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Lake Tahoe athletes on U.S. Ski and Snowboard teams
Submitted by paula on Wed, 11/21/2018 - 12:16pm
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The United States Ski and Snowboard teams have been announced for this season and several local faces once again, including South Lake Tahoe Olympians Maddie Bowman and Jamie Anderson, are on that list.
Maddie Bowman, a South Tahoe High grad, has won an Olympic gold medal and seven X Games medals. She burst onto the ski halfpipe scene in 2012, and into the history books two years later by winning the first Olympic gold medal in women’s halfpipe skiing. She has now been on the Pro Halfpipe-Freeskiing team for seven years.
Women's Audi FIS World Cup heading to Squaw Valley in 2017
Submitted by paula on Fri, 06/10/2016 - 9:36pm
The International Ski Federation (FIS) and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) announced today that Squaw Valley will host an Audi FIS World Cup in March 2017, consisting of a women’s giant slalom on Friday, March 10 and a women’s slalom on Saturday, March 11. The event will mark the return of World Cup ski racing to California for the first time in 19 years.
Squaw Valley proposed for 2017 World Cup
Submitted by paula on Thu, 03/24/2016 - 4:59pm
The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) has selected Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows as the proposed site of an Audi FIS Ski World Cup in 2017. U.S. Ski Team officials are supporting the return of World Cup ski racing to the Olympic venue of Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows for the first time since 1969.
Several Lake Tahoe skiers named to U.S. Alpine Ski Team
Submitted by paula on Tue, 11/24/2015 - 2:03pm
Several skiers from the Lake Tahoe area were announced to the 2015/16 US Alpine Ski Team, including Olympians Julia Mancuso, Travis Ganong, Tim Jitloff and Marco Sullivan. Even though Mancuso was name to the team she will miss out on the season due to hip surgery, but has her sights set on the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang.
Men's A Team
David Chodounksy (Crested Butte, CO; Crested Butte Ski Team) 6/25/1984
Travis Ganong (Squaw Valley, CA; Squaw Valley Ski Team) 7/14/1988
Tim Jitloff (Reno, NV; Park City Ski Team) 1/11/1985
Ted Ligety (Park City, UT; Park City Ski Team) 8/31/1984
US Ski Team names nominations for 2015-16 alpine roster
Submitted by paula on Sun, 05/17/2015 - 10:02amThe U.S. Ski Team announced its nominations for the 2015-16 season Thursday, identifying 51 total athletes on the A, B, C, and D Teams for next season.
Women
A Team
- Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain, CA; Mammoth Mountain Ski Team; 7/3/1984)
- Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, CA; Squaw Valley Ski Team 3/9/1984)
- Alice McKennis (Glenwood Springs, CO; Rowmark Ski Academy; 9/19/1989)
- Laurenne Ross (Bend, OR; Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation; 8/17/1988)
- Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO; Burke Mountain Academy; 3/13/1995)
North Lake Tahoe's Travis Ganong leads resurgent Americans
Submitted by paula on Sat, 02/07/2015 - 11:17pm
Two years ago, Travis Ganong contacted Daron Rahlves and asked for help.
Ganong, then 24, had long been considered a rising star in speed events (he won the downhill and super-G national titles in 2010), but he hadn't figured out how to translate his potential to World Cup results. After debuting on the circuit in 2009, it took him three years and 39 races to crack the top 10.
Five Tahoe/Reno area skiers named to US Ski Team
Submitted by paula on Wed, 01/28/2015 - 11:43pm
World Champions Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO), Ted Ligety (Park City, UT), Bode Miller (Franconia, NH) and Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO) headline a strong group of 26 athletes, 14 men and 12 women, named by the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association to compete in the 2015 FIS Alpine Ski World Championships Feb. 2-15 in Vail/Beaver Creek on home turf. Joining them will be five-time medalist Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, CA) as well as Audi FIS Ski World Cup downhill winners Travis Ganong (Squaw Valley, CA) and Steven Nyman (Sundance, UT).
North Lake Tahoe's Travis Ganong Claims Career First Win
Submitted by paula on Sun, 12/28/2014 - 4:08pm
Travis Ganong, of Squaw Valley, CA and 2014 Olympian, 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. Austria's Matthias Mayer was the only one who got close to Ganong, finishing in second, nine-hundredths back. Italy's Dominick Paris was third.
