CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Carrabassett Valley Academy launched its second phase of a new campaign Friday to raise $5.75 million more to reach its $7 million goal to build a new academic wing and other facilities.

Fundraising is well under way with $1.25 million raised toward the goal to complete the King Cummings Campus, CVA Marketing Communications Director Waylon Wolfe said Tuesday.

Phase two includes building a state-of-the-art academic wing with the newest technology, dining facilities, administrative offices and an off-season jumping facility, he said.

The monetary goal for the second phase also includes funds to grow the academy’s endowment.

CVA plans to break ground on the expansion this spring.

“This is an incredibly exciting announcement,” CVA Head of School Kate Webber Punderson said in a news release. “Through this campaign, CVA will finally have a world-class campus for our world-class programs.”

The academic wing will be added to Murphy Hall, a three-story, co-ed residence hall that opened in 2007-08. The dormitory and associated amenities, along with soccer and track fields were built during phase one of the project. The cost was about $7 million, Wolfe said.

Currently classes are being held in the existing academic wing on Route 27, near the Sugarloaf Access Road. The new campus is set back and will be reached off the Access Road, Wolfe said.

The private ski and snowboard school is now a grade-seven-through-12 program. Students can pay tuition to attend a nine-month term, a seven-month term or a five-month term, which is the winter term. They have options to train in Alpine racing, snowboard, free-style skiing, and Alpine leadership pursuits for skiers and snowboards. The latter is connected to big mountain skiing and snowboarding.

The school typically enrolls about 100 students a year, Wolfe said. It has trained the minds and bodies of 11 Olympians, including Maine’s Seth Westcott, and 83 national champions among other world-class competitors and champions.

For more information regarding CVA’s new campus fundraising efforts, Campaign Director James Pelletier may be reached at 207-237-4498 or jpelletier@gocva.com.

dperry@sunjournal.com

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