Snowboard Race Team at Michigan Tech

09/04/2025

Meet our new E-Board members for the 2025 snowboarding season!

04/19/2024

12/06/2023

The 2023 Alumni Resource Matchmaker campaign is live! Make a gift by December 13 to show your support and make an impact for six student organizations: Arnold Air Society - TSgt Robert E. LaMotte Squadron, Snowboard Race Team at Michigan Tech, IRHC Broomball at Michigan Tech, Michigan Tech Rugby, Michigan Tech Men's Volleyball, and Michigan Tech SLS.

Learn more and make a gift at mtu.edu/arm

Michigan Tech Student Leadership & Involvement

12/06/2023

The Alumni Board of Directors ( ) is excited to announce the next Alumni Resource Matchmaker (ARM) crowdfunding campaign is currently live and will run December 6–13, 2023. 

Your gift could help the Snowboard Race Team purchase racing gates and equipment.

We are ask for donations to allow our team to purchase racing gates and equipment. With gates, our team will be able to hold practices to improve the skills of our members. We also hope to use the gates to host community races and provide tutoring to those looking to learn how to race :)

We are incredibly grateful for this opportunity and all donations help!

Link to our donation page in Bio!

Thank you ❤️

-Snowboard Race Team at Michigan Tech

09/25/2023

⚠️We have our 1st info meeting tomorrow in Fisher 131 at 7:00PM⚠️
Come learn all about our team and this upcoming season!

02/15/2023

Next to be featured in our meet our racers series is one of our two RETURNING SENIOR Racers: ZACHARY VATTER
A 5th Year Biomedical Engineering Major
Seasons on the team: 5
Hometown: Saranac, MI
Years Boarding: 18 Years
His Goals for this season: To just get better at Jumps.
Greatest Achievement as a boarder: Placing Top 20 during Boardercross during the 2022 USCSA Nationals in Lake Placid!
Favorite Hill: Whitefish, Montana or Copper Mountain in Colorado!
What he is looking forward to this season: Making it the best it can be!
What he likes to do in his freetime: he enjoys paintball, hiking and snowboarding.
Goals after college: He plans to graduate with an undergrad degree in Biomedical Engineering this spring and plans in obtaining his Master’s here at Michigan Tech with an interested in pursuing Med School after he completes his masters.
A fun fact about Zach: He also competes in Paintball Tournaments.
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As one of eldest members, Zach has been an amazing leader and member of our close-knit team and we are all extremely sad that this weekend will be his last time competing with us. We have appreciated having him as a friend and teammate during his time on the team! We are very proud of him and wish him good luck with the rest of the semester.

02/06/2023

Introducing our next racer in our meet the racer series - SHAW aka WILLIAM SHAW!
A 2nd Year Biomedical Engineering Major
Seasons on the team: 2
Hometown: Saginaw, MI
Years Boarding: 8 Years
His Goals for this season: He would like to hit a boardslide to switch or a 50 50 to switch during Slopestyle.
Greatest Achievement as a boarder: having yet to break a bone while snowboarding!
Favorite Hill: Giant’s Ridge, MN!
Favorite memory from past seasons: The creation of OOGA BOOGA!
What he likes to do in his freetime: Shaw enjoys snowboarding, mountain biking, playing video games and vibing with friends!
Goals after college: To design and create medical tool/resources to help out as many people as possible.
A fun fact about Shaw: he is Canadian and he has played hockey for several year!
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Shaw has been a great teammate and friend over the past 2 seasons, and we are excited to see how he does during our last two races of the season!

02/02/2023

Introducing another one of our RETURNING racers: MACI DOSTALER!
A 2nd Year Biomedical Engineering Major
Seasons on the team: 2
Hometown: Lake Linden, MI
Years Boarding: 11 Years
Her Goals for this season: To stay un-injured/un-concussed!
Greatest Achievement as a boarder: Carrying the Women’s Team to a 6th place finish for Freestyle Events during the 2022 USCSA Nationals in Lake Placid!
Favorite Hill: Mont Bohemia!
Favorite memory from past seasons: BOHO DAYS!
What she likes to do in her freetime: she enjoys camping and hiking, making friendship bracelets, weightlifting and attending music festivals!
A fun fact about Maci: she works in the electron microscopy lab!
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For the past two years, Maci has been one of three women on our Women’s Team and has helped us place extremely well through out both seasons. We are super proud of everything Maci has achieved and can’t wait what she accomplishes this season!

02/01/2023

It’s time to meet another one of our NEW racers - introducing: WE**IE aka ZACH GEGARE
A 3rd Year Mechanical Engineering Major
Hometown: Green Bay, WI
Years Boarding: 15 Years!
His Goals for this season: he would like to hit a tamesdog during Slopestyle!
Greatest Achievement: Passing his ski patrol exam!
Favorite Hill: Nordic Mountain!
What he is looking forward to this season: Travelling to new mountains with the team.
What he likes to do in his freetime: Playing Video Games and Wakeboarding.
A fun fact about We**ie: He can do yo-yo tricks!
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We**ie has been a great addition to the our team so far this season and we can’t wait to see him to continue to improve and do amazing things this season!

01/18/2023

Let’s meet another RETURNING racer: LOGAN JARED
A 3rd Year Electrical Engineering Major
Seasons on the team: 2
Hometown: Round Lake, IL
Years Boarding: 8 Years
His Goals for this season: Hit a gainer during Slopestyle.
Greatest Achievement as a boarder: Attempting to hit rails at our LaCrosse meet last season.
Favorite Hill: Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid, NY!
Favorite memory from past seasons: Driving back from New York with the team, which resulted in us getting stuck in New York for 24 hours.
What he likes to do in his freetime: play video games.
Goals after college: To make money!
A fun fact about Logan: he know 55 digits of PI!
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We are excited to see Logan attempt more rails this season, and can’t wait to see what his Livin’ like Logan mentality adds to the team!

01/12/2023

Next up - Let's meet RETURNING Racer: WILL BRAUN
A 3rd Year Biomedical Engineering Major
Seasons on the team: 3
Hometown: Fruitport, MI
Years Boarding: 6 Years
His Goals for this season: Become both a well-rounded racer as well as Slopestyle competitor!
Greatest Achievement as a boarder: Qualifying for the competition round of Boardercross during the 2022 USCSA Nationals in Lake Placid!
Favorite Hill: Mount Bohemia!
Favorite memory from past seasons: Boho days with the team!!
What he likes to do in his freetime: he loves to be outside and enjoys rock and ice climbing, backpacking, biking, and longboarding!
Goals after college: He would like to find himself working the clinical side of Biomedical Engineering so he can be in the engineering side as well as the hospital/clinical side!
A fun fact about Will: Most people don't know his actual first name 🤫
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We can't wait to see what Will achieves this season and we are very happy to have him as a member of our team!