USA Luge Teleconference Audio Links from November 18

The following links contain audio from the Nov. 18 teleconference with the members of the U.S. National Luge Team. Those on the call included: Read More

World Cup Luge team roster set for first two events

17 year-old Junior National Team athlete Kate Hansen won the fourth and final USA Luge women's race-off today, November 15. Read More

Junior team success continues in Women’s Luge World Cup selection races

Junior National Team athletes dominated the USA Luge women's race-off today, November 6, with Kate Hansen, age 17, and Emily Sweeney, age 16, finishing in first and second place respectively. Read More

Emily Sweeney and Chris Mazdzer win second race-off

17 year-old Junior National Team athlete Emily Sweeney upset the women's field at today's, October 23, USA Luge team qualifying race, the second in a series of four races used to determine the make-up of the fall 2009 World Cup team. Read More

Ashley Walden and Chris Mazdzer win first race-off

Ashley Walden and Chris Mazdzer emerged as winners in today's, October 21, USA Luge team qualifying race. Read More

USA Luge begins race-off process

USA Luge's final international racing squad, and eventually its 10-member Olympic team, will begin to take shape with a series of race-offs beginning Wednesday, Oct. 21, in Lake Placid, N.Y. Read More

Julia Clukey Wins Jet Blue Start Championship 11 Days after Surgery

Julia Clukey, who underwent surgery on September 28 to repair a torn meniscus in her right knee, bounced back to win her third JetBlue USA Luge Start Championship title. Read More

JetBlue Airways U.S. National Start Championships slated for Friday

America's top luge athletes will be racing head-to-head on the indoor, fully-refrigerated start ramps at USA Luge's headquarters in Lake Placid, N.Y. Read More

Julia Clukey undergoes knee surgery

Julia Clukey, winner of the 2009 International Luge Start Competition and 2010 Olympic hopeful, has undergone surgery to repair a torn meniscus in her right knee following a wheeled luge crash in late August, 2009. Read More

Republic Lagun Machine Tool Co. Joins USA Luge Family of Sponsors

Republic Lagun, based in Harbor City, Calif., was named the “The Official Milling Machine Tool Company of USA Luge”. The team received a new milling machine to use at their research workshop in Park City, Utah in mid-July. Read More

2009 USA Luge Slider Search Coming to Canton N.Y.

On Saturday and Sunday, September 26-27, young athletes who want to experience the thrill of luge and train under the guidance of USA Luge national team coaches and athletes can do so when the USA Luge Slider Search rolls into Canton, N.Y. Read More

U.S. Luge Athletes “Camping” in Lake Placid

The off-season is beginning to whined down and the USA Luge national team has just one more training camp in Lake Placid, N.Y before the beginning of the 2009-10 international racing season. Read More

2009 USA Luge Slider Search Coming to Plattsburgh, N.Y

How do members of the U.S. national luge team get their start in the Fastest Sport on Ice®?... through the USA Luge Slider Search, which targets boys and girls age 11 to 14. Read More

USA Luge’s Clukey Wins Gold, Walden Claims Silver in Italy

USA Luge’s Julia Clukey (Augusta, Maine) raced to a gold medal finish, while her teammate, Ashley Walden (Westborough, Mass.), won silver during Saturday’s, Aug. 29, international luge start championships held in Meransen, Italy. Read More

2009 USA Luge Slider Search Coming to Schenectady, N.Y

How do members of the U.S. national luge team get their start in the Fastest Sport on Ice®?... through the USA Luge Slider Search, which targets boys and girls age 11 to 14. Read More

USA Luge Athletes Head Overseas for Training Camp and Start Competition

Members of the U.S Luge Team will head to Liechtenstein and Italy in late August for a week of training, sled fitting, and team building before competing in the annual International Luge Start Competition in Meransen, Italy. Read More

