Los Angeles, CA – 2010 Olympic, Paralympic and X Games athletes, including gold medal winning skiers Lindsey Vonn, Bode Miller and Hannah Kearney, snowboarder Shaun White, and disabled skiers Alana Nichols and Stephani Victor, highlight the heavy hitting list of winter athletes nominated for 2010 ESPY Awards.nAlso in the running are Julia Mancuso, a 2010 double Olympic silver medalist and 2006 Olympic gold medalist, along with Paralympic bronze medalist Andy Soule, freestyle skiers Bobby Brown and Jen Hudak, Australian snowboarder Torah Bright, and Canadian ski cross athlete Ashleigh McIvor.

The 18th annual ESPYs will be hosted by Saturday Night Live star Seth Meyers and broadcast live on ESPN from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 14 at 9 p.m. ET.

Vonn, whose record shattering 2010 season included the Olympic gold medal for downhill and a bronze in super G in addition to capturing her third consecutive Audi FIS Alpine World Cup overall title, is nominated in both the Best Female Athlete category and Best Female U.S. Olympic Athlete.

Fellow Olympic gold medalist White is also up for ESPYs in two categories with nods for Best Male Action Sports Athlete and Best Male U.S. Olympic Athlete after defending his 2006 Olympic halfpipe gold.

Joining White in the Best Male U.S. Olympic Athlete division is Miller, who captured a royal flush of medals in Vancouver with bronze in downhill, followed by super G silver and a dramatic gold medal in super combined.

Mancuso’s stunning silver medals in both downhill and super combined notched her a spot in the Best Female U.S. Olympic Athlete category joining Vonn and Kearney, the women’s moguls gold medalist.

Beijing wheelchair basketball gold medalist turned first-time winter Olympian Nichols rolled to a four-medal alpine skiing haul in Vancouver with gold in both downhill and giant slalom, plus silver in super G and bronze in super combined. With that, she became the first American woman to earn gold in both summer and winter Paralympics and earned a slot in the Best Female Athlete with a Disability category along side teammate Victor.

A three-time Paralympian, Victor carries a 2010 gold medal in super combined and silver medals in both super G and giant slalom into the category of Best Female Athlete with a Disability, while Soule, a military veteran, lands on the men’s side with a bronze medal in biathlon just five years after being introduces to nordic skiing.

The only skier to win two gold medals at the same Winter X Games, Bobby Brown won Ski Slopestyle and Ski Big Air in his first appearance at the Winter X Games last January. The first skier to land the switch double misty 1440, the trick earned him the first-ever perfect score in the Ski Big Air contest, Brown continued his domination by winning the next Dew Tour stop and earning a silver medal at Winter X Games Europe.

Australia’s golden girl, Torah Bright has become one of the most recognizable female snowboarders. Awarded the highest score ever given to a Winter X SuperPipe female at Winter X Games 13, Bright went on to add Winter Olympic and Winter X Games Europe gold medalist to her titles in 2010.

Not only did Jen Hudak earn her first Winter X Games gold medal in the Ski SuperPipe competition in her winter hometown of Aspen, Colo., and her first gold at the inaugural Winter X Games Europe, she finished on top of the AFP World Tour. Hudak spends her summers in Salt Lake City, Utah.

In the first year Ski Cross was featured in the Winter Olympics, Ashleigh McIvor went down in the history books as the very first Women’s Ski Cross Olympic gold medalist. She also had a first at Winter X Games 14, earning her first Winter X Games Skier X medal, a silver.

All winners will be determined by popular vote, except the Arthur Ashe Courage Award and other special awards, and fans can cast their ballot online now at espn.go.com/espys.