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Shane McConkey

Shane McConkey at 2008 BASE Race Romsdalen, Norway
Personal information
Nickname(s)	"Saucer Boy"; "Cliff Huckstable"
Nationality	Canada
Born	(1969-12-30)December 30, 1969 Vancouver, British Columbia
Died	March 26, 2009(2009-03-26) (aged 39) Dolomite Mountains, Italy
Sport
Sport	Big Mountain, Ski-BASE
Medal record 2001 ESPN Action Sport Awards Skier of the Year

The Sass Pordoi, base of the rock where McConkey died

Shane McConkey (December 30, 1969 – March 26, 2009) was a professional skier. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia,^[1] and was based in Squaw Valley, California. He won numerous awards and competitions. McConkey started as a competitive ski racer, but moved on to be featured in a long line of extreme skiing movies. McConkey was known for combining BASE jumping with skiing, as seen in such feats as skiing into a BASE jump off the Eiger. McConkey went to Burke Mountain Academy. He was also known for his contributions to ski design, notably being the father of reverse sidecut and reverse camber skis (aka: skis with rocker); first mounting bindings onto water skis for use in Alaska, then with the Volant Spatula and, more recently, the K2 Pontoon ski design. McConkey's high-speed chairlift and ski area at Park City Mountain Resort are named after his father, Jim McConkey, who is considered the father of extreme skiing.^[2][3] On April 2, 2011 Shane McConkey was inducted into the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of fame along with other Truckee skiers, Darren Rahlves and Glen Plake.

Career accomplishments[link]

2005: Nominated for Laureus World Sport Award - World Alternative Sportsperson Of The Year, ranked #1 in Powder Magazine's Reader Poll and won Powder Magazine’s Full Throttle Award

2004(salut): Ranked #2 again in Powder Magazine’s Reader Poll, won Powder Magazine’s Full Throttle award, won Powder Magazine’s Best Helmet Cam award, went ski BASE jumping all over Europe, double front flip off the Eiger and got married in Thailand

2003: Ranked #2 in Powder Magazine’s Reader Poll, completed his first of over 700 BASE jumps^[4]

2002: Ranked #1 in Powder Magazine’s Reader Poll and invented a revolutionary powder ski; The Volant Spatula with reverse camber and reverse sidecut

2001: ESPN Action Sport Awards Skier of the Year, Red Bull Ultra Cross’s Big Air Comp - 1st and Ranked #1 in Skiing Magazine’s Top 25 skiers in North America.

Competition results[link]

2000:

• Nea Award Winner - Freeskiing Male
• Bridge Day Championships - 5th.
• 3rd Exit Style Winner of Judges Choice Award
• Gravity Games Big Mtn. Champion, Gravity Games Skiercross - 6th
• Gravity Games Big Air - 7th
• X-Games Skiercross - 5th
• Japan Core Games Skiercross Champion- 3rd.
• Johnny Moseley Invitational - 3rd.

1999:

• ESPN X-Games Skier Cross - 2nd.
• IFSA World Tour of Freeskiing - 5th.
• US Freeskiing Nationals - 5th
• World Tour event at Andermatt - 3rd.

1998:

• IFSA World Tour of Freeskiing Champion- 2nd.
• European Freeskiing Champion- 2nd.
• U.S. Freeskiing Nationals - 2nd.
• Canadian Freeskiing Championships-4th.

1996:

• IFSA Overall World Tour Champion - Unofficial tour- 4th.
• European Freeskiing Champion
• U.S. Freeskiing Championships-4th.
• World Extreme Skiing Championships-6th.

1995:

• U.S. National Freeskiing Champion
• South American Freeskiing Champion
• Pro Mogul Tour Overall - 16th.
• 1st seed and Japan Super Mogul - 7th.

1994:

• South American Freeskiing Champion
• World Extreme Skiing Championships-2nd
• Pro Mogul Tour Overall-8th
• 1st seed and Pro Mogul Tour Event at Copper Mtn. - 1st.

