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| NEW SITE, NEW RSS FEEDS | 13/11/2008 6:47 |
| Watch for the launch of a new site design for usskiteam.com on Nov. 13-14, including new RSS/XML news feeds. If you are presently using the usskiteam.com RSS/XML feeds on your Web site or in a news reader, you can find new feeds at the following link once the site is live: . | |
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| Athletes Star In Warren Miller Film | 12/11/2008 3:25 |
| PARK CITY, UT (Nov. 13) - When the lights went down during a screening of Warren Miller's new film "Children of Winter," Marco Sullivan (Squaw Valley, CA) sat in the audience, along with everyone else in attendance, wondering what he was about to see. The only difference -- Sullivan had already lived through part of the film. | |
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| Athletes Inspire Bay Area Children | 11/11/2008 4:35 |
| In October, members of the U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding had the unique opportunity to visit the Willie Mays Boys & Girls Club during a short visit to San Francisco. The group, which included Olympic gold medalist Jonny Moseley, X Games gold medalist Steve Fisher (Breckenridge, CO), U.S. downhill and super G champion Stacey Cook (Mammoth, CA) and four-time Paralympian Monte Meier (Park City, UT), took time to answer the questions of the children at the Boys & Girls Club about what they do as winter athletes. | |
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| Athletes Ring NASDAQ Bell | 06/11/2008 7:10 |
| NEW YORK (Nov. 7) - U.S. Snowboarding's Olympic gold medalist Seth Wescott (Sugarloaf, ME) along with U.S. Ski Team's Paralympic alpine racer Ralph Green (Brooklyn, NY) and freestyle skiing World Cup winner Shelly Robertson (Reno, NV) helped NASDAQ ring the closing bell signifying the end of the trading day Thursday. | |
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| Founding Pioneer Brad Briggs Dies | 05/11/2008 3:34 |
| PARK CITY, Utah (Nov. 5) - One of the founding pioneers of the modern day U.S. Ski Team, William Bradford Briggs, died Nov. 1 at the age of 87 at his home in Vero Beach, FL. Briggs, was a driving force in the formation of the Team's fundraising arm, the U.S. Ski Team Educational Foundation, in the '70s and one of its staunchest supporters in the Team's heyday of the late '70s and early '80s. | |
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| Dermatone Joins The Team | 29/10/2008 2:34 |
| WINDSOR LOCKS, CT (Oct. 29) - Dermatone Laboratories, Inc., one of the leading sunscreen companies in the sport retail market, has become the official sunscreen and frostbite protection licensee for the U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding. Dermatone will be the exclusive sunscreen of the athletes from now through the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. | |
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| Ferries Named to Colorado Hall of Fame | 22/10/2008 4:27 |
| DENVER (Oct. 22) - Longtime U.S. Ski Team supporter and Olympian Chuck Ferries is among the list of five individuals who were inducted to the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame as part of its Class of 2008. Ferries was among those honored at the 32nd annual Colorado Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame Induction Gala on Oct. 18 in Denver. | |
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| USSA's Korfanta Honored | 20/10/2008 11:28 |
| SALT LAKE CITY (Oct. 20) - Former U.S. Ski Team athlete and longtime U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) official Karen Korfanta was honored Thursday for her service to the sport by the J. Willard Marriott Library Ski Archives. Korfanta received the noted historical organization's S.J. Quinney Award. | |
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| 2008 Honorees Named to Hall of Fame | 15/10/2008 3:35 |
| ISHPEMING, MI (Oct. 15) - The U.S. Ski Team's Liz McIntyre, Nelson Carmichael, and Cary Adgate, along with a man who set the precedent in American ski mountaineering, Bill Briggs, will be inducted to the 2008 U.S. National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame of fame in April according to Hall of Fame President Tom West. | |
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| Gundersen Named Director of Sport Education | 25/09/2008 11:32 |
| PARK CITY, UT (Sept. 25) - Finn Gundersen, who has nearly 40 years of educational experience from the club level to the national team, has been named director of sport education by the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association. Gundersen, who is presently director of alpine education, will continue developing programs to educate the USSA's coaches, clubs and parents, providing support for young athletes to achieve their goals. | |
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