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Leroy, Thomas "Tom"

  • US-VT-LT001
  • Personne
  • fl. 1960s-

Thomas "Tom" Leroy was an American freestyle skier and ski instructor known for his skiing in the films Ski the Outer Limits (1968), Happening in White (1969), The Moebius Flip (1969), and The White Search (1970). After doing a somersault during glacier training in Austria on skis, Austrian emigré and fellow ski-instructor Hermann Göllner began performing the feat at Killington, VT, where Leroy was an instructor, and experimenting with other tricks. This attracted the attention of Tom, and they soon began performing in front of an audience. Göllner and Leroy inspired each other to set new personal bests: in 1965 the Austrian achieved the first double back flip and in 1967, the first triple forward flip on skis. Due to the enthusiastic interest of the spectators, the Hart Skis Demonstration Team of Art Furrer and Roger Staub became aware of the two and signed them. In the years that followed, several short films were made in cooperation with Summit Films, directed by Roger Brown and Bary Corbet. In 1968, the ski acrobats performed somersaults on Corbet's Couloir, a steep rocky gully near Jackson Hole, WY in the film Ski the Outer Limits. A year later, they starred in Gunter Sachs's Happening in White. They then made their best-known film appearance in 1969's The Moebius Flip. The eponymous jump consists of a simple forward somersault (front flip) with a twist and was named by the filmmakers in reference to the Möbius strip and its researcher August Ferdinand Möbius. The 28-minute short film with a psychedelic frame story made the young freestyle sport even more popular. Together with Hermann Göllner, Tom Leroy is considered a pioneer of freestyle skiing, especially the aerials discipline, which has been an Olympic discipline since 1994. While Stein Eriksen had been performing simple forward flips on skis since 1953, the two ski instructors not only increased the number of turns, but were also the first to dare to do back flips.

Lewis, Douglas Grey

  • US-VT-LDG001
  • Personne
  • January 18, 1964 -

Douglas "Doug" Grey Lewis is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer. Doug was born on January 18, 1964 in Middlebury, VT. He began skiing at age 3 and he won the 1980 US J2 Championship as a sophomore. After competing in the 1984 Olympics at age 20 (placing 24th in the downhill), Lewis made his World Cup debut a month later in March 1984 with an 8th-place finish at Whistler, BC. The following season, Lewis had two World Cup top ten finishes and was the bronze medalist in the downhill at the 1985 World Championships at Bormio, Italy. His only World Cup podium came six months later, a second-place finish in Las Leñas, Argentina, in August 1985. He competed in the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympic Games, placing 32nd in the downhill. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1992 with a degree in small business management. He coached for five years at his former high school, Green Mountain Valley School, and has been a skiing ambassador for the Sugarbush Resort. Lewis is a co-founder of Eliteam, a program to improve summer conditioning for young ski racers, in Waitsfield, VT and in Park City, Utah. Lewis is currently an analyst for alpine ski racing with Universal Sports. He was named to the US Ski-Snowboard Hall of Fame in 2007 and the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 2019.

Kass, Danny

  • US-VT-KD001
  • Personne
  • September 21, 1982 -

Danny Kass is an American professional freestyle snowboarder who competed in slopestyle, halfpipe, and big air. Kass was born on September 21, 1982 in Pompton Plains, NJ and began snowboarding in the area at the age of twelve. His home slopes are what are now known as Hidden Valley and Mountain Creek ski resorts, both located in the mountains of Vernon Township and Highland Lakes. After several years of snowboarding around the mid-Atlantic states, Kass entered the Okemo Mountain School in Vermont to focus more of his time on riding some of the halfpipe and terrain park in the East. In 2001, after winning his first pro halfpipe victory at Okemo, VT, Danny was almost arrested for underage drinking after putting away most of his sponsor’s beer at an industry convention. A few years later, he was arrested twice in New Zealand, once for possession and another time for driving his van up a ski run in Cardrona, NZ. Nevertheless, in 2001 Danny broke out into what has become one of the most successful contest streaks in US snowboarding with four US Open Championships, seven Winter X Games medals, and two Olympic silver medals (2002 in Salt Lake City, UT and 2006 in Torino, Italy). Danny Kass won the halfpipe format of the 2009 Burton US Open, which is the final of the TTR World Snowboard Tour. Kass and his brother, Matt, were the founders of Grenade Gloves, which specializes in snowboarding gloves, accessories, and other extreme sporting gear. Kass is one of the stars of The Adventures of Danny and The Dingo on Fuel TV. He has also starred in several snowboarding films, including Snowboarding: For Me (2014) and FunDuhMentals: Transworld Snowboarding (2012). He has also made appearances on MTV's The Real World and Rally On.

