Mike Terrell: TC teen makes mark in freestyle skiing

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Mike Terrell: TC teen makes mark in freestyle skiing
BY MIKE TERRELL
While most 16-year-olds are still trying to decide what to do with their life after graduation, local teenager Haley Kanaskie has known since she was about eight years old.
The Traverse City West sophomore has her sights set on making the 2010 Olympics as a freestyle skier, and, according to those in the know, Kanaskie has an excellent chance.
She just finished contending in the USSA Jr. Olympics Slope national finals at Steamboat Springs, Colo., earlier this month, and rocketed up the standings for the halfpipe. Competing against 32 of the best 18-under females who qualified for the event, Kanaskie pulled out a fourth place finish with a starting rank of 49. She also placed fifth in both slopestyle and aerials and was elevated to membership on the Junior Olympic training team, which is just a step below making the Olympic team.
“My goal next season is to win the national title, which should put me on the team for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver,” said the lithe teenager when I spoke to her at her home recently. “This has been my goal since I was eight- or nine-years-old. I love skiing and doing the slopestyle and halfpipe events.”
The amazing thing is that this is only her fourth season of freestyle skiing and only her third in competition.
“Haley started skiing when she was only two and took to it with a passion,” said her father Bob Kanaskie. “From about the age of eight she started expressing a desire to compete in the Olympics some day. As most kids do, she started out in race training, but got bored with running gates after a couple years. She started hanging around the terrain parks more than the race course.

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