Bill Demong — five-time Olympian, Vermontville native and CEO of USA Nordic — talks about bringing the U.S. ski team to Paul Smith’s College, making the four-year institution the organization’s East Coast training center. (Photo credit: Aaron Cerbone for Adirondack Daily Enterprise)
The trails at the Paul Smith’s College Visitor Interpretive Center will be skied by the USA Nordic team next year.
USA Nordic is seeking to establish eastern, central and western training centers across the country, and it selected the college as its East Coast hub.
Bill Demong is the CEO of USA Nordic, a Vermontville native and a five-time Olympian and 2010 Olympic gold and silver medalist in Nordic combined. He said he grew up skiing the trails of the VIC with fellow Olympian Tim Burke. At one point he lived down Keese Mills Road, so the VIC trails were practically his backyard.
Read Aaron Cerbone’s full story in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise here.