{"id":21834,"date":"2020-03-12T12:07:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T18:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=63727"},"modified":"2020-03-12T12:07:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T18:07:29","slug":"united-states-of-america-snowboard-and-freeski-association-cancels-nationals-at-copper-mountain-resort-due-to-coronavirus-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/united-states-of-america-snowboard-and-freeski-association-cancels-nationals-at-copper-mountain-resort-due-to-coronavirus-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"United States of America Snowboard and Freeski Association cancels Nationals at Copper Mountain Resort due to coronavirus concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Snowboarders march through Copper Mountain Resort’s Center Village as part of a ceremony to ring in the 2019 USASA Nationals at Copper Mountain Resort.<\/strong>
Courtesy USASA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

COPPER MOUNTAIN RESORT \u2014 The United States of America Snowboard and Freeski Association announced on Wednesday it will cancel its annual USASA Nationals event, scheduled this year for March 27 through April 8 at Copper Mountain Resort, due to the concerns with the novel coronavirus \u2014 officially known as coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19.<\/p>\n

The largest snowboarding and freeskiing competition in the world, USASA Nationals has been held annually at Copper Mountain for more than 10 years and attracts upward of 2,000 athletes \u2014 and accompanying family and friends \u2014 from 31 regional divisions nationwide. Nationals includes snowboard and freeski competitions in halfpipe, cross, slopestyle and Alpine disciplines across 12 days of action.<\/p>\n

USASA Executive Director Michael Mallon announced the association\u2019s decision in a statement Wednesday<\/a>. Mallon said in the statement the association has been closely following the COVID-19 situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines discouraging travel and large public gatherings,\u201d Mallon wrote in the statement, \u201cand based on input from many in our snowboard and freeski community \u2026 we have made the very difficult decision to cancel the 2020 USASA National Championships.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter careful consideration and deliberation,\u201d Mallon continued, \u201cwe believe the impact COVID-19 will have on this year\u2019s participation and athlete representation would adversely affect the integrity of the event. Further, holding the event at this time could create unnecessary risk for USASA athletes, parents, coaches and staff.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the statement, Mallon added that the \u201chard work and efforts\u201d of young athletes who qualified for Nationals \u201cdid not go unnoticed.\u201d Mallon said the association will work on the \u201cproper recognition\u201d of the top athletes across the country and will prepare additional statements in \u201cdue time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mallon also encouraged visiting USASA families to be proactive in reaching out to \u201cthose you have made travel plans with.\u201d The executive director said if there\u2019s question that the association can answer, they will handle each question personally and \u201cas quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fallon said families could email 2020help@usasa.org<\/a> for event inquiries or to ask a question.<\/p>\n

The executive director added that for those families who booked directly with Copper Mountain lodging, reservations will not automatically be canceled. For those wishing to cancel and receive a full refund, he said to email groupres@coppercolorado.com<\/a> with a reservation number or the name listed on the reservation. Mallon said if a visitor booked through another property management company or online, such as Airbnb or VRBO, he encourages \u201creaching out to the appropriate contact to discuss your options.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look forward to hosting the event again next year,\u201d Mallon wrote, \u201cand hope that the hard work and determination to be one of the best at something you love can be used to motivate you for future events.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Snowboarders march through Copper Mountain Resort’s Center Village as part of a ceremony to ring in the 2019 USASA Nationals at Copper Mountain Resort.Courtesy USASA COPPER MOUNTAIN RESORT \u2014 The United States of America Snowboard and Freeski Association announced on Wednesday it will cancel its annual USASA Nationals event, scheduled this year for March 27 […]<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 05:51:52","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":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}