2006 Olympic team biography!
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She began racing SBX at the suggestion of a friend who said her speed and agility made her a natural to be successful in the discipline.
She entered the sport in the halfpipe at age 10 in 1996 at the urging of her brother. For fun, the siblings spend each summer creating trails for their all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and wakeboarding on the local lake. Between seasons in 2004, Lindsey modeled for Seventeen and cross-trained with her brother, Ben.
While her noticeable natural wavy hair was cut back in 2002 to make a wig for “Locks of Love,” an organization helping chemotherapy patients who are losing hair, Lindsey is as radiant as ever, with a vibrant personality and a style off the slopes that helps her stand out in the crowd. She carries herself with confidence and is one of the toughest women in the sport today, with her demanding schedule riding both the halfpipe and snowboard cross. Olympic Team hopeful successfully competing in two snowboarding disciplines. with a thousand-watt smile and is the only U.S.
She’s a rising young star in the U.S.
Lindsey Jacobellis stands out with her long, curly, golden locks of hair, her easy-going personality and all those tricks she performs on her snowboard. During the 2003-2004 season, she competed in both disciplines, winning every snowboard cross competition she entered and capturing back-to-back World Cup wins in both disciplines. The 2005 World Champion in SBX, Lindsey is also an Olympic medal favorite in the halfpipe.
She has a chance to compete in Torino in halfpipe and her specialty, snowboard cross (SBX), which will be a first-time Olympic event in 2006. Olympic Team.
Lindsey is one of the bright, new medal prospects for the 2006 U.S.
• 2005 Snowboard World Champion (snowboard cross)
• 2005 Overall Grand Prix Champion (halfpipe)
• 2004 Niigata Joetsu-Kokusai, Japan World Cup Champion (halfpipe)
• 2004 Mountain Creek Grand Prix (halfpipe), second
• Three-time Winter X Games Champion (snowboard cross) (2003-2005)
• 2003 Junior Worlds Champion (halfpipe)
• 2002 Junior Worlds Champion (snowboard cross).
Height: 5’5”
Date of Birth: 8/19/1985
Hometown: Stratton Mountain, Vt.
Resides: Belmont, Vt.
Event: Halfpipe, Snowboard Cross. .