Rosey Fletcher
Medal record | ||
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Women's snowboarding | ||
Representing the United States | ||
Olympic Games | ||
2006 Turin | Parallel giant slalom | |
FIS Snowboarding World Championships
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1999 Berchtesgaden | Parallel giant slalom | |
2001 Madonna di Campiglio | Parallel giant slalom |
Gabrielle Rose "Rosey" Fletcher (born November 30, 1975, in
Parallel giant slalom
event.
Biography
Early years
Fletcher grew up in
Girdwood, Alaska.[1][2] She started skiing cross-country, then moved to alpine racing, GS, and Super-G.[3] Then she tried snowboarding and focused on GS.[3]
Snowboarding career
She competed at the
Parallel giant slalom event.[4]
Fletcher also won seven US national championships, two World Championship
World Cup victories, and had 20 World Cup podium finishes.[4][1] She was on the USA Snowboard Team for ten years.[1]
On March 5, 2006, in Soldotna, Alaska, Fletcher received the honor of lighting the cauldron in the opening ceremony of the Kenai Peninsula 2006 Arctic Winter Games.[5] In 2007, she was studying to compete her degree at Eastern Oregon University.[6]
Fletcher was inducted into the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame in 2010.[4][7]
Litigation
In February 2023, Fletcher and other former
sexual acts through force, manipulation, emotional abuse, intimidation, and retaliation."[9] Fletcher said that Foley sexually assaulted her at a U.S. team camp when she was 19, and again at a post-race event at the Olympics.[9] Foley and the other defendants asked the court to throw out the lawsuit; a hearing is set for October 2023.[10]
Separately, on August 8, 2023, after an 18-month investigation,
References
- ^ a b c ""Candidates for Overall Athlete Board Seat"" (PDF).
- ^ "EP 131 All or nothing with Rosey Fletcher". Crude Conversations.
- ^ a b "1998 Olympic Athlete Bios: Snowboarder Rosey Fletcher". Mountain Zone.
- ^ a b c d "Rosey Fletcher". Alaska Sports Hall Of Fame.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Gabrielle Rose "Rosey" Fletcher". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
- ^ [url=www.alaskajournal.com%2Fcommunity%2F2007-11-04%2Frosey-fletcher&usg=AOvVaw0vnnfKHj2X9G1ee2Bt9Dur&opi=89978449 Alaska Journal]
- ^ "4 to be inducted into Alaska Sports Hall of Fame". Anchorage Daily News.
- ^ "Rosey Fletcher". documentcloud.org.
- ^ a b c Alyssa Roenigk and Tisha Thompson (February 3, 2023). "Olympians sue USOPC, others for sex trafficking". ESPN.
- ^ Bill Shaikin (August 8, 2023). "Former Team USA snowboard coach Peter Foley suspended 10 years for sexual misconduct". The Brunswick News.
- ^ "Centralized Disciplinary Database". U.S. Center for SafeSport.
- ^ Les Carpenter (August 8, 2023). "Olympics; Former U.S. snowboard coach Peter Foley suspended after sexual misconduct probe," The Washington Post.
- ^ Tom Schad (August 8, 2023). "SafeSport suspends ex-US Olympic snowboarding coach Peter Foley after sexual misconduct probe". USA TODAY.
External links
- FIS-Ski.com Biography/Results
- Instagram page
- roseyfletcher.com