CVA was the first Academy to design a program specifically for snowboard athletes when Mark Fawcett pushed for a program in the early 80s. Today CVA Snowboard Program alumni include: Olympic gold medalist, World Champion and seven time X-Games medalist, Seth Wescott '94; six time Big Mountain Rider of the Year Jeremy Jones ’93; two-time Olympian, Mark Fawcett '90; and Olympians, Jeff Greenwood '94 and Adam Hostetter '93.

CVA snowboarders compete in Half-pipe, Big-Air, Rail Jams, Boardercross and Alpine events. Athletes compete locally and across the globe at World Cup, Grand Prix, NorAm, Revolution Tour, and USASA events.

During the winter season; when not competing, we train every day on Sugarloaf’s 2,820 vertical feet - the most continuous in New England, only lift-serviced above-treeline skiing in the East, and 133 trails. Freestyle snowboarders perfect their technique on Sugarloaf's 400-foot superpipe with 16-foot walls and 18 degrees of continuous pitch and in the various terrain parks at Sugarloaf.

When not on the mountain we’re training sport-specific dryland sessions on the trampolines, in the weight room or in the skate park of our athletic facility, the Antigravity Complex (AGC). At the AGC you practice and learn the mechanics of jumps and rails on two Olympic-quality fly bed bungee trampolines, and an indoor skate park with rails, plus a bowl. Integrated into our dryland training are specific weight training, plyometrics and stretching programs designed to build strength, agility and flexibility within our athletes.