{"id":2446681,"date":"2019-07-23T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/us-freestyle-team-event-returns-to-vail-ranch\/"},"modified":"2019-07-23T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T04:56:00","slug":"us-freestyle-team-event-fundraiser-returns-to-red-sky-ranch-near-vail-on-sept-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/us-freestyle-team-event-fundraiser-returns-to-red-sky-ranch-near-vail-on-sept-6\/","title":{"rendered":"US Freestyle team event, fundraiser returns to Red Sky Ranch near Vail on Sept. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Second-place finisher Jaelin Kauf, right, and third-place finisher Tess Johnson, left, both of the United States, celebrate following the women’s skiing dual moguls world championships Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019, in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo\/Rick Bowmer)<\/strong>
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VAIL \u2014 Last season, before earning podium spots at the 2019 FIS Freestyle Ski World Championships, mogul skiers Tess Johnson and Jaelin Kauf put in some important training hours in a different arena of their sport \u2014 fundraising.<\/p>\n

The two teammates helped organize a fundraiser near Wolcott at Red Sky Ranch in a first-year effort to try to help their team support more athletes.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring our meeting we were talking about how to individually fundraise and tell our story, and we thought why don\u2019t we do something as a team,\u201d Kauf said.<\/p>\n

The event came together with help from U.S. Ski & Snowboard Trustee Jim Benedict and his wife, Jeffy; several athletes gave speeches including Kauf and World Cup podium finisher Dylan Walczyk.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt costs an unbelievable amount of money over the years to reach the pinnacle of this sport, and it only gets more expensive as you progress,\u201d Walczyk told guests. \u201cWhat started with weekend trips to the mountain and ski club fees is now world travel, and all the expenses that come along with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event attracted a good showing and raised nearly $100,000, tripling the goal of $30,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was definitely a big deal, and honestly I don\u2019t think people were expecting it to be as successful as it was,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWhich was really great for our program, and our sport in general.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson and Kauf said the planning for this year\u2019s event started with the conclusion of last year\u2019s event \u2014 this year\u2019s fundraiser should be even better.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe (U.S. Ski and Snowboard Foundation) is helping even more this year to make it more glamorous, and providing even more opportunities to raise money,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

The event is set for Sept. 6 from 5 to 7 p.m. in Red Sky Ranch\u2019s Guest Clubhouse in Wolcott. Special guests include Billy Kidd, Jeremy Bloom and Shannon Bahrke.<\/p>\n

Kauf, who was born in Vail, and Johnson, who lives in Vail, both said Eagle County is an ideal location for the fundraiser. In 2018, half of moguls skiers on the U.S. Olympic team came through the Ski & Snowboard Club Vail program.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI think a lot of the team has some sort of connection to Vail,\u201d Kauf said.<\/p>\n

RSVP by visiting one.bidpal.net\/usmogulsteam\/welcome<\/a>.<\/p>\n

jlaconte@vaildaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Second-place finisher Jaelin Kauf, right, and third-place finisher Tess Johnson, left, both of the United States, celebrate following the women’s skiing dual moguls world championships Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019, in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo\/Rick Bowmer)AP | AP VAIL \u2014 Last season, before earning podium spots at the 2019 FIS Freestyle Ski World Championships, mogul skiers […]<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 20:58:39","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}