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Our Team

Take expertise, experience and enthusiasm, add some passion, mix with fun—what you get is any one of the friendly professionals who make up the Beaver Creek Sports Team - our experts are the best of the best at what they do. They have to be—operating ski shops at the foot of some of the world’s best ski trails demands that our staff be the most knowledgeable, experienced bunch of snowsports professionals out there.

Learn more about our team below.

Mike Beckley

Mike Beckley
Manager BC Sports Rentals

On Staff Since: 2004
Hometown: Holland Patent, NY
Favorite piece of gear: Splitboard
Favorite Off-snow destination: Somewhere with a lot of mud

Best Advice for Beaver Creek Sports customers: Watch out for that tree!

Frieda Hanley

Frieda Hanley
Manager BC Sports

On Staff Since: 2009
Hometown: Bay City, Michigan
Favorite Winter Destination: Telluride, CO
When I'm not playing outside: I'm cooking

Biggest impact you’ve had on a customer? I have a family from Australia that came back to vacation at Beaver Creek again this year because he appreciates the high level of customer service that our entire staff gives him. I’m very proud of that.

Best advice to Beaver Creek Sports customers? Enjoy your vacation and experience something new this vacation

Kenneth Howell

Kennth J. Howell
Manager The North Face

On Staff Since: November 2008
Hometown: Clarkston, TN
Favorite Winter Destination: Heavenly
Playlist: Dr. Dog, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes, Modest Mouse, Flaming Lips, anything fun and melodic

Biggest impact you’ve had on a customer?  I always find a way to set a guest up with the gear that will improve their vacation and lengthen their time on the mountain.

Best advice to Beaver Creek Sports customers?  Just stop into any of our shops. It will not take you long to realize that we are a collective of the most knowledgeable and friendly professionals in the industry

Matt Snowbarger

Matt Snowbarger
Manager BC Sports-Ritz Carlton

On Staff Since: 2009
Hometown: Olathe, KS
Favorite Winter Destination: The Vail Valley - I don't leave much
Playlist: On the Go 3

Best Beaver Creek Sports memory: I touch the lives of many.

Best advice to Beaver Creek Sports customers: Life’s too short! Have fun and don’t let the little things bring you down.  You’re in the mountains!

Andy Leister

Andy Leister
Manager Rentskis.com Gold

On Staff Since:2008
Hometown: Middlebury, IN
Favorite Winter Destination: The Y-Chutes
Playlist: Muse

Biggest impact you've had on a customer: This last summer I convinced a person to stop road biking and pick up mountain biking!

Best advice to Rentskis Gold cusomers: You are in a place that gets some of the best snow on the face of the planet…get some gear that will allow you to enjoy it to the fullest!

   
Brett Elkman

Brett Elkman
Manager Beaver Creek Sports-BC Landing

On Staff Since: 2008
Hometown: Miami, FL
Favorite Winter Destination: Vail Back Bowls
Playlist: The Cure

Biggest impact you've had on a customer: Making them feel at home and comfortable with their purchases.

Best Advice to Beaver Creek Sports/Gore Creek Fly Fisherman customers: Ask Questions!  We are knowledgeable and passionate about our product.

 Ryan Palmer

Ryan Palmer
Manager One Track Mind

On Staff Since: 1996
Hometown: Stillwater, MN
Favorite Winter Destination: Wolf Creek
Playlist: Tools, Black Keys, Elephant Revival

Biggest impact you've had on a customer: Getting a customer back on the hill after either a broken binding part or after having their board stolen. Their day/vacation could have been over.

Best Advice to Beaver Creek Sports/Gore Creek Fly Fisherman customers: Buy your snowboard boots smaller than you think you should.

Rachel Shirley

Rachel Shirley
Manager BC Sports-Westin Riverfront

On Staff Since: October 2009
Hometown:  Nebraska City, Nebraska
Favorite Winter Destination:  Vail
Playlist:  NOFX, Face to Face, Social Distortion, Pink, Eminem & Anything that rocks me!

Best Memory: VH1 Top 20 Countdown at The Ritz store

Best Advice to Customers: You're on Vacation - Own it!