Lynsey Dyer
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Lynsey Dyer is an American freestyle skier
Freestyle skiing
Freestyle skiing is form of skiing which used to encompass two disciplines: aerials, and moguls. Except the two disciplines mentioned earlier Freestyle Skiing now consists of Skicross, Half Pipe and Slope Style...

 and Big Mountain skier. She grew up in Sun Valley, Idaho
Sun Valley, Idaho
Sun Valley is a resort city in Blaine County in the central part of the U.S. state of Idaho, adjacent to the city of Ketchum, lying within the greater Wood River valley. Tourists from around the world enjoy its skiing, hiking, ice skating, trail riding, tennis, and cycling. The population was 1,427...

. Lynsey also loves art and frequently does photography and graphic art. She also started shejumps.org which is a charity to inspire women to get involved with sports.

Skiing

Lynsey is the first female to be on the cover of Freeskier Magazine in the air with a record sized 65 foot jump. She has won every freesking competition she's entered and was awarded Skier of the Year by Powder Magazine. Lynsey has numerous accolades and achievements in big mountain skiing and has co-founded the non-profit SheJumps.org encouraging girls and women to participate in the outdoors through mentorship.

Film

She has been in numerous Ski Films produced by such film companies as Warren Miller, TGR, Rage, Generation Flinga, and Storm Shadow .Most recent Films include Catch me if you Can"Down Days", Warren Miller's Children of Winter, and TGR's Lost and Found.

Television

Lynsey has hosted such television shows as Freestyle files for NBC, the Ski Tour for ESPN and Mountain film for Outside Television. She has been seen in television commercials ranging from Jeep to Nissan to Coors.

She has been featured on the Weather Channel, Good morning America and various regional shows.

Lynsey is starring in two shows on The Ski Channel
The Ski Channel
The Ski Channel is a Video On Demand Cable, Satellite and Telco television network distributed on Comcast, Time Warner Cable, DirecTV, Verizon FiOS, Brighthouse Networks, Cablevision, RCN, AT&T U-Verse and Cox Communications. The technical term for a channel of this type is VODnet...

 for the 09/10 ski season. One is a talk show entitled Moguls and the other is a journey show where she travels to Japan. In the Japan show, Lynsey gets injured and has to have eye surgery in a Japanese Hospital.

External links



shejumps.org
lynseydyer.com
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