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Four more trails were cut during the 1969 off-season, including a dedicated top-to-bottom race trail designed by Joe Pete Wilson and Ford Hubbard. In August, Burke announced that Warren Witherell would be developing a race training school (the precursor to Burke Mountain Academy).

The criteria were revised in 2017. ... The U.S. Ski & Snowboard Coach of the Year Award recognizes outstanding contribution to development and international programs by a coach resulting in high-level performance by his or her athletes in competition during the past season. ... 2020 Burke Mountain Academy; 2021 Green Mountain Valley School

Joseph Peter "Joe Pete" Wilson (May 22, 1935 – September 13, 2019)[1] was an American Olympic cross-country skier, who skied for the U.S. in cross-country at the 1960 Winter Olympics and later became a well-known skiing administrator in the United States. Recognized as the first commercial cross country ski area in the U.S. Summing up all his experiences to that point, his alpine ski shop experiences as a kid in Lake Placid, traveling and racing in Europe and Scandinavia, writing the cross country ski book, counseling ski and hiking clubs planning ski treks, Wilson put together a cohesive plan for this new operation. Wilson was named one of the top ten people who have done the most to promote the growth of cross-country skiing in the United States in the last century.[citation needed]