Mangan and Radamus Named Ski Racing Media Juniors of the Year

Starting in 1975, the editorial board of Ski Racing has come together each spring to choose one male and one female athlete deserving to hold the title of Ski Racing Media Junior of the Year.

Over the past 43 years, Ski Racing’s picks have gone on to earn 210 World Cup wins, 38 World Championship medals, and 16 Olympic medals. Past winners include 2018 Overall Women’s World Cup champion Mikaela Shiffrin, Lindsey Vonn, Ted Ligety, Julia Mancuso, Tamara McKinney, and Steve Mahre, among many others.

The athletes chosen by Ski Racing truly embody the spirit of the award and have not only achieved impressive success on the slopes this season, but have inspired countless racers across the country with their professional attitudes off of them.

The 2017 recipients of the Ski Racing Junior of the Year award are Patricia Mangan and River Radamus.
 

PATRICIA MANGAN

This year’s female winner hails from the Holimont Racing Club in New York. This season, Patricia Mangan scored her first World Cup points at the alpine combined in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, and ended the season ranked 10th in the Longines Rising Star Cup standings. She also made her Olympic debut in the giant slalom at PyeongChang. Last summer, the U.S. Ski Team athlete ran a weeklong summer overnight camp for NYSSRA skiers while also helping her brother Andrew recover after suffering a severe spinal fracture. Her success on the hill and hard work off the slope make her the perfect recipient of the 2018 Ski Racing Media Junior of the Year award.
 

RIVER RADAMUS

Apart from also having one of the coolest names in all of ski racing, River Radamus earned his stripes on the NorAm circuit this season by way of finishing runner-up in the slalom standings and narrowly walking away with the overall title, giving him World Cup starting rights in every race next season. Additionally, at the 2018 World Junior Ski Championships in Davos, Switzerland, Radamus took home a silver medal in the super-G and shared the podium with his American teammate Luke Winters in third. Add his first two World Cup starts to the mix in Beaver Creek and Adelboden, Switzerland, and we certainly haven’t seen the last of this Vail, Colo., native.
 

Ski Racing Media Juniors of the Year

1975 –  Leslie Leete Smith          Steve Mahre

1976 –  Christin Cooper              Eric Wilson

1977 –  Heidi Preuss                    David Stapleton

1978 –  Tamara McKinney         Scott Hoffman

1979 –  Tamara McKinney         Mike Farney

1980 –  Noel Lyons                      Mark Tache

1981 –  Brenda Buglione             Tiger Shaw

1982 –  Eva Twardokens             Steve Hegg

1983 –  Eva Twardokens             Jesse Hunt

1984 –  Diann Roffe                     Jesse Hunt

1985 –  Carter Payne                    Tim Curran

1986 –  Hilary Lindh/Krista Schmidinger

1987 –  Sally Knight                      Tommy Moe

1988 –  Heidi Voelker                  Jeremy Nobis

1989 –  Kim Schmidinger           Tommy Moe

1990 –  Julie Parisien                  Ryan North

1991 –  Kathrine Davenport       Paul Casey Puckett

1992 –  Kathrine Davenport      Michael Makar

1993 –  Kristina Koznick            Chip Knight

1994 –  Kjersti Bjorn-Roli          Forest Carey

1995 –  Sarah Schleper               Wisi Betschart

1996 –  Kirsten Clark                  Justin Johnson

1997 –  Jonna Mendes                John Minahan

1998 –  Jonna Mendes                Brad Hogan

1999 – Caroline Lalive                Marco Sullivan

2000 –  Julia Mancuso               Marco Sullivan

2001 –  Julia Mancuso                Jake Zamansky

2002 –  Julia Mancuso               Steven Nyman

2003 –  Julia Mancuso               Jeremy Transue

2004 – Lindsey Kildow              Ted Ligety

2005 –  Resi Stiegler                   Tim Jitloff

2006 –  Megan McJames          Christopher Beckmann

2007 –  Leanne Smith                Will Brandenburg

2008 – Kiley Staples                  Tommy Ford

2009 – Julia Ford                       Tommy Ford

2010 –  Mikaela Shiffrin            Will Gregorak

2011 –  Mikaela Shiffrin             Ryan Cochran-Siegle

2012 –  Mikaela Shiffrin            Ryan Cochran-Siegle

2013 –  Mikaela Shiffrin            Ryan Cochran-Siegle

2014 –  Mikeala Shiffrin

2015 –  Mikaela Shiffrin           AJ Ginnis

2016 –  Mikaela Shiffrin           Erik Arvidsson

2017 –  Alice Merryweather/Breezy Johnson     Sam Morse