2009 USA Luge Slider Search Comes to Utica, N.Y.

How do members of the U.S. national luge team, like 2009 World Champion Erin Hamlin, get their start in the Fastest Sport on Ice®?... through the USA Luge Slider Search, which targets boys and girls age 11 to 14. Read More

July 31st is USA Luge Day at Six Flags Great Escape

USA Luge, Six Flags Great Escape and Splashwater Kingdom in Lake George, N.Y. will team up for the third-annual USA Luge Day at Great Escape on Friday, July 31. The free event will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Read More

USA Luge Updates from the Month of June

Two major stories, one from the world of on-ice competition and another from the world of sport governance, highlight a month of luge news for June, 2009. Read More

Norton US National Luge Championship Series set to begin

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - The nation’s top luge athletes will race in their final two events on March 13-14 before officially ending the competitive portion of the 2008-09 season. Read More

Luger Erin Hamlin honored by USOC for outstanding performance in February

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The U.S. Olympic Committee announced luger Erin Hamlin and skiers Lindsey Vonn and Todd Lodwick as its February Athletes of the Month, while Steven Holcomb’s U.S. Men’s Four-Man Bobsled Team was awarded Team of the Month honors. Read More

USA Luge wraps up historic international race season

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - Fans of luge in the United States had a lot to get excited about this season. Read More

Huerbin, Sweeney win Luge Junior National Championships

PARK CITY, Utah (March 2, 2009) - On Sunday, March 1, Robby Huerbin and Emily Sweeney slid to first place victories in the men’s and women’s categories, respectively, at the Junior (to age 20) National Championships in Park City Utah. Read More

US posts three top-10 results at Calgary Luge World Cup; Italians lead way

CALGARY, Canada (Feb. 16, 2009) - The eighth World Cup of the 2008-2009 season came to a close yesterday evening with U.S. slider Bengt Walden sealing a tie of his best-ever result in a World Cup race. Read More

US claims silver in Junior World Championship team competition, Germans win overall medal count

NAGANO, Japan (Feb. 14, 2009) - The Junior World Championship came to a close today with the final event – the Team Competition – and the United States closed with a silver medal winning performance. Read More

Luge racing continues in Calgary

CALGARY, Canada – World Champion Erin Hamlin will enter the Feb. 13 Calgary World Cup wearing the yellow World Champion’s bib. Read More

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Introduction

March 6, 2009

My name is Erin Hamlin. I am a member of the U.S. National Luge Team and 2006 Olympian. I recently became the first American woman to win World Championships in luge and the first non-German in 16 years.
 
I have competed at the senior level for… Read More

We really do go that fast.

March 5, 2009

Luge. It is a sport that bewilders so many people, and yet it has consumed nearly two-thirds of my life. Don’t forget I am old (as many of my teammates are so quick to point out)! However, the reason I’ve spent so much time doing it is because, well, I… Read More

The luge season has officially come to a close!

March 14, 2009

OK, not completely. We still have the opportunity to slide until the end of April, but with all of our competitions over, it feels like we are done.

After two weeks of early, cold mornings, it was a wonderful feeling not setting the alarm last night.… Read More

Spring is finally here.

March 22, 2009

And it actually felt like it for a few days! Even though temperatures hit 50 degrees, we still have a track, so sliding continues...                

They are able to keep the… Read More

Last Runs of the Season

3/31/2009 

Hi everyone! As March comes to an end sliding is slowly doing the same. This past week we had a few good sessions however spring is definitely here now. Sunny and near 60 degrees has been the trend, which feels great! The track has been holding up though and… Read More

Back to training

March 31, 2009

Today marks the day that I am officially getting back into training for the upcoming 2010 Olympics.   I set aside the entire month of March to basically do nothing but enjoy myself and relax after a long and tumultuous season.   That rest is… Read More

US Nationals

March 14, 2009

Today was a great day and a huge weight off my shoulders because I won US Nationals!   It has been 2 years since I have held the title and it feels great!  Over the course of my career, I have had the privilege of being named National Champion 7… Read More

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• 2009 Luge World Cup

  

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