February 5, 2024 • 10 mins
JULIE TAULMAN IS THE PRESIDENT & CEO OF AN IMPRESSIVE ORGANIZATION It's the National Sports Center for the Disabled and they do AMAZING things helping people with a variety of disabilities get back to doing fun activities outdoors. The Wells Fargo Cup is back this year at the end of this month and it is a wonderful event in Winter Park. Find out more here. Julie joins me at 1 to talk about it.
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(00:00):
Really bummed out that this year isthe first year in a long time I'm
not going to be able to goup to Winter Park for the National Center
National Sports Center for the disableds WellsFargo Cup because it is genuinely one of
my favorite events every year and joiningme. Now she is the Now,
Julia, are you the CEO orthe president? What's your big muckety muck
title. I always mess this upmy title. I changed from development director
(00:25):
in July and moved up as thepresident and CEO. All right, so
that's the new muskeety muck title.Yeah, there you go, big mukeety
muck for a big organization. Ifyou're not familiar with the National Sports Center
for the Disabled, Julie, giveme the elevator speech about what you guys
do. Sure. So, theNSCD has been around for really since nineteen
(00:47):
seventy, for fifty four years,and we provide adaptive outdoor lessons for individuals
and groups with disabilities. We doall kinds of different action sports, adventure
sports, and competitive sports. ProgramWe run most of our programs out of
Winter Park Resort or around the GrandCounty area, and then we also have
(01:07):
a full program that we run outof the Front Range in particular, we
do a lot of school programs orwork with Credit Hospital or a lot of
the veterans in the Front Range.How did this organization get started? So
it was started by a gentleman namedHallo Leary who basically started when they brought
(01:29):
a group from Children's Hospital up toWinter Park Resort and these were all kids
with amputations, and so how kindof imagine how to be able to take
these kids out and get them skienAnd at that time there really hadn't been
programs for kids or adults with adisability on ski hill, So it really
kind of started the concept of adaptivesports and getting people with disabilities out on
(01:55):
the slopes. So that's really wherewe started. Yeah, and now when
you go and you're more than welcometo go up and watch the Wells Bargo
Cup coming up at the end ofthis month, and you will see the
coolest adaptive equipment. And I haveskied behind someone who was blind who was
skiing with a guide. I haveskied next to a person who was had
(02:17):
paralysis from the waist down and theyused a sled. That was absolutely the
coolest thing ever I've seen people withwho are missing a leg, who are
missing an arm, all with thiskind of really high speed, super technologically
advanced equipment. And I got towonder how much of that equipment has been
invented by you guys. I mean, at least the concept of this based
(02:42):
on the needs of the people thatyou see. Well, you know,
really the NSCD was we really startedthe adaptive world, and in particular on
the ski side. So in thebeginning, you know, they were taking
toboggans and trying those into sleds forpeople with disabilities or paraplegics to be able
to ski down the mountain. Sowe have we started by imagining and really
(03:06):
kind of seeing, you know,how do we adapt what is currently out
there, what we were using,or what might have been out in the
world, and turn that into somethingthat someone with a disability could use to
access the great outdoors. So,you know, we've tweaked things over the
years, and now, luckily forpeople with disabilities, there are a lot
of companies out there that are actuallycreating, you know, really cutting edge
(03:30):
ski equipment for people with disabilities.But you know, if you go up
to the NSCD and you go intoour program office, you'll see an old
toboggan hanging up on top of theon top of the wall, and that
was really kind of the first sixski that was ever really put together.
So so we really were at theforefront. And it was because of How's
(03:51):
vision and some other people that thatreally understood that, you know, opening
someone's world that has a disability andgetting them out and getting them active really
is a game changer for not justthe individual but their entire family. Well,
the times that I've been able tocome broadcast from Winter Park, I've
had the opportunity to talk to athleteswho are competing in the Paralympics, and
(04:13):
a lot of times, at leastthe elite level athletes. These are people
who were already athletes but then theyhad some kind of catastrophic injury and it
created a really big problem. Andeach person said, this gave me my
life back, This made me feelnormal again. This, you know,
this allows me to keep doing thethings that I love and that's going to
(04:34):
be incredibly gratifying. Well it is, and I see it exactly what you
described is what we see all thetime. I mean, the depression and
a lot turned to drugs and alcoholafter they've been injured. And we see
it with veterans that have been injuredas well as as well as you know,
people that are in a car accidentor whatever. And so you know,
(04:58):
what they find is when they cango out int you'll be active with
people and their families that they suddenlyhave a reason to live again. And
you know, we also see that. I personally have experienced it because my
son has a is a paraplegic andhe's one of our athletes, and you
know, as a family, whenhe became a paraplegic at age two,
for me, it was how dowe keep going? How do you live?
