Younger USST Member Tracking

The USST has expanded somewhat, adding several younger skiers. Acknowledging that FIS points are only a small piece of performance assessment, it has interested me that at various times USST staff have mentioned comparing skiers’ FIS points to medalists, or some other group of top skiers. So here are two graphs showing the younger US B Team members compared to the range of FIS point results by future top ten WC finishers at that age. First the women:

The blue line is the athlete’s median FIS points by age and the shaded regions shows the range of FIS points earned by future top ten skiers, ranging from the best 10% to the worst 90%, the lightest shaded region. And similarly, the men: