Park City, UT – After five years as the head slopestyle coach for the U.S. Snowboarding team, Bill Enos is set to retire from his coaching role.

Enos led the slopestyle team to numerous World Cup wins, X Games medals and most notably coached Sage Kotsenburg and Jamie Anderson on their way to making history at the 2014 Olympic games in Sochi, with each walking away with a gold medal in snowboarding slopestyle’s Olympic debut.

Enos was an instrumental part of Kotsenburg’s success and appreciation of the sport. “He taught me so much about snowboarding,” Kotsenburg said. “Mainly that snowboarding at the end of the day is just snowboarding, not take it too seriously and not to take snowboarding for granted. That was one of the key things I learned from him and I actually put into my riding.”

The perspective and experience Enos bestowed upon the athletes on U.S. Snowboarding was deep and filled with history. That’s because Enos has spent the better half of his life on a snowboard. He cut his teeth on the icy east coast hills of New Hampshire, competing in the pre-Olympic era of snowboard racing in the late 1980s. He captured ISF and FIS World Cup wins and was a member of the first-ever U.S. Snowboard Team in 1994. He competed as a member of the U.S. Snowboard Team from 1994-99 and narrowly missed making the 1998 Olympic team for giant slalom.

Upon retiring from competition, he translated his competitive skills to coaching skills and headed back to New Hampshire. He started the BBTS snowboarding program at Waterville Valley and became Snowboard Program Director at the acclaimed Waterville Valley Academy. There he helped cultivate young slopestyle talent, turning them from groms to Olympians. Snowboarding legend Chas Guldemond came through Waterville Valley Academy and worked his way all the way to the Olympics with Enos as his coach.

“I’d like to thank U.S. Snowboarding for the amazing opportunity I had these past five seasons. I was able to work with some of the best riders and people in the world,” Enos said. “I am now lucky enough to call them my family and I will miss them dearly. I’ve also had the chance to become part of a large international family of coaches and riders and I will forever cherish the friendships I made. You have all become a huge part of my life.”

In his five years coaching U.S. Snowboarding, Enos not only helped progress athletes’ riding but the slopestyle program itself, setting up future teams for success.

“Bill was a key player in the slopestyle program, not just with the athletes. He help shape the rookie team, enlisted new coaches and was the vision behind the videographer program that’s in place for this winter season,” said U.S. Snowboarding and U.S. Freeskiing Program Director Jeremy Forster. “Bill was an amazing part of the team on and off the hill and we’ll miss him.”