Biographies

Chilliwack, BC / Kitchener, ON
(Chicopee Ski Club)

• Height: 5'8" / 173 cm
• Weight: 145 lb. / 66 kg
• Birth date: 1983/01/21 - Kapuskasing, ON
• Club: Chicopee, ON
• On team since: 2001
• Skis: Volkl
• Bindings: Marker
• Boots: Lange
• Poles: Swix
• Helmet and goggles: Uvex
• Sponsor: CB Richard Ellis Ltd., Comcor
  Environmental


• Bio:

  Kelly VanderBeek has three World Cup podiums in her career, highlighted by a third place finish at the Bombardier Lake Louise Winterstart super-G in 2006.
  
  In the 2009-2010 season VanderBeek's dreams of participating in a home Olympic Games were dashed when she tore the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in her left knee during a training run prior to World Cup races in Val d'Isère, FRA in December 2009.
  
  VanderBeek remained actively engaged in the 2010 Olympics, taking part in the official torch relay just days before the start of the Games and serving as a guest commentator for Canadian broadcaster CTV.
  
  VanderBeek also joined forces with parents and coaches from her home region of Kitchener, ON to start Kelly VanderBeek Racing, a high performance ski program that is keeping local kids competing in alpine ski racing.

2009-10 World Cup Ranking

Whistler, BC
(Whistler Mountain Ski Club)

• Height: 5'6" / 168 cm
• Weight: 139 lb. / 63 kg
• Birth date: 1980/05/21 - Vancouver, BC
• Club: Whistler Mountain Ski Club, BC
• On team since: 1996
• Skis: Volkl
• Bindings: Marker
• Boots: Lange
• Poles: Komperdell
• Helmet and goggles: Uvex
• Sponsor: PI Financial Corp


• Bio:

  Britt Janyk, who had the rare distinction of competing in the first Olympic Winter Games of her career in her hometown, narrowly missed an Olympic medal after finishing in sixth place in the ladies downhill at Whistler Creekside.
  
  An impressive fourth place finish last season at the Bombardier Lake Louise Winterstart was slightly overshadowed by teammate Emily Brydon, who finished on the podium in both World Cup downhill races in Lake Louise. The result was one of three World Cup Top 10 finishes for Janyk in the 2009/2010 season.
  
  She also has 13 career GMC Canadian Championship titles, having won the downhill and giant slalom titles at Nakiska, AB in 2010. Janyk trails only Canadian ski racing legend Nancy Greene Raine's 17 career national titles on the all-time list.
  
  With the retirements of Brydon and Geneviîve Simard in the off season, Janyk is the only active member of Canada's women's alpine ski team to have won a World Cup race. Janyk won a downhill in Aspen in 2007.

2009-2010 World Cup Ranking

GMC Canadian Championships

Pointe Claire, QC
(Mont-Tremblant)

• Height: 5'10'' / 179 cm
• Weight: 165 lb. / 75 kg
• Birth date: 1986/01/23 - Montréal, QC
• Club: Mont-Tremblant, QC
• On team since: 2004
• Skis: Head
• Bindings: Head
• Boots: Head
• Poles: Gabel
• Helmet and goggles: Alpina
• Sponsor: GMC
• Secondary Sponsor: DGRG-CPM


• Bio:

  Anna Goodman has developed into a consistent World Cup performer, with nine slalom results in the top 30 in the last two seasons. She appeared to be on the verge of a major breakthrough, finishing in the top 10 for the first time in her career by placing ninth last December in Are, SWE but her progress was slowed weeks later after suffering a torn ACL in her right knee at Zagreb, CRO.
  
  Despite the injury, Goodman, 24, did not give up hope that she could compete at the 2010 Olympics, and set about rehabbing the knee in order to compete. Goodman finished the ladies slalom 19th in the first Olympic competition of her career, despite the knee injury.

2009-10 World Cup Ranking

Lac-Etchemin, QC
(Mont Orignal)

• Height: 5'9
• Weight: 145 lb. / 66 kg
• Birth date: 1989/04/25 - Lac-Etchemin, QC
• Club: Mont-Orignal
• On team since: 2007
• Skis: Rossignol
• Bindings: Rossignol
• Boots: Rossignol
• Poles: Leki
• Helmet and goggles: Alpina
• Sponsor: Panasonic
• Other Sponsor: Sintra Inc.


• Bio:

  Marie-Michèle Gagnon enters the 2010-2011 World Cup season with two career World Cup Top 10 results.
  
