By Karen Price, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, February 3, 2012
Tom Wallisch scored the highest marks in the history of the slopestyle event to win gold at the X Games in Aspen, Colo., last week, but he took his first jumps ever as a pint-sized skier at Wisp Resort in Garrett County, Md.
The Pittsburgh native graduated from Chartiers Valley in 2006 and headed west for the University of Utah and, of course, more snow. In the nearly six years since, Wallisch has become one of the best slopestyle skiers in the world.
It’s a distinction he admits isn’t typical of someone who grew up in Western Pennsylvania. But the 24-year-old resident of Salt Lake City said that’s the beauty of slopestyle, a discipline that involves performing tricks on terrain park features such as rails, walls and jumps. You don’t need to have access to the biggest, steepest mountains to do it.
Read more: Pittsburgh native Wallisch is savoring his X Games gold in slopestyle event – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/lifestyles/fitness/s_779727.html#ixzz1loJPpaf2
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