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AMY GAN, a new member of the AASI Snowboard Team:
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the radio there was an injured 8-year-old girl; it was Meredith, but she had just bruised her arm. Charlie, however, tomahawked through rocks after a landing this year. Watching your son come into the Plaza Deck in a toboggan is a whole different anxiety. He had a bone bruise on his tibia plateau. Te PT said not to push it so that’s been our plan as a family. He’s getting stronger and is committed to competing this year.
FORMER TEAM MEMBERS PLACE A PREMIUM ON SPEED CONTROL Te Matlock family spends as much time skiing in a foreign country as they do at their home resort of Crested Butte, Colorado. Ross Matlock, a former PSIA Nordic Team member, is co-owner of International Mountain Adventure with his wife, Jill Matlock, herself a former Alpine Team member and four-time U.S. Extreme Skiing Champion. Ross Matlock has gravitated to big mountain terrain; he grew up skiing in Australia and spent a lot of time in Chamonix, France. After he met Jill, the couple spent winters in the Butte and multiple springs in Valdez, Alaska, while Jill competed in the Extreme Skiing competitions. For the past two seasons, Ross and Jill have
wintered in Niseko, Japan, with their sons Kye, age 14, and Jamis, age 11. Tey brought an “avy-savvy
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