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I would like to nominate Jim Grabowski (alumni of Marquette) for most supportive alumni. For the last 4 years, our team has had a trailer sitting in the school parking lot with lights that didn’t work and a organization system that was essentially disfunctional. Over the past summer, Jim took it into his own hands to fix the trailer up and redo the inside, which we were then able to use at every tournament this year, meaning we didn’t have to bring extra cars just to carry gear. Additionally, he offered practices for our team every week over summer and fall and coordinated with the Pewaukee Lake show ski team to help us get access to their jump. This has helped our team go from having about 10% of our members be able to land a jump to 90% which has made a huge impact on our team. Jim has also graciously allowed the team to borrow equipment from him for tournaments and practices, as well. Before we were in contact with Jim, our team would be lucky to get 3-4 people out to practice even once in a season, and due to his effort and other alumni that he has connected us with, we now are running practices upwards of 5 times every week during the season.
Let me tell you a story about a man from Madison named Will Maccarone. At Minnesota Shredfest, Will’s first tournament of the year, he debated all day whether or not he would attempt to 3/4. After many wise words of wisdom telling him absolutely not to, he went out and stomped his first 2 single cuts. Feeling confident, he naturally went for a 3/4 cut *for the first time ever* on his third jump and, realizing he was late, body slams the water, surfs across the entire side curtain (still holding onto the rope), and went flying limp through the air. After miraculously coming out of this crash unscathed, I think Mr. Maccarone has earned him self most likely to have actually hit the side curtain. Video linked below
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NM3MjpaIIzyEVj3XARruMbynqC6U1Ert/view?usp=drivesdk