{"id":23680,"date":"2019-05-14T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/vail-skiers-join-u-s-alpine-team-for-2019-20\/"},"modified":"2019-05-14T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T22:40:00","slug":"vail-skiers-join-u-s-alpine-team-for-2019-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/vail-skiers-join-u-s-alpine-team-for-2019-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Vail skiers join U.S. Alpine team for 2019-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.1958224543081\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-365904-610\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/USAAlpine-SDN-051519-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/USAAlpine-SDN-051519-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"John LaConte \/ jlaconte@vaildaily.com | North America Cup Alpine overall winner Kyle Negomir in Vail on April 14, 2019. Negomir was nominated to the U.S. Alpine B Team on Monday, May 13.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"7.1520618556701\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/USAAlpine-SDN-051519-1.jpg\" alt=\"North America Cup Alpine overall winner Kyle Negomir in Vail on April 14, 2019. Negomir was nominated to the U.S. Alpine B Team on Monday, May 13.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9.5360824742268\">\n<p><strong>North America Cup Alpine overall winner Kyle Negomir in Vail on April 14, 2019. Negomir was nominated to the U.S. Alpine B Team on Monday, May 13.<\/strong><br \/>John LaConte \/ jlaconte@vaildaily.com<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/SummitDaily.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+SummitDaily.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/vail-skiers-join-u-s-alpine-team-for-2019-20\/&amp;image=https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/USAAlpine-SDN-051519-1.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/USAAlpine-SDN-051519-1.jpg\"> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/USAAlpine-SDN-051519-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/USAAlpine-SDN-051519-1-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"John LaConte \/ jlaconte@vaildaily.com | Jacob Dilling in Vail on April 14. The Vail local was nominated to the development team for the 2019-2020 season.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"6.1366459627329\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/USAAlpine-SDN-051519-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Jacob Dilling in Vail on April 14. The Vail local was nominated to the development team for the 2019-2020 season.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7.5527950310559\">\n<p><strong>Jacob Dilling in Vail on April 14. The Vail local was nominated to the development team for the 2019-2020 season.<\/strong><br \/>John LaConte \/ jlaconte@vaildaily.com<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/SummitDaily.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+SummitDaily.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/vail-skiers-join-u-s-alpine-team-for-2019-20\/&amp;image=https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/USAAlpine-SDN-051519-1-1.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/USAAlpine-SDN-051519-1-1.jpg\"> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/vail-skiers-join-u-s-alpine-team-for-2019-20\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/vail-skiers-join-u-s-alpine-team-for-2019-20\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">VAIL \u2014 A long list of Vail Valley locals were officially nominated to the U.S. Ski Team\u2019s Alpine 2019-20 squad on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Obvious list-topper Mikaela Shiffrin is the lone local named to the A Team, but the B Team has a newcomer as Kyle Negomir, a Ski &amp; Snowboard Club Vail athlete from Littleton, now living in Avon, joins locals River Radamus, Paula Moltzan and Nina O\u2019Brien on the B Team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Most of the new local faces can be found on the C Team and the Development Team, where former Ski &amp; Snowboard Club Vail athletes Bridger Gile, Jacob Dilling, Kellen Kinsella and Emma Resnick are all new to the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Negomir said the group has been close over the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cA lot of hometown kids are coming up, it\u2019s really cool to see,\u201d he said. \u201cWe all grew up skiing together, so it\u2019s really cool to see everyone move on to the national team and hopefully the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Many of the athletes were coached by former Ski &amp; Snowboard Club Vail coach Matt Underhil, who will now coach the U.S. Alpine Team\u2019s Men\u2019s Europa Cup team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI am really excited about our staff changes for the upcoming season,\u201d alpine director Jesse Hunt told alpine communications manager Megan Harrod in April. \u201cWe have recruited some of the most successful young and veteran domestic coaches, and I couldn\u2019t be more thrilled to see them step up to the international level. These coaches are knowledgeable, dedicated and \u2014 in some cases \u2014 already have positive relationships with our athletes that were forged during their development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Subhead\">\u2018I SAW HIM DO IT\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Negomir, 20, won the North America Cup overall title this season, finishing second overall in downhill, second overall in the super combined, and third overall in super-G.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">By taking the NorAm title, he also guarantees himself starts at every World Cup event during the 2019-20 season. He said that will result in a dramatic life change during the ski season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI\u2019ll be living in Europe for most of the winter, I\u2019ll get to ski a lot more with Ted Ligety and Ryan Cochran-Siegle and a lot of World Cup guys, so I think that will be a cool opportunity to really spend a lot of time in Europe,\u201d Negomir said. \u201cI always had dreams of the Olympics and stuff growing up, but to be honest I never really expected a lot. So this is super-cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Negomir is taking a similar path as Radamus, of Edwards, who won the NorAm overall during the 2017-18 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI saw him do it last year, and that was really cool, so that was my biggest goal this year,\u201d Negomir said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Subhead\">TRAVEL FUNDED<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Hunt said athletes from the A, B and C teams will be fully travel funded for the 2019-20 season, allowing them to go into upcoming camps with a chance to focus purely on athletics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThanks to commercial sponsors, the Bob Beattie Travel Fund, USOC Direct Athlete Support, dedicated trustees and donor gifts to our foundation, as well as dedicated fundraising activities carried out by athletes, multiple arms of the organization have been working together to make this happen,\u201d he said. \u201cThe organization has also made significant headway in our efforts to decrease travel costs at the development team level, where members will be responsible for no more than $10,000 in travel and training costs with their team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/vail-skiers-join-u-s-alpine-team-for-2019-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North America Cup Alpine overall winner Kyle Negomir in Vail on April 14, 2019. Negomir was nominated to the U.S. Alpine B Team on Monday, May 13.John LaConte \/ jlaconte@vaildaily.com Buy Photo Jacob Dilling in Vail on April 14. The Vail local was nominated to the development team for the 2019-2020 season.John LaConte \/ jlaconte@vaildaily.com [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 21:48:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}