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Weekly Race Roundup: Golden Americans, Historic Bronze for Harvey and NoCo, Another Birkie in the Books

February 25, 2013
The USST enjoys the moment.

Marit Bjørgen of Norway and Nikita Kriukov of Russia both have two gold medals to their names so far this Championships, and Dario Cologna finally got the title he’s been search for; but Americans made a splash too, in every discipline, with Sarah Hendrickson winning jumping, Kikkan Randall and Jessie Diggins the team sprint, and the nordic combined team bronze in the team event. Alex Harvey also made history when he took bronze in the classic sprint, the first individual World Champs medal for Canada.

USASJ-Ski Jumping Canada Reach Historic Agreement

November 5, 2012 By

PARK CITY, UT–November 5, 2012—In a joint agreement announced today USA Ski Jumping and Ski Jumping Canada announced they have reached an innovative agreement to pool coaching resources and other related programs to form an alliance as the FIS World [...]

Frenette, Johnson Named to U.S.A. “A” Jumping Team

October 25, 2012 By

PARK CITY, UT–October 24, 2012–In an announcement made today by USA Ski Jumping’s CEO Jeff Hastings, two members of the USASJ squad have been elevated to “A” Team membership. Based upon their Grand Prix performances this Summer Peter Frenette (Saranac [...]

Women Ski Jumpers Set to Compete in U.S. National Championships

August 3, 2012 By

Press release  PARK CITY, UTAH — Women ski jumpers will vie this weekend for the top spot in the nation at the U.S. Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Championships in Utah. Jumper Jessica Jerome, last year’s large hill champion, is [...]

U.S. Ski Jumping, NoCo Nationals This Weekend: What to Know

August 3, 2012 By

For the fifth-straight year, the U.S. Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Championships are about to take place in the middle of summer with events Saturday and Sunday in Park City, Utah. The nation’s best, including defending champions Billy Demong and [...]

U.S. NoCo Soaks Up Sochi, Takes Results in Stride (with Photo Gallery)

July 27, 2012 By
Todd Lodwick (second from left) after winning Sunday's competition at the FIS Summer Grand Prix in Krasnaya Polyana near Sochi, Russia. Austrians Bernhard Gruber (l) placed second and Tomaz Druml was third. (USSA/Dave Jarrett courtesy photo)

At the biggest international competition of the summer, hardly anyone could blame the Americans if their heads weren’t totally in it. It’s not that they weren’t focusing on nordic combined’s International Ski Federation (FIS) Summer Grand Prix. They just had [...]

Erzurum World Jr. Nordic Championships

March 5, 2012 By
Erzurum World Jr. Nordic Championships

Turkey. Somehow that word just doesn’t evoke visions of soaring ski jumpers or cross country skiers battling for position coming down to the final lanes of a race.  But, nonetheless, the FIS (International Ski Federation) had awarded the annual World [...]

Hendrickson Makes History as First Women’s WC Ski Jumping Champ

March 3, 2012 By

First or second in all but one World Cup competition this year, Sarah Hendrickson of Park City, Utah, capped off her historic season by clinching the overall women’s ski jumping title on Saturday in Zao, Japan. In the first season [...]

Sarah Hendrickson soars to silver medal at Junior World Championships

February 24, 2012 By

Erzurum, Turkey (Feb. 23) — Sarah Hendrickson added another title Thursday to her long list of ski jumping accomplishments — silver medalist in the 2012 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships. In 2010 she won the bronze (the only American, male or [...]

Hendrickson wins 2 World Cups, tightens grip on overall lead

February 12, 2012 By

Ljubno, Slovenia — Sarah Hendrickson’s double fist-pump in the outrun is a modest show of celebration for the U.S. teen who’s been adamantly punching through the ceiling of women’s ski jumping this season. With two more World Cup wins this weekend in [...]

Hendrickson, Van on podium in Hinzenbach

February 5, 2012 By

Hinzenbach, Austria — Sarah Hendrickson is just 116 points ahead of veteran and reigning World Champion Daniela Iraschko, Austria, in the race for the overall women’s ski jumping World Cup title. And with six competitions left in the season, the teenager from [...]

YOG: Capping an Outstanding Day for North America, Canadians Fly to Bronze in Team Jumping

January 22, 2012 By
Canadian Coach Max Thompson congratulates Team Germany's Coach following the Team Jumping event in Seefeld

SEEFELD IN TIROL, Austria—   Despite significant recent snowfall, the Youth Olympic Games staff managed to polish the HS 75 meter jump in Seefeld Arena in time for Saturday’s Team Jumping event—the final Nordic event of the Games. The Canadian [...]

Stars and Stripes Wave High in Val di Fiemme, Italy Celebrates Sarah Hendrickson

January 15, 2012 By

She did it again, the American teenager Sarah Hendrickson has showed who is the female ski jumper of the hour and grabbed her third World Cup victory out of four competitions so far, today in Val di Fiemme (Italy). ‘I’m [...]

YOG Day One: Jumpers Soar in Seefeld

January 14, 2012 By
Youth Olympians prepare for takeoff atop the HS 75 meter hill in Seefeld

SEEFELD IN TIROL, Austria– Beneath crisp blue skies, the world’s finest junior ski jumpers flew into the annals of Olympic history today in Seefeld, Austria. The individual ski jumping event marked the first competition event to be held at the [...]

Hendrickson wins second World Cup; Jerome nabs third

January 8, 2012 By

HINTERZARTEN, Germany — Sarah Hendrickson has now won two out of the three World Cup competitions so far this season after a resounding 30-point victory Sunday over second-place finisher Sara Takanashi, of Japan. And the U.S. celebration doesn’t stop there. Teammate [...]

Hendrickson Continues Podium Streak, 3rd in Notodden COC

December 10, 2011 By

Notodden, Norway — Norway’s Anette Sagen, the 2009 World Championships Bronze medalist, ended a two-year victory drought in Continental Cup (COC) competition Saturday on home snow in Notodden, topping reigning World Champion Daniela Iraschko, Austria, and Sarah Hendrickson, USA. Sagen [...]

WSJ-USA leaders inducted into Ski Jumping Hall of Fame

November 1, 2011 By

Three Women’s Ski Jumping USA leaders have been inducted into the American Ski Jumping Hall of Fame. The Friends of American Ski Jumping named Deedee Corradini, Victor Method and Peter Jerome to the Hall of Fame class of 2011 as [...]

Women’s Ski Jumping USA nominates eight to Visa Team, Emilee Anderson to represent U.S. in inaugural Youth Olympic Winter Games

October 25, 2011 By

Women’s Ski Jumping USA nominates eight to Visa Team Emilee Anderson to represent U.S. in inaugural Youth Olympic Winter Games Women’s Ski Jumping USA has nominated eight of the top women athletes in the nation to represent the Visa Women’s [...]

Women ski jumpers win prestigious Women’s Sports Foundation Award

October 20, 2011 By

The Women’s Sports Foundation is honoring the Visa Women’s Ski Jumping Team tonight with the 2011 Wilma Rudolph Courage Award as part of the 32nd Annual Salute to Women in Sports Awards Gala in New York City. Team members and [...]

Sarah Hendrickson, 17, wins first U.S. National title

October 2, 2011 By

FOX RIVER GROVE, Illinois — Seventeen-year-old Sarah Hendrickson won her first U.S. National Ski Jumping title Saturday on the small hill (K70) at Norge Ski Club in Fox River Grove, just outside Chicago. Hendrickson’s first jump was 68.5 meters, and [...]

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