Everything about Jonny Moseley totally explained
Jonny Moseley (born
August 27,
1975) is the first
Puerto Rican to become a member of the
U.S. Ski Team.
Early years
Moseley was born in
San Juan,
Puerto Rico. In
1978, he saw snow for the first time when his family went on a trip to
California. Eventually, his family moved to
Tiburon, California, a suburb north of
San Francisco where he attended
The Branson School in Ross, California. His family would go to the
Sierra Nevadas every weekend. This and the fact that he was a better skier than his brothers inspired the then 9 year old Moseley to take skiing lessons. In
1992, he joined the
Squaw Valley Freestyle Ski Team and soon won his first Junior National title in Freestyle Skiing; he graduated from high school in
1993 and that same year was selected for the U.S. Ski Team.
United States Ski Team
Moseley tried but didn't qualify for the
1994 Winter Olympics held at
Lillehammer,
Norway and became determined to qualify for the 1998 Olympics. In
1995, he enrolled in the
University of California, Davis but, his education was interrupted by his intense training ; it wasn't until
2000 that he resumed his studies. The following year, he won his first World Cup Mogul.
In
1998, Moseley participated and won the first two World Cup events of the year; this led to his participation in the
1998 Winter Olympics held in
Nagano,
Japan where he won a gold medal. Later that year he secured the 1998 World Cup Mogul Skiing title with nine wins that season. He also won the U.S. National title.
In
1999, Moseley challenged the International Skiing federation to change their policy and to allow their athletes to participate in professional events, such as
ESPN's
X Games.
In
2000, Moseley won the U.S. Freeskiing Open and in
2001 regained a spot in the U.S. Ski Team at the World Cup qualifications held at Sunday River,
Maine. In
2002, Moseley competed but came in fourth place in the Olympic Games.
In
2002, Moseley gave the commencement convocation address at UC Berkeley. The choice by the senior class committee was controversial at the time because Moseley had dropped out of college.
Honors and recognitions
Among the honors and recognitions which Jonny Moseley has received is a parade in his honor where San Francisco Mayor
Willie Brown declared a "Jonny Moseley Day" and handed him the "Key" to the city. He was named "Sportsman of the Year" (1998) by the
U.S. Olympic Committee and has been featured on the cover of Freeskier and
Rolling Stone magazines.
Personal life
Moseley married Malia Rich, a business manager, on
March 25,
2006, in
Telluride, Colorado. Moseley met Rich in high school; the couple started dating in 2001 and got engaged on
April 20,
2003.
On
September 4,
2007, Rich gave birth to the couple's first child, named Jonathan William Moseley, Jr. "Jack" in
San Francisco,
California.
Later years
Moseley launched a
web site which sells products with his logo on them and has appeared on Ads for
McDonalds,
Sprint and
Budweiser.
Moseley, who currently lives in California, was the host of the
MTV reality show "The Battle of the Sexes". He is part of the celebrity panel of judges (along with
Steve Garvey and
Oksana Baiul) on the
ABC show "
Master of Champions".
He graduated from the
University of California, Berkeley on
May 17,
2007 with a
B.A. in
American Studies focusing on Consumer and Popular Culture.
On
X-Play, a
video game review show on the
G4 cable network, Moseley has become a running gag during reviews, due mostly to the ridiculousness of his dialogue (along with the acting) in the opening
FMV for the
PS2 game he endorsed,
Jonny Moseley Mad Trix, which contained an oft-mocked quote that sets up the game's
plot device:
ICER AIR event on September 2005 then at
AT&T Park in 2006 and 2007. He hosts the annual big-air ski and snowboard event.
Moseley is famous for an aerial ski move called "The Dinner Roll". Moseley talked about it during a 2002 speech at UC Berkeley:
2007, Moseley became an investor and show host for The
Ski Channel television network. He hosted the launch party for the channel in
Los Angeles which drew celebrities from the snow sport world and mainstream including:
Julia Mancuso,
Kirstina Koznick,
Lauren Ross and
Dash Longe and an assortment of other celebrities attended:
Alexandra Paul,
Donna Mills,
Melissa Rivers,
Dawnn Lewis,
Jaron Lowenstein,
Scott Grimes,
Kevin Durand,
Amy Pietz,
Jason Gray Stanford,
Sinjin Smith,
Pam Shriver and
George Lazenby.
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