VERMONT SPORTS HALL OF FAME

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Williston

Freestyle/Moguls Skiing

Inducted 2019

A multi-sport standout at Champlain Valley Union High and Middlebury College, Battelle went on to become a world class freestyle and moguls skier winning two World Cup championships and six U.S. national titles. She was a four-time U.S. Olympian with three top 10 finishes.

While at Williston Central School she learned to ski at the Cochran Ski Area and Bolton Valley. She was a soccer, gymnastics and softball standout at CVU and at Middlebury, Battelle was a center midfielder on the Panthers’ soccer team and was an alpine skier. 

Upon graduation from college, she moved to Colorado and became involved in mogul skiing, at which she quickly excelled. She finished 16th in her first World Cup moguls even on her 24th birthday in January 1992 in Breckenridge, Colo. Battelle became a two-time World Cup champion, also winning the world championships in 1999. 

She was a member of the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team for 11 years, retiring after the 2002 Olympics. As a four-time Olympian, she placed 21st at Albertville, France in 1992; 8th in Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994; 10th in Nagano, Japan, in 1998; and 7th in Salt Lake City in 2002.  

Battelle won the 1993 U.S. nationals; secured her first World Cup in 1997; captured the 1999 world championships; won the moguls World Cup in 1999; and took gold and silver at the 2000 Goodwill Games. She returned to competition in 2001 with four top-10 finishes in five World Cup events. 

Battelle received the 1999 USSSA Beck International Award based on outstanding performance in international competition. She also received the 1998, 1999 and 2000 USSSA Ann Hansen Award given to the top U.S. female and male mogul skiers by virtue of World Cup finishes.

Currently a freestyle coach at Steamboat in Colorado, Battelle was named to the Vermont Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame in 2017.