A Weight Off My Shoulders.

Since spring break ended, I have been working tirelessly to turn in my scholarship application for the Academy Snowboard Scholarship and it finally hit the mail today. For more information on it and so you can have a better idea of what I'm talking about in the rest of the blog, take a look at the guidelines at Academy Snowboards.

The whole process actually started back in January at SIA when I met the owner of Academy at their booth and got to talking about the scholarship and an internship and things of that nature. When I got back from SIA in early February, I looked into the scholarship more and realized it was pretty perfect for me, so I decided applying was a must. The next step in the process took a little while because I first e-mailed Jeff (the owner) letting him know I was very interested in an internship next year as well as asking him where I could find an application, since you can only get them from authorized Academy dealers and there are none in Steamboat. He then got me in touch with Chris who is in charge of the scholarship, and he said he would send one to The Click here in town for me to pick up, so I got very lucky with that.

From there it was a matter of getting all the paperwork I needed and the riding footage required for the scholarship. Over the next couple weeks was when I did the majority of filming. As awesome as spring break was, I was very busy the whole week and by the time it was over and I noticed what date it was, I realized I was dangerously close to the March 25th deadline with not very much done. I thankfully had the edit of my riding footage done but I needed all the paperwork such as transcripts and proof I'm enrolled, as well as a letter of recommendation which I got from the Director of Ski and Snowboard Business (which was really good if I do say so myself!). I actually haven't even gone snowboarding since spring break because I've been so busy getting everything I needed together, so let's hope it pays off in the end.

I was so excited to have the whole thing done and ready to mail, I even took these pictures of everything I was sending.

Everything.

I had to add a little steeze to what I was sending.

So thanks to everyone who helped me out with this, especially Bacon, Corey, and Nate for doing the filming and Bacon again for filming for my video essay. With that said, here is the final video I submitted. I wish my riding was better but I filmed it in not much time so hopefully it still gets the job done. Also, sorry about the song to those of you who don't like rap, I'm really not a fan either but I figured you can't go wrong with some classic B.I.G. Peace.