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2006
U.S. Ski Team Athlete Bios |
| BODE MILLER
A Team
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| Ussa Id: 4851887 |
Height: 6-2 ft/
1.85 m |
Weight: 210 lb/
95 kg |
| Birthdate: 10/12/77 |
Birthplace: Easton, NH |
Hometown: Bretton Woods, NH |
| Years on Team: 10th |
School: CVA |
Sponsors: Barilla, Bretton Woods Resort, Spyder Active Sports, Sirius Satellite Radio, Nike, VISA, Charles Schwab |
| Equipment: Atomic, Briko, Swix |
Club: CVA/ Franconia Ski Club/Bretton Woods |
WebSite:
www.bodemillerusa.com |
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| Highlights |
- Fourth straight "Best season since 1983" for U.S. man
- 2005 World Cup overall and super G champion (7 wins)
- 2005 downhill and super G world champion
- 2004 World Cup giant slalom champ (4th overall)
- 2003: giant slalom and combined world champion, SG silver
- 2003: 2nd overall, 2nd in GS World Cup points
- 2002: Olympic silver in GS and combined
- 2002: 2nd in World Cup SL standings (3 wins)
- Career: 19 World Cup wins (8 GS, 5 SL, 2 DH, 2 SG, 2 CO)
- Career: Six U.S. titles (2 SL, 2 CO, 1 GS, 1 SG)
- 2002 SuperStars champion
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| Biography |
There's a storybook quality to Bode Miller's life - born at home in New Hampshire's White Mountains, educated at home until the fourth grade, grew up in a self-styled "hippie cabin" with no electricity or running water, off to a ski academy by the time he was a teenager because, in large part, he liked skiing's development ladder vs. snowboarding's decided lack of structure...and on to Olympic medalist, world champion, World Cup champion. Miller's tenacity, talent and singular racing style - called "a little bit goofy, but it works for him" by a former teammate - has lifted him to the top of ski racing's world.
Update
Make that four consecutive winters in which Miller has produced "The best season since Phil Mahre in '83" for an American man. He started in record-breaking fashion, winning the first three races of Winter '05, won an eye-popping one in each of the four main disciplines (not combined) within 16 days and - after winning the downhill and super G at Worlds in Bormio - erupted at World Cup Finals to hold off Austrian Benni Raich for the overall title. (He's the first U.S. man to win a downhill world title, and the super G gold medal, too). He also is the first skier to compete in every World Cup race in a season for three straight seasons; Miller comes into the Olympic winter with 114 consecutive World Cup starts (last race missed: DH at World Cup Finals March 6, 2002 in Altenmarkt, Austria).
Start-Up
Growing up near Cannon Mountain, he was skiing by 3 – Mom brought him to the mountain and he’d ski with staff – but Miller also enjoyed snowboarding (favorite trick: Misty 720). At 13, he entered Maine’s Carrabassett Valley Academy to be a ski racer. He made a big impression at the ’96 U.S. Championships at Sugarloaf, up the road from CVA, when – at 18 – he was third in the slalom title race. Miller debuted on the World Cup with the ’98 Olympic season, finishing 11th in his first race. He wowed Olympic crowds when he hiked gates in both slalom and GS.
First World Cup
Nov. 20, 1997, at Park City, UT (11th in GS)
Olympics/Worlds Experience
2005 Worlds - Gold in downhill, gold in SG; 2003 Worlds – Gold in GS, gold in combined, silver in SG, 6th in slalom, 16th in DH. 2002 Olympics – Silver in GS, silver in combined (complete with a highlight-reel save from what looked like a certain crash in the combined DH), 24th in slalom. 2001 Worlds – DNF in SG, DNF in combined. 1999 Worlds – 8th in SL, 18th in GS, 26th in SG.
Injuries
At 2001 Worlds, he crashed in the downhill portion of combined, tearing ligaments in his left knee. Underwent surgery – a “healing response” – after the season, as opposed to full reconstruction, and was back on skis for the ’02 World Cup opener (he was fifth in GS in Soelden to open the Olympic winter).
Personal
Born at home... All-State selection in soccer and tennis at CVA, he serves as a counselor at the family’s Tamarack Tennis Camp in Franconia or an uncle’s soccer camp each summer... Ranked No. 2 on Outside magazine’s 2004 “Ultimate Bad Boys of the Outdoors” list: “The zen master of vertical… He doesn’t ski safe, doesn’t ski with grace, but goes balls out and is exciting to watch”… First-rate bowler and he’s getting plenty of golf in at celebrity tournaments... He’s an Allman Brothers fan and voracious reader, devouring books... In 2003, Men’s Journal ranked him No. 2 in their list of “Best Athletes in the World”… Won the made-for-TV 2002 SuperStars competition, clinching the win with an eye-popping vault over a 10-foot wall to start the obstacle course... Unorthodox training techniques include single-legged tightrope squats, uphill unicycle rides, building upper-body strength in a 40-foot rock climbing wall, and pushing a 600-pound tennis court roller and/or a wheelbarrow full of rocks… Favorite trick when he snowboarded: a Misty 720.
Name Pronounced
BO-dee
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