Meghan Tierney
{{Short description|American snowboarder (born 1997)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|January 15, 1997}}
| birth_place = Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S.
| hometown = Eagle, Colorado, U.S.
| height = 5'9"
}}
Meghan Tierney (born January 15, 1997){{Cite web |url=https://usskiandsnowboard.org/athletes/meghan-tierney |title=Meghan Tierney |website=U.S. Ski & Snowboard |access-date=January 28, 2018}} is a two time Olympian American snowboarder. She competed in snowboard cross at the 2018 Winter Olympics and at the 2022 Winter Olympics.{{Cite web |title=Meghan TIERNEY |url=https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/snowboard/athlete-profile-n1044772-meghan-tierney.htm |work=Beijing 2022 Olympics |access-date=February 10, 2022 |archive-date=February 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220210201849/https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/snowboard/athlete-profile-n1044772-meghan-tierney.htm |url-status=dead }}
Early life
Born in Long Branch, New Jersey,{{cite web |url=https://www.teamusa.org/us-ski-and-snowboard/athletes/Meghan-Tierney |title=Meghan Tierney |publisher=Team USA |access-date=June 24, 2019 |quote=Birthplace: Long Branch, N.J. |archive-date=January 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129140732/https://www.teamusa.org/us-ski-and-snowboard/athletes/Meghan-Tierney |url-status=bot: unknown }} Tierney was raised in Rumson, New Jersey and nearby Little Silver.Edelson, Stephen. [https://www.app.com/story/sports/olympics/2018/01/25/tierney-winter-olympics/1064607001/ "Winter Olympics: Monmouth County native Meghan Tierney headed to South Korea"], Asbury Park Press, January 25, 2018. Accessed January 28, 2018. "Meghan Tierney was the young American girl competing in the rough-and-tumble world of international snowboard cross, challenging the top female snowboarders on the planet on icy turns and big-air jumps at harrowing speeds down the most treacherous courses.... Now Tierney, who grew up in Rumson and Little Silver, joins teammates like silver medalist Lindsey Jacobellis, her idol and former instructor, who was teaching her jumps at an early age, on the biggest stage in winter sports." She began snowboarding at age ten. Her family moved to Edwards, Colorado to allow Meghan and her siblings, Chris, Daniel, and Makayla, to further their snowboarding training. Meghan attended the Vail Ski & Snowboard Academy for her first two years of high school before transferring to the International Snowboard Training Center.{{Cite news |url=https://www.vaildaily.com/news/sports/meghan-tierney-of-eagle-makes-olympics/ |title=Eagle’s Meghan Tierney makes Olympics |last=LaConte |first=John |date=January 25, 2018 |work=vaildaily.com |access-date=January 28, 2018}}
Career
At the Junior level, Tierney placed 4th in snowboardcross at the 2014 FIS Junior World Championships and 15th in snowboardcross at the 2016 FIS Junior World Championships. Tierney is the only US athlete ever to win both the NORAM and Europa Cup Championships. She also took 10th place at the 2016 X-GAMES in SBX.
In November 2016, Tierney fell during a training camp in Austria, breaking the L3 vertebrae in her back. The injury forced Tierney to sit out the rest of the 2016-17 season. Tierney placed 25th and 31st in her first World Cup races of the 2017-18 season. Tierney finished the final World Cup race before Olympic selection in seventh, the top-placing American woman at the event. She was selected to compete in snowboardcross for the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
References
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External links
- {{FIS snowboarder|167732}}
- {{Team USA|new_id=meghan-tierney-990453|old_id=TI/Meghan-Tierney|archive=}}
- {{Olympics.com|meghan-tierney}}
- {{Olympedia}}
- {{X Games profile|old_id=3961962}}
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Category:People from Eagle County, Colorado
Category:People from Little Silver, New Jersey
Category:Sportspeople from Long Branch, New Jersey
Category:People from Rumson, New Jersey
Category:Sportspeople from Monmouth County, New Jersey
Category:American female snowboarders
Category:Snowboarders at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Category:Snowboarders at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Category:Olympic snowboarders for the United States
Category:21st-century American sportswomen
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