Mikaela Shiffrin..... The 'Future' is here

Shiffrin Wins Trofeo Topolino Slalom

U.S. Ski Team members were down at Mammoth Mountain holding racing camps. These kids are pretty BAD ASS. All of 'em were arcing some really fast nice turns. Mikaela Shiffrin, 16 years old, was just killing it. I couldn't 'buy a turn' as good as she was layin down.
"A sophomore at Burke Mountain Academy, Shiffrin, who turned 16 in March, had a remarkable year. She  took control of the NorAm standings in December, winning a super combined. She then stood on the NorAm podium three more times over three days and in January won two NorAm slaloms.

At the 2011 Junior World Championships, Shiffrin earned a bronze medal in slalom despite competing with a heavy cold. U.S. Ski Team coaches took notice and offered her a World Cup start in March where she missed qualifying for a second run of slalom by five hundredths of a second.

By mid-month, she had sealed the NorAm slalom title and took third overall. But Shiffrin saved her best for last. At the Putnam Investments U.S. Alpine Championships in Winter Park, CO, she won her first national title, taking the slalom crown ahead of four-time Olympian Sarah Schleper (Vail, CO) and Resi Stiegler (Jackson Hole, WY). At the awards banquet that night, Shiffrin was named Ski Racing Magazine’s Junior of the Year.

"I guess anything is possible," said Shiffrin after the slalom win in Winter Park. "Sarah [Schleper] and Resi [Stiegler] have been so supportive of me, beating them today is a crazy feeling but the better part about it was that they were still supportive of it. This is the best end to a season ever."

A former member of the Ford Sayre program and Lebanon Outing Club, Shiffrin splits her time between East Burke, VT, and Vail, CO. As for her long-term goals, her dad, Jeff Shiffrin, says she “keeps them under wraps.”
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