To: Dave Johnson

From: Don Wolter, retired nordic ski coach

Re: Nomination for Section 5 “Assistant Coach of the Year”

7 February 2007

I would like to place the name of Terry Lillibridge of Armstrong High School in nomination for assistant coach of the year.

Terry has served as assistant coach at Armstrong for the past 10 years. His strengths as a coach are many. They range from establishing strong rapport and friendships with skiers of all abilities to being a skilled teacher of technique, training and waxing. His patient personality has made him especially effective in working with beginning skiers.

Giving generously of his time, Terry often uses vacation days from his job at FedEx to attend meets and holiday training camps. He also motivates students to continue skiing after the high school season ends by organizing groups to ski the American Birkebeiner.

Terry combines the best qualities of a coach: he consistently produces high-level competitors and also serves a role model demonstrating the benefits of skiing as a lifetime activity for maintaining physical and mental health.