Lindsey Vonn

Lindsey Vonn: Biography in Details

Who is Lindsey Vonn?

Lindsey Vonn is a former American World Cup alpine ski racer on the US Ski Team. Likely, she won four World Cup overall championships—one of only two female skiers to do so, along with Annemarie Moser-Pröll—with three consecutive titles in 2008, 2009, and 2010, plus another in 2012. Additionally, Vonn won the gold medal downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first one for an American woman.

Lindsey Vonn: Age, Parents, Siblings, Nationality, Ethnicity

Lindsey Vonn was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the United States on October 18, 1984. Her birth name is Lindsey Caroline Vonn and she is currently 34 years old. Her father’s name is Alan Lee Kildow (junior national ski champion) and her mother’s name is Linda Anne.

Lindsey has four siblings namely, Dylan Kildow, Karin Kildow, Reed Kildow, and Laura Kildow. Lindsey holds American citizenship and mixed (Norwegian- Irish- German- English- Welsh) ethnicity. Her birth sign is Libra.

In which school did Lindsey Vonn attend?

Talking about Lindsey Vonn’s education history, she attended the University of Missouri High School, an online program through the university’s Center for Distance and Independent Study.

Lindsey Vonn: Professional Life, Career

Talking about her profession, by the time Lindsey was 7, she had already skied in Colorado, Minnesota, and Oregon all year round. Similarly, she traveled to Colorado by train for several years to receive skiing lessons at the ‘Ski Club Vail’ (SCV), an alpine racing program that trains young and aspiring skiers of age 6 and above. In the year 1995, at the age of 10, she met ‘Olympic’ gold medalist ski racer Picabo Street at a promotional event.

During her first year at ‘SCV,’ she skied under the ‘Gravity Corps pre-age-class program. She was trained by female coach Colby S Scudder. The program, directed by Tom Krebs, had strict guidelines, according to which skiers were not to be trained inside the gates but were to develop their skills in challenging terrain and difficult conditions. Consisting of multiple groups, this program was for skiers who were not old enough to participate in official age-class events sanctioned by ‘USSA’ or ‘FIS.’

Considering  Lindsey Vonn’s skiing speed, her coach, Scudder, supported the idea of her skiing with age-class skiers. Support from the program director, Chip Woods, made her enrollment in the age-class skiing program possible. She received lessons from technical skiing coaches such as Todd A Rash, Reid Phillips, and Gus Peretz. They helped her perfect her technical skills and she began the “in-gate” training.

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