Featured picture: The beginning at Solar Valley Resort. Credit score: Gilmour Hayden
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World’s high 25 female and male alpine athletes set to compete on the first-ever Stifel Solar Valley Finals, together with slalom, big slalom, super-G and downhill disciplines.
Solar Valley, ID (September 27, 2024) – Solar Valley Resort has formally been named host of the Audi FIS Ski World Cup Finals, March 22-27, 2025, together with all 4 disciplines for women and men. FIS granted ultimate ratification to Solar Valley Resort upon completion of the World Cup course and updates to the bottom space infrastructure. Solar Valley Resort is thrilled to welcome the world’s high athletes to the Stifel Solar Valley Finals vying for the general World Cup title.
“Solar Valley has a protracted and storied historical past in ski racing, for a few years internet hosting the revered Harriman Cup, our first FIS World Cup in 1975, and most lately the U.S. Alpine Championships back-to-back,” mentioned Pete Sonntag, Solar Valley Resort GM and VP. “We’re pleased with our mountain and imagine it’ll present an awesome check of the world’s biggest skiers, however we’re much more pleased with our neighborhood and the best way this small western city can rally round an occasion of this caliber. We’re thrilled for athletes, households, and vacationers worldwide to come back expertise the very best of Solar Valley.”
A nod to the Union Pacific’s railroad historical past, Solar Valley Resort has named the race course “Challenger,” as challenger vehicles had been identified for his or her velocity and energy. The identify additionally honors the resort’s new state-of-the-art Challenger chairlift which serves a number of the resort’s most difficult terrain. This new course guarantees to be probably the most demanding downhill programs in North America.
The Stifel Solar Valley Finals schedule of race occasions is as follows:
● March 22- males’s and girls’s downhill
● March 23- males’s and girls’s super-G
● March 24- off day, no race occasions
● March 25- ladies’s big slalom
● March 26- males’s big slalom
● March 27- males’s and girls’s slalom
“It’s official, the Stifel Solar Valley Finals is confirmed on the FIS Alpine World Cup schedule this season,” mentioned Sophie Goldschmidt, President and CEO of U.S. Ski & Snowboard. “We’re thrilled to welcome again the very best skiers from every alpine self-discipline to the enduring slopes of Solar Valley Resort. We’re assured that this occasion is not going to solely be a hit, however it’ll additional present that we’ve got world class venues proper in our yard.”
Solar Valley may also have a bustling occasions lineup over World Cup Finals off the slopes. Take pleasure in stay music after the races day by day, discover Ketchum and the 5850 Pageant, and catch extra leisure at Pageant Meadows in Solar Valley. Keep tuned for leisure updates HERE.
Volunteer registration is now open. By volunteering for Stifel Solar Valley Finals, you might be volunteering for U.S. Ski and Snowboard (USSS). USSS is a nonprofit group and the nationwide governing physique for snowboarding and snowboarding in the USA with a mission to assist athlete coaching, growth, competitors, and academic wants. To study extra about alternatives, try our volunteer web page HERE.
VIP Packages at the moment are accessible for buy together with experiences like unique viewing and lounge areas, complimentary meals and drinks, VIP shuttle companies, and branded swag. Be taught extra HERE. Grandstand viewing will likely be accessible on the race end space quickly.
For media and photographers protecting the occasion, please fill out the credentials kind HERE.
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About Solar Valley Resort
Solar Valley Resort was based in 1936 as America’s first vacation spot ski resort. Situated within the Idaho mountains, it’s actually a four-season resort with a wide selection of actions. Outside journey fanatics take pleasure in world-class snowboarding, snowboarding, skating, climbing, biking, {golfing}, fishing, taking pictures, concert events, purchasing, eating places, and conferences, and particular occasion area. Solar Valley is a member of The Grand America Resorts and Resorts household. Sister properties embrace Snowbasin Ski Resort, The Grand America Lodge, Little America Lodge (all Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah); The Westgate Lodge, San Diego, Calif.; Little America Flagstaff, Ariz.; Little America, Wyo., and Little America, Cheyenne, Wyo.
Solar Valley is served by Hailey’s Friedman Memorial Airport (SUN). The airport is positioned 14 miles from the resort and is definitely accessed from six main cities: San Francisco (SFO), Seattle (SEA), Los Angeles (LAX), Salt Lake Metropolis (SLC), Denver (DEN), and Chicago (ORD). All Solar Valley Resort friends obtain complimentary roundtrip airport transportation.
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