![]() ![]() There, local coach Dave Stevenson of the Calgary Freeriderz club saw her and invited her to come ski with the team. Fraser would ski in the early mornings or evenings while finishing her biology degree at the University of Calgary. Her stepping stone onto the freestyle skiing scene started with a chance meeting at Canada Olympic Park. "Every time in training, I'd get a half hour break for our lunches, I would try and eat my food as fast as possible - which wasn't always the best recipe - and then go spend the rest of my free time at lunch bouncing on the trampoline," Fraser said.Īs for skiing, she started with her family at the age of two and eventually joined a small racing program out of the Hidden Valley Ski Hill in Medicine Hat, Alta., where she had a Level 4 ski instructor. "I think the gymnastics was huge for air awareness," she said of Salta Gymnastics Club where she was coached by 1974 Romanian champion Eva Paniti-Meyer ("the freaking best coach," according to Fraser). She credits both sports in helping her trajectory.Ĭalgary's Amy Fraser stands on the podium after winning silver at the season-opening freeski halfpipe World Cup event at Copper Mountain, Colo., on Dec. Similar to Olympic bronze medallist teammate Rachael Karker, who was a competitive ski racer, ballerina and trampolinist, Fraser had the building blocks to be a great freestyle skier from the beginning.īorn in Halifax, Fraser spent her formative years in Medicine Hat, Alta., where she became a multi-sport athlete - a competitive ski racer and gymnast. "That stood out instantly." Multi-sport background "My initial impression of Amy was this woman has come in and she's had a later start than the average traditional athlete that you've found at this stage, but when I met her and saw her, it was obvious how much she wanted it and how smart and motivated she was," said Canadian halfpipe coach Trennon Paynter. If age is nothing but a number, then Fraser is a living proverb. "I didn't really have the ambition to compete at that time, but I started looking at the girls in the sport and thought it doesn't look that hard, why couldn't I do what they were doing, but I just thought I was too old already." That might just be her unofficial motto since being discovered while teaching herself rails and tricks at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary in 2016. Duration 1:35 Freestyle skier Amy Fraser of Calgary finishes second in the World Cup women's halfpipe event in Colorado. ![]()
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