U.S. National
Ski Hall of Fame Announces Class of 2006
October 4, 2006-- The U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame and Museum
announced today that three former members of the U.S. Ski Team
have been elected to the Class of 2006. Freestyle skiers Jonny
Moseley and Trace Worthington, along with alpine ski team member,
Julie Parisien, will have their names added to the Honor Roll
of the Hall of Fame at Induction Ceremonies to take place in
January 2007. This will bring the number of Honored Members recognized
by the Ski Hall of Fame to 349.
Jonny Moseley
started out as an alpine skier but turned to freestyle by the
age of nine. He became the most talked about moguls skier of
his time although he excelled at all three freestyle disciplines.
He won the Junior U.S. National Moguls and Combined Championships
two years running in 1991 and 1992. After being named to the
U.S. Ski Team in 1993 he gained his first World Cup podium in
1994 and his first World Cup victory the following season. His
career record includes two US freestyle championships four World
Cup titles, 15 World Cup wins, a World Championship bronze medal
(1995) and an Olympic Gold medal in moguls, won in Nagano in
1998. His signature “dinner roll” move, introduced
in 2002, opened the door for off-axis and inverted jumps by moguls
skiers.
Julie Parisien
is a graduate of Vermont’s famed Burke Mountain Academy
and was the U.S. Junior Olympic Super G and giant slalom champion
in 1989. That same year she won a bronze medal at the World Junior
championships. She became a U.S. Champion in 1990 winning the
combined title after victories in the downhill and slalom. Her
first of three World Cup victories came in March 1991; Parisien
was an outstanding three-event skier. At U.S. Championship events
she won four titles, three in combined and one in Super G. She
made three Olympic teams and won medals at almost every level
including from U.S. Junior Olympics to the World Championships,
a silver medal in 1993, before retiring in 1999.
Trace Worthington
showed early promise in freestyle skiing as a teenager when he
won the aerials event at the 1986 World Junior Championships.
Named to the U.S. National Team in 1989, he won his first of
37 World Cup competitions in 1990 in LaClusaz, France. Five years
later, he returned there to claim aerials and combined gold medals
at the World Championships - still the only time a skier has
won two golds at one freestyle Worlds. Unfortunately, that was
the culmination of a career that ended prematurely because of
injuries. In that brief time, however, he won 11 U.S. titles,
competed on two Olympic teams and was the World Cup overall and
combined champion twice and the aerials champion once. As a competitor
“Trace the Ace”, with Jonny Moseley, was a leading
force in freestyle skiing. He had 79 podium finishes in World
Cup and World Championship competition. Twice an Olympian (1992
and 1994), he followed in the footsteps of his grandfather who
competed at the 1912 Olympics in Track and Field.
In a break from tradition, the official
Induction Ceremony will take place at the Snowsports Industries
America (SIA) annual tradeshow in Las Vegas, January 22-24, 2007.
The U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame and
Museum is located in Ishpeming, Michigan, and for over fifty
years has been dedicated to preserving America’s great skiing
heritage while honoring its outstanding athletes and contributors.
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