Alice Merryweather (born October 5, 1996) is a
World Cup
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alpine ski racer from the United States, and competes primarily in the speed events,
downhill
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and
super-G
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. Born and raised in
Hingham,
Massachusetts
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, she graduated from
Stratton Mountain School
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in
Vermont
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and plans to attend
Dartmouth College
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Merryweather won the gold medal in the downhill at the
World Junior Championships in
2017
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.
She was named to the
2018 U.S. Olympic Team,
and was fifteenth in the
combined event
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. She made her first World Cup top ten in January
2019
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with an eighth in the downhill at
Garmisch
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, Germany.
World Cup results
Season standings
Top twenty results
* 2 top tens
* 11 top twenty finishes
World Championship results
Olympic results
References
External links
*
Alice MerryweatherWorld Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
*
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Alice Merryweatherat the
U.S. Ski Team
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1996 births
Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
American female alpine skiers
Living people
Olympic alpine skiers for the United States
People from Hingham, Massachusetts
Sportspeople from Plymouth County, Massachusetts
21st-century American women