  At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Whistler, BC, the first Olympic competition of her career, Gagnon finished 21st in the giant slalom.
  
  The ACA Female Athlete of the Year in 2009, Gagnon won the women's overall and super combined Coupe Nor-Am Cup titles that season.
  
  The reigning slalom and super combined national women's champion, Gagnon has also earned three GMC Canadian championships titles in her career to date.

2009-10 World Cup Ranking

GMC Canadian Championships

Canmore, AB
(Banff Alpine Racers)

• Birth date: 03/21/1989
• Club: Banff Alpine Racers
• On team since: 2007
• Skis: Volkl
• Bindings: Marker
• Poles: Gabel
• Helmet and goggles: Uvex
• Sponsor: GMC


• Bio:

  Kelly McBroom has represented Canada twice at the FIS Alpine World Junior Ski Championships, including a career-best 10th place finish in the downhill in 2008.
  
  She finished the 2008/09 season ranked second in the Coupe Nor-Am Cup super-G and third in the downhill standings. She has seven career Nor-Am Cup podium finishes including a downhill win in Big Mountain, USA in 2007.
  
  McBroom is a national champion, having won the women's GMC Canadian Championships super combined in 2008.

GMC Canadian Championships

Guelph, ON
(Georgian Peaks Ski Club)

• Height: 5'10" / 179 cm
• Weight: 165 lb. / 75 kg
• Birth date: 1986/01/23 - Montréal, QC
• Club: Mont-Tremblant, QC
• On team since: 2004
• Skis: Rossignol
• Bindings: Rossignol
• Boots: Head
• Poles: Leki
• Helmet and goggles: Uvex
• Sponsor: GMC


• Bio:

  Erin is entering her first season with the senior women's team in 2010/2011 after spending the previous two seasons on the development team. Mielzynski finished 20^th in the slalom during her first Olympic Games competition in Whistler in 2010. She also has one career World Cup Top 30 result, placing 30^th in slalom at Aspen, USA in 2009.

2009-10 World Cup Ranking

Saint-Sauveur, QC
(Club Chanteclerc)

• Height: 5'9" / 175 cm
• Weight: 145 lb. / 66 kg
• Birth date: 1989/04/25 - Lac-Etchemin, QC
• Club: Mont-Original
• On team since: 2007
• Skis: Fischer
• Bindings: Fischer
• Boots: Rossignol
• Poles: Leki
• Helmet and goggles: Alpina
• Sponsor: GMC


• Bio:

  Brittany, a member of the national development team since 2008, is entering her first season with the women's season alpine ski team.
  
  Phelan has two Coupe Nor-Am Cup podium results in her career, both in the slalom discipline. She won a Nor-Am slalom in Panorama, BC in 2009.

Saint-Sauveur, QC
(Club Chanteclerc)

• Birth date: 03/21/1989
• Club: Banff Alpine Racers
• On team since: 2007
• Skis: Rossignol
• Bindings: Rossignol
• Boots: Rossignol
• Poles: Gabel
• Helmet and goggles: Uvex
• Sponsor: GMC


• Bio:

  Marie-Pier Préfontaine finished second in the overall women's' Coupe Nor-Am Cup giant slalom standings, earning a World Cup spot in the discipline the following season.
  
  Préfontaine placed 29^th in the GS at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Whistler, BC, the first Olympic competition of her career. She also finished inside the Top 30 on the World Cup last season, placing 25^th in Aspen, USA.

2009-10 World Cup Ranking

Owen Sound, ON
(Georgian Peaks Ski Club)

• Birth date: 03/21/1989
• Club: Banff Alpine Racers
• On team since: 2007
• Skis: Rossignol
• Bindings: Rossignol
• Boots: Rossignol
• Poles: Komperdell
• Helmet and goggles: Uvex
• Sponsor: GMC
• Secondary Sponsor: BLC


• Bio:

  Larisa Yurkiw injured her left knee during a training run prior to the World Cup race in Val d'Isère, FRA in December of 2009, which cut short her season, missing out on the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
  
  Yurkiw has one World Cup downhill Top 10 finish in her career to date and had the top time during the DH portion of a super combined in Alternmarket-Zauchensee, AUT in 2009.
  
  Yurkiw won the downhill and super-G GMC Canadian Championship titles in 2008. She was also the Female Junior Athlete of the Year in 2007/2008. She finished second in the combined at the 2008 FIS Alpine World Junior Ski Championships.

