Competing in whiteout weather, where athletes are unable to tell which way the snow is falling, Ty Alexander and Megan McClintock represented Fresno State at the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association Nationals competition in Idaho last week with both placing in the top 15 based on overall scores in each of their respective sports. Read more »
The season’s third to last snowboard cross and second to last parallel giant slalom of the 2011 Snowboard FIS World Cup are scheduled in a little mountain village located in the Sondrio Province.
From March 17-19, the 2011 LG Snowboard FIS World Cup will make the penultimate stop in Valmalenco, Italy. Read more »
Handing out close to $500,000 in cash and prizes, last week’s Burton US Open of Snowboarding Championships at Stratton Mountain, Vermont, attracted thousands of spectators and most of the sports’ top competitors with Kazuhiro Kokubo (Japan) and Kelly Clark (USA) winning the US Open Halfpipe titles. Read more »
ASPEN, Colo. — Snowmass police ticketed an Aspen Skiing Co. employee for reckless snowboarding Saturday, accusing the man of crashing into a 7-year-old boy while riding on a work break. Read more »
The parents of a fallen snowboarder are putting up $20,000 in reward money to inspire the design of a positive-release snowboard to save lives. Read more »
http://www.ttrworldtour.com – Since her appearance on the TTR World Tour in 2005, Jamie Anderson, from South Lake Tahoe, California, has been turning heads with her incredibly versatile riding skills. Read more »
When she broke her back while snowboarding in 2000, it wasn’t immediately apparent to Alana Nichols the devastating injury symbolized a new beginning. Read more »
Stratton Mountain, VT – Thousands of people rolled in to Stratton, Vermont for the 29th annual Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships, presented by MINI. Three major titles were awarded today at the US Open, making it one of the biggest days in competitive snowboarding. Read more »
Stratton Mountain, VT , The weather cleared and a big crowd came out tonight for The Jam at the Burton US Open, presented by MINI, with Kjersti Buaas (NOR) and Charles Reid (CAN) claiming the top spots and $10,000 cash. Read more »
When snowboarding made its Olympic debut at the 1998 Nagano Games, Terje Haakonsen, a leading halfpipe competitor at the time, boycotted the qualifying in protest. Read more »
