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they love to ski, they love to bike, they kelly clark
Big brother “Benny”
love to do all this other stuff. they’re very introduced “lucky” FreeskiiNg
two-time Olympic medalist (gold, 2002;
active people, not just physically, but in- bronze, 2010), 60 career wins lindsey to snow-
volved in reaching out to people around Devin logan
age: 30 boarding in 1996 (Ben
them and helping out with things. there’s 2012 junior world champion (slopestyle); Hometown: West dover
competed in World
a lot of creative people here, and I find three-time Winter X Games medalist Cup boardercross un-
that very inspiring to be around.”
til 2008). she honed
age: 20 Kelly Clark’s long ca-
Hometown: West dover
reer started on a plas- her boardercross skills on the snow at
Hannah Dreissigacker
tic K-mart mobile the stratton mountain school and by
2013 World Championship team member devin logan grew monster snowboard 2006 was both an Olympic silver med-
age: 27 up chasing her two on a snowbank, then alist and a world champion. a dominant

Hometown: morrisville
older brothers around progressed to mount force in boardercoss, she has won the
mount snow and cred- snow. since her first
X Games boardercross gold more than
like dunklee and sar- its them for her success. junior World half-pipe title in 2000, she anyone else and nearly half of the FIs
gent, Hannah dreis- “I think my brothers has won more competitions (60) than any World Cup races she has entered. she
sigacker grew up ski- tore her aCl while practicing for the
wanted a little brother,
other snowboarder, male or female, in-
ing through farmers’ so they treated me that way. If they didn’t cluding eight X Games gold medals. she 2012 Winter X Games and underwent
fields, flying downhill push me the way they did, I don’t think I’d continues to push the sport—complet- two subsequent surgeries, but is back on
through sugar bushes, be at the level I’m at right now.” a mount ing the first 1080 (three revolutions) in the road to sochi.
and passing villages
snow academy grad, she soon found the women’s competition—and says the steep “I owe a lot of my success and start
around Craftsbury. It really became her in snowboarding to Vermont and strat-
park and pipes at Carinthia and made her sochi half-pipe suits her style.
home in 2008 when her parents’ founda- Winter X Games debut in 2011.
Clark wouldn’t trade growing up ton mountain,” she said. “ever since I
tion purchased the Craftsbury Outdoor “If you can ski in Vermont, you can in Vermont for anywhere else. “We’ve was little, it has just been an amazing
Center and turned it into a world-class really ski anywhere,” she said. “It was seen some of the best snowboarders ever place to be. I have fond memories of rid-
training center. after dreissigacker grad- a great place to grow up, on a small hill come out of Vermont,” she said. “I had ing with my parents and following my
uated from dartmouth in 2009, she took brother Ben down the hill all day just
(Carinthia), which is now growing enor- access to amazing mountains and resorts
up biathlon and mastered it quickly. she mously with their whole new park scene. and great parks and pipes. the resorts trying to keep up. I will always make my
now trains with the Craftsbury Green Getting to ski every day definitely helped commit to that sort of undertaking and way back to Vermont and stratton as it
racing Project. an Olympic hopeful, she progress my skiing faster than it would if making world-class training available, so is still an amazing place to be with my
won’t be the first in her family to com- longtime friends and family.”
I was just another weekend warrior. I’m we’re going to continue to see great riders
pete in the Games. Both her parents were real happy coming from Vermont.”
come out of Vermont.”
Olympic rowers.
Coming back from a knee injury,
What was it about growing up in she won the 2014 season’s first half-pipe lindsey jacobellis
Vermont that led to her success? “snow, World Cup, and she’s aiming to qualify Olympic silver medalist; three-time world A senior contributor at TeamUSA.org,
for one, and a culture of skiing that my Peggy Shinn has covered two Olympic
for the sochi Games in both half-pipe and champion; seven-time X Games gold medalist
parents had become a part of, and they slopestyle.
age: 28 Games and will be heading to Sochi in
dragged me along,” she half joked. “But Hometown: stratton
February. She lives in Rutland.
what really did it was that in Vermont we
reached a magical density of female Nor- sNowBoardiNg
dic skiers, where not only did we have re-

ally great training partners, but we also Hannah teter
had great competition as well. together, two-time Olympic medalist (gold, 2006;
we all brought each other to the highest silver, 2010)
level of our sport.
age: 26
Hometown: Belmont
Freestyle skiiNg
like logan, Hannah BEING
teter grew up chas-
Hannah kearney
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2010 Olympic gold medalist; two-time on a snowboard. she
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