2009-10 World Cup Ranking

GMC Canadian Championships

Sherbrooke, QC
(Mont Orford)

• Birth date: 03/21/1989
• Club: Banff Alpine Racers
• On team since: 2007
• Skis: Head
• Bindings: Head
• Boots: Rossignol
• Poles: Leki
• Helmet and goggles: Alpina
• Sponsor: GMC
• Other Sponsor: Cascades


• Bio:

  Ève Routhier's successful coupe Nor-Am Cup slalom season, including three podium results, led to wining the ladies overall slalom title in 2009/2010. It was the first Nor-Am title of her career, earning her a World Cup spot in the discipline this season and enabling her to add to her three career World Cup starts.

New Richmond, QC
(Pin Rouge)

• Height: 5'10 / 178 cm
• Weight: 185 lb. / 83 kg
• Birth date: 1984/11/18
• Residence: New-Richmond, QC
• Club: Pin Rouge, QC
• On team since: 2002
• Skis: Atomic
• Bindings: Atomic
• Boots: Atomic
• Poles: Swix
• Helmet and goggles: Uvex
• Sponsor: Van Houtte


• Bio:

  François Bourque had his season end prematurely for a second season in a row, re-tearing the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his left knee during a World Cup super-G in Val Gardena, ITA. Before the injury, Bourque appeared on his way to returning to top form, with top 30 World Cup results in super-G and giant slalom.
  
  Over the course of Bourque's career, he has four World Cup podium results and is a four-time TELUS Awards of Excellence winner. He was a two-time FIS Alpine World Junior Ski Championships medalist and has won GMC Canadian Championships titles in downhill, giant slalom and super combined.
  
  Bourque competed in his first Olympic Winter Games in 2006, placing fourth in the giant slalom after leading following the opening run.

2009-2010 World Cup Ranking

GMC Canadian Championships

Mont-Tremblant, QC
(Mont-Tremblant)

• Height: 6'1'' / 182 cm
• Weight: 201 lb. / 91 kg
• Birth date: 1981/08/05 - Montréal, QC
• Residence: Mont-Tremblant, QC
• Club: Mont-Tremblant, QC
• On team since: 1998
• Skis: Atomic
• Bindings: Atomic
• Boots: Atomic
• Poles: Leki
• Helmet and goggles: Uvex
• Sponsor: Red Bull


• Bio:

  Erik Guay's dramatic finish to the 2009/2010 World Cup season, in which he won the final two super-G races and was on the podium in three straight races to end the season, helped vault him to the overall super-G Crystal Globe. Guay became the first Canadian since Steve Podborski in 1982 to win a discipline title.
  
  Guay finished fifth in both the downhill and super-G at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Whistler, BC, finishing just 0.03s from the podium in the SG.
  
  He has twice been named the ACA Male Athlete of the Year (2003 and 2007) and is an eight-time national champion.

2009-2010 World Cup Ranking

GMC Canadian Championships

Whistler, BC
(Whistler Mountain Ski Club)

• Height: 5'11'' / 180 cm
• Weight: 190 lb. / 85 kg
• Birth date: 1982/03/22 - North Vancouver, BC
• Residence: Whistler, BC
• Club: Whistler Ski Club, BC
• On team since: 2000
• Skis: Rossignol
• Bindings: Rossignol
• Boots: Rossignol
• Poles: Leki
• Helmet and goggles: Alpina


• Bio:

  Michael Janyk became the first Canadian male to medal in a technical event at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, winning bronze in slalom in Val d'Isère, FRA in 2009.
  
  Janyk is recognized as a leader on a Canadian men's slalom team that is increasingly turning heads at the international level. His six Top 10 finishes last season, all in slalom, were the most among Canada's technical team skiers.
  
  Janyk also finished 13th in the slalom at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in his hometown of Whistler, BC.
  
  He capped off the season by winning his final race, becoming the 2010 GMC Canadian slalom champion at the national championships in Nakiska, AB. Janyk now has four career national slalom titles and he was the only repeat champion from one year ago.
  
  In November 2009, Janyk placed third in a highly competitive exhibition single pole parallel slalom in Moscow, RUS involving many of the world's best ski racers. Janyk was the first Canadian to participate in the event, billed as the 2nd annual FIS Alpine Ski Champions Cup.

