A former ski racer, Coombsy heads up all of the ski tuning for the team. “My job is equipment,” he said to the Olympic Channel. “It’s a downsized pitcrew.”
U.S. rookie halfpipe team member Abigale Hansen dominated the first stop of the U.S. Revolution Tour at Copper Mountain, CO on Thursday and Friday, winning both halfpipe events.
Carly Margulies has been posting stellar results since she began competing in 2013. The skier out of Mammoth Lakes, CA first stood on top of the podium in 2015, when she won the U.S. Revolution Tour halfpipe event at Seven Springs.
In 2016 Margulies went on to win the USASA national title in halfpipe as well as the Aspen Open.
Hunter Hess has been steadily climbing the competitive ranks, earning his first U.S. Revolution Tour podium at Copper Mountain to start the 2016 season.
U.S. rookie halfpipe team member Abigale Hansen dominated the first stop of the U.S. Revolution Tour at Copper Mountain, CO on Thursday and Friday, winning both halfpipe events.
Hunter Hess has been steadily climbing the competitive ranks, earning his first U.S. Revolution Tour podium at Copper Mountain to start the 2016 season. After placing 12th at his first FIS World Cup appearance in 2016 he went on to rack up two more podium finishes: second in halfpipe at the Nor-Am Cup at Canada Olympic Park and third in slopestyle at the Winter Park stop of the Revolution Tour.
A skier that found his start at Mt. Bachelor, Hess built his skills with the Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation.
U.S. Freeskiing will send a competitive team of athletes to compete at the 2017 FIS Junior World Championships in Crans-Montana, Switzerland and Valmalenco, Italy.
Cody LaPlante is a ripping young skier who stomped his first double flat spin at the age of 11. Yes--11. The skier out of Lake Tahoe won the USASA national slopestyle title in 2012 and 2013 and the overall title in 2014.
Showing that he has all-around skills, LaPlante has also raced skicross events. LaPlante has grown up skiing the slopes of Alpine Meadows at Lake Tahoe, cutting his teeth with the Alpine Freestyle Team.
PARK CITY, UT (July 11, 2016) – The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) has launched the Project JUMP initiative to create a new training facility for snowboarders and freeskiers at the Utah Olympic Park in Park City, UT.
Project JUMP will include four jumps: one large and one medium with an artificial in-run to an airbag, and one large and one medium for winter use. It will allow for development and elite-level athletes to train year-round in a safe environment.
Olympic Selection Kicks Off at 2016-17 U.S. Grand Prix
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PARK CITY, UT (June 23, 2016) – The U.S. Grand Prix, the longest running winter action sports tour, has announced three stops for the 2016-17 season. Copper Mountain, CO and Mammoth Mountain, CA and will host the world’s best skiers and riders in halfpipe, slopestyle and big air, while skicross and snowboardcross athletes will return to the U.S. for the first time since 2011. The event at Mammoth will also act as the first of five Olympic selection events for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang.
The tour kicks off at Copper Dec. 14-17 with halfpipe competitions for freeskiing and snowboarding and a big air snowboarding competition. The big air competition is also part of the United States Olympic Committee’s (USOC) Team USA Winter Champions Series, a single-day television event featuring the Grand Prix along with luge and women’s hockey.
Olympic silver medalist Gus Kenworthy (Telluride, CO) has received a nomination for the 2016 ESPY Awards after a stellar 2015-16 season. Kenworthy is nominated in the Best Male Action Sports Athlete category.
This season, Kenworthy won two X Games medals in Aspen—a silver in SuperPipe and a silver in Slopestyle—making him the first athlete to medal in each event at the same X Games since 2005. Plus, he added two more X Games medals to his collection in Oslo, won the European Freeski Open and led a halfpipe sweep at the U.S. Grand Prix in Mammoth.
Earlier this month, 20 athletes representing the U.S. Ski Team, U.S. Freeskiing and U.S. Snowboarding headed Tijuana, Mexico to build a home for a family in need.
This was the second year athletes have made the pilgrimage south, led by Hope Sports—a nonprofit founded by professional cyclist Guy East that helps promote personal growth and community among athletes through short-term service trips. Riders and skiers of all ages joined the trip—Olympic medalists, stars from the Rev Tour, Youth Olympic Game attendees and everyone in between.
CANCUN, Mexico (June 11, 2016) – The International Ski Federation (FIS) concluded its biannual FIS Congress with the announcement of the 2016-17 World Cup calendar, including 30 events in the USA. Killington Resort, Beaver Creek Resort, Squaw Valley, Aspen Snowmass, Copper Mountain, Mammoth Mountain, Lake Placid and Deer Valley Resort will host the world’s best skiers and riders in alpine skiing, freestyle skiing, freeskiing and snowboarding.
The U.S. will host 16 Audi FIS Ski World Cups this season, the second most ever, with stops in Killington, Beaver Creek, Squaw Valley and Aspen Snowmass. On March 15-19, Aspen will host this year’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup Finals, the first time the event has been held in America since 1996.
