Just as 43°N 114°W represents our valley as a whole,
so too does the team behind it.
Georgia Hutchinson
Creator of 43°N 114°W.
Believer, encourager, and celebrator of the ability of people to achieve their unlimited possibilities.
In retrospect, she has nurtured this concept since collaborating with an enthusiastic group of aspiring women hockey players and starting the Sunsets in the early 1980s. Then followed many joyous years in the valley on numerous incredible teams of women’s hockey, coed hockey, Ketchum coed softball, and every possible local golf club championship. Competed in numerous IGA, PNGA and USGA events. Playing the games she loves with fellow comrades and like-minded athletes, as well as running in the mountains, brings her complete joy.
2007, 2008, 2012: Qualified for the USGA Women’s Senior National Tournament
2009, 2013, 2015: USA’s Hockey Over-50 Tier I National Champion
2017: Arranged hockey jersey exchange between the 2018 USA Women’s Olympic hockey team and the PGA Tour’s President’s Cup Team.
2018 - present: Her company athlete2athlete has, annually, provided over ten club hockey tuition scholarships to college-bound local hockey players.
Believer, encourager, celebrator and Mom of three wonderful young adults.
Sheila Naghsh
Sheila is an all-around sports fan, especially for all Boston teams! She grew up in a large athletic family and was a three-sport athlete: soccer, basketball, and softball. A former DI soccer player for Boston College and a hockey player for the Sun Valley Sunsets, she has coached both soccer and hockey in the Wood River Valley for many years. Presently, Sheila spends her time cheering for her two boys in their athletic and academic endeavors and is a sixth-grade teacher for the Blaine County School District. Although her competitive sports career is in the past, she is an avid outdoor enthusiast who enjoys mountain biking, hiking, golf, hockey, and both water and snow skiing.
Muffy Ritz
“I am passionate, not only about my own training, competition and endurance sports in general, but about helping others see the value and FUN in sports and what it has to offer. My life was forever changed when I took up Nordic skiing and racing. I want others to feel this passion and help support them along the way!”
Two-time consecutive Women’s Champion of the American Birkebeiner, 55-kilometer annual cross country ski marathon
Rookie of the Year, Race Across America 2,910 Mile Transcontinental Road Cycling Race
Founder and Director Sun Valley’s VAMPS Women’s Nordic Ski Club
Inducted into the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation, Hall of Fame 2013
Kelly Feldman
Kelly Feldman grew up playing sports of all kinds. She played soccer collegiately and followed that passion into coaching. She has been coaching all levels of youth soccer for 30 years. Kelly has been the Head Coach of the Sun Valley Community School Girls’ Varsity Soccer team since 2001 and involved in Idaho’s Olympic Development Program since 2005. She is a nine-time 4th District Coach of the Year, two-time United Soccer Coaches Private/Parochial High School Coach of the Year for Idaho and a United Soccer Coaches Regional Private/Parochial Coach of the Year.
While her playing days are over, Kelly continues to hike, bike, fish, Nordic and Alpine ski and recently fell in love with backcountry skiing.
Sloan Storey
Sloan was fortunate enough to be born and raised in the beautiful Wood River Valley where she grew up chasing her 4 older siblings around soccer fields and down ski slopes. She is enthusiastic about all things sports and outdoor recreation, but finds her passion in Nordic Skiing, soccer, and all things being in the mountains. Sloan competed for the University of Utah NCAA ski team where she was a seven time NCAA All-American and competed with the US Ski Team in the 2014 and 2015 World Juniors Championships. After graduating from college, retiring from competitive ski racing, and traveling for a bit, Sloan decided to come back to her roots to give back to her community by working for The Hunger Coalition as well as coaching for SVSEF Nordic programs. You can usually find Sloan outside, moving and challenging her body through multiple outlets. She is inspired to help motivate our local females to push their boundaries, take advantage of our beautiful landscape, and MOVE. Especially together!
Joanie Whitman Rumpeltes
Joanie has had a life-long love of sports. And being the youngest child in an active family she has been trying to keep up with the gang her whole life. While striving to become proficient enough to enjoy numerous sports, her main sport’s love is hockey - not because of how she plays the game but the rewards that the friendships & team camaraderie has provided in her life. Her motto - "better to be lucky than good" and luck has shone brightly on her here in Sun Valley.
Lisa Wood
Lisa has lived in the Valley for 30 years, and the mother of two boys. A former D1 college lacrosse player, she has a huge passion for team sports, and a lifelong respect of the benefits of participating in them. She is avid outdoor recreationalist (skiing, hiking, biking) and recreational athlete (hockey, golf, swimming, racquet sports). She is truly fired up about 43°N 114°W!