(05:19):
How do we find things that wecan do together? So it made
a huge tremendous impact on my familyalone, and that was from the parents
dealing with the child with the disability. And we see that all the time
too, because you know, youhave parents that will be crying in our
office going I didn't realize my childcould ever do that, right, And
(05:40):
now they can actually go biking together, or they can go skiing together,
you know, go climbing together.That's that's what we are all looking for.
It's connections in our lives. Solet's talk about the Wells Fargo's Ski
Cup. What is it, whatdoes it raise money for? How does
it work and how can my listenersparticipate? Yeah, so the Wells Fargo
Skia Cup is the large fundraiser forthe National Sports Center for the Disabled.
(06:02):
This is actually the forty eighth annualWells Fargo Ski Cup. It's taking place
February twenty second and twenty third upin Winter Park Resort. Again, it's
a long standing event. We havemade some tweaks this year. We have
moved to a Thursday Friday as opposedto typically over a weekend. And some
of that is because you know,skiing has just absolutely become so popular and
(06:27):
we don't that the weekends up ina winter park can be busy, and
so this gives an opportunity for theevent to take place as well as everyday
skiers to be able to ski onSaturday. So the event starts out pretty
much with we have the wd I, the World Disabled Invitational, and this
is where you're gonna see some reallycool head to head racing where a blind
(06:50):
skier is racing, an amputee isracing a model skier, and typically in
Paralympic ski racing, they would nevercompete against each other. They different categories,
so it's really cool to watch thesephoto finishes at the end, and
they're competing for a cash prize tohelp pay for some of their training costs.
So that's where we start, andthen we'll have what's called the AEC
(07:13):
Challenge. We architects, engineers,and contractors. We have quite a few
companies that support the NSCD and sothey come out and they compete for their
own outrigger Cup, which is kindof fun and it's a tradition that started
about four or five years ago.So that evening then we'll have a cocktail
party kind of starting the event.And the next day is really that is
when the actual the big race is, and this is where you're going to
(07:39):
see Paralympic athletes paired with corporate companiesand they will all be racing head to
head against each other. You don'thave to be the best gier because we
have this awesome timing system that thegates don't open untel. It's kind of
a handicapped system where the gates openbased on what you're you know, basically
(07:59):
what you time trials were, sowe do end up with this head to
head photo finish even there and thewinner of the well Hargo Ski Cup the
company gets bragging rights, but thentheir athlete also wins the cash prize,
so there's an incentive for them tobe able to hopefully win and bring home
(08:20):
some additional cash for their Paralympic athlete. Now, are you guys having an
auction again this year that is onlineas it was in prior years. We
are. We're having an online auction. And let me have one more event,
which is our newest event, whichis Friday night. It's called the
Snowboot Soire, and this is howwe're kind of rounding out the weekend.
It'll be up at sun Spot andthere we will have a live auction.
(08:43):
We'll also have our online auction thatwill be held and so this is going
to be a great opportunity. We'vegot some great auction items that we're doing,
and people can both did remotely,so they can not be at the
event, and they can participate inthe auction and even the live auction event
on Friday night, they can getinvolved by sending in an absentee bid so
(09:07):
that we can make sure that ifthere's an item they want to bid on
that you know, we can takecare of that, and that's all on
our website at NSCD dot org.Fantastic, Julie. I appreciate your time
today, and I know you guysare going to have another extremely fantastic event
and I am always I leave thisevent meeting some amazing people. But more
(09:28):
importantly, sort of makes you realizethat some of your excuses for not being
physically active are super lame, right, I mean, they're just it really
does get me off my duff everyyear, so I'm sorry I'm going to
miss it this year. No,well, I totally agree with you,
and they don't like to be sayingthat they bring inspiration, but I do
think it does. You're right,it does make us realize that we can't
(09:52):
make an excuse for why it isthat we're not out there participating. Exactly
right, Julie Tolman, mis youthis year call me back. This was
just a random We're taking my momon a cruise for her eightieth birthday and
this was the only week that wecould get all of the players involved at
the same time, so it justwas an unfortunate overlap. So I will
be back next year for sure.Well, wonderful. We'll see you next
(10:15):
year, and hope we see everyoneelse out there this year. Absolutely,
thank you, Julie Tolem. Iappreciate your time today. It is a
spectacular event and I just go andI watch, and you should see these
like corporate nerds flying down the mountain. It is it is fascinating, I
mean really fascinating to watch these.And I say corporate nerds, I mean
(10:37):
they're with Wells Fargo, they're withother really respectable organizations, but boy,
they take this seriously. They reallydo take it seriously. It's really really interesting.
