The last
winter world cup season has just ended a couple of weeks ago but more or
less surprising news from the U.S.A. keep coming in these days...
Alan Alborn, U.S. distance record holder (221.5m, 2001)
and the nation's top ski jumper for almost a decade, announced that he and
his Norwegian girlfriend Guro are planning to get married: "We
have been together now for three great years, and now the future is ours
to share together", he said.
SKI JUMPING USA and the fans from Germany and
Europe congratulate and wish the couple all the best!
Meanwhile, Corby Fisher has put an end to his
international coaching career for now and resigned as Head Coach.
For more information, read the official USST press
release below or click
here to read Corby's last message after the season's finale
in Planica.
APRIL 7, 2006
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Juliann Fritz,
jfritz@ussa.org
CORBY FISHER STEPS DOWN FROM HEAD COACH OF U.S. SKI
JUMPING
PARK CITY, Utah (April 7) - Corby Fisher, U.S. ski jumping head coach for
the past two seasons, has resigned, the U.S. Ski Team announced.
Fisher, 30, who grew up in Steamboat Springs, Colo., was a member of the
national team in the mid-Nineties before a severe concussion ended his
career and he decided as the World Cup season ended that he was leaving,
U.S. Nordic Director Luke
Bodensteiner said Friday. Before taking the jumping head position after
the 2004 season, Fisher - who previously had been program director with
the National Sports Foundation in Park City - had been jumping coach for
two seasons with the U.S. Nordic Combined Team.
“Corby’s tireless and he’s given us four strong years, and we’re going to
miss his positive and energetic approach to coaching,” Bodensteiner said
Friday. “We certainly wish him the best.”
“It’s been a great four years, first with the nordic combined team and
working with Johnny [Spillane, 2003 sprint world champion] as he achieved
his gold medal, and then these last two years with the special jumpers,”
Fisher said. “This was my dream
job, the one I’ve always wanted, but it takes a lot out of you every day.
Luke knows I have a great passion for jumping and want to help the next
coach - and the program - in any way possible. I’m still going to cheering
for the Ski Team, but I’m taking a step back and I’ll be rooting from a
little farther away.”
Fisher said he was exploring “a couple of possibilities - but, first, I’ve
got some powder skiing to get caught up on with my wife.” He and his wife
Emily, U.S. freestyle program manager, live in Park City.
Bodensteiner said replacement plans would be announced.