Filmography[link]

• McConkey (2013)
• G.N.A.R. (2010)
• In Deep: The Skiing Experience (2009)
• Claim (2008)
• Seven Sunny Days (2007)
• Steep (2007)
• Push (2006)
• Yearbook (2005)
• The Hit List (2005)
• Warren Miller's Higher Ground (2005)
• Focused (2004)
• Ski Movie III: The Front Line (2002)
• Ski Movie 2: High Society (2001)
• Ski Movie (2000)
• There's Something About McConkey (2000)
• 1999
• Global Storming (1999)
• Sick Sense (1998)
• Pura Vida (1997)
• Walls of Freedom (1995)
• TGR's The Realm (1994)
• Immersion (2002)
• Nick Nixon's Alpine Rapture (1993)
• Nick Nixon's Ski Theater (1992)

Death[link]

On March 26, 2009, Shane McConkey died while skiing in the Dolomite Mountains in Italy. After performing a double back flip, McConkey intended to glide away in his wingsuit, "a stunt he's executed a number of times", according to a statement from Matchstick Productions, the company whose films McConkey often starred in. But McConkey struggled to release his skis. By the time he got them off, he'd been free-falling for 12 seconds and was too close to the ground for his wingsuit or parachute to do him any good. His parachute did not malfunction; it was never deployed. He died on the scene.^[5]

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Bellamy, Steve (March 27, 2009). "We Remember Shane McConkey". The Ski Channel. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. http://web.archive.org/web/20110717031900/http://www.theskichannel.com/news/skinews/20090327/We_Remember_Shane_McConkey. Retrieved March 11, 2012.  (Video of Shane a couple of days before he died.)
• Gifford, Bill (July/August 2009). "Dying To Fly". Men's Journal. http://www.mensjournal.com/dying-to-fly. Retrieved March 11, 2012. 
• McConkey, Shane (October 2002). "Mental Floss - A guide to the Volant Spatula, the world’s greatest powder ski.". Fuze Digital Solutions. Archived from the original on October 9, 2010. http://web.archive.org/web/20101009110408/http://www.fuzeqna.com/evogear/consumer/kbdetail.asp?kbid=61. Retrieved March 11, 2012. 
• McConkey, Shane (March 25, 2009). "We nailed the Sassongher line today!". Red Bull North America. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. http://web.archive.org/web/20110715164430/http://redbullairforce.com/2009/03/we-nailed-the-sassongher-line-today. Retrieved March 11, 2012.  (Shane's last blog post with pictures of where he died.)
• Porters Tahoe (March 27, 2009). "We will Miss you Shane McConkey....RIP". Porters Tahoe. http://www.porterstahoe.com/2009/03/we-will-miss-you-shane.asp. Retrieved March 11, 2012. 
• "Red Bull Air Force Raw Interview - Shane McConkey". Fox Television Stations. March 26, 2009. Archived from the original on March 30, 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090330222052/http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/story/Red_Bull_Air_Force_Raw_Videos_Four_20090313. Retrieved March 11, 2012.  (Shane McConkey March 2009 interview.)
• "Shane McConkey - Snowpedia". Storm Mountain Publishing. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070927150620/http://www.freeskier.com/wiki/mediawiki/index.php/Shane_McConkey. Retrieved March 11, 2012. 
• Stifler, Emily. "The Ski Journal - Issue 2.1 - Shane McConkey". The Ski Journal (Funny Feelings LLC) 2 (1). http://www.theskijournal.com/issue/2.1/feature/Shane-McConkey. Retrieved March 11, 2012.  (Shane McConkey interview.)
• "A Tribute To Shane McConkey (1969-2009) - Ski Video". superstoker.com. March 29, 2009. http://superstoker.com/2009/03/a-tribute-to-shane-mcconkey/. Retrieved March 11, 2012. 

Medal record
Competitor for  Sweden
X Games Medal Record
Men's Freestyle Skiing
Bronze	2009 Aspen	Big Air

Jacob Wester (born November 17, 1987 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish freeskier.

Skiing[link]

Jacob began Skiing at the age of five, but only appeared onto the freeskiing scene in 2005 when he finished second place at the Jon Olsson Invitational, later that year he won the "Air We Go" in Oslo, Norway.^[1] Jacob has been mentored by pro freeskier and fellow countryman Jon Olsson, with both him and Jon pushing the "doubles movement", doing tricks like double flips and double corks.^[2]

Personal life[link]

Jacob moved out of his parents house, in late 2008, and into an apartment just outside of Stockholm, he lives his with his girlfriend Sofia Sjöberg.^[3] When he's not skiing, Jacob goes surfing for at least 75 days of the year. Since being taught by Jon Olsson in June off 2006 while in Brazil he has surfed in Bali, Africa and Orange County, California. Jacob also ice skates and fishes on the lake near his apartment. Although he admits he has never been never a great artist, Jacob has recently started to practice tattooing, using a kit Sofia brought him for his birthday, he practices on fruits, fake skin, and his legs in the hope he can do it professionally once his skiing career is over.^[4] He also plays the guitar and can be seen here jamming in a guitar store in Aspen.[1]

Results[link]

