Hannah Teter

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Hannah Teter (born January 27 1987) is a female snowboarder from Mount Holly, Vermont, in the United States, known for her consistent and technical riding in the halfpipe. She won a gold medal in the women's halfpipe competition at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy.

Hannah hails from a famous snowboarding family. Her older brother Amen is a professional snowboarder and full-time manager and agent for Team Teter. Her brothers Abe and Elijah currently compete with the U.S. snowboarding team. Hannah has another brother, Josh, who is mildly autistic and does not snowboard but he sometimes ski blades for fun. Both of the Teter parents, Jeff and Pat, were skiers, but have since been converted to snowboarding by their children. Hannah dates Eli Lieberman, the lead guitarist from a little known reggae group, Strive Roots.

Hannah started snowboarding at the age of 8 in an attempt to follow in her older brothers footsteps, who had taken up the sports themselves. She enjoyed hanging out with her brothers, but felt left out when her brothers were snowboarding and she wasn't. Teter took her first lesson at her home mountain of Okemo.

Short Facts

Age: 19

Hometown: Belmont, Vermont

Height: 5'6

Weight: 140 lbs

Stance: Goofy (Right foot forward on the board). Eighteen degrees front, nine degrees rear, and 21 inches wide.

Hook-ups: Burton, Anon, Mountain Dew, Clif Bar, Nixon, U.S. Snowboard Team

Influences:

1. Abe Teter

2. Shaun White

3. Steve Fisher

Hannah Teter is a Vermont prodigy in the strain of Powers and Clark–too good for her age but too young to care. Last season [2002] she landed the first-ever frontside nine in women’s halfpipe competition history, and there’s more where that came from. – Jen Sherowski

Media and Business ventures

Teter is considered one of the world's best competition snowboarders and is well known for her excellent amplitude and progressive riding in the halfpipe. Hannah has been featured in many competitions, including the X Games, Grand Prix, US Open, Worlds, Winter Olympics 2006 and the Winter Gravity Games.

Before she went to Turin, Italy to compete in the 2006 Olympics, Hannah featured on a documentary based upon the amazing, and sometimes controversial evolution and growth of snowboarding, "First Descent". The movie was filmed in the snowy mountains of Alaska. Hannah starred in this film alongside snowboarding legends including Shaun White, the men's gold medalist at the halfpipe in the 2006 Olympics, and Terje Haakonsen.

Hannah is often compared to her competition rival, good friend and team mate, Grechen Bleiler who has competed against her in many competitions including the olympics and the Winter Gravity Games, where they were both on the top of the leader board both hoping for the gold medal.

Hannah also appears on many entertainment shows such as ManiaTV! and The David Lettermen Show, where she has been interviewed and has shown her true self to the world. Many people consider her to be a fun-loving and down-to-earth girl.

Off the Pipe

Hannah has other interests when not snowboarding, such as skateboarding, surfing, soccer and jumping on the trampoline. Amongst Hannah's competitive, daring and rather affable attitude she also enjoys to relax with candles and read spiritual books. She loves to spend time to reflect on how "super-blessed" she is to be a well known, world champion snowboarder and says "To have a passion for something, put so much into it, and then receive it back is so great".

Hannah and her family are big fans of maple syrup. Every year, the Teter crew will gather thousands of gallons of sap from the maple trees in Vermont and make syrup.

When Hannah is asked what music she has on her iPod, she says, "Everything comes up from like Pocahontis to just like hardcore rap". She also explains, "I've been listening to music for ever you know, I just like tapping to the music and being like 'alright I'm ready!'"

Hannah also loves to use the internet, and she is driven by fan mail which she checks on a regular basis. She says that it pushes her even farther.

Quotes from various sources

"To have a passion for something, put so much into it, and then receive it back is so great".

"I've been listening to music for ever you know, I just like tapping to the music and being like 'alright I'm ready!'"

"Everything comes up from like Pocahontis to just like hardcore rap"

"People are stoked on what I am doing its like... it pushes me even father, you know like? Aight I'm stoking up these kids, I'll stuck 'em up even more!"

"I can't even remember where I was last month, I'm like 'oh yeah, where was I?'"

[In reply to Lettermens question 'Were you disappointed when you realised it [medal] had a hole in it?'] "Yeah I was like, 'is this a donut?'"

"Ski? Sometimes... I throw out some planks and go out there!"

"When I woke up I felt like 'mmmm I feel good today'"

"Once they were like 'you got the gold no matter what' I was like 'hah, I could just fall and it doesn't matter!'"

"Fronside 900 which is 2 and a half rotations... yeah for me I just throw it sideways so I kinda get corked out... aww its so fun.... you should try it sometime!"

"Yeah backside indie" [David Letterman asks "Why do we call it a backside indie"] "I actually don't know where it came from.... but I do it"

"I thought we'd just go and party right after, you know? But they're like 'you gotta come take a urine sample' and I'm like 'WHOAH! Alright!'"

"If I was stranded on an island, I'd make sure I had my camel for transportation, my psychic to tell me what was going to happen next, and my tooth brush just in case there were any cute island boys."

"When I was showing the guys up on a kicker, hitting it before all of them, and overshot it with my speed, knowing while flying through the air, my landing was not going to be ok, and I just crashed to the ground...a ski patrol ride, and ambulance later, I was A-okay! "

Awards, Wins and Titles.

- 2006 Winter Gravity Games Silver medalist, womens halfpipe

- 2006 Olympic Champion, womens halfpipe

- 2005 Nokia Snowboard Fis World Cup champion on halfpipe

- 2005 Vans Cup champion

- 2005 World Snowboard Championships bronze medalist

- 2005 US Open bronze medalist

- 2005 Nippon Open silver medalist

- 2005 Winter Gravity Games silver medalist

- 2005 Winter X Games superpipe bronze medalist

- 2004 Finalist for the ESPY Awards for Best Female Action Sport Athlete

- 2004 U.S. Snowboard Overall Grand Prix halfpipe champion

- 2004 X Games superpipe champion

- 2004 NASJA "Competitor of the Year" title and award.

- 2003 Vans Triple Crown halfpipe title + silver in slopestyle

- 2003 Winter X Games halfpipe silver medalist

- 2003 Became youngest member of the US Snowboarding Team.

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