Picabo Street Biography - Growing Up, Not Amateur For Long, Rebuilding, Plagued By Injuries, Chronology, Awards And Accomplishments - CONTACT INFORMATION, SELECTED WRITINGS BY STREET:
women downhill ski olympic
1971-
American skier
Picabo Street can be called many things, from a "skiing phenomenon" to a "Brat" to an "Amazing Super-G Downhill Force." Street, one of the greatest downhill skiers in U.S. downhill women's history, accumulated an
Picabo Street
incredible collection of World Championships and Olympic medals in her short career before choosing to retire in 2002. Her can-do attitude and willingness to speak her mind brought popularity to the women's downhill, and Street's good-natured outlook on life and girl-next-door face made her the hero of many young women who also want to do more than just succeed in life and, as Street has said of her own desires as a child, not only "be as good as the boys … [but] be better."
CONTACT INFORMATION
Address: Office—c/o U.S. Olympic Committee, 1750 E. Boulder St., Colorado Springs, CO 80909-5724; c/oU.S. Ski Team, P.O. Box 100, Park City, UT 84060.
SELECTED WRITINGS BY STREET:
(With Dana White) Picabo: Nothing to Hide. McGraw Hill, 2001.
Additional Topics
Picabo Street was born on August 3, 1971, in Triumph, Idaho, located near Sun Valley, some of the best skiing in the state. Her parents are self-confessed hippies, and her father, Roland Wayne Street (who also goes by "Ron" or "Stubby") and mother Dee were liberal in their views about raising children, and gave their children the freedom to pick their own names. Picabo&…
Her father encouraged Picabo to head down to Hawaii with him to train, convincing her that she could easily get back up to where she was, or become even better. She agreed, and in what Newsday reporter Tim Layden referred to as a "boot camp," Street shaped up and came back ready to dominate once again. In 1991 Street was fierce on the slopes. She became overall champion for the North…
Though she would continue to add some phenomenal victories to her accomplishments (she repeated at the World Cup the following year, and won a gold medal in the Super-G in the 1998 Winter Olympics), Picabo's career was soon hampered by a string of injuries. When she crashed in December of 1996, she tore the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments of her left knee. She also pulled …
In February of 2002, after a disappointing 16th place finish in the Women's Olympic Downhill, Picabo Street put away her competitive skis at the age of thirty and opted instead for a more laid-back life, all things considered. "I'm not going to have to live without skiing," she told the BBC news. "I'm just going to have to live without trying to be perfect…
Dippold, Joel. Picabo Street: Downhill Dynamo. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1998. "Picabo Street." Great Women in Sports. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1996. "Picabo Street." Newsmakers 1999, Issue 3. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 1999. Street, Picabo and Dana White. Picabo: Nothing to Hide. New York: McGraw Hill, 2001. Chicago Tribune (February 21, 1994; January…
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User Comments
over 1 year ago
Trying to reach Roland Wayne Street,Picabo`s father. He is an old school mate from Yuba City, up to the 7th grade and Grey Avenue School. Mike May
over 3 years ago
My daughter was named after Picabo Street after I lost a bet on the 98 olympics. Her name is Picabo Sierra. Always wanted for Ms. Street to give her a call on her birthday to say hello. She is so proud of her name and where it came from and the meanings. One Day she just MIGHT get to meet the legend herself. For My Daughter she is a legend.