Featured picture: Anton Seeber (HTI Group), Willy Booker (Burke Mountain Academy, USA), and Claudia Brüne (Oberschulzentrum Sports activities Gymnasium). Photograph courtesy of Oberschulzentrum Sports activities Gymnasium.
Burke Mountain Academy and Oberschulzentrum Sports activities Gymnasium Announce Worldwide Partnership as A part of BMA’s European Programming Initiative
East Burke, Vermont, and Sterzing/Vipiteno, Italy – October 10, 2025 – Burke Mountain Academy (BMA) of Vermont, USA, and Oberschulzentrum Sports activities Gymnasium of Sterzing/Vipiteno, Italy, are proud to announce a groundbreaking worldwide partnership. This collaboration is a cornerstone of BMA’s European Programming Initiative, which establishes a long-term coaching base in Sterzing/Vipiteno whereas creating significant alternate alternatives between two of the world’s main alpine snowboarding faculties.
The partnership marks a major enlargement of BMA’s world footprint, with the academy now providing its college students common coaching alternatives within the coronary heart of the European Alps whereas concurrently creating pathways for cultural alternate and athletic improvement for college students from each faculties.
“Our European Programming Initiative represents essentially the most formidable worldwide enlargement in Burke Mountain Academy’s historical past,” stated Willy Booker ‘96, Head of Faculty at Burke Mountain Academy. “By establishing a coaching base in Sterzing/Vipiteno and partnering with Oberschulzentrum Sports activities Gymnasium, we’re offering our student-athletes with unparalleled entry to European coaching venues, competitors circuits, and cultural immersion whereas creating a real transatlantic instructional neighborhood.
Christian Salchner, Director of Oberschulzentrum Sports activities Gymnasium, added, “Internet hosting Burke Mountain Academy’s European coaching base at our amenities creates great alternatives for our college students and coaches. This partnership permits us to share greatest practices throughout continents whereas our student-athletes profit from various teaching views and coaching methodologies.”
The great partnership facilities round 4 strategic pillars:
● European Coaching Base: BMA’s new coaching headquarters in Sterzing/Vipiteno will carry cohorts of American student-athletes to coach within the area all through the tutorial yr, with prolonged residency throughout key coaching and competitors durations. The initiative supplies BMA athletes with direct entry to world-class European coaching venues. It fosters each day interplay with their Italian counterparts, promising to assist them adapt to European tradition and competitors environments.
● Cultural Change & World Literacy: By means of structured alternate applications and collaborative tasks, college students from each establishments will develop cross-cultural understanding and a world perspective that extends past conventional athletic and tutorial environments. Whereas BMA college students visiting Sterzing for brief or long-term durations will profit from publicity to their friends, this system is meant to ascertain alternate alternatives for Italian college students from the Sterzing Sports activities Gymnasium, permitting them to get pleasure from the identical immersive expertise whereas visiting BMA’s campus in Vermont.
● Language Improvement: BMA college students will profit from immersive German language experiences throughout their time in South Tyrol, whereas Oberschulzentrum college students will improve their English proficiency by way of common interplay with their American friends and potential alternate alternatives at BMA’s Vermont campus.
● Teaching & Athletic Improvement: The partnership facilitates coach exchanges, shared coaching periods, and collaborative athletic programming that mixes North American and European approaches to alpine ski coaching methodology, energy conditioning, and race preparation.
The partnership was formally acknowledged earlier this month on the twenty fifth Anniversary Celebration of the Sterzing Sports activities Excessive Faculty on the Vipiteno Municipal Theater. BMA Head of Faculty Willy Booker and Director of Faculty Counseling Tom Bojko attended the ceremony, with Booker becoming a member of Anton Seeber of the HTI Group to current the collaboration and spotlight plans for future joint initiatives.
The occasion introduced collectively regional officers, educators, and alumni to have a good time 25 years of mixing tutorial excellence with athletic improvement. It additionally served as a becoming backdrop for this new worldwide partnership, one which exemplifies the shared values of each faculties: dedication, collaboration, and the pursuit of excellence.
Because the partnership progresses, BMA student-athletes will start coaching in Sterzing/Vipiteno for prolonged durations all year long, with expanded alternate and residency alternatives for Oberschulzentrum Sports activities Gymnasium college students in Vermont deliberate for the 2025–2026 tutorial season.
For extra details about this partnership and BMA’s European Programming Initiative, please contact:
About Burke Mountain Academy: Based in 1970, Burke Mountain Academy in East Burke, Vermont, is a premier faculty preparatory faculty for aggressive alpine ski racers. BMA has produced quite a few Olympians, World Cup rivals, and NCAA champions whereas sustaining distinctive tutorial requirements. The academy’s new European Programming Initiative represents its dedication to offering student-athletes with world-class coaching alternatives throughout world venues.
About Oberschulzentrum Sports activities Gymnasium: Situated within the picturesque alpine city of Sterzing/Vipiteno in South Tyrol, Italy, Oberschulzentrum Sports activities Gymnasium has established itself as a number one European establishment that balances rigorous teachers with elite athletic improvement, notably in winter sports activities. The varsity’s strategic location supplies entry to a few of Europe’s premier coaching and competitors venues.
