Garbiel and Ogden win Kirkwood Again
The North Face Young Gun Award returns in 2007, honoring outstanding new talent in competitive freeskiing. Points accumulated throughout the season have crowned one lucky under-21-year-old a full sponsorship from The North Face and the honor of becoming the next Young Gun winner. This stop’s winner was 19 year-old Scott McBrayer who finished 12th. The 2007 overall Young Gun winner was 21 year-old Brady Smedsrud of Little Cottonwood, UT.
“I was working toward this all year,” said The North Face Young Gun winner Brady Smedsrud. “I finished top five in a few events this year and I picked up Dynastar and Smith Optics as sponsors but I have been looking for a clothes sponsor for quite a while. I’m excited to be The North Face Young Gun.”
The overall Subaru U.S. Freeskiing Series titles were also awarded this evening to Jess McMillan of Jackson Hole, WY, and Adrien Coirier of Les Arcs France. McMillan won both the Subaru Jackson Hole Freeskiing Open and the Subaru U.S. Freeskiing Nationals.
“I have finished second so many times,” said overall tour winner Jess McMillan. “The World Tour isn’t over, so I’m going to Tignes and I plan on winning the World Tour too. You haven’t seen the last of me yet.” Adrien Coirier whose early season goal was to win the IFSA World Tour was knocked out of contention when he crashed at the first World Tour stop in Snowbird, UT. Coirier, did win the Subaru Telluride Freeskiing Open, the Subaru Squaw Valley USA Freeskiing Open and also won the Sickbird buckle at Jackson Hole, WY. “I am so stoked about the season,” said overall tour winner Adrien Coirier. “I skied all my runs exactly like I wanted to, with the exception of Snowbird where I fell. I spent the whole winter here in the U.S. and was blown away by how the freeskiers on the tour took such good care of me. Next year I’m coming back to win the World Tour, I can’t wait.” New in 2007, MSI will be posting same-day video broadcasts on the newly redesigned usfreeskiing.com featuring state of the art video and photo player technology. The daily uploads of video, photos, news and results of each day’s competition action will be available mere hours after each day concludes.
The IFSA World Tour finals are set for April 9-13 in Tignes, France. Previous Subaru U.S. Freeskiing Series tour stops include the Subaru Jackson Hole Freeskiing Open at Jackson Hole, WY, the Subaru US Freeskiing Nationals at Snowbird, UT, the Subaru Squaw Valley U.S.A Freeskiing Open, at Squaw Valley U.S.A, CA, and the Subaru Telluride Freeskiing Open at Telluride, CO.