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About
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Apple Rise Sports
Apple Rise
Sports was founded in 1995 by former U.S. Ski Team member Steve
Lathrop with the initial product line of KID-SKI Teaching Aids.
Since then, it has created five more product lines in multiple sports,
although the main focus continues to be KID-SKI because it's unique;
it's popular; and it's growing. In addition to selling KID-SKI products
on this website, they are also sold in ski shops across the country.
Recently, Apple Rise has initiated the expansion of the KID-SKI concept
by offering other skiing products for kids, ages 1-6, under the KID-SKI
brand name. So, in addition to KID-SKI Teaching Aids, Apple Rise sells,
or will sell, KID-SKI plastic skis, KID-SKI clothing and other KID-SKI
accessories. For parents faced with the challenge of outfitting their
toddlers and pre-schoolers for skiing, it is one-stop-shopping at
KID-SKI.com.
Steve
Lathrop
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Creator
of KID-SKI
Founder, Apple Rise Sports
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World
Pro Skiing, ranked pro
U.S. Ski Team
F.I.S. World Championship Team
U.S. Downhill Champion
U.S. Alpine Combined Champion
CanAm Slalom Champion
U.S. Jr National Slalom Champion
U.S. Jr Eastern Slalom Champion
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After competing
for 5 years on the F.I.S. World Cup circuit as a member of the
U.S. Ski Team, and 4 more on the World Pro Skiing circuit, Lathrop
spent over a decade as founder/director of the Lathrop Ski Camps
and Windsurfing Vacations. The ski camps offered a year-round
schedule of international skiing and racing camps for adults and
juniors, while the windsurfing programs included vacations and
clinics around the U.S., the Caribbean and Europe.
With a B.A.
from Middlebury and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, more
recently his attention has focused on creating KID-SKI, developing
the KID-SKI concept and products, and developing other innovative
products like the Kiddie Skate Bar, the Kiddie Roller Bar, and
the Snowboard Paddles. As new products were developed, and with
the success of KID-SKI, Lathrop founded Apple Rise Sports, under
which all of the products are produced, marketed and
distributed.
The KID-SKI
products and KID-SKI Learning Progression grew as a direct result
from teaching his own kids to ski very quickly at a very young
age -- 15 months, 10 months, 13 months and 7 months. Likewise,
he created the Super Kiddie Bar, a truly wonderful device for
skiing, ice-skating, inline-skating and roller-skating with toddlers
and preschoolers.
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