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Clark Wins First Olympic Qualifier 08/26/2012
WANAKA, New Zealand (Aug. 26) – Olympic gold medalist Kelly Clark (West Dover, VT) opened the 2014 Olympic Winter Games qualifying period for snowboarding with victory at the FIS World Cup halfpipe Sunday in Cardrona, New Zealand. Clark, who won double gold at the 2012 X Games, has... |
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Clark Takes Pipe Win at Burton High Fives 08/18/2012
WANAKA, New Zealand (Aug. 18) – Kelly Clark (West Dover, VT) started her season off on top of the podium at the Burton High Fives, the first halfpipe competition of the season. Kaitlyn Farrington (Bellevue, WA) rode strong and took third. The contest was set up in a jam style format with a one-hour window for riders to get their best... |
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Walker Third at Burton High Fives 08/17/2012
WANAKA, New Zealand (Aug. 17) – Fifteen-year-old Ty Walker (Stowe, VT) took third Friday at the season's first slopestyle contest, the Burton High Fives at Snow Park, New Zealand. The contest was set up in a jam style format that allowed for competitors to be scored on their best run out of a four. Walker, who struggled with nagging... |
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White's ESPY Streak Continues 07/12/2012
LOS ANGELES, CA (July 12) – Two-time Olympic gold medalist Shaun White (Carlsbad, CA) took home his fifth straight ESPY for Best Male Action Sport athlete and three time X Games gold medalist Jamie Anderson (South Lake Tahoe, CA) earned her first ESPY as Best Female Action Sport athlete Wednesday night during the 20th ESPYs. The annual awards... |
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Clark Nominated for 2012 ESPY 06/28/2012
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Clark Takes U.S. Navy F/A-18 Flight 06/20/2012
Fallon, NV (June 20) – Olympic halfpipe snowboarding gold medalist Kelly Clark (West Dover, VT) and two-time Olympic alpine skier Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain, CA) became copilots Tuesday... |
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Athlete Spotlight: Callan Chythlook-Sifsof 05/31/2012
Raised in Bristol Bay, AK, out in what Alaskans call the ''bush''—some 400 miles from Anchorage and accessible only by air or boat—Callan Chythlook-Sifsof landed on the snowboardcross scene in 2007 by winning the Visa U.S. Snowboardcross Championships and taking third in the first World Cup of her career. After improving year by year, an injury... |
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U.S. Snowboarding Utilizes Mammoth's Airbag 05/09/2012
MAMMOTH LAKES, CA (May 9) – Fifteen of the best riders in the world, including TTR halfpipe World Champion Kelly Clark (West Dover, VT), TTR slopestyle World Champion Chas Guldemond (Reno, NV) and top slopestyle rider Eric Willett (Breckenridge, CO), are utilizing the groundbreaking airbag technology at Mammoth Mountain during a weeklong U.S.... |
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Monk and Davis Take Top Spots at Jr Worlds 03/31/2012
SIERRA NEVADA, Spain (March 31) – Californians Indigo Monk (Manhattan Beach, CA) and Brandon Davis (Mammoth Lakes, CA) took silver and bronze in slopestyle at the FIS Snowboarding Junior World Championships in Sierra Nevada. Monk and Davis’s spots helped to award the U.S. in the second overall Junior World Championship standing. The... |
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Gold Wins Jr. Worlds Halfpipe Title 03/27/2012
SIERRA NEVADA, Spain (March 27) – Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club star Arielle Gold (Steamboat Springs, CO) won her namesake with halfpipe victory Tuesday at the FIS Snowboarding Junior World Championships. It was the first win of the season for Gold, who took halfpipe silver at the inaugural Winter Youth Olympics in January.... |
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Hernandez Takes Career First Podium 03/16/2012
VALMALENCO, Italy (March 16) – Young gun Jacqueline Hernandez (Londonderry, VT) took the women's snowboardcross win today for the first World Cup podium of her career – after only six career starts. U.S. Snowboarding's Nick Baumgartner (Iron River, MI) was seventh, Nate Holland (Squaw Valley, CA) placed ninth which locks him into third for the... |
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White, Anderson Sweep Slope Gold 03/16/2012
TIGNES, FRA (Mar. 16) – Olympian and double threat Shaun White (Carlsbad, CA) took his second gold at European X Games Friday in the slopestyle competition. He executed yet another almost perfect score with a 97.00 on his second run with three doubles. Jamie Anderson (South Lake Tahoe, CA) also mimicked the nearly perfect run of White to take... |
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White, Vito Go One-Two 03/15/2012
TIGNES, France (Mar. 15) – With a first run score of 98.00, Shaun White (Carlsbad, CA) took European X Games halfpipe gold Wednesday night in Tignes. His nearly perfect score and huge run included a massive cab double cork 1080 that landed White with his fourth win of the season. Sprint U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix champion Louie Vito (Sandy,... |
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Berger, Callister win Rev Tour pipe 03/14/2012
MOUNT SNOW, VT (Mar. 14)—Under sunny skies with warm temperatures, U.S. Revolution Tour rookie Kelly Berger (Mammoth Lakes, CA) took her first U.S. Revolution Tour victory of 2011-2012 at Mount Snow, VT. Mount Bachelor Sports Education Foundation's Kent Callister (Bend, OR) took second at Mount Snow as well as the overall men's halfpipe title. ... |
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Clark Leads U.S. Sweep at X Games 03/14/2012
TIGNES, FRA (Mar. 14) – Under a starry French sky, U.S. Snowboarding swept the snowboard halfpipe podium at European X Games. Olympian Kelly Clark (West Dover, VT) soared to yet another victory with an enormous frontside 1080. Olympian,... |
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Tuttle Slides to His First Podium 03/14/2012
VALMALENCO, ITA. (Mar. 14) – Alex Tuttle (Sugarloaf, ME) took his first World Cup podium at the FIS Snowboard World Cup in Valmalenco, Italy. Stian Sivertzen of Norway won the event and Hagen Kearney (Telluride, CO) was fifth. The team looks to its final World Cup race on this Friday, March 16 in Valmalenco, Italy.
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Shorr, Davis take Rev Tour titles 03/13/2012
MOUNT SNOW, VT (Mar. 13)—Boyne Mountain's own Karly Shorr (Milford, MI) kicked off the final stop of the 2012-2012 U.S. Revolution Tour with her second win in as many trips to Mount Snow, VT. The 17 year-old took the women's slopestyle title as well as the overall season's top step before rain began falling lightly on Carinthia Parks. Brandon... |
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Hight Ends Clark's Incredible Streak 03/10/2012
STRATTON, VT (March 3) – Elena Hight (S. Lake Tahoe, CA) won the Burton U.S. Open halfpipe today at Stratton Resort in Vermont ending Kelly Clark's (West Dover, VT) streak of 16 consecutive... |
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Junior Worlds Snowboarding Team Named 03/09/2012
PARK CITY, UT (March 9) – Youth Olympic Games halfpipe gold medalist Ben Ferguson (Bend, OR), silver medalist Arielle Gold (Steamboat Springs, CO) and Sprint U.S. Grand Prix slopestyle silver medalist Indigo Monk (Manhattan Beach, CA), headline a group of 25 athletes named to the 2012 FIS Snowboard Junior World Championships Team for U.S.... |
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Vito Soars to Grand Prix Title 03/03/2012
MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN, CA (March 3) – Olympians Louie Vito (Sandy, UT) and Elena Hight (S. Lake Tahoe, CA) won Saturday's halfpipe, concluding the Sprint U.S. Snowboarding Grand... |
