{"id":804698,"date":"2020-02-27T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=379686"},"modified":"2020-02-27T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T01:00:00","slug":"peak-performers-nominee-jon-zdechlik-nordic-skiing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/peak-performers-nominee-jon-zdechlik-nordic-skiing\/","title":{"rendered":"Peak Performers nominee: Jon Zdechlik, Nordic skiing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"864\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/JonZdechlik-PeakPerformers-SDN-0220-1024x864.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/JonZdechlik-PeakPerformers-SDN-0220-1024x864.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/JonZdechlik-PeakPerformers-SDN-0220-300x253.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/JonZdechlik-PeakPerformers-SDN-0220-768x648.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/JonZdechlik-PeakPerformers-SDN-0220.jpeg 1207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Jon Zdechlik<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy Bob Winsett<\/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>: Jon Zdechlik<br \/><strong>Sport<\/strong>: Nordic skiing<\/p>\n<p>Raised in Frisco, Jon Zdechlik, known to many as \u201cZeke,\u201d spent time as an athlete on the U.S. Nordic Ski Team and coached the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team for many years along with fellow Peak Performers nominee Jon Kreamelmeyer.<\/p>\n<p>Zdechlik grew up in Summit County, skied for the U.S. Nordic combined team after high school and attended the University of Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>Loved by an incredible number of people in the Summit County Nordic community, Zdechlik ran the Frisco Adventure Park for a time and was known for his perpetual positive attitude.<\/p>\n<p>A longtime friend of Kreamelmeyer, Zdechlik served as a Nordic coach for the U.S. Paralympic team with Kreamelmeyer and Scott Peterson, a trio dubbed \u201cthe three amigos\u201d that helped the team win gold multiple times.<\/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-jon-zdechlik-nordic-skiing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon ZdechlikCourtesy Bob Winsett 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: Jon ZdechlikSport: Nordic skiing Raised in Frisco, Jon Zdechlik, known to many as \u201cZeke,\u201d spent time as an athlete on the U.S. Nordic [&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-804698","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 08:57:45","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\/804698","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=804698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}