Soelden, Austria – When the World Cup ski racing season kicks off next week on the Rettenbach Glacier in this Austrian resort, it will do so without Squaw Valley’s Julia Mancuso.

Mancuso, 31, posted to Instagram on Wednesday that she will sit out Soelden to continue recovering from a hip injury that abbreviated her 2014-15 World Cup season and prompted her to skip the World Cup finals in Méribel, France, last March. This will be the first time since 2006 that Mancuso doesn’t race in the traditional season opener.

“Still determined! #hurryupandhealhip!!!! Not going to be in Sölden?,” Mancuso posted.

Although Mancuso has been plagued by right hip pain throughout her career, the problem was aggravated by a fall during a World Cup giant slalom in Åre, Sweden, last December.

The Soelden races are in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom. Speed races are Mancuso’s specialty, so she’s adopting a page from teammate Lindsey Vonn’s handbook and waiting for the first downhill and super G races of the season, set for Lake Louise, Canada, in the first week of December. In between, the World Cup Alpine ladies’ calendar features technical races in Levi, Finland and Aspen, Colo.