Uvex Sports announces USST roster and new Intermountain sales and service rep{mosimage}Following the announcement follows another in which Jeff Sadis was named as a sales and race service representative, Uvex Sports Inc. has announced the roster of USST athletes that have chosen to wear UVEX goggles and helmets for the next two seasons. The following athletes will be using UVEX gear in the coming season:

USST Men
Chip Knight
Ted Ligety
Jesse Marshall
Ralph Green
Tyler Walker
Jeff Harrison
Andrew Weibrecht
Jake Zamansky
Christopher Beckmann
Mitt Coats
Tim Jitloff

USST Women
Lindsey Kildow
Bryna McCarty
Lacey Heward
Stacey Cook
Lauren Ross
Laurie Stephens
Caitlin Ciccone
Lesley LeMasurier

‘We are extremely excited about having these superb athletes representing Uvex wintersports products to the world’ says Dave Peszek, Uvex Sports US Racing Director. ‘Uvex has always been one of the most dominant forces in World Cup racing, with top athletes like Fritz Strobl, Renate Gotschl, Andreas Schifferer, Micheal Walchhofer, Kalle Pallander, Manfred Pranger, Tanya Poutiainen, Sonja Nef, Killian Albrecht, and many others, but now we have some of the best and brightest in the US, too.’

‘The interest in our brand is enormous’ says Peszek, noting that Uvex had to ‘regretfully limit our athlete pool’ at this time, despite continued interest from many other current team members. Peszek attributes the interest to several factors ‘from the new Vista lens technology that has been time tested and proven significantly faster in flat light’ to quality of service at ‘every venue in North America and Europe’, not to mention the optical quality that is expected from the number one brand on the European continent. ‘If we can make Formula 1 optics & helmets for the world’s fastest drivers, we can make lenses, goggles, and helmets for the world’s fastest skiers’ says Peszek.

The athletes listed above will be training and competing on Uvex products thru the 2006 Olympic year, and perhaps longer. Uvex is a ‘family owned and operated company’ according to Peszek, one that values not only top performance in all sports (F1, cycling, motocross, Nordic & alpine skiing, jumping, bobsled, skeleton, luge) but the ‘unending commitment to excellence that the chosen UVEX athletes show day in and day out, whether they are standing on the podium or earning their chops at Nor-Am level.’