Skiing Heritage News

ISHPEMING, MI. (October 4, 2006) - The U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame and Museum announced today that three former members of the U.S. Ski Team have been elected to the Class of 2006. Freestyle skiers Jonny Moseley and Trace Worthington, along with alpine ski team member, Julie Parisien, will have their names added to the Honor Roll of the Hall of Fame at Induction Ceremonies to take place in January 2007. This will bring the number of Honored Members recognized by the Ski Hall of Fame to 349.

Jonny Moseley started out as an alpine skier but turned to freestyle by the age of nine. He became the most talked about moguls skier of his time although he excelled at all three freestyle disciplines. He won the Junior U.S. National Moguls and Combined Championships two years running in 1991 and 1992. After being named to the U.S. Ski Team in 1993 he gained his first World Cup podium in 1994 and his first World Cup victory the following season. His career record includes two US freestyle championships four World Cup titles, 15 World Cup wins, a World Championship bronze medal (1995) and an Olympic Gold medal in moguls, won in Nagano in 1998. His signature “dinner roll” move, introduced in 2002, opened the door for off-axis and inverted jumps by moguls skiers.

Julie Parisien is a graduate of Vermont’s famed Burke Mountain Academy and was the U.S. Junior Olympic Super G and giant slalom champion in 1989. That same year she won a bronze medal at the World Junior championships. She became a U.S. Champion in 1990 winning the combined title after victories in the downhill and slalom. Her first of three World Cup victories came in March 1991; Parisien was an outstanding three-event skier. At U.S. Championship events she won four titles, three in combined and one in Super G. She made three Olympic teams and won medals at almost every level including from U.S. Junior Olympics to the World Championships, a silver medal in 1993, before retiring in 1999.

Trace Worthington, showed early promise in freestyle skiing as a teenager when he won the aerials event at the 1986 World Junior Championships. Named to the U.S. National Team in 1989, he won his first of 37 World Cup competitions in 1990 in LaClusaz, France. Five years later, he returned there to claim aerials and combined gold medals at the World Championships - still the only time a skier has won two golds at one freestyle Worlds. Unfortunately, that was the culmination of a career that ended prematurely because of injuries. In that brief time, however, he won 11 U.S. titles, competed on two Olympic teams and was the World Cup overall and combined champion twice and the aerials champion once. As a competitor “Trace the Ace”, with Jonny Moseley, was a leading force in freestyle skiing. He had 79 podium finishes in World Cup and World Championship competition. Twice an Olympian (1992 and 1994), he followed in the footsteps of his grandfather who competed at the 1912 Olympics in Track and Field.

In a move from tradition, the official Induction Ceremony will take place at the Snowsports Industries America (SIA) annual tradeshow in Las Vegas on January 22-24, 2007.

The U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame and Museum is located in Ishpeming, Michigan, and for over fifty years has been dedicated to preserving America’s great skiing heritage while honoring its outstanding athletes and contributors.

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