Fortna, Rosie

  • US-VT-FR001
  • Personne
  • 1946-

Rosie Fortna is a retired American alpine skier who competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics. Rosie's family moved to Moretown, Vermont and bought a farm in 1954. Rosie learned how to ski at Mad River Glen, then began skiing for the Mt. Mansfield Ski Club in 1959, the best youth ski racing program in Vermont at that time. She was winning races, not only at Stowe, but throughout New England. In 1964, she was on the American Junior Olympic team. Rosie credits a summer racing Camp at Mt. Hood with changing her life; there she was training with Anderl Molterer, Eric Sailer, and Pepi Gramshammer. The US Team was also training there, and she met Dennis and Penny McCoy, and in turn their dad, Dave McCoy, owner and founder of Mammoth Mountain. So, she decided to move to Mammoth Lakes to ski at Dave McCoy's ski program there. In 1965, she was invited by Coach Bob Beattie to join the US ski team. She won the Far West Kandahar Slalom in 1966, beating her team and Canada’s Nancy Greene. In 1968, she competed at the Grenoble Winter Olympic Games.Her best racing year was in 1970, when she won 3 gold medals at the University Games in Finland, and both US and Canadian Nationals. During her ski racing career, she had 8 top ten finishes in Slalom. She retired from skiing in 1971. Along with fellow Olympic skier Suzy Chaffee, Fortna co-founded the Native Voices Foundation, which seeks to develop Native American Olympic athletes. Fortna later settled near Daytona Beach, Florida, where she became a real estate broker, an executive with the Kona Corporation, and opened a small restaurant, Rosi’s Korner. She is currently competing on the Women's Masters tennis circuit. She belongs to the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum Hall of Fame.

SnowSports Industries America (SIA)

  • US-VA-SKI-001
  • Collectivité
  • 1954-

SnowSports Industries America (SIA) is a non-profit, North American, member-owned trade association representing suppliers of consumer snow sports with constituents in the retailer, rep and resort communities. SIA provides programs, services, and information that will assist members in improving their business operations. SIA was founded in McLean, VA in 1954 and is now based in Park City, UT. It once merged with the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA), but this merger was dissolved in 1995. SIA delivers education, data/research, support, marketing products, government affairs representation, services, and programs. Through SIA membership, brands, destinations, retailers, service providers, and non-profits have resources to solve business problems, adapt to changing pressures, and grow. SIA and its members spot trends that matter, facilitate an industry-wide strategy, and innovate to ensure the winter outdoors thrives for future generations.

Guthrie, Don

  • US-VA-GD001
  • Personne
  • fl. 1980s - November 10, 1997

Don Guthrie was a ski instructor and instructor who taught wildlife management for BCIT's Fish, Wildlife and Recreation (FWR) Program in the 1980s and 1990s. He completed his Master of Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic & State University and his PhD at UBC. He was a ski instructor on Blackcomb Mountain. He passed away on November 10, 1997 after a brief battle with cancer. The BCIT Don Guthrie Memorial Award was created in his memory, going to 1st-year students of BCIT who have a documented learning disability, as Don had Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD).

Coleman, Wilbur Floyd

  • US-VA-CWF001
  • Personne
  • 1878-1957

Wilbur Floyd Coleman lived in Petersburg, VA from 1878-1957.

Coleman, Mrs. Wilbur Floyd

  • US-VA-CMWF001
  • Personne
  • [fl. 1870s-1950s]?

Mrs. Wilbur Floyd Coleman lived in Petersburg, Virginia.

Markewitz, Scott

  • US-UT-MS001
  • Personne
  • fl. 2000s-

Scott Markewitz is an American action sports photographer and videographer based in Salt Lake City, UT and Provence, France. He was featured in Men’s Journal as one of the World’s Greatest Adventure Photographers, is the only photographer in Ski Magazine’s list of the 100 Most Influential Skiers of All Time, and received Ski Utah’s Excellence in Journalism Award as well as honors from APA, PDN, and many others. His images have appeared in dozens of ad campaigns (including Adobe, HP, Tag Heuer, J Crew, Charles Schwab, Mountain Hardwear, Red Bull, Thule, Oakley, Specialized, Descente, Underarmour, Puma, Adidas, and Giro) and on more than 400 magazine covers. He also teaches photography workshops on the subjects of ski photography and mountain biking photography. In his spare time, he enjoyst big mountain skiing, travelling, mountain biking, and trail-running in the mountains. He lives with his wife, Veronique, and their son, Julien, in Salt Lake City, UT and Provence, France.

Baltzan, Paula

  • US-UT-BP001
  • Personne
  • c. 1966-

Paula Baltzan attended the third session of the 1980 Toni Sailer Summer Ski Camp in Whistler. She works as a teacher in Park City, UT.

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