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Ellery Hollingsworth
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About Ellery Hollingsworth
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If the likes of Kelly Clark, Hannah Teter and Gretchen Bleiler represent the foundation of women’s snowboarding in the United States, Ellery Hollingsworth, 18, represents the potential.
A silver medalist at the 2006 junior world championships, Hollingsworth has been an upwardly mobile threat since a third-place finish in an American event two years ago in the United States Snowboarding Grand Prix at Tamarack, Idaho. Last winter, she finished fourth in the X Games superpipe. In the spring, she finished a career-best fourth at a World Cup event in Spain. She entered the 2009-10 season as a rising star with sudden and realistic Olympic medal aspirations.
Hollingsworth, from Darien, Conn., started snowboarding seriously after concussions put an end to her hockey aspirations. She attended the Stratton Mountain School in Vermont, which has churned out several Olympic snowboarders, and graduated last May. She has spent the last couple of winters living with the men’s snowboarder Steve Fisher, one of the top Americans, and his companion in Breckenridge, Colo., learning what it takes to be a competitive boarder on the world circuit.
Hollingsworth has been mentored by some of the best snowboarders in the world, many of them her potential American teammates. And as the United States starts to cede some of its dominance to countries that are now investing heavily in snowboarding — China chief among them — Hollingsworth represents the next wave of boaders trying to keep the sport tinted largely red, white and blue.
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January 24, 2010
Halfpipe Squads Take Shape
The snowboarders Shaun White and Kelly Clark finished the United States Olympic qualifying season Saturday by winning for the fourth time in five events, emphatically sending them to the Winter Games in Vancouver as the halfpipe riders to beat. The United States men's squad will also include the first-time Olympians Louie Vito and Scott Lago.
January 23, 2010
White and Clark Riders to Beat in Vancouver
The snowboarders Shaun White and Kelly Clark finished the United States Olympic qualifying season Saturday by winning for the fourth time in five events, emphatically sending them to the Winter Games in Vancouver as the halfpipe riders to beat.
January 22, 2010
Sadness and Hope in Halfpipe Qualifying
The halfpipe team will be announced late Saturday, after back-to-back nights of contests in the same halfpipe where Kevin Pearce sustained a brain injury Dec. 31.
January 14, 2010 The Boston Globe
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December 12, 2009
Double Cork Puts Twist in Fight to Qualify for Snowboarding Team
The double cork trick is dominating the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix, the first of five events that will decide which athletes will represent the U.S. in February.
March 22, 2009
Few Fresh Challengers for Top Women in the Halfpipe
The winner and second-place finisher at the U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships each earned their third halfpipe title.