World Wide Ski Team

World Wide Ski Team to start Ski Racing

Ruidoso, NM --- Alpine Ski Coach and racing competitor, Hubert Seigmann announced the formation of the Worldwide Ski Team. Formed with the goal of producing World Cup ski athletes from around the world, Seigmann sees the team as creating international unity and bringing people of different races and cultures to race under one banner. No one country will be represented.

Seigmann said "This will the first time that there will be an truly international World Cup Team. The World Wide Ski Team will represent the best of world athletes focusing on the original Olympic goal of athletes racing against other athletes not country against country."

Seigmann will be soliciting sanctioning by FIS (International Ski Federation - Fédération Internationale de Ski). If the team is sanctioned from that process, Seigmann will start racing under the banner of WWST in 2008 at the Hahnenkamm in Kitsbuhel, Austria. Seigmann previously foreran the Hahnenkamm Super G and trained for the downhill.

A formal process for admitting athletes to the World Wide Ski Team will be announced later this year but will based on the FIS race profile.

Seigmann's idea grew out of principles set forth by his good friend and mentor, American businessman and international lawyer, George Bronfen. Bronfen stated his principle for living as revolving around the concept of the “International Man.”

Bronfen said, ”What is the International Man? He is a man that respects all nations but is slave to none. He further stated, “Peace in this world will only come through the growth of the international man. It is only through this brotherhood of international men who will one day, I hope, rule this world, that we will then have peace on earth and good will.”

A native of Anif, Austria, Seigmann, 46, has had a life long passion of skiing and racing. Two sever bouts with cancer altered his ambitions and course along the way.

Since 1987, he has been based in Ruidoso, NM at Ski Apache where he has taught skiing and racing to many a youngster, including Mescalero Apache. While slowing regaining his health, Seigmann has renewed his racing dreams and participated as a ski racing forerunner at the 2004 Hahnenkamm.

In 1989, Seigmann held his first training camp under the name, A Touch of Austria, for young ski racers at Balckcomb in Canada. He has since moved his camps to his native Austria, holding them at Kitzsteinhorn among other places. He holds both Austrain and American certification in teaching and coaching. He has been married to his wife of 21 years, Lisa, and together they have one son Stephan, 19, who ski raced for many years.

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