2015 Alpine Ski Team Full of Lake Tahoe Athletes
Submitted by paula on Thu, 05/08/2014 - 8:14pmPARK CITY, UT (May 7) – Olympic gold medalists Ted Ligety (Park City, UT), Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO), Bode Miller (Franconia, NH), Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) and Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, CA) are among the 40 athletes nominated to the 2015 U.S. Alpine Ski Team. The team will formally named in the fall during Nature Valley First Tracks at Copper Mountain, CO – home of the U.S. Ski Team Speed Center.
HIGHLIGHTS
Fourty athletes have been nominated to the 2015 U.S. Alpine Ski Team.
2 US Medals in Men's Super G; Lake Tahoe's Travis Ganong 23rd
Submitted by paula on Sun, 02/16/2014 - 12:03am
Two American men won medals in Sunday morning's Super G race in Sochi: Andrew Weibrecht from Saranc Lake, NY wins the Silver while there was a tie for the Bronze between Bode Miller from Easton, NH and Jan Hudec from Canada. With a time of 1:18:14, Kietil Jansrud from Norway won the Gold.
25 year old Travis Ganong from Truckee came in 23rd. Earlier in the week Ganong finished 5th in the Men's Downhill.
Julia Mancuso of Lake Tahoe Places 8th in Sochi Super G
Submitted by paula on Sat, 02/15/2014 - 1:23pm
North Lake Tahoe's Julia Mancuso led Team USA once again Saturday, posting the best American finish in eighth at a rough and unforgiving super G, the final women’s speed event of the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games. Another difficult course set plus temperatures in the 40s yielded DNFs in seven of the first eight racers, but Austrian Anna Fenninger dialed it in for gold on the inconsistent course.
U.S Does Not Medal in Olympic Downhill; Travis Ganong of Lake Tahoe 5th
Submitted by paula on Sun, 02/09/2014 - 7:48amLake Tahoe's Travis Ganong made his Olympic debut with the best finish of his career in today's Olympic Downhill race in Sochi. The Squaw Valley skier led the race at one point but was bumped by Norwegian Kjetil Jansrud, who finished third behind race winner Matthias Mayer of Austria and Christof Innerhofer of Italy.
Ten Lake Tahoe Area Athletes Part of Olympic Contingent Headed to Sochi
Submitted by paula on Mon, 01/27/2014 - 5:32pm
The USA has a record 94 athletes headed to Sochi, Russia for the 2014 Olympic games next week.
Here is a list of the teams (Lake Tahoe, Reno and Truckee athletes in bold):
2014 OLYMPIC SNOWBOARDING HALFPIPE AND SLOPESTYLE NOMINATIONS
Men’s Alpine Snowboarding
Justin Reiter, Steamboat Springs, CO (2/2/1981)
Men’s Halfpipe
Greg Bretz, Mammoth Lakes, CA (12/19/1990) *
Danny Davis, Truckee, CA (6/22/1988)
Taylor Gold, Steamboat Springs, CO (11/17/1993)
Shaun White, Carlsbad, CA (9/3/1986) *
Women’s Halfpipe
Lake Tahoe Skiers Nominated for U.S. Olympic Alpine Team
Submitted by paula on Sun, 01/26/2014 - 2:31pmThe U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association Sunday nominated 20 athletes to the U.S. Olympic Alpine Ski Team that will compete in Sochi next month. The team is highlighted by Olympic gold medalists Bode Miller (Franconia, NH), Ted Ligety (Park City, UT), Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, CA) and World Champion Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO).
2014 Olympic Alpine Team Nominations
Men
David Chodounsky, Crested Butte, CO (6/25/84)
Erik Fisher, Middleton, ID (3/21/85) *
Travis Ganong, Squaw Valley, CA (7/14/88)
Jared Goldberg, Holladay, UT (6/15/91)
Travis Ganong records another career-best finish
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/01/2013 - 5:00amBORMIO, Italy - Travis Ganong of Squaw Valley delivered a career-best seventh-place World Cup finish on a grueling Stelvio downhill in Bormio, Italy, on Saturday. The second-longest downhill on ...
