For Nate Tudor, being president of one of ASU’s largest student organizations, the Snowdevils, can be a lot like running a company.

Snowdevils currently has about 550 active members and is sponsored by more than half a dozen companies, including Rockstar Energy Drink.

“We handle $80-90,000 dollars a year,” Tudor said. “It’s like running a small business.”

The on-campus organization for ski and snowboarding enthusiasts hosts student trips, parties, socials and other events. Founded in 1965, the club usually makes three large snowboarding and skiing trips each year and holds events and gatherings each week, Tudor said.

The Snowdevils annual winter trip this year will likely be the largest in a decade, he said, with a five-day trip for about 160 students to Winter Park, Colo. Already, the club has reserved two buses with 110 members and aims to get a third bus, he said.

“We’ve never sold out one of our trips this early on,” said Tudor, a construction management senior.

It is impossible to determine which of ASU’s 545 student organizations is the largest, said Jennifer Stults Krasnow, assistant director of the Office of Student Engagement. But the title probably goes to the Snowdevils, she said.

“They are easily one of our largest organizations on campus,” she said.

To host the trips, Snowdevils works with LifeStyle Productions, a company that gets group rates for the students and provides lodging and lift passes. For smaller trips, club members usually plan snowboarding outings on their own through the club.

This year, the annual trip will include four days of lift passes, transportation, lodging and access to parties and concerts, said Snowdevils senior adviser Kail Lane.

If all goes according to plan, “it’s going to be the biggest trip we’ve done in a long, long time,” said Lane, an urban planning and development senior, president of the club last year.

Because students are traveling in a large group, Snowdevil members are offered discounted rates of $550 each, Lane said. To go individually, the winter trip would probably cost about $700, he said.

Staff members and Snowdevils officers do not get compensated for their work but do receive discounts and free merchandise from club sponsors, Tudor said.

Currently, Snowdevils are sponsored by Rockstar Energy, Ski Pro and other sports companies. The club is currently working on sponsorship deals with Utility Boardshop and Quiksilver, Tudor said.

Lane said he learned a lot of management skills as president of the club.

Being involved in the club as an officer and later president, he said, taught him, “when push comes to shove, how business works in the sense of getting things done and making things happen, especially when you have a lot of people counting you.”

Reach the reporter at matt.culbertson@asu.edu.