Administration Team

Brittany grew up in Brighton, Michigan where her family owned Mt. Brighton before Vail bought it in 2012. She has been snowboarding since she was 3 years old and has loved the sport since day one.

She started out with Ski and Snowboard Club Vail a few years ago as a snowboard coach and is now our Red Sandstone Elementary School/SSCV Cooperative Program Coordinator and also an SSCV Advancement Associate. Before coaching for the club, Brittany spent her days managing properties all over Colorado for a property management company and also hosting events for a company based out of Leadville.

The last 10 years she has been living the dream in Vail, Colorado, “everyday I am so thankful for this life and I love working with the kids!” Brittany loves being part of the SSCV community and is excited to take on this new role.

Betsy joined the front office aiding with bookkeeping in 2012. She is a University of West Virginia graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Management Information Systems. She has a son Paul who races competitively for SSCV.

Taylor manages SSCV full-time admissions, full-time enrollments and re-enrollments and related projections along with collaborating with VSSA for its full-time student athlete admissions and re-enrollments. She also manages SSCV’s academic staff (Academic Coaches and the Red Sandstone Elementary School/SSCV Cooperative Program Coordinator and Assistant) and is the administrative liaison with SSCV Academic Partners VSSA, RSES and Vail Mountain School. In late July 2023, Taylor will also assume responsibility for SSCV part-time enrollments, becoming a single point of contact for all membership inquiries, enrollments and re-enrollments moving forward.

Born in Toronto, Canada, Taylor spent most of her childhood in Raleigh, North Carolina. During her junior year of high school, she had the privilege of serving as a page for the House of Representatives. Following this, Taylor chose to spend her senior year as an exchange student in southern Norway. These formative experiences instilled in Taylor the importance of diverse learning opportunities and settings.

While completing her bachelor's degree at Virginia Tech, Taylor discovered a passion for teaching through her job as a swim instructor. After graduating in 2014 she moved to Colorado, where she pursued a master’s in education from Adams State University. For the past seven years she has worked in Colorado public schools. First as a language arts teacher and later as a special educator. Throughout this time, Taylor has continued to find joy as a part-time swim instructor.

Taylor brings with her years of experience helping students achieve their goals both in and out of the classroom. Her background as a special educator provides the unique skill set required when coordinating with classroom teachers to support students with organization, academic skills and grade level content. In turn, her administrative duties as a special educator have provided her with the attention to detail needed as Admissions & Academics Manager.

Tiffany is an alumna of Ski & Snowboard Club Vail and was a member of the United States Ski Team from 1996-2001. She retired from competition due to multiple knee injuries and went on to graduate from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She began working for SSCV in 2005.

Liz originally came to SSCV in 2018 from the Orleans Yacht Club (Orleans, MA) where she was the Club Administrator & Bookkeeper for ten years. She is a graduate of Wheaton College (Norton, MA) and has an M.A. from the University of Massachusetts. After UMass, much to her parents’ dismay, she moved to Mount Snow (West Dover, VT), took up snowboarding, and became one of the first female snowboard instructors in their Ski School and in the state. She and her husband are both originally from Cape Cod, but still have many strong ties to CO and the Vail Valley from having lived in Red Cliff (for 10 years) and in Eagle-Vail (for 2).

Liz and her husband returned to the East Coast early in 2020, but has re-joined the full-time Admin staff of Ski & Snowboard Club Vail as of May 2021 in her former position of Bookkeeper and part of SSCV’s three-person Finance Team.

Although she works remotely from Cape Cod, don't be surprised if you see her working in the SSCV offices as she and her husband travel to CO on a regular basis. When not working, she can be found listening to an excessive amount of 80’s & 90’s alternative music, exploring CO, hiking, snowshoeing, learning to ski (yes really!), or spending time with family & friends.

Taryn was born in Lakewood, New York, and started skiing at the age 3. She grew up skiing a small mountain, Holiday Valley in Ellicottville, New York, while playing school sports and waterskiing in the summer. She was a competitive athlete from the time she was 10 years old through her sophomore year of college. In 2008, Taryn graduated from West Virginia University with a bachelor's degree in biology. After college, she briefly moved to New York City and then wisely relocated to Vail in 2012.

Since moving to the Vail Valley, Taryn has worked in hospitality management as the general manager of the Fitz bar and restaurant as well as the beverage director at Manor Vail Lodge. She also moonlighted as a part-time Freeski Coach for SSCV, working most recently within the big mountain program as Rookie Team Coordinator. Before her promotion to Director of Development, Taryn was SSCV Club Manager. In her free time, she loves to ski in the winter and whitewater raft and mountain bike in the summer. She loves to travel and spend time with family.

Bryan assumed his role of Chief Operating Officer in May 2021, having re-joined SSCV as Director of Operations in May 2020. Bryan’s love for the sport was nurtured at an early age by his parents. Growing up near a tiny ski area that served as the winter hub of his small community, Bryan spent countless hours on those trails developing his lifelong passion for snowsports. While skiing was complemented by football and soccer during his earlier years, ski racing quickly became the sole focus as he became a teenager. After graduating high school, Bryan attended Saint Anselm College, in Manchester, NH, on a partial athletic/academic scholarship.

Bryan has been dedicated to the ski industry for well over twenty years. After starting his coaching career in the Pacific Northwest, he was recruited to coach at SSCV in the late nineties. Bryan has worked with athletes of all ages, holds a Level 300 coaching certification and a number of race official certifications. Bryan has been Chief of Course for NorAm's, Australian National Championships and World Alpine Championship medal events. He has also spent a significant amount of time in resort administration, sports marketing and event production before his recent return to SSCV.

Bryan aims to solidify SSCV as the leading youth development organization in the community and the premier snowsports club in the world. “I am excited to work with all of our stakeholders to drive SSCV to new heights in the years to come.” Bryan has been lucky enough to work with great people and organizations across the country and around the world. While there are a number of professional accomplishments that he is proud of, they pale in comparison to the personal accomplishment of building a strong family here in the Eagle River Valley, along with his wife, children and their dog Riva.

Born in Denver, Dan was transplanted to Vail where he has lived ever since. He attended Red Sandstone Elementary, Minturn Middle and graduated from Battle Mountain.

He began Alpine skiing at the age of 4 and Nordic skiing around age 12. He spent most of his high school days competing in soccer, track and cross-country skiing. He received all-state ski honors all four years of high school; was a Junior National Champion in 1991 (Anchorage), and an All-American in ‘91, ‘92 and ‘93. Senior year Dan was selected for all-state soccer honors. He attended the University of Colorado and skied for them for 5 months. After college, Dan returned to Vail and once again began racing, this time in off-road triathlons and adventure racing. Dan currently races for Nike ACG as a professional adventure racer.

Soon after Dan’s return to Vail, he began coaching. He was named Head Nordic Coach of Vail Mountain School in 1998, and has coached there since. Coaching is a true passion of Dan’s; he enjoys teaching kids the valuable lessons he learned throughout his years of coaching and competing. Dan’s goal is to prepare young athletes for the next level of competition whether that is the National Team, Division 1 NCAA or beyond.

Dan has enjoyed his time with the club program (RMD) and seeing his kids excel to a level that has never been seen in this valley. The future for Nordic skiing is very bright in this community and it is great to have SSCV to nurture our goals.