The Ultimate Staff | Ultimate Watersports

Hal Ashman

- Chief Adventure Officer
- Windsuring Instructor Trainer

Favorite outdoor activities?: Dog Sledding, Skiing, Snowboarding, Windsurfing, Sailing, Wakeboarding, and Swimming.
Favorite thing about working at Ultimate Watersports?: The incredible people I get to work with every day.
Where are you when you're not at work?: With my family.
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?: Super Happy!
Favorite childhood toy?: My frisbee.
Give one valuable piece of advice to people who spend too much time working.: Stop that right now! ... and, oh yeah ... COME OUT & PLAY!

Missy Lauterbach

- Kayak Guide
- Naturalist

Favorite outdoor activities?: Canoeing, kayaking, swimming, and hiking.
Favorite thing about working at Ultimate Watersports?: Getting to be on the water all day.
Where are you when you're not at work?: With my kids.
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?: Veterinarian.
Favorite childhood toy?: Don't know.
Give one valuable piece of advice to people who spend too much time working.: If you do something that you love for a living then you barely notice when you spend too much time working.

Bill LaBarre

- Kayak Guide
- Naturalist

Favorite outdoor activities?: Coming soon!
Favorite thing about working at Ultimate Watersports?: Coming soon!
Where are you when you're not at work?: Coming soon!
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?: Coming soon!
Favorite childhood toy?: Coming soon!
Give one valuable piece of advice to people who spend too much time working.: Coming soon!

Justin Pugh

- Extreme Camp Manager
- Sr. Windsurfing Instructor

Favorite outdoor activities?: Windsurfing, wakeboarding, playing on the playground with my wife and son.
Favorite thing about working at Ultimate Watersports?: Hot sun, warm breeze, and cool water.
Where are you when you're not at work?: Playing guitar or being with the fam.
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?: I found in a scrapbook my mom kept that I wanted to be a "mad scientist". Not just a scientist, but a mad scientist. I think I wanted to blow stuff up and make slime.
Favorite childhood toy?: My Casio keyboard and my cassette walkman.
Give one valuable piece of advice to people who spend too much time working.: Hang loose...

Jerry Culik

- Saling Instructor

Favorite outdoor activities?: Sailing, rowing, kayaking, and hiking.
Favorite thing about working at Ultimate Watersports?: Competent teachers. Super sense of business and customer. Great locations. Variety of toys.
Where are you when you're not at work?: I like renewable energy—solar electric system design and engineering—it's not work to me. When not working on that, I'm at the Chesapeake Wooden Boat School or in my shop in Nottingham, PA -- I restore and build smaller wooden and fiberglass boats.
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?: I wanted to be a scientist. Sort of worked out...became an engineer doing research and development on high-tech products.
Favorite childhood toy?: ...
Give one valuable piece of advice to people who spend too much time working.: Try taking the train back home on your next business trip. You dont't realize how big this country is until you travel across it on the ground instead of in a plane. The trains go through and to great spots; the scenery is between them is fantastic!

Tommy Davis

- Kayak Team
- Extreme Camp Staff

Favorite outdoor activities?: Climbing, Hiking/Backpacking, kayaking and canoeing, Geocaching, and playing Ultimate.
Favorite thing about working at Ultimate Watersports?: (Haven't started working there yet) but i would probably say being outside on the water and working with kids.
Where are you when you're not at work?: I can be found by the pool, beach or lounging in my backyard.
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?: I wanted to be a US Navy SEAL when I grew up.
Favorite childhood toy?: Tonka Trucks.
Give one valuable piece of advice to people who spend too much time working.: Live life to the fullest you only get to live once.

Tylor Streett

- Director of Operations & Safety
- Rock n River Camp Director

Favorite outdoor activities?: Rock Climbing, Sailing, Hiking, Paddling, Running, and Biking.
Favorite thing about working at Ultimate Watersports?: Teaching kids.
Where are you when you're not at work?: On a rock.
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?: A Paleontologist.
Favorite childhood toy?: Legos.
Give one valuable piece of advice to people who spend too much time working.: If your work is your play then you will never work a day in your life.

Caren Wiley

- Windsurfing Team
- Reception

Favorite outdoor activities?: Hiking in the woods and walking in streams.
Favorite thing about working at Ultimate Watersports?: I like seeing all the wildlife on a daily basis. It taught me to appreciate turkey vultures and I now have a pet tadpole named Tubs McGoo.
Where are you when you're not at work?: Double Rock Park.
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?: Artist.
Favorite childhood toy?: Arts & Crafts. I would paint and make friendship bracelets all the time.
Give one valuable piece of advice to people who spend too much time working.: "All work and no play makes Jack..." ...a really bad windsurfer! :p

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