The Colorado Snowsports Corridor of Fame is happy to announce the Class of 2024, an inspiring group representing a variety of individuals throughout the snow sports activities trade. From velocity snowboarding and alpine racing on worldwide fronts to the snow sports activities devotees constructing the game behind the scenes, this 12 months’s inductees have devoted their lives to snow sports activities, making an enduring influence in Colorado.
“This 12 months actually represents Colorado’s snow sports activities trade with inductees having connections to Durango, Breckenridge, Aspen, and Vail. We’re honored to rejoice all of the inductees, however we’re particularly excited to acknowledge the accomplishments of the legendary Sigurd Rockne, in particular person with him, a couple of months earlier than his 92nd birthday. We stay up for celebrating Sigurd alongside his third-generation Breckenridge household!”
— Jennifer Mason, Government Director, Colorado Snowsports Museum and Corridor of Fame
The Colorado Snowsports Corridor of Fame Class of 2024:
Ross Anderson | Athlete
Native American Ross Anderson turned the quickest skier within the Western Hemisphere. Born in New Mexico, he grew up in Durango, Colorado, and began racing gates at an early age. He was on skis by three at Purgatory Resort, the place his father was on the ski patrol. By six, he was ski racing however was drawn to hurry snowboarding. He later turned one of many high U.S. Velocity Snowboarding Staff athletes, successful bronze on the 2005 World Championships, and is an eight-time nationwide champion. Ross Anderson has held the file for the quickest American ever on skis: 154.06 miles per hour (247.930KPH) achieved in 2006. Ross can also be identified for leveraging his athletic success to convey snowboarding to native youth. He started partaking in packages, initially at Purgatory Resort, along with the Southern Ute tribe, in addition to the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma and the Mescalero Apache tribes of New Mexico. Through the years, he has additionally partnered with fellow athletes, comparable to Suzy Chaffee and Billy Kidd, an Abenaki (northeastern tribe), at Chaffee’s Native Voices Basis, to advocate for native youth. Ross was inducted into the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Corridor of Fame in 2023.
Bjorn Erik Borgen | Sport Builder
Bjorn Borgen has been a drive in elevating the game of snowboarding by way of a lifetime of offering management and help for athletes, venues, and main occasions. His efforts and persistence had been pivotal in bringing the FIS World Championships to the Vail Valley in 1989, 1999, and 2015. He persistently supported athletes in the USA, and his dwelling nation of Norway, making it doable for athletes to realize their goals on and off the snow by way of the creation and funding of academic scholarships. By means of board service and management for the US Ski & Snowboard Staff, Ski & Snowboard Membership Vail, and the Vail Valley Basis, his efforts have resulted within the profitable completion of main tasks within the U.S. and overseas, from the Ski & Snowboard Membership Vail Clubhouse and race venue enlargement to the us Middle for Excellence in Park Metropolis to the enlargement and enhancement of Kvitfjell Resort in Norway.
John McBride | Sport Builder
John McBride is now the Head Alpine Coach for the Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Membership (AVSC) after a powerful profession with the US and Canadian Nationwide Alpine Groups. Raised in Aspen, John skilled with the Aspen Ski Membership. He was named to the US Improvement Staff and went on to race for the College of Vermont. He coached AVSC from 1989-1995 after which the US Ski Staff for a decade the place he led his athletes to a US file variety of wins and podium finishes on the World Cup along with Olympic and World Cup medals. He coached Bode Miller to Olympic medal performances and a couple of general Crystal Globes and Daron Rahlves to twenty-eight World Cup podiums and 12 World Cup victories. He returned to Aspen and coached at Problem Aspen, a aggressive ski workforce for people with cognitive or bodily impairment. A 12 months later, the Canadian Staff recruited him to guide their velocity workforce by way of the 2014 Sochi Olympics. He led the Canadian workforce to twenty podiums along with Eric Guay’s gold medal on the 2011 World Championships and a bronze medal by Jan Hudec within the Tremendous G at Sochi.
Sigurd Rockne | Pioneer
Earlier than his days of working for Colorado ski resorts, Sigurd was an achieved ski racer successful three Norwegian Championships, beginning first within the Hahnenkamm in Kitzbühel, ranked within the FIS high 15, and was named to the Norwegian ski workforce for the 1956 Olympics. After the Olympics, and a compound tibia fracture, Sigurd acquired a letter from Stein Eriksen to work for him as a ski teacher for Aspen Highlands, the primary 12 months the ski resort was open. Sigurd landed in America on December 5, 1958, and was a ski teacher for Stein in Aspen for 3 years. Sigurd, nonetheless, was well-known for being one of many founders of the Breckenridge Ski Resort. He was intimately concerned with laying out the place the runs could be and the lifts to service them. He was an early ambassador and promoter of Breckenridge. Sigurd undoubtedly contributed to the early development of snowboarding in Colorado and helped create and run certainly one of our state’s hottest world-class resorts, even to this present day.
Lindsey Vonn | Athlete
Lindsey Vonn’s extraordinary achievements have solidified her place in historical past as one of many best American skiers of all time. All through her 15-year profession, Lindsey achieved 82 World Cup victories and have become the first-ever girls’s Olympic downhill champion. She redefined the boundaries of alpine snowboarding, setting quite a few information together with 18 victories on the identical course (Lake Louise), 20 crystal globes, and 43 downhill victories. A real sports activities icon, Lindsey’s influence has transcended the world of snowboarding by way of her creation of the Lindsey Vonn Basis. Lindsey used her platform to supply programming for training, sports activities, and enrichment packages to assist younger women develop as athletes, leaders, and people. Extra not too long ago, Lindsey turned a Model Ambassador for Three Forks Ranch. This resort is within the coronary heart of the Rocky Mountains simply 40 miles north of Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
“On behalf of the Colorado Snowsports Corridor of Fame, we’re extremely proud to announce the Class of 2024, which options two actually extraordinary athletes, two exceptional sports activities builders who performed huge roles in permitting dozens if not a whole bunch of athletes to meet their World Cup and Olympic goals, together with one legendary pioneer who within the early days of Breckenridge Resort’s improvement, noticed its potential and executed its development making it a world-class resort.”
— Invoice Tomcich, Board Member, Colorado Snowsports Museum & Chairman of the Corridor of Fame Committee
Corridor of Fame candidates are nominated underneath the established standards of Athlete, Sport Builder, Inspirational, or Pioneer classes, with the Corridor of Fame Nomination Committee evaluating and confirming the nominees to maneuver on to the ultimate poll. The 140-member Corridor of Fame Voting Panel is comprised of present Corridor of Fame members, key snow sports activities trade representatives, snow sports activities resorts, and the Corridor’s board of administrators. Be taught extra about our Corridor of Fame right here, https://www.snowsportsmuseum.org/hall-of-fame
The annual induction ceremony – an inspiring, family-friendly occasion – will happen on Saturday, September 7, 2024, on the stunning Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail, Colorado. The occasion is a good way to rejoice the inductees and Colorado snow sports activities, and ticket costs begin at simply $50 for adults, with all proceeds going to help the Colorado Snowsports Museum, a non-profit group, and the State of Colorado’s official snow sports activities museum. Tickets will likely be accessible quickly.
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