Hannah Kearney
Freestyle Skiing - Moguls
2006 Olympian
2010 Olympic hopeful
Personal Specs
Height: 5'6"
Short List Performance
- 2006 Olympic Winter Games - 22nd
- 2005 World Champion
- 2009 World Championships bronze medalist (dual moguls), 14th (moguls)
- 2009 World Cup Season Champion
Vancouver Watch
Kearney's results have been as bumpy as the terrain she navigates in competition. From a World Champion at 18 years old to 22nd at the Olympic Winter Games a year later to 14th at the 2009 World Championships to the overall World Cup crown to finish the 2009 season. It's hard to say how Kearney will fare at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, but she will certainly be one to watch out for.
Personal
Kearney started skiing at age 2, coming up through the Ford Sayre program and Nick Preston's Black and Blue Trail Smashers Team at Waterville Valley, N.H. Prior to winning four Junior World Championships in moguls, she was a high school state soccer and track champion. Once Kearney narrowed her focus to moguls full-time, she won two competitions in her first World Cup season at age 17. She missed the 2007 World Championships due to a torn knee ligament, then missed three weeks in 2008 with a concussion.
Kearney is a member of a sports-crazed family. Her mother is a recreation director in Norwich; her brother, Denny, is a star hockey player at Yale; and her dad used to coach Denny in Babe Ruth baseball. Kearney was a straight-A student.
Did You Know...?
- While injured in 2007, she took in a 7-year-old Rhodesian Ridgeback dog, Lola, from an elderly woman who couldn't care for her
- Carries photos of family and friends and knitting supplies on the road