Pavel brings more than 38 years of coaching experience and a track record of helping athletes reach the highest level of sport. Most recently, he coached Sarka Zahrobska to five top-15 World Cup finishes. Previous to that, he was the head coach for the Alpine Canada Men's Europa Cup Team, during which time two Canadian men captured Nor Am championships and a third finished second to his teammate.

Pavel also placed multiple athletes, including Greg Hardy, on a variety of national junior teams while working as the head alpine coach at Stratton Mountain School from 1990-2007. He coached Olympians Gaku Hirasawa (1994, 1998) and Tasha Nelson (2002). He was a professor of sports science at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, and he holds a doctorate in sport training.

​Pavel's hobbies include skiing and cycling. He has two children, Diana and Pavel, Jr.