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Shiffrin's father Jeff grew up in New Jersey and was an avid skier on weekends in Vermont with his family. As an undergraduate, he raced for Dartmouth College in New Hampshire . [ 15 ] Her mother Eileen raced in high school in northwestern Massachusetts in the Berkshires , [ 12 ] and her brother Taylor (born 1992) raced for the University of ...
The women's super-G in the 2020 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 6 events, which produced six different winners from five different countries.. Defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin from the United States was leading the discipline standings when her father Jeff suffered what proved to be a fatal head injury at the start of February; Shiffrin immediately went home to Colorado and ended up ...
Defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin from the United States was second in the very tight discipline standings after 5 events when her father Jeff suffered what proved to be a fatal head injury at the start of February, and Shiffrin missed the remainder of the season. [1]
On 1 February 2020, then-women's World Cup overall leader (and 3-time defending champion) Mikaela Shiffrin's father Jeff suffered grave injuries in an accident, and Shiffrin immediately left the World Cup tour. His injuries proved fatal, and Shiffrin remained off the tour for the rest of the season. [10]
The women's slalom in the 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 6 events, although there were 9 originally scheduled.. Defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin from the United States was leading the discipline standings by 80 points after 5 events when her father Jeff suffered what proved to be a fatal head injury at the start of February, and Shiffrin immediately left the tour to return home to ...
Jeff Shiffrin had suffered a severe head injury in an accident at the family's Colorado home. He died on Feb. 2, 2020, at age 65. Mikaela Shiffrin considers quitting.
Two other athletes with Dartmouth/Hanover connections won medals: Mikaela Shiffrin, a former Hanover, New Hampshire resident and daughter of Dartmouth alumnus Jeff Shiffrin (Dartmouth Class of 1976), won gold in the women's Olympic slalom; and Gus Kenworthy, son of Dartmouth alumnus Peter Kenworthy (Dartmouth Class of 1977), won silver in the ...
Dartmouth College student Fred Harris (1888-1961) founded the Dartmouth Outing Club in 1909, and so became "the man who put America on skis" [8]. The Nashua (NH) Telegraph notes that in 1914, a group of Dartmouth students travelled to Canada to compete against McGill University in the first collegiate ski race. [9]