A skier from the age of 9, Michael Ankeny became a national race winner at 10 and has quickly risen to the top of the junior ranks. With dozens of top-10 finishes, he earned a spot on the U.S. Development Team prior to the '09 season and made his World Cu
Despite narrowly missing the super G win Friday, Tommy Ford collected the eighth national title of his young career with gold in the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships combined.
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Ford, Ankeny Podium in U.S. Champs
Tommy Ford takes gold and Michael Ankeny bronze in the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships men's slalom at Winter Park Resort.
Tommy Ford took slalom gold to open men's racing at the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships for the seventh national title of his career.
Mountain Plaza roared Saturday as the 2012 U.S. Alpine Ski Team - including Olympic gold medalists Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO), Bode Miller (Franconia, NH), Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, CA) and Ted Ligety (Park City, UT) - was introduced during a public celeb
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Michael Ankeny Quick Facts
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![]() BIOGRAPHY: Ankeny made the most of his final year as a junior by racing everything at the 2011 Junior World Championships in Switzerland, but that was only after making his World Cup debut with the classic slalom in Kitzbuehel, Austria. He then rolled home to finish fourth overall in the Putnam U.S. Alpine Championships slalom, earning him top junior honors in both the race and in the combined. Here's the kicker…it was the first season that junior champions where awarded the coveted U.S. Ski Team belt buckles. He took both with him for the spring semester at Dartmouth. MICHAEL SAYS: FIRST TRACKS: OFF THE SNOW: |
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