{"id":795036,"date":"2019-04-21T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/now-a-national-champion-faulhaber-talks-about-surprise-season\/"},"modified":"2019-04-21T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T22:08:00","slug":"now-a-national-champion-faulhaber-talks-about-surprise-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/now-a-national-champion-faulhaber-talks-about-surprise-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Now a national champion, Faulhaber talks about surprise season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.7111111111111\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-364780-105\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/skier-atd-041919-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/skier-atd-041919-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Sam Ferguson | Hanna Faulhaber competes at the 2019 USASA National Championships early in April at Copper Mountain.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"6.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/skier-atd-041919-2.jpg\" alt=\"Hanna Faulhaber competes at the 2019 USASA National Championships early in April at Copper Mountain.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Hanna Faulhaber competes at the 2019 USASA National Championships early in April at Copper Mountain.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Sam Ferguson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/skier-atd-041919-2-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/skier-atd-041919-2-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Sam Ferguson | Hanna Faulhaber won the women's ski halfpipe contest at the 2019 USASA National Championships early in April at Copper Mountain.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"6.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/skier-atd-041919-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Hanna Faulhaber won the women's ski halfpipe contest at the 2019 USASA National Championships early in April at Copper Mountain.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Hanna Faulhaber won the women&#8217;s ski halfpipe contest at the 2019 USASA National Championships early in April at Copper Mountain.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Sam Ferguson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/skier-atd-041919-2-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/skier-atd-041919-2-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Sam Ferguson | Hanna Faulhaber competes at the 2019 USASA National Championships early in April at Copper Mountain.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"6.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/skier-atd-041919-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"Hanna Faulhaber competes at the 2019 USASA National Championships early in April at Copper Mountain.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Hanna Faulhaber competes at the 2019 USASA National Championships early in April at Copper Mountain.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Sam Ferguson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/skier-atd-041919-2-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/skier-atd-041919-2-3.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Austin Colbert \/ The Aspen Times | AVSC athlete Hanna Faulhaber poses prior to the Aspen Snowmass Freeskiing Open on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019, at Buttermilk Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"8.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/skier-atd-041919-2-3.jpg\" alt=\"AVSC athlete Hanna Faulhaber poses prior to the Aspen Snowmass Freeskiing Open on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019, at Buttermilk Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"12\">\n<p><strong>AVSC athlete Hanna Faulhaber poses prior to the Aspen Snowmass Freeskiing Open on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019, at Buttermilk Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).<\/strong><br \/>Austin Colbert \/ The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/now-a-national-champion-faulhaber-talks-about-surprise-season\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/now-a-national-champion-faulhaber-talks-about-surprise-season\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">This was supposed to be a feeling-out season for Hanna Faulhaber, not so much one to conquer the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Oh well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cGoing into Rev Tour, me and my coaches were, \u2018We\u2019re going to go experience it, not really expect much.\u2019 Then as the season progressed it got better and better,\u201d Faulhaber said. \u201cIt all built up and made my confidence level go up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A freshman at Basalt High School, the 14-year-old Faulhaber recently completed her first season competing at the FIS level, where she predominantly is a halfpipe skier. Expectations were realistic, for lack of a better word, for Faulhaber entering the season. After all, there\u2019s no reason to think a newbie to the FIS stage could compete with kids that have four or five years of experience already.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Then, she started winning. She won the women\u2019s halfpipe contest on Feb. 12 at Copper Mountain, a Revolution Tour event, for her first major victory. Only a few days later, she finished third at the Aspen Freeskiing Open, a Nor-Am Cup event, which was arguably a more impressive result than her Rev Tour win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">On top of it all, she also competed in January\u2019s FIS Junior World Ski Championships in Leysin, Switzerland, where she finished sixth in the finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">To cap it off, Faulhaber competed in the USASA National Championships earlier this month at Copper Mountain, where she won the women\u2019s halfpipe contest for her first national championship. She even took third in the slopestyle contest a day later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">While FIS requires athletes to be at least 14 to compete, USASA events, including nationals, do not have those age requirements, allowing Faulhaber to have competed at nationals last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt meant a lot because last year it wasn\u2019t as good,\u201d Faulhaber said of winning this year. \u201cI hit my head a little bit and then the ski patrollers grabbed me and said, \u2018You have a concussion,\u2019 and they would let me go in the pipe again but wouldn\u2019t let me compete. It was quite a redemption this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Faulhaber also battled with a concussion this year, hindering her learning the trick that set her apart at nationals, a flare, which is basically a backflip with a small rotation. She landed the trick for the first time in competition at nationals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThere were a few girls that were doing a flare. But just a week prior to going to nationals I decked the halfpipe and fell back in and got a concussion doing a flare,\u201d Faulhaber said. \u201cI started doing it in the bag in December to get to snow in January. I would also slip out onto my hip so I gave it a big break and then came back to it and started landing it, then got concussed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Healthy at nationals, it all came together. Now she will look toward her second season at the FIS level with even more possibilities out there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">She plans to compete in many of the same events, but could add something a bit bigger, such as the Copper Grand Prix, or other similar Nor-Am or World Cup events. She\u2019ll also compete at the New Zealand Freeski Open. Faulhaber\u2019s mother is from New Zealand, a place she has been many times, but this would be her first significant competition there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Faulhaber said for her to compete at that higher level she will need to work on getting more air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cAmplitude is a big one,\u201d she said. \u201cI have a problem with speed checking, because I\u2019m a little nervous going into a trick. I speed check and then I lose amplitude as the run goes on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Just something else for the rising star to conquer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:acolbert@aspentimes.com\">acolbert@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/now-a-national-champion-faulhaber-talks-about-surprise-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hanna Faulhaber competes at the 2019 USASA National Championships early in April at Copper Mountain.Courtesy Sam Ferguson Hanna Faulhaber won the women&#8217;s ski halfpipe contest at the 2019 USASA National Championships early in April at Copper Mountain.Courtesy Sam Ferguson Hanna Faulhaber competes at the 2019 USASA National Championships early in April at Copper Mountain.Courtesy Sam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-795036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 19:43:27","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}