NYSEF is
pleased to announce the addition of David McCahill to our winter staff. David
will be serving as Academic Coordinator for this season’s Junior Development Winter Term
Program.
A NYSEF
alum and ’04 graduate of Northwood School, David competed as a Nordic Combined
athlete and represented NYSEF at numerous Eastern Cup, National Championship
and World Cup B events before eventually pursuing a degree in Environmental
Science and German at Harvard University. While at Harvard, David was a
four-year member of the school’s Division 1 cross-country ski team competing on
the EISA circuit, and he co-captained the team his senior year. Following his graduation
from Harvard, David returned to the Adirondacks to teach Math and Science at
the National Sports Academy in Lake Placid and to coach Ski Jumping and Cross
Country with NYSEF, during which time he was honored by the USSA as the 2010/11
Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Domestic Coach of the Year. For the past two
years, David has been living and working in western Austria teaching English at
several high schools through a grant from the Austrian government and the
Fulbright Commission.
David
writes, “I’m elated to be back with NYSEF and to be involved with the Winter
Term Program. As a believer in the student-athlete process, I know how
important academic support and on-snow training are to the development of young
athletes. The NYSEF Winter Term Program will allow them to stay on top of their
coursework while making huge gains on the hill.”