• 2009 3rd Sweet Rumble Big Air, Trysil, Norway
• 2009 3rd Winter X Games XIII, Big Air, Aspen, Colorado ^[5]
• 2008 1st Freestyle.ch, Big Air, Zürich, Switzerland^[6]
• 2008 1st Icer Air, Big Air, San Francisco
• 2008 1st North American Open, Slopestyle, Breckenridge, Colorado^[7]
• 2008 4th London Freeze Big Air, London
• 2008 4th King Of Style, Big Air Stockholm Sweden
• 2007 10th King Of Style, Big Air, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2007 2nd Jon Olsson Invitational, Big Air Åre, Sweden
• 2007 2nd US Open, Big Air, Cooper, Colorado
• 2006 8th Freestyle.ch, Big Air, Zürich, Switzerland
• 2006 13th World Skiing Invitational, Superpipe, Whistler, BC, Canada
• 2006 6th Orage European Freeskiing Open, Superpipe, Laax, Switzerland
• 2006 5th Orage European Freeskiing Open, Slopestyle, Laax, Switzerland
• 2005 1st Air We Go, Big Air, Oslo, Norway
• 2005 4th N.Z. Free Ski Open, Slopestyle, Wanaka, New Zealand
• 2005 2nd Jon Olsson Invitational, Big Air, Åre, Sweden
• 2005 4th US Open, Big Air, Vail, Colorado^[2]

External links[link]

• His personal blog
• His profile at Matchstick productions
• His profile at Oakley
• An interview with Newschoolers

References[link]

Paula Patton
Paula Patton, December 2011
Born	Paula Maxine Patton (1975-12-05) December 5, 1975 (age 36) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Southern California (USC Film School)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2005–present
Spouse	Robin Thicke (2005-present)
Website
www.paula-patton.com

Paula Maxine Patton (born December 5, 1975) is an American actress. She is known for her appearances in the films Idlewild (2006), Déjà Vu (2006), Mirrors (2008), Swing Vote (2008), Precious (2009), Just Wright (2010), Jumping the Broom (2011), and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011).

Early life and career[link]

Patton was born in Los Angeles, California to Joyce (née Vanraden), a European American school teacher, and Charles Patton, an African American lawyer. She graduated from Hamilton High School,^[1][2][3] and then started college at UC Berkeley,^[4] transferring to USC Film School after her first year and graduating magna cum laude. Shortly after completing her studies, she won a three-month assignment making documentaries for PBS. Later she worked for the Discovery Health Channel as producer for the show Medical Diaries.^[2]

Career[link]

Her first acting role was a small part in 2005's Hitch, which starred Will Smith and Eva Mendes. She followed that with a small part in the drama London and appeared alongside OutKast members Andre Benjamin and Big Boi in Idlewild.

Patton's big break came in 2006 when she landed the pivotal role of Claire Kuchever in the science-fiction thriller Déjà Vu, starring Denzel Washington and Val Kilmer. She played television reporter Kate Madison in 2008's Swing Vote. She appeared in the film Mirrors, alongside Kiefer Sutherland, in 2008. She also appeared in her husband Robin Thicke's "Lost Without You" video in 2006. In Precious, Patton plays Blu Rain, a teacher at an alternative high school in New York. There she encounters and mentors the main character, Precious.

In the fall of 2010, Patton was announced as succeeding Sharon Stone as the new full-time assistant district attorney on the NBC legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.^[5] However, Patton landed the lead female role in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and thus her role on SVU was reduced to one episode. She was replaced by Melissa Sagemiller.^[6]

Personal life[link]

Patton is married to songwriter/singer Robin Thicke, son of Alan Thicke and Gloria Loring. Their son, named Julian Fuego, was born on April 6, 2010.^[7]

Other work[link]

Patton provided additional singing vocals for Usher on his 2004 album Confessions. She provided the female vocal counterpart on the song "Can U Handle It?" which was co-written by her husband Robin Thicke.^[8]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Paula Patton

• Paula Patton at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website

Scott Leo "Taye" Diggs (born January 2, 1971) is an American theatre, film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the Broadway musical Rent, the motion picture How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and the television series Private Practice. His nickname, Taye, comes from the playful pronunciation of Scotty as "Scottay".^[1]

Early life[link]

Diggs was born in Newark, New Jersey but grew up in Rochester, New York,^[2] the son of Marcia (née Berry), a teacher and actress, and Jeffries Diggs.^[3] He attended Allendale Columbia School in Rochester and later transferred to School of the Arts. He starred in the first production of "It All Adds Up", an original musical by the piano teacher and musician John Gabriele and math teacher Jack Donovan. He is the oldest of five children; he has two brothers, Gabriel and Michael, and two sisters, Shalom and Christian.^[4][5] Diggs received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in musical theater from Syracuse University. He performed many times at the popular Lakes Region Summer Theatre in Meredith, New Hampshire. Diggs's Broadway debut was in the ensemble cast of the 1994 Tony Award-winning revival of the musical Carousel. In 1995, he also performed as a dancer in Sebastian's Caribbean Carnival at Tokyo Disneyland.

