coaching staff - lake creek
Head Coach  Dave Bingham: Dave is a long time SVSEF coach logging about 15 years with the Nordic Devo program over the years.  Dave is not only the Head Coach for Lake Creek but also at Quigley spending as much time as possible with the Valley's young nordic athletes!  He has 2 kids on the XC Prep team and when he isnt shepherding young skiers around the Lake Creek trails, he chinks for Dave Bingham Log Home Chinking.  Dave has always been the ultimate outdoor adventure guy he enjoys rock climbing, snowboarding, finding new routes (he is a guide book author) and is still climbing 5.12 at age 52!  Dave's wide range of experience with skiing not only includes his 15 years of coaching experience but also tele skiing, working for the Trapp Family lodge in Vermont, lots of backcountry ski and snowboarding, and 1st descentsen snowboard on numerous area peaks. A couples things you might not know about Dave (and might be quite surprised to hear) are that he... had long hair and wore moccasins in the 70s, and he spent 2 years climbing in Yosemite!
 
Laurie Leman:  Laurie is a long time member of the SVSEF Cross Country Devo coaching staff, she has been with the program for 20 years!  Laurie is originally from Vancouver, B.C., graduated with a B.A. from Simon Fraser University and lives in Idaho with her husband Chris.  Along with coaching, Laurie works as a personal assistant and spends her free time Mtn Biking, gardening, and snowboarding.  Laurie's ski background can be summed up in 8 words; love to ski, live to ski, ski to live (and she loves to snowboard too).  One thing you might not know about Laurie is that she plays the keyboard in a band!

Paddy McIlvoy: This is Paddy's 3rd year coaching with the Lake Creek Devo Team.  He hails from Las Cruces, New Mexico and has a B.A. in Outdoor Adventure Education from Prescott College.  During the off season from Nordic Coaching, Paddy is a Fly Fishing Guide and a Photographer.  Paddy grew up with an "obsessed Nordic skiing father" and was exposed at an early age to the sport.  He started skiing seriously in College in Norther Arizona, first mostly as a way to approach climbs or mountaineering objectives, then as an end into itself.  Moving to Ketchum pretty much sealed the deal for Paddy and he currently trys to skate, classic or backcountry ski five days a week.  Along with skiing Paddy enjoys fly fishing, all forms of climbing, any sort of sliding over snow, mountain biking, whitewater and sea kayaking; for Paddy if it's outdoors, he probably thinks it is fun.  One thing you might not know about him is taht he kayaked almost a thousand miles on the Sea of Cortez.

Tessa Westbrook: This is Tessa 3rd year coaching and her 4th year as part of the SVSEF family.  She is a graduate of UVM and lives in Hailey with her husband Seth.  Aside from coaching the Devo Team around the trails Tessa spends most of her time teaching skiing, she is a ski instructor for Sun Valley Nordic.  Tessa has been skiing for a good portion of her life with the highlight of her career being a member of the 2002 US Olympic Ski Team!  A couple things you might not know about Tessa are that can "kind of" juggle and that she grew up on a maple sugar farm!