Featured Picture: Alice Mckennis Duran. Credit score: GEPA
The Class of 2025 represents Winter Park, Crested Butte, Silverthorne, Vail, and Colorado at giant. Tickets at the moment are obtainable for the induction ceremony on September 27 on the Vilar Performing Arts Heart in Beaver Creek.
VAIL, Colo.—July 1, 2025— The Colorado Snowsports Corridor of Fame is happy to announce the Class of 2025, an inspiring group representing a variety of individuals throughout the snow sports activities trade. From alpine snowboarding, Nordic, adaptive, and massive mountain-extreme snowboarding to the snowsports devotees constructing the game behind the scenes, this 12 months’s inductees have devoted their lives to snowsports, making an enduring affect in Colorado.”
“On behalf of the Colorado Snowsports Corridor of Fame, we’re very happy to announce the Class of 2025, that includes three outstanding and various Colorado athletes and two extraordinary sport builders. Hint Worthington and Wendy Fisher add vary to our Corridor of Fame, representing freestyle and big-mountain athletes,” mentioned Invoice Tomcich, board member of the Colorado Snowsports Museum and chairman of the Corridor of Fame Committee. “Every individual comes from a novel space of Colorado and illustrates the truth that Colorado as a complete leads the way in which in snowsports.”
The Colorado Snowsports Corridor of Fame Class of 2025
Alice Mckennis Duran | Athlete
Born in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, Alice McKennis Duran realized to ski and race on the close by Daylight Ski Space after racing for numerous main golf equipment within the state. Duran is a former World Cup alpine ski racer who specialised within the pace occasions of downhill and Tremendous-G. She represented america in two Olympics, inserting fifth in downhill in 2018. She additionally received a World Cup downhill race in 2013 and overcame a number of critical accidents throughout her profession. After retiring from aggressive snowboarding in 2021, she has served as a coach and mentor at Ski & Snowboard Membership Vail. She is a constructive function mannequin for younger skiers.
Wendy Fisher | Athlete
A Squaw Valley native, Wendy Fisher attended Burke Mountain Academy and later joined the US Ski Workforce, incomes a spot on the 1992 Winter Olympic Workforce and qualifying for the downhill, slalom, and GS. Following her time on the nationwide group, her pursuits of utmost snowboarding led her to win two World Excessive Snowboarding Championships, a Professional Tour title, and a spot within the first X Video games Girls’s Skier-Cross. Fisher has appeared in numerous ski movies, breaking the mould and provoking ladies who wished to cost onerous, compete, and be in huge mountain ski movies. Fisher has used her platform as an envoy for the game of snowboarding, representing Crested Butte Mountain for over 20 years and showing at talking engagements nationally.
Jon Kreamelmeyer | Sport Builder–Inspiration
All through his profession, Jon Kreamelmeyer has exemplified excellence in cross-country snowboarding, each as a coach and mentor for the various athletes and coaches he has labored with. He was the assistant coach for the profitable Summit Excessive Faculty Nordic Program for almost a decade and later the pinnacle coach of the US Paralympic Workforce. He has made an enduring affect on the game of cross-country snowboarding in Summit County, america, and internationally by way of his dedication to athletes, his teaching experience and technical expertise, his caring and compassion to incorporate all individuals, and his continued assist of snowboarding within the broader group.
Bob Meserve | Sport Builder
Bob Meserve has completed a lot in his 40+ years since sustaining a spinal wire damage, an damage that didn’t diminish his love for alpine snowboarding. An early pioneer in adaptive sit-skiing, he’s acknowledged by his friends as a real chief within the adaptive sports activities and Paralympic actions and was inducted into the Disabled Sports activities USA (DSUSA) Nationwide Disabled Snow Sports activities Corridor of Fame. Meserve was the primary sit-skier allowed on Vail Mountain, received Paralympic medals, suggested the US Olympic & Paralympic Committee, and served for many years as Winter Athlete Consultant after which President of the DSUSA.
Hint Worthington | Athlete
Hint Worthington is likely one of the most adorned freestyle skiers in historical past, with 37 World Cup victories, 79 podium finishes, 7 world titles, and 11 nationwide titles. A two-time Olympian, he pioneered the game by turning into the primary U.S. aerialist to land a quadruple-twisting triple backflip in competitors. Rising up in Winter Park, Colorado, Worthington’s profession helped elevate freestyle snowboarding globally. He later grew to become a revered commentator for NBC, Purple Bull TV, and FOX. His legacy continues by way of his daughters, Sami and Izzy, who now compete on the World Cup degree, following of their father’s footsteps.
Corridor of Fame candidates are nominated underneath the established standards of Athlete, Sport Builder, Inspiration, or Pioneer classes, with the Corridor of Fame Nomination Committee evaluating and confirming the nominees to maneuver on to the ultimate poll. The 140-member Corridor of Fame Voting Panel is comprised of present Corridor of Fame members, key snow sports activities trade representatives, snow sports activities resorts, and the Corridor’s board of administrators. Be taught extra about our Corridor of Fame right here, https://www.snowsportsmuseum.org/hall-of-fame.
Jennifer Mason, Government Director of the Colorado Snowsports Museum and Corridor of Fame, explains, “I’m enthusiastic about celebrating two distinctive para-athletes by honoring Bob Meserve and Jon Kreamelmeyer. I’m additionally excited to welcome each Alice McKennis Duran and Wendy Fisher as two inspiring feminine athletes.” Jen goes on to say, “We’re excited to announce this 12 months’s new venue change to the Vilar Performing Arts Heart, providing our attendees a extra intimate expertise within the coronary heart of one among our state’s most essential snow sports activities resorts.”
The annual induction ceremony will happen on Saturday, September 27, 2025, on the state-of-the-art Vilar Performing Arts Heart, positioned within the coronary heart of Colorado’s Beaver Creek Resort. The occasion is a good way to rejoice the inductees and Colorado snow sports activities. Tickets for common admission begin at $75, with all proceeds going to assist the Colorado Snowsports Museum, a non-profit group, and the State of Colorado’s official snow sports activities museum. Tickets are on sale now: https://snowsportsmuseum.org/occasion/2025-colorado-snowsports-hall-of-fame-celebration/.
Concerning the Colorado Snowsports Museum and Corridor of Fame
Based in 1975 and positioned in Vail, Colorado, the Colorado Snowsports Museum is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. Because the official snow sports activities museum of Colorado, our mission is to rejoice Colorado snow sports activities by telling tales that educate and encourage others to hunt journey. By means of priceless artifacts and fascinating displays, we protect and show the beginning, rise, and explosion of snowboarding and snowboarding in our state. Highlights embody Climb to Glory (that includes the tenth Mountain Division), the Colorado Snowboard Archive, and the Colorado Snowsports Corridor of Fame. Be taught extra and assist the museum by turning into a member: www.snowsportsmuseum.org.
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