2009-2010 World Cup Ranking

GMC Canadian Championships

Calgary, AB
(Calgary Alpine Racing Club)

• Height: 5'9'' / 173 cm
• Weight: 175 lb. / 80 kg
• Birth date: 1984/09/17 - Calgary, AB
• Residence: Calgary, AB
• Club: Calgary Alpine Racing Club, AB
• On team since: 2004
• Skis: Atomic
• Bindings: Atomic
• Boots: Atomic
• Poles: Komperdell
• Helmet and goggles: Uvex
• Sponsor: Telus
• Secondary Sponsor: Equity Transfer & Trust


• Bio:

  John Kucera made Canadian ski racing history last season by becoming the first Canadian male to win the downhill at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. Along with last season's unforgettable DH win in Val d'Isère, FRA, Kucera picked up the third World Cup podium of his career, finishing second in the super-G at Lake Louise. Kucera finished the season by winning the super-G at the GMC Canadian Championships, his eighth career national title in four different disciplines. Other career highlights include becoming the first Canadian to ever win a World Cup super-G on home soil, finishing first in 2006 in Lake Louise. He is the first Canadian male to be on the podium more than once at a FIS Alpine World Cup race on home soil.

2009-2010 World Cup Ranking

GMC Canadian Championships

Lac Sainte Marie, QC
(Mont St Marie)

• Height: 5'10" / 178 cm
• Weight: 185 lbs / 83 kgs
• Birth date: 1984/11/18
• Club: Pin Rouge, QC
• On team since: 2002
• Skis: Head
• Bindings: Head
• Boots: Head
• Poles: Swix
• Helmet and goggles: Uvex
• Sponsor: GMC
• Secondary Sponsor: Silver Management Group


• Bio:

  Dustin Cook capped off an extremely successful Coupe Nor-Am Cup season by winning the men's overall title, finishing with 763 points and claiming the top spot in dramatic fashion on the final day of Nor-Am competition. As a result, Cook has earned a World Cup spot in 2010/2011. He also won the super-G title.

2009-2010 World Cup Ranking

Bradford, ON
(Toronto Ski Club)

• Height: 5'10" / 178 cm
• Weight: 185 lbs / 83 kgs
• Birth date: 1984/11/18
• Club: Pin Rouge, QC
• On team since: 2002
• Skis: Rossignol
• Bindings: Rossignol
• Boots: Rossignol
• Poles: Komperdell
• Helmet and goggles: Uvex
• Sponsor: GMC


• Bio:

  Kelby Halbert is in his first season with the Canadian Alpine Ski Team in 2010/2011 after achieving success in international and national-level competition last season.
  
  Halbert is a FIS Alpine World Junior Ski Championships medalist, after finishing third in the combined in France. Halbert placed fourth in the downhill, missing out on the podium by just 0.1s. It was enough for third in the combined, which added the downhill, giant slalom and slalom times together.
  
  Halbert also won the Coupe GMC Cup men's overall title, given to the top skier throughout the season in Canada's top domestic race series.
  
  He then concluded the season by turning heads at the GMC Canadian Championships, placing second in the DH.

2009-2010 World Cup Ranking

Berthierville, QC
(Mont Ste-Anne)

• Height: 5'10" / 178 cm
• Weight: 185 lbs / 83 kgs
• Birth date: 1984/11/18
• Club: Pin Rouge, QC
• On team since: 2002
• Skis: Head
• Bindings: Head
• Boots: Head
• Poles: Komperdell
• Helmet and goggles: Uvex
• Sponsor: A. Richard Tools Co


• Bio:

  Hélie, 24, highlighted last season by cracking the top 30 for the first time in his career, finishing 22^nd in his second World Cup downhill race ever in Lake Louise. He also finished 30^th in the super combined at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Whistler, BC.
  
  Hélie finished the 2008/09 Coupe Nor-Am Cup season with a total of 1149 points, which won him the men's overall title.

2009-2010 World Cup Ranking

Calgary, AB
(NATC - Fortress)

• Height: 5'10" / 178 cm
• Weight: 185 lbs / 83 kgs
• Birth date: 1984/11/18
• Club: Pin Rouge, QC
• On team since: 2002
• Skis: Fischer
• Bindings: Fischer
• Boots: Fischer
• Poles: Swix
• Helmet and goggles: Alpina
• Sponsor: Crescent Point Energy


• Bio:

  Trevor White is a slalom specialist with two career Top 15 World Cup results, both at the famous Hahnenkahmrennen in Kitzbühel, AUT. He also earned the first Europa Cup victory of his career last season, a slalom in Kirchberg, AUT not far from the Canadian national team's European training base.
  
