grew up in Steamboat but was born in Monroe, WI, as his family was visiting the neighbour-state when he was born

just recently graduated from High School (2004)

used to play soccer in a school team

started skiing at 2, jumping at 5, motivated by his older brother Robbie

7-time Junior National Champion

youngest U.S. National Champion ever with 15 years, 5 months and 21 days

Winter 1996: first Junior Olympics, 2nd in the team event

February 1998: gold and bronze in the Junior Olympic events in Ispheming, MI

February 2000: world cup debut in Iron Mountain, MI, finishes 32nd and 50th

March 2000: first National title on his home-hills in Steamboat Springs, CO

February 2001: skiing in his first World Championships in Lahti/FIN, ranking 37th on the normal hill and 38th on their K120

November 2001: 9th in a COC event in Kuusamo/FIN and one week later 9th and 12th in the world cup opening in Kuopio/FIN

January 2002: he wins his first COC event in Innsbruck/AUT and skis in his last Junior Worlds in Schonach/GER, ending up in 7th place

February 2002: his first Olympic Games at home in Park City are rather disappointing for him with a 42nd rank in the K120 event

March 2002: the ski flying world championships in Harrachov are windy and chaotic - Clint finishes 38th

Summer 2002: 2nd and 5th in Hinterzarten/GER, 2nd in Courchevel/FRA, 6th and 9th in Lahti/FIN and finally another 2nd rank in Innsbruck/AUT - finishing 2nd overall behind summer grand prix winner Andreas Widhoelzl, this summer was the best of Clint's ski jumping career and a rather surprising one for european experts. No one had expected the young US athlete to beat most of the world's best that summer.

September 2002: the great summer continued with 2 COC wins in Park City, UT, with Olympic gold medalist Simon Ammann as 2nd

Winter 2002/2003: finishing 13th in the ski flying world cup final in Planica in March (and flying past 200m) is his best result of the winter, after being sick and suffering from an injury just before the first world cup of the season  - not too satisfying for ambitious Clint Jones after such a promising summer 2002

July 2003: four top5 finishes in COC events in Calgary and Park City

August 2003: 36th in Hinterzarten/GER and 50th in Courchevel/FRA - Clint ends his summer season overseas

February 2004: attends his second Ski Flying World Championships in Planica/SLO and finishes 22nd

Summer 2004: he is named to the U.S. National Team for the 5th year in a row

August 2004: 19th in Courchevel/FRA, FIS Summer Grand Prix

November 2004: world cup opening in Finland - 25th and 32nd

December 2004: 26th and 27th in Harrachov/CZE

January 2005: fails to qualify for any of the 4 events in the Four-Hills-Tourney, finishes 36th and 39th in Bad Mitterndorf/AUT, ski flying

February 2005: 45th in Torino/ITA, 36th at the World Championships in Oberstdorf/GER HS100, 51st on the big hill

March 2005: 20th COC Zakopane/POL, does not qualify for the final world cup ski flying in Planica/SLO

Nationals 2005: 2nd on both hills behind Lodwick

July 2005: 7th and 10th in COC Einsiedeln/SUI

first world cup experiences (in 2002): "Going to world cups was fun. Before I was at my first world cup at Iron Mountain, and I was 32nd although it was kind of a fluke because of the conditions. But I was thinking 'That wasn't so hard'. Last year I went up to the other world cups where it was more fair and that opened my eyes quite a bit."

motivation and role models: "When I was little I was also looking up to the guys on the U.S. Team and I was like 'Oh, those guys are awesome'. And it's just crazy when you realize that you can do that. If you like ski jumping that much and you put that much of your life into it, then there's no reason why you can't be on the ski team and going to world cups one day. I guess, just don't look too much up to these people, because sooner as you know you'll be right with them."

free-time: "I really like being at home. But especially in the breaks between summer or winter, when you're home for a couple of weeks... at first it's fun but then you really wanna get started with training and travelling again."

Olympics 2002: "A couple of months we were training on those hills before and we were doing good to be probably top15 in the Olympics and then the competition came along and nothing was going the right way. I was really disappointed."

favorites for the SGP in Hinterzarten/GER in 2002: "Perhaps even the juniors like Happonen. All the finns are really good. And then I'd say Malysz will be very good. Alborn, Jones... "

'ski jumper recycling': "It's one of the biggest problems in the US when people get to the age of 21 and then they quit and we don't have a team because nobody sticks around. Now at this time it keeps recycling. Everytime someone retires then they have to totally start over at the ski team and that's getting nowhere."

pressure: "We're not just athletes, we're regular kids at the same time too. If we screw up and stuff everybody kind of looks at us and that's pretty tough."

Vancouver 2010: "It definitely gave me another reason to stick around. 2010 hopefully, I mean, [...] we might have something close to an actual team. It's realistic and it's our goal to end up getting medals and stuff. I'm pretty excited about that."