as Julia Redding

Suzy burst onto the international scene as America's Hope at the '68 Olympics in Grenoble, France. She went on to become a three time World Freestyle Champion & Triple Hall of Famer. With remarkable staying power and timeless looks, she has been in the top three of the "Most Popular Women Athletes in America" polls in "People Magazine" and "Family Weekly Magazine", etc. for the last 28 years. In '96, this Baby Boomer, proving that it is a new era for women and wisdom, was named Skiing Magazine's " Skier with the Most Sex Appeal" in history! - over Ivana Trump, Roger Moore, Robert Redford, and Jean Claude Killy.

Thanks to her commercials that pioneered "fun and fitness" (and women) in America (that she studied in Europe), her film "Fire & Ice" was the biggest box office ski hit world-wide. By pioneering ski ballet and making freestyle an Olympic event, Suzy has attracted over $150 million in advertising to popularize her sport and has been an important role model for young women. In leading a march down Pennsylvania Blvd. For Title IX - ³Equal Opportunity for Women in School Sports² - and setting up the first meeting at the White House in '76, to get Title IX enforced, the tall graceful blond helped make Atlanta, "The Women¹s Olympics." It saved taxpayers a trillion dollars in Welfare, since the Surgeon General has found a correlation between lowered teen pregnancy and fitness.

Born into an Olympic family in Rutland, Vermont, studying journalism and photography at the Universities of Denver, Washington, UCLA and Innsbruck, she speaks French and German. At Denver, she first tasted discrimination, yet realizing the life enhancing effects of sports, Suzy started making waves! It was while skiing with President Ford and working on a legislative bill to give athletes representation, that his ad man, impressed with her bold vision, gave her the Chapstick break! After Grenoble, she experimented in ski films, inventing the graceful ski ballet that Baryshnikov "loved". Studying ballet as a child, she relalized her dream, to dance down mountains. She then put "Freestyle" on the map on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson; raised $1 million to start a Women¹s Division (after beating the guys); and was pivotal in making Freestyle and Olympic sport.

Suzy is currently working in cooperation with the Telluride Ski and Golf Company on the "Telluride Native American Ski Program" to honor Native Americans. The purpose is to "Welcome Home the Utes", and includes three weekends of free skiing and a cultural exchange. In keeping with the trend across America, it is also an attempt to heal the wounds of this sacred valley, which was legally swindled from the Utes before the turn of the century. Giving back some of the joy of the mountains through skiing is an empowering, healthy way to help make amends, since Native Americans are still suffering from the economic set-backs and abuse we caused them. Since the buck is not their God, most cannot afford high-priced lift tickets, etc. In August '97, 154 members of Team Colorado, Utes and Navajo, will attend the "2nd Annual North American Indigenous Games" - this year in Victoria, British Columbia. Consisting of 14 Olympic events, with 64,000 attendance, it is a native Olympics! Olympic coaches and athletes from the Colorado Springs¹ Training Center are helping them win! The Telluride event will be a stepping stone and in the forefront of encouraging a Winter Games.