recent Comments

  • san ji on Snow Skiing Grosser Arber Germany with Hohenfels ODR : Our first time Skiing
  • koog008 on Snow Skiing Grosser Arber Germany with Hohenfels ODR : Our first time Skiing
  • QuadCork1620 on Snow Skiing Grosser Arber Germany with Hohenfels ODR : Our first time Skiing
  • Andy Marshall on Snow Skiing Grosser Arber Germany with Hohenfels ODR : Our first time Skiing
  • James Alexander on Snow Skiing Grosser Arber Germany with Hohenfels ODR : Our first time Skiing

Archives

  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012

Categories

  • Snow Skiing
  • Wakeboarding
  • Water Skiing

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Copyright © 2021 · Digital Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in