USSA has announced the team of 16 moguls and aerials athletes that will represent the USA at the 2017 FIS Freestyle Ski & Snowboard World Championships
The competition was fierce as the best mogul skiers in the United States battled it out for the national title at the 2016 USANA U.S. Freestyle Championships.
Mikaela Matthews put down seven clean runs on Ruka’s steep mogul course to claim her first career World Cup win at the 2016 FIS Freestyle dual moguls opener.
Skiing on the home turf of the strong Canadian freestyle team, five American athletes finished in the top 10 at the FIS Freestyle World Cup in Val St. Come.
On a rare warm day at Lake Placid’s Whiteface Mountain, Hannah Kearney battled Canadian Justine Dufour-Lapointe to take second in the Putnam Investments Freestyle World Cup moguls competition on Thursday.
Hannah Kearney powered to a silver medal in moguls at World Championships behind winner Justine Dufour-Lapointe. Patrick Deneen just missed a medal in fourth.
Since breaking on to the scene in 2013 with a pair of gold medals in singles and duals at the FIS Junior World Champioships, Keaton McCargo has added a few more accomplisments to her impressive moguls resume. She's landed a handful of top-10 finishes on the World Cup and a moguls national title. 2017 was McCargo's most successful season yet - she scored her first World Cup podium, a third, in Ruka, Finland and finished the season ranked sixth in the world.
Bruce Perry is well known for his fearless skiing, but now with a NorAm overall title and a couple World Cup starts under his belt, his results speak for themselves.
Bruce Perry is well known for his fearless skiing, but now his results can speak for themselves. The 2012-13 season was the best of his young career. Perry earned eight top-10 NorAm results, one of which was a win. During the 2014 season, Perry started at two World Cups, Lake Placid and Deer Valley, where he notched more solid results to keep him rising through the ranks. Perry continued to see success in 2015 with four NorAm podiums, finishing second in the overall NorAm Standings.
USSA has announced the team of 16 moguls and aerials athletes that will represent the USA at the 2017 FIS Freestyle Ski & Snowboard World Championships
The competition was fierce as the best mogul skiers in the United States battled it out for the national title at the 2016 USANA U.S. Freestyle Championships.
Jaelin Kauf, competing in only her third World Cup event, blazed Deer Valley’s Champion mogul course to finish as the top American in sixth Thursday night at the Visa Freestyle International Moguls World Cup.
The U.S. Freestyle Moguls Ski Team will make its third stop on the FIS Freestyle World Cup this weekend at the Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta.
Mikaela Matthews put down seven clean runs on Ruka’s steep mogul course to claim her first career World Cup win at the 2016 FIS Freestyle dual moguls opener.
Olympic champion Hannah Kearney bid farewell to the Champion moguls run, finishing second at the Visa Freestyle International. Dylan Walczyk was second in men's moguls.
Olympians Patrick Deneen and Eliza Outtrim (pictured, center) both put down solid runs to claim the men’s and women’s U.S. titles at Friday’s moguls competition, the opening event of the USANA U.S. Freestyle Championships at Deer Valley.
After four years in John Kroetz’s Bristol Mountain Freestyle program in New York, Dylan Walczyk’s family packed up and moved to Summit County, Colorado so he could pursue his skiing career. Walczyk gained his spot on the U.S. Ski Team in the 2013 season by winning at the U.S. Selections event. With a healthy boost of confidence, he went on to earn a third-place finish in Lake Placid, the first World Cup event of his career. He rounded out the 2013 season ranked eighth in the world after a series of top 10 finishes.
Crowd favorite Pat Deneen took fourth, the top finish for the USA, while Canadian skier Alex Bilodeau sealed the victory Saturday in front of a crowd of 8,500 at the Visa Freestyle International FIS World Cup at Deer Valley.
Patrick Deneen skied to third place, his first FIS World Cup podium of the Olympic season, on a steep and icy Calgary moguls course Saturday, while World Cup Champion Hannah Kearney earned a second-place finish.
Sho Kashima, this month's featured athlete, finished the 2012-13 season with strong results after battling injury and is preparing for the Olympic Season. (Photo: Kirk Paulsen)
Watch as Olympic Champion Hannah Kearney looks to extend her record FIS Freestyle World Cup win streak to 13 Thursday, Feb. 2 at the Visa Freestyle International hosted by Deer Valley Resort.
When you're born in West Texas, it usually takes something dramatic to get you skiing. Sho Kashima grabbed the opportunity when, at age four, his dad was transferred to South Lake Tahoe’s Heavenly Mountain Resort. He responded to what he calls "a drastic change in climate" and started skiing, eventually cultivating thoughts of skiing on the World Cup and maybe at the Olympics.
Mikaela Matthews skied to an eighth place finish at the FIS Freestyle Skiing moguls World Cup at the Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta on Saturday.
Mikaela Matthews put down seven clean runs on Ruka’s steep mogul course to claim her first career World Cup win at the 2016 FIS Freestyle dual moguls opener.
In the last event of the 2015 season, Tom Rowley and Nessa Dziemian were crowned dual mogul champions at the USANA U.S. Freestyle National Championships.
Mikaela Matthews has seen success at every level of moguls competition. As a veteran on the women's team. she has worked her way up from junior national titles to World Cup wins.After a strong prep period ahead of the 2016 season, Matthews came out on top in the World Cup opener in Ruka with her first career win. She netted a few more top-10 finishes on the World Cup to close out the season ranked 6th in the world. She also claimed her first national title.
Mikaela Matthews put down seven clean runs on Ruka’s steep mogul course to claim her first career World Cup win at the 2016 FIS Freestyle dual moguls opener.
In the last event of the 2015 season, Tom Rowley and Nessa Dziemian were crowned dual mogul champions at the USANA U.S. Freestyle National Championships.
Olympic champion Hannah Kearney bid farewell to the Champion moguls run, finishing second at the Visa Freestyle International. Dylan Walczyk was second in men's moguls.
The cousin of Alpine Meadows Freestyle Team founder Clay Beck, K.C. Oakley stuck with the family tradition. She joined the Alpine Meadows team at 13 and made the three-hour commute to Tahoe from Piedmont, CA every weekend all winter. At 17, she narrowed her focus to just moguls and began competing in NorAm events. At the end of the 2011 season, she captured her first two NorAm wins, the overall NorAm title and a silver medal at U.S. Championships, earning her invite to the U.S. Ski Team.
Since she could walk, Brittany Loweree has been on skis, and as soon as she was competing, the New York native was hooked. (Sarah Brunson/U.S. Freestyle)
A bumper since the age of eight, Brittany Loweree came up through the Stratton Freestyle Team then moved to Colorado to pursue her competitive dreams. “I started competing shortly after my introduction to the freestyle team. Realizing my love for competition, I decided to go from weekend warrior to a winter term student at the Stratton Mountain School,” she says. “I moved to Steamboat after graduating high school and have split my time between Colorado and Boston up until making the U.S. Team.”
The Visa Freestyle International returns to Deer Valley Resort Jan. 9-11 for moguls and aerials under the lights in vital Olympic qualifying competitions.
Running bumps is in the family blood, and Brad Wilson couldn’t be happier to be a part of the clan. The younger brother of Olympic bronze medalist Bryon Wilson, Brad and his brother got their start building their own moguls courses in their hometown of Butte, Montana. Wilson earned his first Olympic birth at the 2014 Games in Sochi. He was on track for a successful post-Olympic season, but suffered a knee injury.
