JONNY MOSELEY

'Jonny Moseley' (born August 27, 1975) is the first Puerto Rican to become a member of the U.S. Ski Team.

Contents

Early years

United States Ski Team

Honors and recognitions

Personal life

Later years

See also

References

External links

Early years

Moseley was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1978, he saw snow for the first time when his family went on a trip to California. Eventually, his family moved to Tiburon, California, a suburb north of San Francisco where he attended The Branson School in Ross, California. His family would go to the Sierra Nevadas every weekend. This and the fact that he was a better skier than his brothers inspired the then 9 year old Moseley to take skiing lessons. In 1982, he joined the Squaw Valley Freestyle Ski Team and soon won his first Junior National title in Freestyle Skiing; he graduated from high school in 1993 and that same year was selected for the U.S. Ski Team.

United States Ski Team

Moseley tried but did not qualify for the 1994 Winter Olympics held at Lillehammer, Norway and became determined to qualify for the 1998 Olympics. In 1995, he enrolled in the University of California, Davis but, his education was interrupted by his intense training ; it wasn't until 2000 that he resumed his studies. The following year, he won his first World Cup Mogul.
In 1998, Moseley participated and won the first two World Cup events of the year; this led to his participation in the 1998 Winter Olympics held in Nagano, Japan where he won a gold medal. Later that year he secured the 1998 World Cup Mogul Skiing title with nine wins that season. He also won the U.S. National title.
In 1999, Moseley challenged the International Skiing federation to change their policy and to allow their athletes to participate in professional events, such as ESPN's X Games.
In 2000, Moseley won the U.S. Freeskiing Open and in 2001 regained a spot in the U.S. Ski Team at the World Cup qualifications held at Sunday River, Maine. In 2002, Moseley competed but came in fourth place in the Olympic Games.
In 2002, Moseley gave the commencement convocation address at UC Berkeley. The choice by the senior class committee was controversial at the time because Moseley had dropped out of college.

Honors and recognitions

Among the honors and recognitions which Jonny Moseley has received are a parade in his honor where San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown declared a "Jonny Moseley Day" and handed him the "Key" to the city. He was named "Sportsman of the Year" (1998) by the U.S. Olympic Committee and has been featured on the cover of Freeskier and Rolling Stone magazines.

Personal life

Moseley married Malia Rich, a business manager, on March 25, 2006, in Telluride, Colorado. Moseley met Rich in high school; the couple started dating in 2001 and got engaged on April 20, 2003.^[1]
On September 5, 2007, Rich gave birth to the couple's first child, named Jonathan but will call him Jack.^[2]

Later years

Moseley launched a web site which sells products with his logo on them and has appeared on Ads for McDonalds, Sprint and Budweiser.
Moseley, who currently lives in California, was the host of the MTV reality show "The Battle of the Sexes". He is part of the celebrity panel of judges (along with Steve Garvey and Oksana Baiul) on the ABC show "Master of Champions".
He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley on May 17, 2007 with a B.A. in American Studies focusing on Consumer and Popular Culture.
On X-Play, a video game review show on the G4 cable network, Moseley has become a running gag during reviews, due mostly to the ridiculousness of his dialogue (along with the acting) in the opening FMV for the PS2 game he endorsed, ''Jonny Moseley Mad Trix'', which contained an oft-mocked quote that sets up the game's plot device:
Moseley is famous for an aerial ski move called "The Dinner Roll". Moseley talked about it during a 2002 speech at UC Berkeley:
^[3]

See also

★ List of famous Puerto Ricans

References

1. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1176730,00.html
2. http://www.ktvu.com/news/14058843/detail.html
3. UC Berkeley Campus News, [1](17 May 2004)UC Berkeley Accessed on 4 November 2006

External links

★ 'Jonny's U.S. Olympic Team bio' ... with photos, notes, video

★ Berkeley 2004 press release