Ski racing is Camiseta Selección de fútbol de Canadá a sport of private victories. Yet this past year Tim Kelley, 29, as well as his sibling Robby, 25, did what few ski racers because Bode Miller have done successfully: they chose to contend on the worldwide circuit (with two other Vermonters Tucker Marshall as well as Andrew McNealus) as a home-grown team, the Redneck Racers. as well as the Rednecks, dressed in their signature camo race suits, sipping their homegrown Slopeside maple syrup, as well as training on their own at their 350-foot ski hill in Richmond, did just fine, say thanks to you. So well it was difficult to select one sibling over the other for this list.
The Kelley siblings grew Camiseta LOSC Lille up at Cochran’s Ski hill where their mom, Lindy Cochran Kelley as well as other members of the legendary Cochran ski racing dynasty, coached them. Both raced for the university of Vermont (where Tim lead the Catamounts to the NCAA championship win in 2012) as well as both have been on as well as off the U.S. Ski Team. however in the 2014/15 season neither made the national team. That didn’t stop them. They went on to scrape together sufficient money to race in Europe, sleeping on floors, renting the most affordable vehicles they might as well as selling tee shirts as well as bottles of Slopeside Syrup they boiled as well as bottled to assist cover the costs.
Tim Kelley
And they both raced well sufficient to regain the respect of the U.S. Ski team coaches who invited them aboard the C team for the 2015/16 season. Tim took 23rd in the slalom at the world Alpine Ski championships in Vail last February, only two points behind the top American, Ted Ligety. He went on to podium in slalom at the U.S. national championships at Waterville Valley in March as well as earned a area on the world cup circuit. Robby had six FIS slalom victories in 2015.
But when it came time to join the U.S. Team, Tim stated yes. Robby declined, choosing that rather than pay the $20,000 it takes to be a C team athlete he’d stay a Redneck Racer.
At the begin of this season, both are doing much better than ever. Robby went into as well as won the Australian national championships this past summertime as well as on December 2 in Norway, earned his very first Camiseta SSC Napoli Europa cup (a training ground for the world Cup) medal with a third-place finish. Tim completed third as well as fourth in the very first nor Am cup races in Jackson hole in late November.
The siblings will be in great business this winter season on the alpine circuit: cousin Ryan Cochran-Siegle is likewise on the U.S. team together with seven others who have ties to Vermont.
Read the story of the Redneck Racers in Vt Ski + Ride.