Really bummed out that this year isthe first year in a long time I'm
not going to be able to goup to Winter Park for the National Center
National Sports Center for the disableds WellsFargo Cup because it is genuinely one of
my favorite events every year and joiningme. Now she is the Now,
Julia, are you the CEO orthe president? What's your big muckety muck
title. I always mess this upmy title. I changed from development director
(00:25):
in July and moved up as thepresident and CEO. All right, so
that's the new muskeety muck title.Yeah, there you go, big mukeety
muck for a big organization. Ifyou're not familiar with the National Sports Center
for the Disabled, Julie, giveme the elevator speech about what you guys
do. Sure. So, theNSCD has been around for really since nineteen
(00:47):
seventy, for fifty four years,and we provide adaptive outdoor lessons for individuals
and groups with disabilities. We doall kinds of different action sports, adventure
sports, and competitive sports. ProgramWe run most of our programs out of
Winter Park Resort or around the GrandCounty area, and then we also have
(01:07):
a full program that we run outof the Front Range in particular, we
do a lot of school programs orwork with Credit Hospital or a lot of
the veterans in the Front Range.How did this organization get started? So
it was started by a gentleman namedHallo Leary who basically started when they brought
(01:29):
a group from Children's Hospital up toWinter Park Resort and these were all kids
with amputations, and so how kindof imagine how to be able to take
these kids out and get them skienAnd at that time there really hadn't been
programs for kids or adults with adisability on ski hill, So it really
kind of started the concept of adaptivesports and getting people with disabilities out on
(01:55):
the slopes. So that's really wherewe started. Yeah, and now when
you go and you're more than welcometo go up and watch the Wells Bargo
Cup coming up at the end ofthis month, and you will see the
coolest adaptive equipment. And I haveskied behind someone who was blind who was
skiing with a guide. I haveskied next to a person who was had
(02:17):
paralysis from the waist down and theyused a sled. That was absolutely the
coolest thing ever I've seen people withwho are missing a leg, who are
missing an arm, all with thiskind of really high speed, super technologically
advanced equipment. And I got towonder how much of that equipment has been
invented by you guys. I mean, at least the concept of this based
(02:42):
on the needs of the people thatyou see. Well, you know,
really the NSCD was we really startedthe adaptive world, and in particular on
the ski side. So in thebeginning, you know, they were taking
toboggans and trying those into sleds forpeople with disabilities or paraplegics to be able
to ski down the mountain. Sowe have we started by imagining and really
(03:06):
kind of seeing, you know,how do we adapt what is currently out
there, what we were using,or what might have been out in the
world, and turn that into somethingthat someone with a disability could use to
access the great outdoors. So,you know, we've tweaked things over the
years, and now, luckily forpeople with disabilities, there are a lot
of companies out there that are actuallycreating, you know, really cutting edge
(03:30):
ski equipment for people with disabilities.But you know, if you go up
to the NSCD and you go intoour program office, you'll see an old
toboggan hanging up on top of theon top of the wall, and that
was really kind of the first sixski that was ever really put together.
So so we really were at theforefront. And it was because of How's
(03:51):
vision and some other people that thatreally understood that, you know, opening
someone's world that has a disability andgetting them out and getting them active really
is a game changer for not justthe individual but their entire family. Well,
the times that I've been able tocome broadcast from Winter Park, I've
had the opportunity to talk to athleteswho are competing in the Paralympics, and
(04:13):
a lot of times, at leastthe elite level athletes. These are people
who were already athletes but then theyhad some kind of catastrophic injury and it
created a really big problem. Andeach person said, this gave me my
life back, This made me feelnormal again. This, you know,
this allows me to keep doing thethings that I love and that's going to
(04:34):
be incredibly gratifying. Well it is, and I see it exactly what you
described is what we see all thetime. I mean, the depression and
a lot turned to drugs and alcoholafter they've been injured. And we see
it with veterans that have been injuredas well as as well as you know,
people that are in a car accidentor whatever. And so you know,
(04:58):
what they find is when they cango out int you'll be active with
people and their families that they suddenlyhave a reason to live again. And
you know, we also see that. I personally have experienced it because my
son has a is a paraplegic andhe's one of our athletes, and you
know, as a family, whenhe became a paraplegic at age two,
for me, it was how dowe keep going? How do you live?