Career[link]

In 1996, he originated the role of the nasty landlord Benny in Jonathan Larson's Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Rent, which also starred his future wife, Idina Menzel. After Rent he appeared as Mr. Black alongside Idina Menzel's character of Kate in Andrew Lippa's off-Broadway production of The Wild Party at Manhattan Theatre Club. Diggs also played The Bandleader in the 2002 film version of the long-running Broadway revival of Chicago and filled in as Billy Flynn on Broadway.^[6] He also temporarily filled in for Norbert Leo Butz (an original Rent standby) as the love interest Fiyero of Idina Menzel's Elphaba character in Wicked.

Diggs then moved from stage to television, with a role on the soap opera Guiding Light. In 1998, he made his film debut in How Stella Got Her Groove Back. This movie brought Diggs much acclaim and exposure. The following year he played a tantric sex god in Doug Liman's Go, and an AWOL groom in the coming-of-age drama The Wood. Malcolm D. Lee's The Best Man features Diggs as the eponymous character, an author and best friend of the groom (portrayed by Morris Chestnut). He also starred in the remake of William Castle's The House on Haunted Hill. Diggs was featured in an episode of America's Next Top Model, to help the contestants through an acting challenge. Another notable role of his was when he guest starred on the comedy-drama Ally Mcbeal as a lawyer named Jackson Duper who was the love interest of the character Renee Raddick and also the possible love interest on the Ling Woo character.

Diggs portrayed the title character on the short-lived UPN television series Kevin Hill which despite critical acclaim was not renewed for a second season due to the troubles that UPN was having^{[citation needed]}. He reprised the role of Benny for the 2005 Rent film. Diggs is featured on the following cast recordings: Carousel 1994 revival cast; Rent 1996 original Broadway cast; The Wild Party original off-Broadway cast. He also sings on the Rent film soundtrack. In 2002, he reprised his role as the Bandleader in the film adaptation of Chicago, and also played opposite Christian Bale as Bale's partner/antagonist Brandt in the dystopian sci-fi thriller Equilibrium.

In 2003, Diggs was on Punk'd after being tricked by Ashton Kutcher, while getting a check-up at a Punk'd-operated doctor's office. In early 2006, Diggs guest-starred for several episodes as Will Truman's love interest, James, on the final season of Will & Grace. In May, ABC picked up his pilot, Day Break, in which he portrayed a detective trapped in the same day and forced to relive it to clear his name of murder; the show debuted in mid-November 2006, but was abruptly canceled due to poor ratings. Although his film and television career continue to move forward, he still returns to the stage frequently. Most recently he was seen alongside James McDaniel in Charles Fuller's A Soldier's Play at Second Stage Theatre in New York.

Diggs co-stars opposite Kate Walsh in Private Practice, the fall 2007 spin-off of Grey's Anatomy.^[7] Diggs had a guest role on The West Wing as a Secret Service agent in charge of the security detail for the President's daughter. He then guest-starred on Grey's Anatomy again in the Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice Crossover Event. Diggs stars in the live adaptation of the comic Dylan Dog: Dead of Night.^[8] He also narrated the ESPN Films documentary The Fab Five about University of Michigan basketball players Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson.

Personal life[link]

Diggs married Rent co-star actress Idina Menzel on January 11, 2003. Their son, Walker Nathaniel Diggs, was born on September 2, 2009. He also co-owns and co-directs a dance company, dre.dance with fellow Broadway veteran, Andrew Palermo.^[9]

Filmography[link]

TV credits[link]

Awards and honors[link]

In popular culture[link]

• In 2012, in the "Dr. Klaustus" episode of the animated TV series American Dad, the character Roger the Alien sees a picture of Diggs in a magazine and comments that he's "still perfect." He refers to Diggs as "my constant, my ebony north star".

References[link]

Notes

External links[link]

• Taye Diggs' official website
• Taye Diggs on Twitter
• Taye Diggs on Facebook
• Taye Diggs at the Internet Movie Database
• Taye Diggs at the Internet Broadway Database
• Taye Diggs at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Taye Diggs interview