{"id":804697,"date":"2020-02-27T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=379579"},"modified":"2020-02-27T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T00:00:00","slug":"peak-performers-nominee-j-j-thomas-snowboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/peak-performers-nominee-j-j-thomas-snowboarding\/","title":{"rendered":"Peak Performers nominee: J.J. Thomas, snowboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"471\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/JJThomas-PeakPerformers-SDN-0220.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/JJThomas-PeakPerformers-SDN-0220.jpg 471w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/JJThomas-PeakPerformers-SDN-0220-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\"><figcaption><strong>J.J. Thomas sails out of the pipe during a U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix qualifier at Breckenridge&#8217;s Peak 8 superpipe.<\/strong><br \/><em>Summit Daily file<\/em><\/figcaption><\/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 until March 7 at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/summitdaily.com\/peakperformers\">SummitDaily.com\/peakperformers<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nominee<\/strong>: J.J. Thomas<br \/><strong>Sport<\/strong>: snowboarding<\/p>\n<p>A pro snowboarder since age 15, the Colorado native Jarret John \u201cJ.J.\u201d Thomas has spent more than two decades worth of winters sharpening his snowboard skills and coaching other top talents here in Summit County.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas\u2019 long list of Summit County shredding memories includes qualifying for the 2002 Olympics in the Peak 8 halfpipe, a Grand Prix moment he shared with friends and family that led to a bronze medal in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n<p>A competitor at X Games countless times \u2014 and a Dew Tour, Vans Triple Crown and Burton U.S. Open medalist \u2014 Thomas is remembered in snowboarding history as an athlete who refined his dedication and attention to detail. It was his dialed-in approach to his career with a trainer, dietitian and a personal snowboard coach that he credits for qualifying and medaling at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, where the U.S. swept the podium.<\/p>\n<p>Since the end of his successful contest career, Thomas has coached many up-and-coming riders as the head coach of the U.S. Snowboard Halfpipe Development Team as well as coaching halfpipe legend Shaun White. White is just one of multiple Olympic medal winners Thomas has coached.<\/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-j-j-thomas-snowboarding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.J. Thomas sails out of the pipe during a U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix qualifier at Breckenridge&#8217;s Peak 8 superpipe.Summit Daily file 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 until March 7 at&nbsp;SummitDaily.com\/peakperformers. Nominee: J.J. ThomasSport: snowboarding A pro snowboarder [&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-804697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-20 08:57:46","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\/804697","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=804697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}