The Youth Olympic Games are an Olympic-style competition (both summer and winter) staged for athletes between the ages of 15-18. In the winter of 2024, Gangwon Korea hosted over 1,800 young athletes in this celebration of sport, sportsmanship, and fellowship. Start young athletes early on all three, and the world is likely to be a better place. The Youth Olympics is also a chance for young stars of the future to step on to the...
It was the end of the weekend, but the start of a whole new generation of Americans skiers on the World’s stage. Tabor Greenberg, the Green Mountain Valley School attendee and a U16 national champion last season pulled into the final kilometer of a 3 x 5km Team Relay, locked stride-for-stride with the familiar red suit of his Norwegian counterpart. The stadium was ahead, and for the first time clad in a US Ski Team...
For the past decade, the World Cup Dreams Foundation has been helping to fund skiers, of all ages and disciplines, as they chase their goals on snow. In the spring of 2021, the World Cup Dreams Foundation merged with the T2 Foundation, perhaps better known in the Nordic community because of its support of the SMS T2 team. Now working together the two organizations aim to “keep the best athletes in the game, not just...
The World Cup Dreams Foundation is thrilled to announce its November Grant recipients. After receiving more than 150 applications from athletes all over the country from athletes competing in alpine, cross-country, snowboarding, freestyle, freeskiing, nordic combined and ski jumping we have chosen 16 grant recipients, who will each receive a grant for $1,500 to help offset the costs of training and competing. In the fall of 2021, WCD allocated over $200,000 in direct athlete funding....