Park City, UT – The U.S. Alpine Ski Team has made a change in its women’s coaching staff. The team announced yesterday that Alpine Director Patrick Riml is taking over interim management of the women’s slalom/giant slalom team, overseeing current staff including Assistant Coach Gary Miller as well as Strength and Conditioning Coach Luca de Marchi. … Continue reading U.S. Ski Team Makes Coaching Change
Soelden, Austria – Ronnie Berlack and Bryce Astle grew up almost a continent apart. Ronnie was raised in a ski racing family in Franconia, N.H., as a kid watching hometown hero Bode Miller make his rise to ski stardom. He later moved to Burke Mountain Academy, where his dad was a ski coach. Born in California, … Continue reading Ski in Peace: Ronnie and Bryce
Vail, CO – The 2015 World Championships Organizing Committee and Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., official beer partner for Vail and Beaver Creek’s World Ski Championships, have officially unveiled Start House Session Ale – a beer brewed exclusively for 2015 World Championships ski racing fans. Start House Session Ale will make its debut at a Tapping Party on … Continue reading Sierra Nevada Brews Special Beer for World Ski Championships
Zagreb, Croatia – U.S. women scored a World Cup victory when Mikaela Shiffrin won Sunday’s slalom in Croatia. Before the men could take their turn in the gates in Zagreb on Tuesday night, however, two of their development team members perished in an avalanche on Monday in Soelden, Austria, the team’s European training base. Tuesday was a … Continue reading U.S. Skiers, Still Reeling from Avalanche Deaths, DNF in Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia – Colorado’s Mikaela Shiffrin celebrated the New Year in style on Sunday, winning her second straight Audi FIS Ski World Cup slalom in Zagreb and laying claim for the second time to the Snow Queen Trophy. Shiffrin won in dominating style, leading the first run by .80 and expanding that lead in the second … Continue reading Shiffrin Again Crowned Snow Queen
Soelden, Austria – The U.S. Ski Team has confirmed that two of its promising development-level ski racers were killed today in an avalanche in Soelden. The two — Ronnie Berlack, 20, of Franconia, N.H. and Burke Mountain, Vt., and Bryce Astle, 19, of Sandy, Utah — were among a group of six U.S. athletes freeskiing at the Austrian resort … Continue reading U.S. Ski Team Mourns Loss of Two Prospects in Austrian Avalanche
Santa Caterina, Italy – Squaw Valley’s Travis Ganong took advantage of a new course for the men’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup tour and punched through for his career first victory, winning the Santa Caterina downhill on Sunday. Austria’s Matthias Mayer was the only one who got close to Ganong, finishing nine-hundredths back. Italy’s Dominick Paris … Continue reading Ganong Notches Career First World Cup Win
