Mac Bohonnon (born March 27, 1995) is an American

freestyle skier Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Winter Olympics. It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins and can include skiers sliding rails and ...

originally from

Madison, Connecticut Madison is a town in the southeastern corner of New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, occupying a central location on Connecticut's Long Island Sound shoreline. The population was 17,691 at the 2020 census. Madison was first settled in 16 ...

. He was named to the United States National Ski Team in 2012. Bohonnon competed at the

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Career

At age thirteen, Bohonnon was the youngest athlete to be selected by the U.S. Ski Team's Development Program. In 2012, Mac was named to the U.S. Ski Team. Bohonnon's first Olympic appearance was in

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. He placed 5th in men's aerials. Mac considers one of his inspirations to be former U.S. Olympian

Eric Bergoust Eric Bergoust (born August 27, 1969) is an American freestyle skier. In 1998 Bergoust participated at the 1998 Winter Olympics held in Nagano, Nagano, Nagano, Japan where he won a gold medal in the freestyle ski jump (aerials). ...

, a 1998 gold medalist. Coincidentally, Bergoust coached Bohonnon for two and a half years at the Olympic Training Center in

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Career highlights

2011 *2011 USSA Marriott Junior Championship: Freestyle Junior Nationals in

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where he earned a perfect score *Junior Nationals Competitor 3rd overall *National Championships Competitor 4th overall *Nor-Am Tour Competitor 2012 *3rd Place at US National Championships *5th Place at Junior World Championships – Valmalenco, Italy *3rd Place in the overall NorAm Grand Prix *2nd Place at USSA Marriott Junior National Championships *2nd Place at Park City NorAm Day 2 and 3 *3rd Place at US Selections *19th Place at Lake Placid World Cup 2013 *Junior National Champion *1st Place at Lake Placid NorAm *14th Place at Val St. Come World Cup *1st Place at USSA Marriott Junior National Championships 2014 *2nd Place at Val St. Come World Cup *Currently 14th in the world *International Skiing Federation's Rookie of the Year *5th Place at Sochi Olympics Men's Freestyle Aerial Qualifying Finals

Sochi 2014

At age eighteen, Bohonnon participated in the Olympic Games for the first time. He was not even being considered for the Sochi Olympics until late January when he placed second at the Quebec world qualifying event. He was the first alternate on the

U.S. Ski Team The U.S. Ski Team, operating under the auspices of U.S. Ski & Snowboard, develops and supports men's and women's athletes in the sports of alpine skiing, freestyle skiing, cross-country, ski jumping, and Nordic combined. Since 1974 the team and ...

in a World Cup event in Val Saint-Côme, Quebec, and was called up to the event when a teammate was injured and could no longer compete. He was told he needed to be on a plane the next morning, and at one in the morning he booked his flight for 9 a.m. At the World Cup event Mac placed second, which put him in the running for Sochi. He was sitting in AP English class when he received word that he made the team. Mac was the only men's freestyle aerials competitor for the United States. On February 17, 2014, at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, in the men's freestyle aerials fourth-round qualifying finals Mac placed 5th with a score of 113.72, missing the medal round by one spot.

Personal life

Mac began skiing before he reached the age of two years at

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in Vermont. Both his parents, Libby and David, as well as his older siblings, Lexi and Cody, were avid skiers. Originally from

, at age thirteen Mac moved to

Lake Placid, New York Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,303. The village of Lake Placid is near the center of the town of North Elba, southwest of Plattsburgh. ...

, in 2008 to pursue his dream of becoming an Olympic skier. Two years later he moved across the country to

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. He attended middle school in Connecticut and then did high school classes through an online program. His parents remained in Madison, so Mac moved to the Olympic Training Center by himself.

References

External links

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Team USA profile for Mac Bohonnon
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bohonnon, Mac 1995 births Living people American male freestyle skiers Olympic freestyle skiers for the United States Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from New Haven, Connecticut