Julia MANCUSO

Aug 31, 2018·Alpine Skiing

Height: 5-6

Weight: 140

Hometown: Squaw Valley, CA

School: The Park City Winter School

Birthplace: Reno, CA

Club: Squaw Valley Ski Team

Current Residence: Maui, HA

FIRST TRACKS

Mancuso was on skis at 2 at Squaw Valley but didn't race until she was 8, and then she started making up for lost time. She was named to the 2000 Development Team (with older sister April) and her World Cup debut came at 15 years, eight months, 11 days later when she narrowly missed making the top-30 cut in a slalom at Copper Mountain. She would go on to pillage the next few Junior World Championships, capturing a U.S.-record eight medals (five golds, three bronze).

BIO

Julia Mancuso splits her time between Squaw Valley, Hawaii and hotel rooms across the globe. In between, she has captured more major championship medals than any other American woman with eight – three Olympic and five World Championship. As a four-event athlete from the beginning Mancuso started World Cup racing and was a NorAm champion at 16, competed in the Olympics at 17, set a U.S. mark for Junior World Championships medals before she was out of her teens, and started her twenties by capturing two World Championships medals.

When you're rocket ship blasting off one of the best seasons of your career, why not keep it rolling? That's exactly what Super Jules did in 2013. Here's the CNN style highlight reel – podiums in four of six Audi FIS Alpine World Cup super G races to finish second in the standings when the final race of the season was canceled…super G bronze at the World Championships for the fifth Worlds medal of her decorated career…fourth in the World Cup overall standings for the second straight season…and to cap it, a record extending 16th U.S. title with giant slalom victory at the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships. Whew!

JULIA SAYS

Super G has been really fun. We’ve had a lot of weather so we’re used to days like what we had at Finals. It’s definitely unfortunate not to get to battle it out to the last race, but I’m really happy with how I’m skiing and looking forward to next year.

In super G I just feel really confident and we have an amazing group of coaches. That helps a lot with inspection and course report, being able to really nail it on the first run. That’s been my strength the last years and I’m just building off of that confidence and every year is getting a little faster, a little better. I just have to take it one step further and win races.

Our team is just full of a lot of special girls. We have a lot of fun on the road together. We kind of have to be each other’s family because we’re away from home so much. Everyone gets along really well and so we’re lucky.

OFF THE SNOW

Mancuso loves the ocean life in Maui, where she spends most of her time when not traveling around the world. A big fan of stand up paddling, surfing and yoga, you can follow all her adventures through your favorite social media outlets or clickity click juliamancuso.com. Philanthropy isn't as much of a hobby for Mancuso as it is a way of life. She's continually raising money for various charities including Right to Play and the High Fives Foundation. She's also jumped into the business world by designing and selling her own line of underwear in addition to owning and running a gym (Performance by JM) in Lake Tahoe. Oh, this isn't off snow, but she has been a star in the last two Warren Miller movies…and she will again this winter.

HIGHLIGHTS

Olympics

(top 15)

Teams: 2002, 2006, 2010

Gold, GS, Torino, ITA, 2006

Silver, DH, Vancouver, CAN, 2010

Silver, SC, Vancouver, CAN, 2010

7th, DH, Torino, ITA, 2006

8th, GS, Vancouver, CAN, 2010

9th, SG, Vancouver, CAN, 2010

11th, SG, Torino, ITA, 2006

13th, Combined, Snowbasin, UT, 2002