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U.S. FREESTYLE TEAM NEWS
Kearney Earns 12th World Cup Win - Olympic Champion Hannah Kearney (Norwich, VT) extended her FIS Freestyle World Cup record streak to 12 Saturday with a win at the Canada Olympic Park while Mikael Kingsbury of Canada was the mens winner. Kearney was joined on the podium by K.C. Oakley (Piedmont, CA) in third for her first World Cup top 3. Jeremy Cota (Carrabassett Valley, ME) was second on the men's side with Sho Kasima (S. Lake Tahoe, CA) in third. The FIS Freestyle World Cup moves back to the United States and MORE

U.S. ALPINE TEAM NEWS
Vonn .03 Shy of St. Moritz Sweep - Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) came within .03 of a three-race sweep in St. Moritz to finish second in Sunday's super combined behind defending Audi FIS Alpine World Cup overall champion Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany. Despite missing the top step, Vonn boosted her overall point total to 1,250 for a commanding 387 lead over Tina Maze of Slovenia. Vonn won the opening super combined and the backed it up with a dominating downhill victory on Saturday. MORE

SKI AREA NEWS
Mountain High Riders Win Silver & Bronze At X-Games 2012 - Mountain High is proud to announce two members of its newly formed professional snowboard team medaled in the Snowboard Street event at the 2012 Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado. Ryan Paul took Silver with his impressive technical tricks including a 270 onto the Jersey Barrier to 450 out, a gap to 50-50 on the down-flat ledge to a backflip out, and a Cab 180 to 50-50 on the ledge to backside rodeo out. MORE

HANNA KEARNEY WINS 11 IN A ROW!
Olympic Champion Vermonter Hannah Kearney won her 11th consecutive FIS Freestyle World Cup moguls event at the USANA Freestyle Cup at Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid, New York. This set the record for the longest Freestyle World Cup winning streak in FIS history. Teammate and World Champion Patrick Deneen earned his first podium of the season that day, finishing just behind Canada's Mikael Kingsbury. MORE

U.S. FREESKIING TEAM NEWS
Puckett Takes Final X Games Ride In Skicross - In his 10th and announced final Winter X Games, Casey Puckett (Aspen, CO) finished fifth in men's skicross. A five-time Olympian, two-time X Games champion and three-time medalist, Puckett said it was his last run prior to the final, won by Canada's Chris Del Bosco. MORE

COAST TO COAST WINNERS ADDED TO FINALS ROSTER FOR GATORADE FREE FLOW TOUR - The third weekend of the Gatorade Free Flow Tour hit mountain resorts across the country with slopestyle events at Mount Bachelor and Okemo and a superpipe event at Killington Resort. From Oregon to Vermont, the competitors came out gunning for a win and hoping to secure their spot in the Finals, taking place in conjunction with the Winter Dew Tour Toyota Championships this February in Utah. Victories went to Kent Callister, Devyn Schnake and Max Heard at Bachelor, while out East snowboarders Lauren Tamposi, Jack Dawe, Maggie Leon, and Owen Dayton, and freeskiers Logan Dobson and Tyler Duncan, took the top spots. MORE

U.S. SNOWBOARD TEAM NEWS
White Nails Perfect Gold Superpipe Run - Shaun White (Carlsbad, CA) wowed crowds by nailing the first ever score of 100.0 on his victory-lap run en route to winning his fifth consecutive superpipe gold at the Winter X Games. White, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, had enough points from his first run score of 94.0 to win the competition but took a final run to earn his perfect score. MORE

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