Who We Are
Our criteria are simple: if you have fun playing in the snow, CMSC welcomes you.
We have a ski club that suits anyone’s lifestyle. What you do for a living, how old you are, what your relationship status is, if you have an unlimited budget or are budget-minded, if you’re physically challenged, if you’re a beginner or expert, or what your ethnicity is — those things just don’t matter when you’re skiing or snowboarding with CMSC. We were inclusive long before it became a trend.
We are a community of multigenerational snow-lovers and equal opportunity fun providers. Our sport and our friends who share it will always be there to make us laugh, share our personal joys, ease our sorrows, celebrate life’s milestones, challenge us, support us and, above all, help us live in the moment and escape our off-slope lives for awhile.
CMSC’s founders gave us an organization that allows people from all walks of life to come together, year in and year out, to simply play in the snow and have fun year round. Throughout the decades, countless individuals have volunteered their time and talents to make CMSC a rewarding organization to be a part of. We look to the next and future generations to keep CMSC going for decades to come.
CMSC is a member of the National Ski Council Federation (skifederation.org)
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History
FOUNDED: CMSC began around 1965 when four local ski clubs, Cleveland, Euclid, Erie Shore and Suburban, raced
against each other and had fun doing so. CMSC became an Ohio not-for-profit corporation in 1967. Currently, our clubs
hail from Northern Ohio, western Pennsylvania and western New York.
RACING: Adult Racing began in 1967 and is still going strong with 12-14 races a year. In the late 1970s, CMSC raced against Midwest ski councils from Detroit, Chicago, Toledo and Milwaukee at Boyne Mountain. From the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, CMSC competed in The United States Ski Association, (USSA) national amateur adult ski racing competitions. CMSC was a strong contender in all the years it competed, bringing home the victory cup a couple of times, and proving to be one of the top councils in the country. WEDNESDAY NIGHT RACE SERIES (about 1985 – today); KIDS RACING (2002 to today) challenges kids age 3 to 17 to slalom and giant slalom courses, just like those in the Adult Race Program.
A SAMPLING OF CMSC EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEARS:
QUEEN PAGEANT (1971-2010): CMSC crowned its first Ski Queen in 1971, and several queens went on to represent CMSC in regional competitions, winning the national U.S. Recreational Ski Association crown in 1977.
TRIPS (1975 to today) to Europe, Rocky Mountains, Canada and eastern US
CHARITIES: CMSC and its members continue to support local and national non-profit organizations through its annual Charity Race and participation in fundraisers, including a fashion show with Olympian Susie Chaffee in 1991
PUBLICATIONS: SITZMARK newsletter (1971 to today)
CMSC DIRECTORY (1975 to 2019) was a marketing piece that included individual ski club information;
THE METRO CUP golf tournament (2002 to today)
GLOCKENSPIEL FALL FESTIVAL (1975) became the SUPERSTARS COMPETITION in 1984, ended in the 1990s;
SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT (1978-2001)
HOLIDAY AFTER WORK PARTY (1994 to today)
SKICLEVELAND.COM launched in 2002
OLYMPIC VILLAGE WEEKEND (combined race weekend) (1980 to today)
FAMILY PICNIC (2001-2002)