Mammoth Lakes, CA – Veteran U.S. Ski Team member and three-time Olympian Stacey Cook, who calls Mammoth Mountain home, has identified the talented young athletes who have been named to the 2015-16 Stacey Cook/Sun Valley Ski Tools (SVST) Competition Team. Scholarship recipients are chosen based on passion and dedication to the sport, community involvement, and character. The relationship … Continue reading Stacey Cook/SVST Scholarship Recipients Announced→
Incline Village, NV – There are people with whom you cross paths in life who have a big spirit. Something about them is just, well… different. U.S. Ski Team member and 2014 NorAm slalom champion Lila Lapanja, of Incline Village, is one of these people, an amalgam of balanced intensity, grace, flow and a little bit of mystery emanate … Continue reading Lila Lapanja: What Makes A Champion→
Copper Mountain, CO – The wet-bulb temperature hit 27ºF overnight at Copper Mountain, enabling the Colorado ski resort to fire up snowmaking on its Andy’s Encore trail. Copper is scheduled to celebrate its public 2015-16 Opening Day in just 32 days on Friday, Nov. 6, and expects to host U.S. Ski Team on-snow training at Copper Mountain’s Speed Center before … Continue reading Colorado’s Copper Mountain Starts Snowmaking→
Franconia, NH – On the same day that the United States Ski & Snowboard Association (USSA) floated the idea of an East Coast return for the World Cup at Killington, they also announced that the former Mittersill ski area in New Hampshire, now part of Cannon Mountain, will be a newly designated USSA Training Site. The … Continue reading USSA Adds Training Site at Mittersill→
Zurich, Switzerland – World Cup Alpine ski racing hasn’t been contested on the U.S. East Coast since Waterville Valley in 1993, but that’s not dissuading the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) from proposing a visit to Killington, Vt., next Thanksgiving. The USSA is proposing a Killington World Cup during meetings of the International Ski Federation (FIS) … Continue reading World Cup Ski Race Proposed for Killington→
Pitztal, Austria – Barely over three weeks from the World Cup ski racing season opener in Soelden, a nagging knee injury has reportedly pulled reigning World Cup overall champion Anna Fenninger of Austria from pre-season training. News reports indicate that Fenninger, 26, is suffering from persistent knee issues. The Austrian Ski Team, which is training on the country’s Pitztal … Continue reading Reports: Knee Injury Halts Training for World Cup Champion Fenninger→
Copper Mountain, CO – Colorado’s Copper Mountain, home of the U.S. Ski Team Speed Center, will act as host to the Putnam Investments NASTAR Pacesetting Trials on Friday, November 6. It will be the first time NASTAR, a citizen ski racing program, will have the official pacesetting trials since 1993, when a young rising star on … Continue reading NASTAR Pacesetting Trials Coming to Copper→