  White grew up in a family of ski enthusiasts, with parents who were ski instructors and an older brother who was involved in the sport from an early age.
  
  Off the slopes, he is known as one of the best guitar players on the World Cup tour, occasionally spending some of the downtime on tour learning new tunes.

2009-2010 World Cup Ranking

Calgary, AB
(Banff Alpine Racers)

• Height: 6'0'' / 183 cm
• Weight: 205 lb. / 93 kg
• Birth date: 1981/08/19 - Sumperk, Czech Republic
• Residence: Calgary, AB
• Club: Banff Alpine Racers, AB
• On team since: 1999
• Skis: Rossignol
• Bindings: Rossignol
• Boots: Rossignol
• Poles: Leki
• Helmet and goggles: Alpina
• Sponsor: GMC
• Secondary Sponsor: Equity Trust


• Bio:

  Jan Hudec has one of the most unique and colourful histories of any alpine ski racer.
  
  Hudec won silver in the downhill at the 2007 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Åre, SWE, which became at the time the best result ever by a Canadian male ski racer at the World Championships. (In 2009, Canada's John Kucera won gold in the downhill.)
  
  In 2007, Hudec became the first Canadian in the nearly 30-year history of World Cup ski racing in Lake Louise to win the downhill. He has two career World Cup podium results to his credit.
  
  Hudec has also made a name for himself through his perseverance, having had five major knee operations on his right knee and one on his left knee. The most recent, which occurred after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his left knee at 2009 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships downhill race in Val d'Isère, FRA, significantly impacted his 2009-2010 season. In limited races, Hudec managed a 13th place finish in the downhill in Kvitfjell, NOR. He ended up 23rd in the super-G at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Whistler, BC.

2009-2010 World Cup Ranking

Vancouver, BC
(Whistler Mountain Ski Club)

• Height: 6'1'' / 185 cm
• Weight: 205 lb. / 93 kg
• Birth date: 1984/02/08 - North Vancouver, BC
• Residence:Invermere, BC
• Club: Whistler Mountain Ski Club, BC
• On team since: 2004
• Skis: Rossignol
• Bindings: Rossignol
• Boots: Rossignol
• Poles: Rossignol
• Helmet and goggles: Rossignol
• Sponsor: Husky


• Bio:

  Manuel Osborne-Paradis experienced a lot of winning in the 2009-2010 season and he got started on it early.
  
  Osborne-Paradis was considered mostly a downhill specialist until the opening World Cup super-G of last season in Lake Louise, AB, which he won decisively. It was the first World Cup super-G podium of his career. A downhill win a few weeks later in Val Gardena, ITA gave him two for the season and three for his career. Osborne-Paradis finished the season a solid fourth in the overall World Cup downhill standings.
  
  At the 2010 Olympics, Osborne-Paradis finished 17^th in the DH.
  
  He finished the season by winning the downhill at the GMC Canadian Championships in Nakiska, the first national title of his career.

2009-2010 World Cup Ranking

GMC Canadian Championships

Whistler, BC
(Whistler Mountain Ski Club)

• Height: 5'9" / 175 cm
• Weight: 175 lb. / 79 kg
• Birth date: 1985/01/04 - North Vancouver, BC
• Club: Whistler Mountain Ski Club
• On team since: 2005
• Skis: Rossignol
• Bindings: Rossignol
• Boots: Rossignol
• Poles: Komperdell
• Helmet and goggles: Uvex
• Sponsor: Haywood Securities


• Bio:

  A fifth place finish in the super-G at the Bombardier Lake Louise Winterstart was Robbie Dixon's top result of the last World Cup season. In total, he found the top 10 four times last season as Dixon continues to solidify his place among the world's elite ski racers.
  
  Dixon's 'all-or-nothing' approach at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in his hometown of Whistler, BC unfortunately netted two DNF's and a 24^th place in the giant slalom in his first ever Olympic competition.
  
  A GMC Canadian super-G champion in 2009, Dixon's career trend is pointing in a very positive direction, having improved his overall World Cup ranking in each of the last three seasons.

2009-2010 World Cup Ranking

GMC Canadian Championships

Ste-Flavie, QC / Gatineau, QC
(Mont-Comi)

• Height: 5'11'' / 180 cm
• Weight: 168 lb. / 77 kg
• Birth date: 1979/02/18 - Rimouski, QC
• Club: Mont-Comi, QC
• On team since: 1998
• Skis: Rossignol
• Bindings: Rossignol
• Boots: Rossignol
• Poles: Leki
• Helmet and goggles: Uvex
• Sponsor: GMC


• Bio:

  Jean-Philippe Roy was enjoying one of his best World Cup seasons of his career, including two top 10 giant slalom results, when it was cut short by an injury to his right knee that also kept him out of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Whistler, BC.
  
