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2006
U.S. Ski Team Athlete Bios |
| MARCO SULLIVAN
A Team
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| Ussa Id: 4738241 |
Height: 6 ft/
1.83 m |
Weight: 205 lb/
88 kg |
| Birthdate: 4/27/80 |
Birthplace: Truckee, CA |
Hometown: Squaw Valley, CA |
| Years on Team: 7th |
School: Utah |
Sponsors: Squaw Valley |
| Equipment: Salomon, Smith, Giro |
Club: Squaw Valley Ski Team |
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| Highlights |
- 6th in '03 Beaver Creek DH
- 9th in '02 Olympic DH
- 17th in '03 Worlds super G
- '02 U.S. super G champion
- '01 Nor Am overall/DH/SG king
- Two-time Sprint Ski Racing Junior of the Year
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| Biography |
Marco Sullivan grew up in Lake Tahoe – “a mecca for skiers,” as he describes it. He was on the hill as far back as he can remember, the catch being that kids on the ski team were released from school at noon everyday. “It was a no-brainer,” he said. But Sullivan had the talent to back it up. In 2001 he won the NorAm overall, downhill and super G titles, finished ninth in downhill at the 2002 Olympics and won the U.S. Championships super G title that same year on his home hill.
Update
Sullivan wants to get caught up with a couple of missing seasons. He tore ligaments in his right knee in a training crash at Beaver Creek early in the 2004 season and never got started last season after crashing during preseason training in Tignes, France. The 2002 Olympian was on skis in the spring, free skiing with Coach John McBride as he starting working his way back on snow for the Olympic season.
Start-Up
He was 3 when he started skiing on a gravel hill in his Lake Tahoe backyard; by 7, he was racing. And then it was into Squaw Valley’s Mitey Mites program. When Sullivan claimed the DH bronze medal at the ’99 nationals (and won the British Land Championships DH and GS), coaches felt he was ready for the varsity. A four-event skier early on, he was bronze medalist in slalom at ’00 Junior Worlds.
First World Cup
Dec. 7, 2001, in Val d’Isere, France (DNF in super G) (Vivid memory: “Damn, this is icy.”)
Olympics/Worlds Experience
2003 Worlds – 17th in SG, 24th in downhill. 2002 Olympics – 9th in DH, DNF in SG.
Injuries
Tore ligaments and dislocated his left knee in crash during training run at Beaver Creek, CO, in December, 2004. Despite seriousness of injuries, was back on snow seven months later. 2000 – Tore left ACL in GS on final day of Junior Worlds.
Personal
“Sully”...Took classes a community college this past winter… He’s was football captain at North Tahoe HS...Has gotten hooked on fly-fishing, having started after the ’02 Olympic season on a float trip down the Roaring Fork River near Aspen while in town for coach McBride’s wedding...Also enjoys mountain biking, hunting, water-skiing and surfing...Basic gotta-have: Q-tips...A fan of Johnny Cash and 50 Cent, his favorite meals are hamburgers barbecued in his own backyard… On winning the 2002 U.S. super G title at Squaw: “If I hadn’t won it at home, I don’t know if they would have let me back into town”...
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