Schleper set for return

9.4.08

Source: YAHOO

 

American Sarah Schleper is on course for a return to the World Cup this season.

The 29-year-old won a World Cup slalom in 2005 but missed the 2006/07 season due to injury and then skipped last season as she became a mother. But US coach Jim Tracy believes Schleper can return to top form this (read more)

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Source: USSKITEAM.COM PARK CITY, Utah (Sept. 3) - For Sarah Schleper (Vail, CO), the best summer cross training happens in Minnesota, or at least on 200 acres of family land on Big Watab Lake, just northwest of Minneapolis. "It's like a big kids playground, we call it 'Camp Buzz' after Dad," said Schleper, who tuned up for the U.S. Alpine Ski Team (read more)

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – The Amateur Softball Association is pleased to announce that USA Softball’s very own Jessica Mendoza (Camarillo, Calif.) is a finalist for the Women’s Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year. Vote TODAY for Mendoza, as she helped lead the USA Softball team to a silver medal finish at the 2008 Olympic Games and has been a major (read more)

Source: THE OREGONIAN By Wade Nkrumah Mariel Zagunis landed at Portland International Airport this afternoon as a newly minted two-time Olympic gold medalist and with a hunger for "American food." In a brief interview with waiting members of the media in a passenger arrival area, the 23-year-old Beaverton fencer said one of her first tasks would be to eat a big deli-type (read more)