Bill Bowness
About Bill
In 2004, Bill was awarded the first-ever adaptive slot on the PSIA National Alpine Team, promptly earning the respect of fellow team members for his ability to instruct able-bodied alpine skiers of all levels just as well as adaptive skiers. To quote from one of his ski tips, “The similarities between the skiing techniques of a sit-down mono skier and his or her stand-up peer are more numerous than the differences.” Now Bill has become the first coach of the new PSIA Adaptive Team for 2008 to 2012. Bill has traveled the world as a silver and bronze medal-winning Paralympic athlete and an adaptive ski clinician in Korea and Spain. Currently technical director at Disabled Sports-Far West (formally Tahoe Adaptive Ski School), he also owns and operates “Unlimited Skiing” water ski school.
Vital Stats
Hometown: Truckee, CA (winter) and Brandon, MS (summer)
Resort: Alpine Meadows (Tahoe City, CA)
Sponsors: Patagonia, Hestra, Rudy Project, Volkl
Favorite run: Palisades to Deer Camp Cliffs at Alpine Meadows
Favorite on-mountain restaurant: I'm having too much fun skiing to take time to eat at a restaurant!
Favorite travel destination: Anywhere warm in the winter or cool in the summer.
Favorite food: Sushi
Ski morning breakfast: Large bowl of Honey Bunches of Oats with a whole, cut-up banana and approximately 4 ounces of strawberry yogurt and 6 ounces of 1% milk.
On-mountain lunch: Cheese, crackers, and salami.
Playlist: What’s a playlist???? I’m old school, so XM satellite radio in my truck is as techno as I get.
Last book you read: I forget . . . something by Tom Clancy or was it John Grisham?
Top three off-snow activities:
1) Water skiing
2) Rock crawling in my Jeep
3) Fishing
I would like to meet . . . Teddy Roosevelt.
PSIA-AASI makes me . . . stay up-to-date with the latest and greatest in how to share this sport with others
Click here to see a video of Bill, courtesy of the Christopher Reeve Foundation.
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