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The US Ski Federation announced today the initial composition of their teams for next season, subject to confirmation once the first FIS points of the new competitive season will be available.
Thursday 25 May 2017 4 minutes reading time
Based on criteria modulated according to the age range that allows the team to team up to four levels, from team A to team D, to which the National Training Group composed of the best junior skiers added, the formation of stars and strips counted on a Forty of the actual.
If last year had left room for possible surprises during the work of the team's "retired" Bode Miller, the absence from the contention fields with Head makes the champion of New Hampshire Not be in the list for next season. Tim Jitloff and Mark Sullivan are also on the scene, while Tommy Ford, three times in the top 15 in Gigante in the last winter with a 13th place in Val Badia, is promoted by team B to team A. Double jump from team C to Bryce Bennett, eighth in the descent of Val Gardena and eleventh in Combined with the World Championships of St.Moritz.
In the women's field Leanne Smith stays in the lead, as he makes the big leap from the National Development Team to Team A, the twenty-five-year-old Breezy Johnson, who is fourth in the Nor-Am for the Downhill with four to five in the 15th World Cup. Promotion came from Team B, for Jacqueline Wiles, twelfth in the Freestyle and with the active podium in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee's fast test.
Ted Ligety (1984) Steven Nyman (1982) Andrew Weibrecht (1986) Tommy Ford (1989) Tommy Ford (1989) Travis Ganong (1988) Tommy Ford (1989) David Chodounsky
(1984) Mikaela Shiffrin (1995) Resi Stiegler (1985) Lindsey Vonn (1984) Jacqueline Wiles (1992) Producer: WomenStacey Cook (1984) Breezy Johnson (1996) Julia Mancuso (1984) Alice McKennis
B TEAMMenTommy Biesemeyer (1989) Ryan Cochran-Siegle (1992) AJ Ginnis (1994) Jared Goldberg (1991) Nolan Kasper (1989) Kipling Weisel (1995)
WomenPatricia Mangan (1997) Alice Merryweather (1996)
Jett Seymour (1998) George Steffey (1997) Barrett Drill (1996) Garret Driller (1996) Drew Duffy (1995) Mark Engel (1991) Nick Krause (1993) Sam Morse ) Florian Szwebel (1996)
WomenCecily Decker (1998) Katie Hensien (1999) Nina O'Brien (1997) Galena Wardle (1998)
D TEAMKeely Cashman (1999) Nellie-Rose Talbot (1999)
NORMAL TRAINING GROUP (NTG) * MenJimmy Krupka (1998) Andrew Miller (1998) Ben Ritchie (2000) Luke Winters (1997)
WomenAJ Hurt (/ 2000) Maureen Lebel (1998)
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