Honoring the troops

Military families dine and fellowship at Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre The Office of Military Affairs hosted Military Family Fun Day for service members and their families in the Barrick-Falwell lodge at the Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre March 27. The event was free of charge for those with military ID. With a temperature hovering in the low 50s, it was a […]

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Families hit slopes

Liberty’s Snowflex hosts Military Family Day Military personnel are on the frontlines every day in order to protect the United States and the freedom of those who live there. Many times, family members of those serving must make sacrifices as well. The Office of Military Affairs celebrated these families by hosting its semiannual Military Family Fun Day at Liberty Mountain […]

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Showcasing Snowflex

Video of snowboarder’s talents captures the attention of major websites After five years of operation, the Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre (LMSC) is still receiving attention thanks in part to the talents of Jason Anderson and Isaac Gibson. During the summer, Anderson, an LMSC employee who works at the facility during the non-peak skiing and snowboarding months, and Gibson, a senior […]

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Snowflex gains popularity

The Sochi Olympics has brought attention to athletes training on artificial snow Liberty ski and snowboard Head Coach Ryan Leeds said he believes the artificially engineered slopes of the Snowflex has a broad appeal among riders, and the use of it to train Olympic-level-athletes is only increasing interest. Although the Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre is the first slope of its […]

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Snowflex hosts military families

Lynchburg community military members enjoyed a soggy Military Family Fun Day on top of Liberty Mountain The Office of Military Affairs welcomed Liberty University and the surrounding community’s military members and their families to its Military Family Fun Day Saturday, Oct. 12 at Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre. Despite the clouds and the rain, fathers, mothers and children, as well as […]

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Snowy slopes at the ‘flex

Flames claim two team victories in competition at Snowflex Centre Liberty University’s club ski and snowboard team carved its way to a dominant showing in its first competition of the season Saturday night, Feb. 2 at the Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre. Liberty placed first as a team in two of the three events, and three members claimed No. 1 spots […]

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Riders take flight

Timothy Steltzer, Ryan Paul sweep ski, snowboard events One word to accurately describe Dew Games 2012 at the Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre is “epic.” Double-corks, double-backflips and double-side-flips were all thrown down Saturday night as nearly 20 of the best skiers and 30 of the best snowboarders the East Coast had to offer came out for a chance at part […]

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Olympic hopeful trains at Snowflex

Pro-skier Jay Panther discovers the artificial ski slope “Passionate, loyal, determined, focused and loving.” These are the words that future 2014 Winter Olympic hopeful Jay Panther used to describe himself. Panther is a 27-year-old competitive freestyle mogul who last year, joined the United States Ski Team. In February 2014, he hopes to represent the U.S. in the Winter Olympics, which […]

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Lighting up the night

Snowflex hosts colorful late night event Midnight Madness, an approved late night event for Liberty students, was held Friday night. “It’s Liberty, so I’m expecting something great,” freshman Justin Gibson-Faber said. Expectations for a large crowd were also high. “These guys (professional Snowboarders and Transworld Magazine) draw a good crowd, and we expect to see people from North Carolina, Tennessee, […]

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