Hollands to compete in snowboarding Grand Prix

TAMARACK — Tamarack Resort will play host to the country's greatest snowboard competition series, the 2007-08 Chevy U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix, this weekend. U.S. Olympic medalists, X Games champions and world-class snowboarders go head-to-head at Tamarack on a 22-foot Olympic-sized SuperPipe and on a specially-constructed snowboard cross course.

Thousands of Idahoans turned out to cheer on the top-notch snowboarders during the Grand Prix's inaugural visit to Idaho last February. After winning the pipe competition at Tamarack, Olympic silver medalist Gretchen Bleiler remarked, "Having a pipe this big really does a lot for the progression of the sport. The crowd was awesome and just everything about being here was so good."

So the call is out to all Idahoans to show up and turn up the volume for a literal Who's Who of snowboarding. In addition to Bleiler, riders scheduled to compete at Tamarack include Olympic medalists Hannah Teter, Kelly Clark, Lindsay Jacobelis and Seth Wescott, along with X Games medalists Steve Fisher, Scotty Lago, and Sandpoint native Nate Holland — the reigning three-time X-Games champion. Pat Holland will also be racing in the series.

NBC will air the event on Feb. 16.