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Timmy Sullivan (Illinois)
Timmy is a freshman who joined the University of Illinois Ski team last fall and is a character. He is crazy and lives life on the edge. The first practice he ever went to he face planted around 1 ball and came up yelling “I love eating shit”. At conference he went of the jump for the first time. he failed all three attempts and each time he hit his ass on the jump surface and yelled “This is awesome I love crashing”. hopefully he will learn to land a jump next season but until then he will enjoy crashing.
Anna Zallek (Illinois)
Anna Zallek is a freshman who joined the University of Illinois ski team last fall and was recently nominated as our treasurer. She had only skied a few times before joining and within 2 practices with us she was already attempting to jump. She was one of two freshman we dragged to conference and I am pretty sure she was shocked by the ski culture of tents and booze. She was slated to jump for our team even though she had never landed a jump before. We went out there and landed all three jumps. Anna is the definition of clutch.
University of Illinois!
Our team accomplished huge things last season. We went from being a dead team to to competing in our first tournament in 2 years and hosting the Midwest Regional. We grew from a team with 4 members to almost 20. For the first time in several years we held practices about once a week. Our freshman Anna Zallek landed all of her jump attempts at conference. She had never landed a jump prior to that day. Our team now has a social media following, social events and we are becoming a family. We have been continuing to become better skiers by holding workouts in the off season and our goal is to make regionals for the first time in 5 years next season.