PARK CITY, UT (Dec. 19) – The 2013 U.S. Freestyle Ski Team’s aerials squad led by Olympian Emily Cook (Belmont, MA) and World Cup podium finisher Dylan Ferguson (Amesbury, MA) will be announced at its first competition of the season this Friday Dec. 21. The FIS Super Continental Cup at the Utah Olympic Park will also mark the first event back for Olympian Ashley Caldwell (Ashburn, VA) after a knee injury took her out of competition last season. The event will showcase athletes from five different nations who will all come together for the premiere event of the season.
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LOS ANGELES (Oct. 30) – The U.S. Ski Team's partner Universal Sports Network will debut Countdown to Sochi, a weekly show capturing the most compelling stories leading up to the 2014 Sochi Games tonight at 8 PM ET – just 100 days from the start of the opening ceremony. The 15-week show will air every Wednesday at 8 PM ET until February 5, and showcase Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls through exclusive interviews and profiles like the new “Train Like a Champion” and “Countdown Conversation” segments.
PARK CITY, UT (Feb. 15) – The U.S. Ski Team named 11 ski jumping and nordic combined athletes to its 2012 FIS Nordic Junior World Ski Championship Team. The Junior Worlds will be held Feb. 19-26 in Erzurum, Turkey. Among the athletes is ski jumper Sarah Hendrickson (Park City, UT) who comes into Junior Worlds leading the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup with six victories. Hendrickson was bronze medalist at Junior Worlds two years ago. The Team earlier named ten cross country athletes.
2012 FIS NORDIC JUNIOR WORLD SKI CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM
Ryan Cochran-Siegle got his start in skiing from his family’s famous Cochran’s Ski Area. Cochran-Siegle skied to the development team in 2010 and has not looked back. Cochran-Siegle won gold in downhill and combined in the 2012 junior worlds. In 2014 he won the NorAm Overall title.
Closing out the women’s speed series in Kvitfjell, Norway, Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team athlete Mikaela Shiffrin landed in seventh place and Breezy Johnson in 19th, battling wild conditions in the super-G.
COPPER MOUNTAIN, CO (Dec. 9) – With a host of new action sports events on the docket for the 2014 Olympics just two years away, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) formally announced 2011-12 U.S. Snowboarding and U.S. Freeskiing teams Friday from its training facility at the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix at Copper.
After finishing 27th overall in men's downhill at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Steve Nyman has been training harder than ever this past summer. "I realized last winter that I needed better endurance in races so that has been a huge part of my summer training. I learned a lot this summer from training 5-6 days per week and constantly monitoring my body," says Steve. With Sochi behind him, Steve is looking to make a push for the 2014-2015 world cup downhill title.
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PARK CITY, Utah (Oct. 4, 2017) – The nation’s best freestyle skiers will compete for national titles this spring at the 2018 U.S. Freestyle Championships. Aerials competitions will take place at the Utah Olympic Park followed by moguls at New Hampshire’s Waterville Valley Resort.
WANAKA, New Zealand (Aug. 18) – Kelly Clark (West Dover, VT) started her season off on top of the podium at the Burton High Fives, the first halfpipe competition of the season. Kaitlyn Farrington (Bellevue, WA) rode strong and took third. The contest was set up in a jam style format with a one-hour window for riders to get their best run scored. U.S. Snowboarding teammate Greg Bretz (Mammoth Lakes, CA) bounced back from a 2012 season riddled with injuries to land third in a tough field of men.
ASPEN, CO (Jan. 26) – Devin Logan (West Dover, VT) opened the 2012 Winter X Games with a silver medal in women’s slopestyle. It was Logan’s first X Games slopestyle medal in only her third appearance at the event. Canadian Kaya Turski won with the first women’s switch 1080 at a Winter X Games competition.
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