Skeleton at the 2002 Winter Olympics - Skeleton Racers at the 2002 Winter Olympics, Jimmy Shea, Tristan Gale, Lea Ann Parsley, Kristan Bromley (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Skeleton Racers at the 2002 Winter Olympics, Jimmy Shea, Tristan Gale, Lea Ann Parsley, Kristan Bromley, Duff Gibson, Skeleton at the 2002 Winter Olympics - Men's, Maya Pedersen-Bieri, Gregor Sthli, Kazuhiro Koshi, Jeff Pain, Alex Coomber, Michelle Kelly, Skeleton at the 2002 Winter Olympics - Women's, Diane Sartor, Chris Soule, Christian Auer, Martin Rettl, Lindsay Alcock, Frank Kleber, Konstantin Aladachvili, Lincoln Dewitt, Willi Schneider, Yekaterina Mironova, Steffi Jacob, Tomass Dukurs, Philippe Cavoret, Masaru Inada, Felix Poletti. Excerpt: Lea Ann Parsley (born June 12, 1968) is a retired American skeleton racer from Granville, Ohio. She was the first female skeleton athlete to win a world cup medal for the United States and earned a silver medal in the women's skeleton event, a first in Olympic history, during the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games. She was also one of eight athletes chosen to carry the World Trade Center flag into the Opening Ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics. Parsley was born in Logan, West Virginia and is a direct descendant of the McCoy family of the famous Hatfield-McCoy feud. She grew up in Granville, Ohio where she served as a volunteer firefighter for 20 years and was inducted into the Granville High School Athletic Hall of Fame. Parsley was a two sport scholarship athlete at Marshall University competing in basketball and track and field. As a basketball player she was named second team All-Southern Conference, led the nation in free throw percentage her senior yearand is one of only 14 female players in school history to score over 1,000 points. In addition she was All-Southern Conference in high jump and javelin and held the school record in the javelin. For her efforts on and off the field, s... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13581635