Mary Cronan Lane
Recreation/Development | 2019
Hometown: Seattle, Washington
School Name: New England Disabled Sports
Mary Cronan Lane began teaching adaptive alpine skiing in 1970 at Haystack Mountain in Vermont. She continued sharing her passion and love of the sport until 1975, when it was time to hang up the skis and “get a real job” as an Assistant Teacher for B.O.C.E.S in NY.
It was on a pair of green & blue Hexcel’s at Loon Mountain in 1988 that she began to sense that teaching handicapped skiing could become more than a volunteer job. She began the PSIA/AASI certification process in 1990, earning her Level 2 Alpine and Level 3 Adaptive. She would become an Eastern Adaptive PSIA/AASI Development Team member and transition from volunteer to Program Director at WMASS (what is now New England Disabled Sports or NEDS), a “real job” in a profession that had clearly become a passion.
Mary was a co- examiner for the first Eastern Adaptive Snowboard certification. In 2011, she headed to Seattle, finding a home as a trainer and volunteer with Outdoors for All and a PSIA/AASI Northwest Adaptive Clinician/Examiner.
