Four-time Olympian and U.S. Alpine Ski Team alumnus and 2010 skicross Olympian Casey Puckett recently concluded a collective nine years of coaching Aspen Valley Ski & Snowboard Club (AVSC) athletes, returning to the Land Rover U.S. Alpine Ski Team as head technical coach for the women's Europa Cup team. Austin Colbert, from the Aspen Times, recently caught up with Casey to talk about his return to U.S. Ski & Snowboard.
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A partnership with the U.S. Ski & Snowboard became official last May: the Omini brand will kit all sports for the next 10 years.
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Torino, 29 November 2022 – After the announcement on May 10th of a 10-year partnership between Italian brand Kappa® and U.S. Ski & Snowboard, the first winter collection produced by Kappa®’s R&D center is now available online at Kappa.com and inside the main retail stores.
Jack Smith first joined the Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team for the 2019-20 season. He has since shown that he is an up-and-coming skier on the speed circuit. In the 2022-23 season Smith notched his ticket to the World Cup finishing second in the NorAm overall super-G standings.
In the 2023-24 season Smith officially made his World Cup debut in Garmisch, Germany in the super-G.
When he's not skiing, he's waterskiing, wakesurfing/foiling, camping, and mountain biking.
After the snow control meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 25, it was officially announced that the two women's Matterhorn Cervino Speed Opening Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup downhill races slated for Nov. 5-6, 2022 are canceled. The races will not be replaced on this season's World Cup calendar.
The Matterhorn Cervino downhill was to be the first cross-border downhill race in FIS history. According to FIS, the organizers in Zermatt and Cervinia are already hard at work to make the premiere of the Matterhorn Cervino Speed Opening in 2023 a reality.
PARK CITY, UT (May 12, 2016) – The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) will recognize accomplished athletes, coaches and leaders this week at the annual Chairman’s Awards Dinner during USSA Congress. The awards include USSA gold awards, silver awards and athlete, coach and club of the year awards in each sport.
MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN, CA (May 20, 2013) – Top Olympic skiers and snowboarders will be heading to California’s Mammoth Mountain Ski Area in the lead up to Sochi. The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association has named Mammoth Mountain as an Official Training Ground for U.S. Freeskiing and U.S. Snowboarding, providing valuable spring and fall training camps for U.S. athletes through 2019 including Olympics in Sochi and PyeongChang. U.S. Freeskiing and U.S. Snowboarding Pro Teams will be based at Mammoth Mountain’s Unbound Terrain Park this November to prepare for the Olympic season.
MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN, CA (May 20, 2013) – Top Olympic skiers and snowboarders will be heading to California’s Mammoth Mountain Ski Area in the lead up to Sochi. The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association has named Mammoth Mountain as an Official Training Ground for U.S. Freeskiing and U.S. Snowboarding, providing valuable spring and fall training camps for U.S. athletes through 2019 including Olympics in Sochi and PyeongChang. U.S. Freeskiing and U.S. Snowboarding Pro Teams will be based at Mammoth Mountain’s Unbound Terrain Park this November to prepare for the Olympic season.
LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland (March 13) - Thick fog forced officials to cancel the men’s and women’s Audi FIS Alpine World Cup Finals downhill races Wednesday in Lenzerheide. Marco Sullivan (Squaw Valley, CA) finished 14th in the World Cup downhill standings, his best season since 2008 and the top finish for U.S. men. Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal took the men’s downhill title, his second of the season.
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Due to warm weather and lack of snow, along with an unfavorable forecast, the men's and women's Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup parallel events in Lech-Zürs, Austria on Nov. 12-13 are officially canceled.
Moving forward, the women's tech team will travel to Levi, Finland on Nov. 19-20 and then Killington, Vermont for the Heroic Killington Cup presented by Stifel on Nov. 26-27. The men's team will head to Lake Louise, Canada for downhill and super-G on Nov. 22-27.
KITZBUEHEL, Austria (Jan. 24) – Defending Olympic Champion Ted Ligety (Park City, UT) led the U.S. Ski Team Friday, finishing 15th at a slick and snowy Audi FIS Alpine World Cup slalom in Kitzbuehel, Austria. Teammate Nolan Kasper (Warren, VT) skied into 18th, and German slalom ace Felix Neureuther took the win. The race, originally scheduled for Sunday, was switched with the super combined in order to preserve the downhill track for Saturday’s 74th Hahnenkamm downhill. The U.S. Alpine Olympic team nominations will be announced Jan. 26 following the super combined event.