Subject:
Vogtli Wins Duals at Winter Park, Moseley Second
Date: Sunday,
December 10, 2000 3:30 PM
U.S. Ski Team
News Bureau
http://www.usskiteam.com
Sunday, Dec.
10, 2000
Contact:
Juliann Fritz, 970.726.8801, Room 583
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VOGTLI WINS
CAPTAIN MORGAN DUALS AT WINTER PARK
Moseley Takes
Second
WINTER PARK,
Colo. (Dec. 10) - Veteran Jillian Vogtli (Ellicotville, NY)
took advantage
of sunny weather Sunday and powered her way to victory in
dual moguls at
the inaugural Captain Morgan Freestyle Adventure contest
at Winter Park
Resort. Stephane Rochon of Canada defeated 1998 Olympic
moguls
champion Jonny Moseley (Tiburon, CA), who is making a comeback
after two
years away from the sport.
ESPN2
will broadcast coverage of the duals skiing Dec. 22 at 1:30 p.m.
EST.
Vogtli
knocked off fellow U.S. Ski Team athlete Hannah Hardaway
(Moultonborough,
NH) in the final match-up of the day. Finishing third
was Kari Traa
of Norway, who edged Finland's Minna Karhu.
In
the men's event, Rochon defeated Moseley in the sun-splashed final
with Garth
Hager (Bothell, WA) beating another Canadian,
Pierre-Alexandre
Rousseau for third place.
Moseley said
going into the weekend he was pleased to be back skiing
"and I
just need some additional time to get my feet under me." He
underwent
shoulder surgery in the spring, which trimmed his preseason
training. He
figures he's about a month behind the rest of the Ski Team.
"This
was very satisfying from a personal standpoint," Vogtli said.
"I've
been skiing better, starting Friday [when she was third behind
Hardaway in
moguls at the Sprint U.S. Freestyle Grand National]. it's
good to bring
it together like this...
"The snow was great. Winter Park's done an incredible job putting it
all together
this weekend. It's been a lot of fun."
The
clear weather was a sharp turn-around from predictions of snow and
cold. "I
think a lot of people were pretty warm up there,' Vogtli
laughed,
"because they dressed for bad weather but it wasn't as bad as
they
predicted."
Vogtli
and other members of the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team leave Monday
for World Cup
moguls action Thursday in Tignes, France. It will be the
first moguls
contest of the season since moguls and duals events
scheduled for
Nov. 25-26 in Tandadalen, Sweden, were victims of the snow
drought and
unseasonally warm temperatures in Europe.
The
Captain Morgan Freestyle Adventure is an innovative attempt to
showcase some
non-traditional ski events at three different sites. In
addition to
Sunday's dual moguls action, the schedule calls for a
halfpipe
skiing event during the World Cup Jan. 26-28 in Sunday River,
Maine, and a
big air contest during the Chevy Truck U.S. Freestyle
Championships
next March at Waterville Valley, N.H.
CAPTAIN
MORGAN'S FREESTYLE ADVENTURE
Winter Park,
CO - Dec. 10
Dual Moguls
Men
1. Stephane
Rochon, Canada
2. Jonny
Moseley, Tiburon, Calif.
3. Garth
Hager, Bothell, Wash.
4. Pierre-Alexandre
Rousseau, Canada
5. (tie) Chris
Hernandez, South Lake Tahoe, Calif.; Fred Mooney, Winter
Park, Colo.;
Ryan Riley, Steamboat Springs, Colo.; Sami Mustonen,
Finland
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Women
1. Jillian
Vogtli, Ellicotville, N.Y.
2.Hannah
Hardaway, Moultonborough, N.h.
3. Kari Traa,
Norway
4. Minna Karhu,
Finland
5. (tie)
Shannon Bahrke, Tahoe City, Calif.; Donna Weinbrecht,
Killington,
Vt.; Tami Bradley, Canada; and Emiko Torito, Denver
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Best in the World! -