Picabo Street
Picabo Street is an American alpine ski racer who won gold medals in the super G at the 1988 Winter Olympics and in the downhill at the 1996 World Championships, along with three other Olympic and World Championship medals. When she participated in the 1996 Achievement Summit she was hailed as the greatest woman downhill racer in the world. In 1995, Picabo Street was selected as the U.S. Olympic Committee’s “Sportswoman of the Year.” She was born in a tiny Idaho mining town and her parents called her Baby Girl until she was five years old, and then chose Picabo, the name of a Native American tribe. As a teenager, she burst onto the U.S. Ski Team with natural talent, fearless and freckled. At age 16, Picabo Street won the national junior downhill and super G titles. Two years later, her bright promise dimmed, but eventually she whipped herself into shape, rejoined the team, and started winning again. In 1994, she raced into the public spotlight as the Winter Olympic silver medalist in t