Heather McPhie

Heather McPhie is an American freestyle moguls skier, born on 28 May 1984 and raised in Bozeman, Montana, where both of her parents were ski instructors. A gymnast until the age of twelve, she joined the Bridger Freestyle Ski Team and turned to moguls, and from 2004 she focused on the discipline full time in Breckenridge, Colorado. She qualified for the United States Freestyle Ski Team in 2005 by winning the North American Tour. After a second place finish at the FIS World Cup event at Deer Valley in January 2010 she earned an Olympic team spot and competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In 2012 she became the first mogul skier to pick up a Red Bull sponsorship, and she won the United States national title in 2012 and again in 2013, when she also finished third overall in the world rankings.