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- Mikaela Shiffrin
- Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin was born 13 March 1995 in Vail, Colorado to Jeff and Eileen Shiffrin. She grew up in Edwards, Colorado. Hailing from a family of ski racers, Shiffrin’s father skied for Dartmouth while her mother was a “Masters ski racer.” Shiffrin’s older brother, Taylor, ski raced for the University of Denver. Jeff and Eileen Shiffrin coached both children during their formative years and successfully instilled a lifelong love of skiing. At two years of age, Shiffrin was skiing in their driveway and by the age three, she was skiing on Vail Mountain. At seven years of age, Shiffrin was already “too advanced for ski school.” While at Vail Mountain School and in the Ski & Snowboard Club Vail program, Shiffrin exhibited exceptional talent and focus. Shiffrin spent her high school years at Burke Mountain Academy (East Burke, Vermont) and on the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup circuit. She graduated from Burke in 2013. In 2011, Mikaela Shiffrin competed in her first World Cup ski race at the age of fifteen. On 20 December 2012 and at the age of seventeen, she earned her first World Cup win in the slalom event at Are, Sweden. Shiffrin has earned five podiums (top three placements) at FIS Alpine Ski World Cup events in Colorado. Two World Cup podiums were in front of hometown crowds in Beaver Creek, with races held on the acclaimed Birds of Prey run. On 12 January 2013, Shiffrin placed second in giant slalom and on 14 February 2014, Shiffrin won the slalom. Shiffrin’s other Colorado World Cup podium finishes occurred in Aspen. On 28 November 2015, Shiffrin achieved a World Cup record with her sixteenth win in slalom. The next day, 29 November 2015, she again won the slalom event in Aspen. On 18 March 2017, Shiffrin finished second in a World Cup slalom race held in Aspen. In 2022, Shiffrin was named Competitor of the Year by the Colorado Snowsports Museum Hall of Fame. Mikaela Shiffrin’s FIS Alpine Ski World Cup achievements are too numerous to note, but a few historically significant world records include: 88 World Cup wins (two ahead of the great Ingemar Stenmark), 138 World Cup podiums (previous record held by Lindsay Vonn), 21 giant slalom wins (previous record held by Vreni Schneider), 17 World Cup wins in one season (2018/2019), and most wins in one discipline (53 slalom wins). Shiffrin has also competed in three winter Olympics (2014, 2018 and 2022). When she earned gold in 2014 at Sochi, Japan, Shiffrin became the youngest Olympic slalom champion in history (eighteen years of age). In the 2018 Olympics at Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea, Shiffrin also earned gold in giant slalom and silver in the super alpine combined event. As of 19 March 2023, Mikaela Shiffrin has achieved podium placements in 55.3% of her FIS Alpine Ski World Cup races and has won a statistically remarkable 35.3% of her races. She is the first skier (man or woman) to win a race in each of the six World Cup ski events (combined alpine, downhill, giant slalom, parallel giant slalom, slalom, super-G). In 2020, Shiffrin and family created the Jeff Shiffrin Athlete Resiliency Fund in honor of her father and in response to setbacks in sports as a result of the COVID-19 epidemic. Mikaela Shiffrin’s hobbies and interests include: tennis, sailboarding, binge-watching shows, music, singing, and playing the guitar and piano.
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- Mike Callahan
- He used shale rock to build a fireplace in his cabin on Piceance Creek in Garfield County. The fire ignited the rocks and then the whole log cabin burnt down, resulting in the discovery of oil shale.