{"id":804604,"date":"2020-02-25T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=379454"},"modified":"2020-02-25T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T00:00:00","slug":"peak-performers-nominee-chris-hawks-freestyle-skiing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/peak-performers-nominee-chris-hawks-freestyle-skiing\/","title":{"rendered":"Peak Performers nominee: Chris Hawks, freestyle skiing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"235\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/ChrisHawks-PeakPerformers-SDN-0220.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: Readers nominated their all-time favorite Summit County athletes for Peak Performers: The Mount Rushmore of Summit County athletes. Voting is live through March 7&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/summitdaily.com\/peakperformers\">SummitDaily.com\/peakperformers<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nominee<\/strong>: Chris Hawks<br \/><strong>Sport<\/strong>: freestyle skiing<\/p>\n<p>Now the director and head coach for Team Breckenridge\u2019s Freeride Team, Chris Hawks is a three-time X Games participant and the 1999 X Games gold medalist in triple big air.<\/p>\n<p>After more than two decades competing, Hawks turned his attention toward coaching and founded Hawks FreeRide, a pioneer of the free ride movement. Since 2001, Hawks\u2019 athletes have gone on to participate in major competitions, including Dew Tour and the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Hawks first moved to Breckenridge in 1993 to compete for Team Breckenridge in mogul races. He soon evolved his skiing to take part in most anything freestyle, from more of a free ride feel to a hybrid of pole vaulting and skiing at the Ford Ranger Freeride Series.<\/p>\n<p>After injuries derailed his competitive career, Hawks founded the Hawks Freeride team in 2001, his first squad consisting of seven local kids hitting the Breck slopes seven days a week.<\/p>\n<p>On the snow, Hawks also has judged almost every high-level freeride contest, including X Games and Dew Tour.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/peak-performers-nominee-chris-hawks-freestyle-skiing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s note: Readers nominated their all-time favorite Summit County athletes for Peak Performers: The Mount Rushmore of Summit County athletes. Voting is live through March 7&nbsp;SummitDaily.com\/peakperformers. Nominee: Chris HawksSport: freestyle skiing Now the director and head coach for Team Breckenridge\u2019s Freeride Team, Chris Hawks is a three-time X Games participant and the 1999 X Games [&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-804604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-21 16:56:16","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\/804604","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=804604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}