Holderness welcomed adventure athlete, professional skier, public speaker, resilience specialist, and Training and Education Manager for New England Disabled Sports, Geoff Krill, to campus, where he spoke about resilience in the face of challenge.

Geoff Krill is the Training and Education Manager for New England Disabled Sports, along with being a Resilience Specialist, spending much of his time with government agencies and specialized military organizations. 

Geoff is also an adventure athlete, professional skier, and public speaker, who first found skiing when he was 12 years old, when his family moved from Georgia to Connecticut. He continued to ski recreationally through college until suffering a spinal cord injury in a snowmobile accident in New Hampshire in 1995. As soon as he received the “ok” from his doctor, he learned to ski sitting down. 

Geoff went from student to instructor that first season with New England Disabled Sports at Loon Mountain. Geoff is a member of the Professional Ski Instructors (PSIA) National Demonstration team, which allows him to travel across the country to share his work at other mountains. He is also a PSIA examiner in the Eastern Division and spends much of his time leading clinicians and training others in the sport he loves. 

Geoff Krill has logged many firsts in his life:

• He was the first mono skier to tackle Tuckerman’s Ravine on Mt. Washington.
• The first hand-cyclist to travel the three notches–Franconia, Crawford, and Bear Notches–and complete 100 miles in one day.

Most importantly, Geoff lives in North Woodstock with his wife, Heather, and his children, Carver and Greta. As his wife puts it, “You can always find Geoff out trying to save the world one wheelchair at a time.”

Geoff and Reverend Jay Hutchinson have known each other for 20+ years, working with Adaptive Water Skiers on Squam Lake.

Rev. Hutchinson says, "He has always inspired me to imagine what an individual can do through adapting equipment, not what we can’t do."