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  1. Barry “Bear” Bryant highlighted perhaps the busiest day of the 2013 USSA Congress with a stellar acceptance speech after being presented the Julius Blegen Award, the highest honor the association hands out.

    The award was the finale of 50 awards presented at USSA's Chairman's Awards Dinner Friday (May 17) night after three days packed...

  2. The following is the USSA’s preliminary list of nominations for the 2013-14 U.S. Alpine Ski Team. The nominations include those active athletes who qualified based on published selection criteria. The USSA will announce the actual team roster this fall, naming those athletes who accept the responsibilities of being a part of the U.S. Alpine...

  3. The wealth of snow produced for Buttermilk's X Games continues to be put to good use, as Aspen Valley Ski Club (AVSC) alpine racers have been running gates on the recently flattened former slopestyle jumps.

    This is the second year that the hefty piles of snow — some up to 50 feet deep — have been repurposed for spring training. It...

  4. Twenty-three racers identified as having “podium potential” were named to the Canadian Alpine Ski Team on Thursday (May 16) ahead of a crucial 2013-14 season that includes a busy World Cup schedule and the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

    Seventeen men and six women expected to contend for medals either now or in the...

  5. The tech team of the men's US Ski Team recently concluded a productive training camp at Mammoth.

    Coach Forest Carey, recently promoted by the team, ran the early portion of the camp and we caught up with him between planes to a surfing excursion.

    “We were challenged by the weather more than any camp I can remember at Mammoth,” Carey...

  6. The athletes still have their ski legs under them, not their beach legs, according to Women's Speed Coach Chip White, which makes the May training block at Mammoth unique compared to other off-season camps.

    The U.S. women's World Cup speed team, including Leanne Smith, Stacey Cook and Laurenne Ross, wrapped up an abbreviated training block...

  7. The situation in ski racing's Eastern Division has gotten personal. A call has been issued for USSA's Judicial and the Alpine Competition Committee to consider terminating the membership of the sitting chairman and former vice-chairman of the Eastern ACC for violations of the EACC by-laws and the USSA Conflict of Interest and Ethics Policy...

  8. Forest Carey gets a promotion and will work with Ted Ligety and Bode Miller as the men's half of the US Ski team announced staffing changes for the Olympic season today (May 10). Miller's uncle Mike Kenney will return to the team as Carey's assistant and be joined by Adam Cole.

    Andreas Evers, hired prior to last season, remains the...

  9. Stacey Cook, Steven Nyman, Marco Sullivan, TJ Lanning and John Teller: You could say this group knows something about going fast.

    The Stacey Cook and Friends Speed Camp, set to commence this Memorial Day weekend, added extra firepower recently, enlisting the tutelage of Marco Sullivan and augmenting an already...

  10. Vermont will hire a development coordinator, but plans no additional changes for this coming season as a wait and see scenario has been established by the Vermont Alpine racing Association, with continued examination of a development alliance with New York.

    Vermont Alpine Racing Association (VARA) President Tao Smith has sent a synopsis...

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