JSC Devos

Devos stands for Developmental Skiing!

Athletes should work with coaches on placement recommendation.

Improve and refine skiing technique through ski training and racing, develop skiing skills for all snow conditions and terrain, instill confidence in abilities, develop and learn with peers of similar age and ability.

DEVOS PRO~

Advancing athletes through alpine racing and working on fundamental skiing skills using racing to teach those skills at a high level. Training includes gates, powder, steeps, equipment preparation and more.

Devos History

If you were to take a wayback machine......waaaaaaayyyyy back to when some of today's JSC coaches were Mitey Mites; you would find that there was Mitey Mites and there was Juniors but not a whole lot in between. As a ski racer you sort of just went from Mitey Mites and were thrown in to training with Juniors and raced within your age-group. Super intimidating, not super helpful, and definitely not as safe.

Somewhere along the way about 25 years ago, someone figured out that 10 and up is a crucial time for young athletes to be inspired, comfortable, and have their natural growth and DEVelOpment in Ski racing focused, guided, and harnessed. Once Devos became a program with the Juneau Ski Club, it was obvious that it was a crucial program to ensure our JSC Athletes get all the confidence they need to progress to the Juniors program.

Meet The Coaches

Kevin Stell

JSC Head Coach / JSC Program Director

Kevin grew up skiing at Eaglecrest and started racing with the JSC Mitey Mite program when he was 6 yrs old. In high school Kevin moved to Steamboat, Colorado to continue racing and skied with the US Development Team for several years. After that he spent 2 years racing with the University of Colorado NCAA Division 1 ski team. Go Buffs!!

Through ski racing he has been fortunate to travel and race in 9 different countries and at last count about 140 ski areas. Eaglecrest is still Kevin's favorite place to ski and he is happy to call it his home mountain.

When Kevin isn't skiing he enjoys hunting, fishing, mountain biking, and spending time out at his cabin with family and friends.

Brock Tabor

Devo Lead Coach

Coach Brock(star) has been in the ski industry since 1992 when he first started teaching skiing at Stratton Mountain, Vermont with rambunctious 3-6 year olds. He has since has worked with ski instruction programs in Breckenridge, Colorado, Mount Bachelor, Oregon, West Mountain, New York, and ultimately landed at Eaglecrest in 1997 where he started coaching with the Mighty Mite program.

Brock holds a PSIA Level 3 Instructor , PSIA Children's Specialist Level 1, and USSA Level 100 certifications. Brock is also the parent of a JSC DEVO athlete and loves to tell bad dad jokes.