Journal of professional cyclists Ian MacGregor and Timmy Duggan

See Ray’s thoughts on what ski racing means to him.

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With this scholarship The Just Go Harder Foundation is helping me get the support, coaching, and gear I need to go skiing. 

My family can’t afford all of my gear and training fees sometimes, so when we need help, we can 

 rely on the scholarship to get the other things I need. Thanks to the Just Go Harder Foundation I can enjoy the 

things about skiing that I love. The vibe of the ski culture. The way to ski the deep snow and get blasted 

with a chill of happiness that surges through my body, and to feel the all around freedom of when you 

start to slide down the mountain. That is my inspiration to ski. 

 My skiing couldn’t have progressed if I didn’t get the coaching and experience I needed from 

this racing program. You work on drills and improve stance, stability, confidence, and turning. In the 

beginning it may seem that these little drills aren’t going to help you and that’s what I thought but as I 

watched myself and my teammates progress I found that everything that the coaches were doing where 

changing my skiing dramatically. 

 There is another reason that I enjoy the ski team. I enjoy meeting the other kids that like skiing 

as much as I do. It is something that I look forward to the whole week. I can go up on the weekends 

and ski instead of having to stay down here and be bored. I will be able to take what I have learned and 

what I will keep learning and use it for the rest of my life. 

Thank you so much for this opportunity to go skiing, 

Ray McDermott