Turin, Italy 2006 Winter Olympic Games

Profile: Raising the bar with her powerful halfpipe riding style

Highlights
Destined to carry on the Teter family legacy, Hannah has evolved from a little girl with amazing skills to a driving force behind the progression of women's halfpipe. This proud Vermonter proves that she can hold it down on all fronts by juggling a demanding school schedule (she graduated high school this spring) along with double-overhead airs, frontside 900s, and a surge of media attention. Hannah's potential is almost limitless thanks to her strong support staff including brothers Abe and Elijah, who climb plenty of podiums themselves, and oldest bro Amen, who makes sure she handles her business.

Update
Hannah has scored BIG results in 2005 including a win at the Breckenridge Grand Prix and bronze at the World Championships. Now she's scoring serious props earning honors with year No. 3 with U.S. Snowboarding and recently was named to the Burton Global Team. Rest assured the annual family trip to Hawaii is in the works if Mom and Dad can pull Hannah away from the skate park. After tasting the Olympic flavor while forerunning the '02 Games, the Teter mobile has a "Torino or bust" sign in the back window.

Start-up
In a family with three snowboarding brothers, the hand-me-down was a given when Teter started riding at the age of 8. She took her first lesson at her home mountain of Okemo because her brothers "were someplace else on the mountain," and didn't want to hang out with their little sister. They don't have any problem being around her these days, though.

Injuries
Hannah had a scare when she was landed on while waiting to drop into the pipe at a World Cup in Japan in 2004. Although she fractured a few bones in her back, the combination of tough "Gumby Girl" construction and hard work with a personal trainer helped her return to action remarkably fast.

Personal
Aside from her namesake on the big stage of snowboarding, Hannah says the most important thing is that people know she is "just a normal girl who followed something that lead to somewhere." For her, that "somewhere" is traveling the globe doing what she loves and "meeting all kinds of people who speak all kinds of languages," all thanks to the influence of her bros - Amen, Josh, Abe and Elijah - and the awesome guidance of her parents, Pat and Jeff... Look for Hannah on the big screen this December 2005 in "First Descent: The Story of the Snowboarding Revolution" (check it out at www.mdfilms.com)... Favorite off-snow activities include skateboarding, bouncing on the trampoline, yoga, downing homemade tofu lasagna, and collecting "cool" postcards.