• Summer Series: Getting to know Jason Sturm

    Virginia native Jason Sturm began para bobsledding in the sport’s inaugural season, taking the sport by storm by winning the first-ever para bobsled World Cup overall tour title. He has since been one of Team USA’s top sliders, most recently winning two medals on this year’s tour.


  • Caleb Smith joins USA Skeleton coaching staff

    LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (June 14, 2018)- USA Bobsled & Skeleton (USABS) is proud to announce that Caleb Smith has joined the organization as the USA Skeleton Technical and Development Lead Coach. His position will be effective July 1.

  • Summer Series: Getting to know Kellie Delka

    Originally from Texas, skeleton athlete Kellie Delka found her way to the ice by way of a combine in Dallas. This past season, she competed on the European Cup, but has also raced on the Intercontinental Cup Circuit in her international career, which began on the North American Cup in 2012.


  • Three-time Olympic medalist Elana Meyers Taylor soaking in post-Games experience

    LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (June 6, 2018)- Elana Meyers Taylor (Douglasville, Ga.) has had a busy couple of months.

    She may be only several months off winning her third Olympic medal — a silver in women’s bobsled at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea — but two weeks ago, she received another honor that almost eclipsed her newest Olympic hardware.


  • Summer Series: Getting to know Nic Taylor

    Nic Taylor’s road to the 2017-2018 men’s bobsled national team began in 2011 after watching his former Boise State University track teammate Nick Cunningham compete in the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. It took him through meeting his future wife, Elana Meyers Taylor, a brief stint in skeleton, and back to bobsled, where he earned an alternate spot on the 2018 Olympic Team.


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Summer Series: Getting to know Greg West

After a season that saw him win USA Skeleton National Team Trials and compete on the World Cup circuit, Greg West is preparing for another Olympic Quad as one of Team USA’s top returning men’s skeleton athletes. West, a Missouri native and former football player at Baker University, began sliding on a dare from a roommate after watching the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.


Summer Series: Getting to know Andrew Blaser

Originally from Meridian, Idaho, skeleton athlete Andrew Blaser was a standout track and field athlete at the University of Idaho before transitioning to skeleton post-collegiately. Blaser won his first-ever international medal in his first season competing on the North American Cup (NAC) tour in 2015-2016, but this year was by far the most successful season of his career. In eight NAC races, Blaser medaled six times and finished second in the overall men’s skeleton NAC rankings behind only teammate Austin Florian.


Summer Series: Getting to know Kristi Koplin

Kristi Koplin was born in American Fork, Utah, just a short distance from the city that would later host the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. After moving around as a kid and a college track and field career at Southern Utah University, Koplin would make her way back to Park City, this time as a bobsled athlete.

Summer Series: Getting to Know Barry Schroeder

Originally from Sebring, Ohio, para bobsled athlete Barry Schroeder juggles competing, a full-time career as a paramedic and fatherhood. He has been racing on the para bobsled World Cup circuit for the past three years and was Team USA’s most consistent slider this year, finishing in the top-six in every race.


Athlete Features

Pushing Valor: Nathan Weber's long road to the national team

Nathan Weber’s offseason training regimen looks different than most other athletes. It happens in places like Niger, Cameroon and Afghanistan. Instead of pushing bobsleds on a track, he makes do with trucks and ATV’s marked ‘United States Army.’ Sometimes he’s in deserts so hot he can’t lift until the wee hours of the morning because the bar will burn his hand. Other times, his workouts follow four days of sleeping in bug netting in a jungle.

Decked-Out Domes: Skeleton athletes talk about their unique helmet designs

Gracie Clapp-Taylor, Nathan Crumpton, Samantha Culiver, Austin Florian and Jake Miter talk about their custom helmet designs. 

Jamie Greubel Poser's unique connection to South Korea

Already an Olympic bronze medalist, Jamie Greubel Poser has added motivation to make it to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games — and it has nothing to do with bobsled. 

Pushing Valor: Lou Moreira's extraordinary American Dream

Portuguese Team USA bobsledder, Army veteran, and former bodybuilder Lou Moreira is working to make his first Olympic team.