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CT Native to Join USA Luge National Team for 2016-2017 Season
Ridgefielder Tucker West, who earned 2 World Cup medals and was U23 World Champion last season, will join Team USA's record-setting squad.
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – USA Luge recently announced that their national team will participate in the 2016-2017 World Cup and World Championship season, and the squad that captured a USA Luge-record 18 World Cup medals last winter will return.
Ridgefielder Tucker West, 20, who earned two World Cup medals and was the U23 World Champion last season will join Erin Hamlin, 2014 Olympic bronze medalist and 2009 World Champion; Chris Mazdzer, the third-ranked man in the final 2015-2016 World Cup standings; Summer Britcher, who tied for the most tour victories last season with three and Emily Sweeney, a World Cup silver medalist, according to a news release.
West is currently attending spring classes at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. The 2014 Olympian won the U23 world title and scored World Cup silver and bronze medals to place seventh on the campaign in 2013.
The 2016-2017 season will be highlighted by the World Championships in Igls, Austria. Sleds will also hit the ice on the new 2018 Olympic track in South Korea.
For more information visit www.usaluge.org.
Team Tucker Facebook photo
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