Champions on the Mountain
U.S. Snowboarder of the Year!
SSWSC alum Mick Dierdorff was on top of the world, literally, winning the World Championships in snowboardcross and following that up with another world title in team snowboardcross. His amazing season earned him honors as U.S. Ski & Snowboard’s snowboarder of the year!
Four Years, Four Women
For the fourth straight year, a SSWSC female mogul skier made the U.S. Ski Team. Kenzie Radway joined fellow SSWSC High Performance Moguls program alumni Jaelin Kauf, Olivia Giaccio, and Avital Shimko (pictured) with a U.S. Ski Team call up.
Kenzie won the NorAm Moguls Tour title and skied in her first World Cup at Lake Placid. Congrats also to Jaelin who finished the season ranked second overall in the World Cup standings and collected two national titles!
XC History Made
Cross Country history was made in 2018, when five SSWSC cross country skiers earned spots on NCAA ski teams. It was a particularly good year for NCAA placements, but advancing skiers to NCAA squads has been a regular affair for the SSWSC cross country program. However, no SSWSC skier had yet earned a spot on the U.S. National Team until Noel Keeffe (bib 108 in photo) achieved the feat this year buoyed by a sprint podium at the U.S. National Championships and a 12th place finish at the Junior World Championships in Lahti, Finland.
Three NCAA All-Americans
This trio of former SSWSC skiers skied brilliantly at NCAA Championships in Stowe, VT, and were named 2019 NCAA
All-Americans.
Jett Seymour – University of Denver, Alpine
2019 NCAA Slalom Champion
Alex Barounos – University of New Mexico, Alpine
Finn O’Connell – University of Vermont, Cross Country
SSWSC Alumni on U.S. National Teams
U.S. Alpine Ski Team
Jett Seymour, Trey Seymour
U.S. Freestyle Ski Team
Jaelin Kauf, Olivia Giaccio,
Avital Shimko
U.S. Nordic Combined Team
Taylor Fletcher, Jasper Good,
Grant Andrews
U.S. Ski Jumping Teams
Nita Englund, Logan Sankey,
Annika Belshaw, Decker Dean
U.S. Snowboarding Team
Arielle Gold, Taylor Gold, Nik Baden, Mick Dierdorff, Rosie Mancari, AJ Muss
SSWSC at World Championships
Mick Dierdorff – Snowboarding –
(2x Gold Medalist)
Arielle Gold – Snowboarding
Maggie Carrigan – Snowboarding
Millie Bonjiorno – Snowboarding
Cody Winters – Snowboarding
Robby Burns - Snowboarding
Jaelin Kauf – Moguls – (Silver Medalist)
Olivia Giaccio – Moguls
Taylor Fletcher – Nordic Combined
Jasper Good – Nordic Combined
Grant Andrews – Nordic Combined
Nita Englund – Ski Jumping
SSWSC at Junior World Championships
Jett Seymour – Alpine
Waverly Gebhardt – Cross Country
Noel Keeffe – Cross Country
Riley Jacobs – Freeskiing
Landon Wendler – Moguls
Jamie Behan – Snowboarding
Winston Vaughan – Snowboarding
Nate True – Snowboarding
Cody Winters – Snowboarding
Annika Belshaw – Ski Jumping
Tess Arnone – Nordic Combined
Decker Dean – Ski Jumping
Canden Wilkinson – Ski Jumping
Niklas Malacinski – Nordic Combined