Ryan Sederquist has been the Vail Daily’s sports and outdoors reporter since November 2021. He won a 2023 Colorado Press Association first-place award for sports event coverage and has appeared in a wide range of publications, from Minnesota Monthly to Fasterskier.com.
Prior to accepting his dream job, he held positions as an elementary music teacher, NCAA ski coach, high school band director and world history and economics teacher. Along the way, he earned a Master’s degree in exercise science from Adams State University and picked up a side gig as a World Cup cross-country ski broadcaster.
A Minnesota-native, Sederquist met his wife, Christie at Concordia College, where he ran track and cross-country and played trumpet in the band. They currently live in Leadville with their two daughters, Novi and Ella, and their 5-year-old German Shepherd-border collie mix, Ajee.
When he isn’t busy inserting Pete Maravich references into his stories, he can be found running up mountains, discussing oatmeal recipes on his podcast or reading books by Doug Wilson. Sometimes he tries to do all three at the same time.
In working with Justine Dufour-Lapointe and Mikaël Kingsbury, Ski and Snowboard Club Vail mogul program director Freddy Mooney has witnessed Olympic gold-level discipline firsthand. And yet, Kayla Broecker‘s dual commitment to skiing and distance running...
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Summit’s Seth Montgomery became the first three-time giant slalom state champion on Wednesday. The Tiger senior won the event for the third year in a row on the first day of the CHSAA State Alpine...
Mikaela Shiffrin‘s Olympic dry spell is over. On Wednesday morning in Cortina, the 9-time slalom crystal globe winner parlayed a 0.82-second first-run lead into her third-career gold medal — and first since 2018. Ever since her...
Jaelin Kauf claimed her third-career Olympic silver medal and Ski and Snowboard Club Vail alumna Liz Lemley backed up her individual gold with a bronze in the dual moguls on Saturday morning in Livigno. Jakara Anthony bounced back from a disappointing...
Ski and Snowboard Club Vail alumnus Dylan Walczyk finished 13th in the Olympic individual men’s mogul competition on Thursday morning in Livigno. The 33-year-old, who was seventh in the qualification on Tuesday, posted a score...
Vail’s Sarah Schleper became the oldest female Alpine skier to compete in an Olympic Games on Thursday. Schleper, who turns 47 on Feb. 19, was the 43rd and final skier to take to the Olympia...
Eagle snowboarder Jake Pates continued his inspiring comeback on Wednesday in Italy. The 27-year-old — who stepped away from the sport due to physical and mental health struggles in 2020 — snuck into the Olympic halfpipe...
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