  Roy has been a consistent performer throughout his career, with a total of six top 10 World Cup finishes in GS and slalom. He was the ACA Male Athlete of the Year in 2002.
  
  Skiing since the age of four, skiing has always been a big part of life for Roy and his family. Inspired by the loss of his father, Denis, just days before the 2000 national championships, Roy went on to win his first GMC Canadian championship and has a total of five titles in his career.

2009-2010 World Cup Ranking

GMC Canadian Championships

Calgary, AB
(NATC - Team Panorama)

• Height: 6'0'' / 183 cm
• Weight: 200 lb. / 91 kg
• Birth date: 1984/04/19 - Calgary, AB
• Club: NATC / Panorama Ski Club
• On team since: 2001
• Skis: Rossignol
• Bindings: Rossignol
• Boots: Rossignol
• Poles: Rossignol
• Helmet and goggles: Uvex
• Sponsor: Worldplay
• Sponsor: Kidco


• Bio:

  Boosted by an impressive four top 20 results, Brad Spence completed the best World Cup season of his career by finishing the 2009/2010 season ranked 24^th in the world in the slalom. He competed in the first Olympic Winter Games of his career in Whistler, BC and then added his first GMC Canadian championship title, winning the men's giant slalom in Nakiska, AB.
  
  He also won the Coupe Nor-Am Cup men's overall slalom and giant slalom titles in 2008/2009.
  
  Spence grew up in Calgary, AB with vivid memories of weekends in the Rocky Mountains and looking up to Canadian World Cup winner Thomas Grandi as all the inspiration needed for him to become an alpine ski racer.

2009-2010 World Cup Ranking

GMC Canadian Championships

Lachute, QC
(Mont-Tremblant)

• Height: 5'7'' / 170 cm
• Weight: 195 lb. / 88 kg
• Birth date: 01/17/1981
• Club: Mont-Tremblant, QC
• On team since: 1998
• Skis: Fischer
• Bindings: Fischer
• Boots: Fischer
• Poles: Leki
• Helmet and goggles: Uvex
• Sponsor: Bariatrix Nutrition Inc.; Fittime Nutrition
• Secondary Sponsor: Climatisation Bativac


• Bio:

  With a series of knee injuries now a distant memory, Julien Cousineau had the best season of his career in 2009/2010.
  
  "Cousi" finished a career best 14th on the FIS World Cup in the slalom, highlighted by two top 10 finishes including a fifth place finish in Schladming, AUT last January.
  
  He also had one of the top second runs of the day during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games slalom in Whistler, BC and ended up in eighth spot, the top Canadian result.
  
  A second-generation ski racer, Cousineau's father Alain was a member of the Canadian alpine ski team from 1970 to 1973.
  
  Born in Saint-Jerome, QC, Cousineau took up skiing for the first time at the age of three. He has been on the national team since 1998.
  
  In the 2008/09 season, Cousineau kick started his ski racing career that had been slowed by injuries, winning the overall title in the Coupe Nor-Am Cup title. Finishing on top of North America's top developmental ski racing series secured a World Cup spot for him the following season.
  
  In June of 2009, Cousineau married longtime girlfriend Catherine (Ledoux) just west of Montreal. Several national team ski racers attended the ceremony, some even participating as groomsmen. They would all be back together just a few days later as dryland training for the coming season resumed.

2009-2010 World Cup Ranking

Toronto, ON
(Georgian Peaks)

• Height: 5'7'' / 170 cm
• Weight: 195 lb. / 88 kg
• Birth date: 03/08/1988
• Club: Georgian Peaks
• On team since: 2007
• Skis: Head
• Bindings: Head
• Boots: Head
• Poles: Leki
• Helmet and goggles: Uvex
• Sponsor: GMC
• Sponsor: Oncam Inc.


• Bio:

  Tyler Nella got his first taste of Olympic competition in 2010, finishing 32^nd in the super combined. He also competed for the first time in a World Cup race in on home soil, placing 41st in the downhill at Lake Louise.
  
  Nella got his start with the national team in 2007. He has won twice on the developmental Coupe Nor-Am Cup race series and has five career podium results.