Student to coach new Dutch ski team
Photo courtesy ot Chuck Heidenreich
Business student Chuck Heidenreich will be spending his third
winter on the world cup freestyle tour But this year he will be
coaching the Dutch national team instead of competing for the
United States
By Paul Danzer
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Chuck Heidenreich is winte
ring in Europe this year That's
not really new to Heidenreich
He's been there before, as a
member of the United States
World Cup freestyle ski team.
But, last July, word came that
freestyle rosters were being cut
in half for the coming season.
Heidenreich was on the wrong
half It looked as if the University
marketing junior might be
spending a relatively quiet
winter, for the first time in quite
awhile.
“I was really troubled,” he
says, referring to the prospect
of spending this winter out in the
cold
Then in late September,
Heidenreich learned that he
would once again find himself
living out of a suitcase as he
makes the rounds of the World
Cup circuit But, this year, he
won’t be dancing down the
slopes as a competitor He’ll be
coaching the Dutch national
freestyle team
"The thing with Holland is
something that has kind of hit
me," says Heidenreich, "but,
I'm sure it will hit me once I get
over there and realize, wow, I'm
still doing this.'
"It’ll be a big challenge,” he
says of coaching the
newly-formed team in Holland
"I'll be dealing probably with
skiers who, a lot of them will be
just getting going in the sport.
They'll probably be where I was,
you know, four years ago.”
Adding to the challenge for
Heidenreich will be the fact that
he has never done any struc
tured coaching, although he
has worked at ski schools, and
offered tips to friends on the
slopes
Four years ago Heidenreich
was working toward a birth in
the national freestyle competi
tion as a senior in high school
"That was really important to
me After that I started thinking,
Oh geez, what's next’,” he says
of his trip to nationals Two
years later he was making his
first World Cup tour.
"The monotony of running
gates to me, didn't allow me to
do what I wanted to do," says
Heidenreich, who was on skis in
the hills of Massachusetts
almost before he could walk.
Heindenreich participated in
downhill racing in his younger
days, but turned to freestyle in
1975 when the sport began to
develop competitively
Freestyle ski competition
consists of three events. The
mogul event is the closest to
downhill racing, and many
freestyle mogul skiers are also
pro ski racers, according to
Heidenreich. The ballet event is
akin to the floor exercise in
gymnastics or a figure skating
routine It is a two minute chor
eographed run down the hill to
music.
"My run will consist of about
probably five or six double
axels, which is like a skater’s
(routine), but I'll be doing it with
skis."
Third is aerials, which in
cludes a variety of flips
Heidenreich doesn't do that
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event because he doesn’t have
the time to practice all of the
intricacies of flips while he
going to school.
Heidenreich goes to school
spring, summer and fall, then
spends his winter on the slopes
He is learning as much about
the business world outside the
classroom as he is in it Much of
his time is spent searching for
sponsors who might help cover
the expenses of living in Eu
rope Since freestyle skiing is an
amateur sport, he will not get
paid for coaching the Dutch
team. But, he says the Dutch Ski
Federation will help cover some
of his expenses. He stresses the
some.
Heidenreich feels the greatest
asset he has on the slopes is his
mental outlook. "Because of the
things that are going on in my
head spiritually, with God, if I
goof up it’s not like life and
death to me,” he says. ”1
understand that there are other
more important things in life
than skiing. So, if I’m not
number one, that doesn't bother
me I realize I’m not going to be
number one, because I’m going
to school
’’It sometimes gets discoura
ging,” Heidenreich says of
having friends who are training
year-round. “But, hey, in
another year-and-a-half I'll be
done with school, and then I can
go spend all my time if I want to
go skiing I'm not going to be
over the hill at age 23 I hope.’’
Climbing the hill as quickly as
he has, chances are he will be
wintering on top for some time
to come
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