Full name David McLaren Bohonnon Weight 61 kg Nationality American Name Mac Bohonnon | Citizenship United States Role Freestyle skier Siblings Cody Bohonnon Website www.macbohonnon.com Height 1.73 m | |
Other interests Water skiing, golf, biking Parents David M. Bohonnon, Libby Bohonnon Profiles | ||
Mac bohonnon 2015 world cup champion
Mac Bohonnon (born March 27, 1995) is an American freestyle skier originally from Madison, Connecticut. He was named to the United States National Ski Team in 2012. Bohonnon competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
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- Mac bohonnon 2015 world cup champion
- Mac bohonnon usa olympic aerial skier triple flip
- Career
- Career highlights
- Sochi 2014
- Personal life
- References
Mac bohonnon usa olympic aerial skier triple flip
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 Sochi 2014. He placed 5th in men's aerials. Mac considers one of his inspirations to be former U.S. Olympian Eric Bergoust, a 1998 gold medalist. Coincidentally, Bergoust coached Bohonnon for two and a half years at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, NY.
Career highlights
2011
2012
2013
2014
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 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 Bromley Mountain in Vermont. Both of his parents were avid skiers. Originally from Madison, Connecticut, at age thirteen Mac moved to Lake Placid, New York, in 2008 to pursue his dream of becoming an Olympic skier. Two years later he moved across the country to Park City, Utah. 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.