PARK CITY, UT (Sept. 2) – The U.S. Freestyle Ski Team has a new addition heading into the 2010-11 winter season, with Harald Marbler being named moguls C team coach. The noted Austrian coach brings eight years of coaching experience at the World Cup level to the U.S. Ski Team.
"Harald brings our staff to a new level with his ideas for the future of the sport," said Freestyle Director Todd Schirman. "He is not only a great coach but his...
PARK CITY, UT (Aug. 30) – Former freestyle athlete and coach Todd Ossian was named by the U.S. Ski Team as head aerials coach. Ossian brings a wealth of experience coaching at the international level, having led the Australian Team for seven years and with the U.S. Ski Team for three years as a development coach.
The job became available in late July after former head coach Matt Christensen stepped down from the position he held for...
LAKE WANAKA, New Zealand (August 29, 2010) – Canadian Noah Bowman and American Britta Sigourney (Carmel, CA) were crowned as the first FIS Junior World Champions in the freestyle ski halfpipe today as North Americans swept both podiums.
A heavy overnight snowfall delayed the start while the pipe was cleared, but by 1:00pm competition...
LAKE WANAKA, New Zealand (August 28, 2010) – The action was fast and furious in today’s freestyle ski cross at Cardrona Alpine Resort in the 2010 FIS Junior World Championships (ages 13-20) with Swiss and Norwegian skiers taking home the top honors in the sport’s first appearance at Junior Worlds.
LAKE WANAKA, New Zealand (August 27, 2010) – Two more alpine snowboarding junior world champions were decided today at Snow Park NZ in the parallel slalom with Russia’s Dimitry Bazanov (19) and Sabine Schoeffmann (18) of Austria grabbing the male and female titles, respectively
It was another highly competitive day of racing with conditions perfect compared to yesterday’s blizzards. A cold night set up well for a hard, fast course for...
LAKE WANAKA, New Zealand (August 25, 2010) – Cilka Sadar (18) of Slovenia and Taku Hiraoka (14) of Japan were crowned Junior Snowboard Halfpipe World Champions today in an exciting day of competition at Cardrona that also saw host nation New Zealand earn its first medal of the Championships.
The day started with an all-star line up of forerunners, which included Olympic gold medallist, Kelly Clark (USA) and New Zealand Olympian Juliane...
LAKE WANAKA, New Zealand (August 23, 2010) – The USA dominated today as Bobby Brown (19) and Jamie Crane-Mauzy (17) made history as the first freeski slopestyle world champions at the 2010 Junior Snowboard&Freestyle World Championships.
Brown, a two-time X Games gold medalist, led the day from the start, qualifying with a...