U.S. Ski Team veteran and Olympian Jared Goldberg held off two Canadian skiers in the opening race of the Toyota U.S. Alpine Championships in Sugarloaf, Maine, to earn the crown of national champion Wednesday morning. Goldberg now will hold the title as the three-time national downhill champion; the first victory was in 2012.
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It was a busy weekend for the U.S. Cross Country Ski Team at the World Cup Finals in Falun, Sweden - a far cry from where things were a decade ago for the USA.
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, CO (Dec. 22) – A huge field of 122 athletes from five nations kicked off the 2012 moguls season at the U.S. Ski Team Selections event in Steamboat. Four U.S. athletes picked up FIS Freestyle World Cup start spots based on results from two days of individual moguls. Topping the list was Jay Panther (Park City, UT) and Allison Digravio (Farmington, ME), along with Troy Murphy (Bethel, ME) and Mikaela Matthews (Frisco, CO). Each will get starts in the moguls comps when the World Cup circuit comes to Lake Placid, NY Jan. 19-21 and Deer Valley Resort in Park City, UT Feb.
Anticipation was mounting all week for Ryan Cochran-Siegle, who put down the fastest training time in Wednesday's first and only downhill training run at Xfinity Birds of Prey World Cup. Despite the increased pressure, the 2012 Junior World Downhill Champion held his composure and finished a career-best sixth-place - a blink of an eye (.08 seconds) - off the podium in a shortened downhill.
U.S. Snowboardcross athletes have put in the time this off-season and are ready to kick-off the 2019-20 FIS Snowboardcross World Cup season in Montafon, Austria, this weekend.
“We just finished a very solid two-week block of training in Pitztal, Austria leading up to this first World Cup,” said Head U.S. Snowboardcross Coach Peter Foley. “The athletes are really excited to finally get in the start gate and see what they can do against the rest of the world.”
Park City, UTAH (April 13, 2023) - Ashley Caldwell, Chris Lillis and Justin Schoenefeld were honored as the 2022 Olympic Team of the Year by the annual Governor’s State of Sport Awards held Thursday evening. Caldwell, Lillis and Schoenefeld are the 2022 Olympic champions in Mixed Team Aerials, which made its Olympic debut at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games Beijing.
Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team athlete Mikaela Shiffrin secured her 83rd FIS World Cup win in Kronplatz, Italy to become the winningest woman skier of all time.
U.S. Ski & Snowboard is highlighting HERoic trailblazers throughout our winter sports, both past and present. A HERoic trailblazer is a woman athlete who has gone above and beyond in her sport, moving the sport forward through grit and determination and inspiring the next generation of women athletes.
Two weeks before the close of the Audi FIS Ski World Cup season in St. Moritz, Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin had a decision to make. Having just come back from a December knee injury, she had to decide whether or not to go to Lenzerheide, Switzerland for a super G and an alpine combined leading into the World Cup Finals.
She was coming off a top-10 combined finish in Andorra – her first World Cup in that discipline. And speed events were definitely in her plans. It was a challenging decision for the then 20-year-old (she turned 21 a week later).
On Sunday, athletes and staff from all five U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association (USSA) teams—the U.S. Ski Team, U.S. Freestyle Ski Team, U.S. Nordic Ski Team, U.S. Freeskiing and U.S. Snowboarding—left the gym and took to their bikes for the biggest USSA competition of the summer: Sufferfest.