(05:19):
How do we find things that wecan do together? So it made
a huge tremendous impact on my familyalone, and that was from the parents
dealing with the child with the disability. And we see that all the time
too, because you know, youhave parents that will be crying in our
office going I didn't realize my childcould ever do that, right, And
(05:40):
now they can actually go biking together, or they can go skiing together,
you know, go climbing together.That's that's what we are all looking for.
It's connections in our lives. Solet's talk about the Wells Fargo's Ski
Cup. What is it, whatdoes it raise money for? How does
it work and how can my listenersparticipate? Yeah, so the Wells Fargo
Skia Cup is the large fundraiser forthe National Sports Center for the Disabled.
(06:02):
This is actually the forty eighth annualWells Fargo Ski Cup. It's taking place
February twenty second and twenty third upin Winter Park Resort. Again, it's
a long standing event. We havemade some tweaks this year. We have
moved to a Thursday Friday as opposedto typically over a weekend. And some
of that is because you know,skiing has just absolutely become so popular and
(06:27):
we don't that the weekends up ina winter park can be busy, and
so this gives an opportunity for theevent to take place as well as everyday
skiers to be able to ski onSaturday. So the event starts out pretty
much with we have the wd I, the World Disabled Invitational, and this
is where you're gonna see some reallycool head to head racing where a blind
(06:50):
skier is racing, an amputee isracing a model skier, and typically in
Paralympic ski racing, they would nevercompete against each other. They different categories,
so it's really cool to watch thesephoto finishes at the end, and
they're competing for a cash prize tohelp pay for some of their training costs.
So that's where we start, andthen we'll have what's called the AEC
(07:13):
Challenge. We architects, engineers,and contractors. We have quite a few
companies that support the NSCD and sothey come out and they compete for their
own outrigger Cup, which is kindof fun and it's a tradition that started
about four or five years ago.So that evening then we'll have a cocktail
party kind of starting the event.And the next day is really that is
when the actual the big race is, and this is where you're going to
(07:39):
see Paralympic athletes paired with corporate companiesand they will all be racing head to
head against each other. You don'thave to be the best gier because we
have this awesome timing system that thegates don't open untel. It's kind of
a handicapped system where the gates openbased on what you're you know, basically
(07:59):
what you time trials were, sowe do end up with this head to
head photo finish even there and thewinner of the well Hargo Ski Cup the
company gets bragging rights, but thentheir athlete also wins the cash prize,
so there's an incentive for them tobe able to hopefully win and bring home
(08:20):
some additional cash for their Paralympic athlete. Now, are you guys having an
auction again this year that is onlineas it was in prior years. We
are. We're having an online auction. And let me have one more event,
which is our newest event, whichis Friday night. It's called the
Snowboot Soire, and this is howwe're kind of rounding out the weekend.
It'll be up at sun Spot andthere we will have a live auction.
(08:43):
We'll also have our online auction thatwill be held and so this is going
to be a great opportunity. We'vegot some great auction items that we're doing,
and people can both did remotely,so they can not be at the
event, and they can participate inthe auction and even the live auction event
on Friday night, they can getinvolved by sending in an absentee bid so
(09:07):
that we can make sure that ifthere's an item they want to bid on
that you know, we can takecare of that, and that's all on
our website at NSCD dot org.Fantastic, Julie. I appreciate your time
today, and I know you guysare going to have another extremely fantastic event
and I am always I leave thisevent meeting some amazing people. But more
(09:28):
importantly, sort of makes you realizethat some of your excuses for not being
physically active are super lame, right, I mean, they're just it really
does get me off my duff everyyear, so I'm sorry I'm going to
miss it this year. No,well, I totally agree with you,
and they don't like to be sayingthat they bring inspiration, but I do
think it does. You're right,it does make us realize that we can't
(09:52):
make an excuse for why it isthat we're not out there participating. Exactly
right, Julie Tolman, mis youthis year call me back. This was
just a random We're taking my momon a cruise for her eightieth birthday and
this was the only week that wecould get all of the players involved at
the same time, so it justwas an unfortunate overlap. So I will
be back next year for sure.Well, wonderful. We'll see you next
(10:15):
year, and hope we see everyoneelse out there this year. Absolutely,
thank you, Julie Tolem. Iappreciate your time today. It is a
spectacular event and I just go andI watch, and you should see these
like corporate nerds flying down the mountain. It is it is fascinating, I
mean really fascinating to watch these.And I say corporate nerds, I mean
(10:37):
they're with Wells Fargo, they're withother really respectable organizations, but boy,
they take this seriously. They reallydo take it seriously. It's really really interesting.
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