Cary Adgate

Last updated

Cary Adgate (born August 21, 1953, in Lansing, Michigan) is a former United States Ski Team member from Boyne Falls, Michigan. He is a two time Olympian, six time national champion, and national pro champion. [1] [2] Adgate was recently inducted into the U.S. National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame. [3]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Snowboarding</span> Snow sport involving a single board

Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet. It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympic Games.

Shrine Catholic Schools is a private, co-educational Catholic school serving preschool through grade 12. It is located in Royal Oak, Michigan,and affiliated with National Shrine of the Little Flower.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">National Ski Hall of Fame</span>

The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame and Museum is located in Ishpeming, Michigan, the birthplace of organized skiing in the United States. Located in the state's Upper Peninsula, the building includes the hall of fame and museum, as well as a theater, library, gift shop, offices, and ample storage space for archive material and collections. The current building opened in 1992.

Glen Plake is a US National Ski Hall of Fame skier. He grew up in Lake Tahoe, skiing Heavenly Valley. He is known for his appearances in ski films such as Greg Stump's The Blizzard of Aahhhs. Plake has been named a pioneer of extreme skiing in America by ESPN. Glen has been the host of the RSN program Reel Thrills.

Hilary Kirsten Lindh is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. A specialist in the downhill event, she was a world champion and Olympic medalist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Barbara Cochran</span> American alpine skier

Barbara Ann Cochran is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from the United States.

The Skiing Cochrans are a family of American alpine ski racers from Richmond, Vermont, a dominant force on the U.S. Ski Team in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and again in 2000s, 2010s and 2020s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">U.S. Ski & Snowboard</span>

U.S. Ski & Snowboard, formerly known as the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, is the national governing body for Olympic and Paralympic skiing and snowboarding. Founded in 1905, the organization provides leadership and direction for skiers and snowboarders from over 400 member clubs. The association is headquartered in Park City, Utah.

Eva Twardokens is a former World Cup alpine ski racer. She made her World Cup debut at age 17 in December 1982.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John H. Caldwell</span> Cross-country skier, coach, and author

John Homer Caldwell is a retired American nordic skier who competed in the 1952 Winter Olympics, then became a cross-country ski coach and authority on cross-country skiing. He wrote a series of books that helped popularize and develop understanding of recreational cross-country skiing in the United States. Consequently, Caldwell has been called the "father" and "guru" of Nordic skiing in North America.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Betsy Snite</span> American alpine skier (1938–1984)

Betsy Baxter Snite was an American alpine ski racer and Olympic medalist. She competed in the Winter Olympics in 1956 and 1960 and won the silver medal in the slalom in the latter.

Sarah Will is a paralympic skier who spent 11 years on the U.S. Disabled Ski Team. During this time, she earned a record 13 medals while competing in four Winter Paralympic Games between 1992 and 2002. She was named to the United States Olympic Hall of Fame in July 2009 and is also a member of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame.

Marilyn Cochran Brown is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States.

Carl Tellefsen was a Norwegian-American skiing champion and the first leader of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association.

For the Hong Kong former tennis player, see Wayne Wong.

Passion for Skiing is a book that was published in 2010 about the contributions of people from Hanover, New Hampshire and Dartmouth College to winter activities, particularly the sport of downhill skiing. The book highlights the history of skiing from 1910 to the current era. It was written by Dartmouth alumnus Stephen L. Waterhouse, a native of Sanford, Maine and part-time Vail, Colorado resident, with the help of other alumni and ski historians. The entire 426-page book, with its more than 50 contributing authors scattered across the US and abroad, was edited solely via email by Nick Stevens, a former Dartmouth ski instructor, on his home computer in Maryland, and printed by Whitman Communications of Lebanon, New Hampshire.

Ski ballet is a form of ballet performed on skis. It is very similar to figure skating, combining spins, jumps, and flips in a two-minute routine choreographed to music. It was part of the professional freestyle skiing tours of the 1970s and 1980s and then an official FIS and Olympic discipline until the year 2000. Ski ballet became known as Acroski in the 1990s in an effort to legitimize its place among the competitive ski community, especially to the FIS. It is no longer a part of competitive freestyle skiing.

Martha Teichner is an American television news correspondent, currently working with CBS News and a frequent contributor and substitute anchor on CBS Sunday Morning.

The Dartmouth College Ski Team was once organized under the aegis of the Dartmouth Outing Club and is now operating under Dartmouth Athletics. This team is notable for both providing students access to competitive skiing and training internationally successful nordic and alpine ski racers. The Dartmouth Outing Club hosted the US's first downhill ski race on Mt Moosilauke in 1927, and Dartmouth skiing has been intertwined with ski racing ever since.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Henry Hall (skier)</span> American ski jumper

Henry Christian Hall was the first person born in America to win an international ski jumping meet, and the first person internationally to jump over 200 feet. He twice set the world record for ski jumping.

References

  1. "Cary Adgate". U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
  2. Edwards, Elizabeth (4 March 2008). "Cary Adgate, Did You Eat Your Wheaties?". Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine . Prism Publications. Retrieved 2009-02-21.
  3. Terrell, Mike (2008-10-30). "Mike Terrell: Adgate is Hall of Fame bound". Traverse City Record-Eagle . Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. Archived from the original on 2012-09-11. Retrieved 2009-03-03.