Two skiers from the Winter Park Competition Center are traveling to Valmalenco, Italy, to compete in the prestigious FIS Freestyle Junior World Ski Championships. Asher Michel and Olivia Maurais will join 12 other top athletes.
Three former Ski and Snowboard Club Vail Alpine skiers on Wednesday were officially named to the 16-member U.S. team traveling to Haute-Savoie, France from Jan. 28-Feb. 3 for the FIS Alpine Junior World Ski Championships..
For the first time in its history, the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club has qualified all of its eligible athletes for the FIS Nordic Junior World Ski Championships. Following the most recent Junior World qualifier.
Asher Michel, a 17 year-old Grand County native and Winter Park Competition Center athlete, enjoyed several podium finishes in international competitions this season as well as his first World Cup event. In January, Michel.
In 1970, a nascent U.S. women's cross-country ski team journeyed to then-Czechoslovakia to race in the biennial Nordic World Ski Championships run by the FIS,.