Shauna Rohbock is competing in the Winter Olympics 2010 in Vancouver in the bobsled.
In February 2009, Shauna Rohbock won the Whistler World Cup on the 2010 Olympic track. While she says the victory was a great confidence booster, she isn't quick to call herself favorite for Olympic gold. "Helen Upperton, the Canadian driver, she was at sixty percent. She had torn cartilage in her ribs.... And Sandra Kiriasis 0- who won the last [Olympic] gold medal - had a little spat with her brakeman before and ended up not racing with her. Those two will definitely be contenders and I told them I'm not fooled by them... It was good, definitely, to win there... But going into the Games it will be tough with those two back to 100 percent."
At the 2009 World Championships, Rohbock won the silver medal. It was her best finish at the global event -0 her prior best was two bronze medals - but she was frustrated and angry. Rohbock raced with Elana Meyers as her brakeman, as she had when she won at Whistler. But her first choice was longtime brakeman Valerie Fleming, with whom she won Olympic silver in Torino. Rohbock says the coaching staff wouldn't allow the move and she believes that cost her a world title. "I'm glad I walked away with the silver, but I was very, very frustrated because I know I could have won a gold medal there," she says. "I blame that on the coaches."
At the Torino Games, Rohbock drove USA-1 to an Olympic silver medal. She and Fleming finished .71 seconds behind Germany's Sandra Kiriasis, the Salt Lake silver medalist who entered the event as the heavy favorite. Rohbock's silver turned out to be the only medal won by the United States in sliding sports in 2006. Rohbock used the same sled that Jill Bakken rode to gold four years earlier. She still drives that sled, which she calls "Buddy."
Rohbock watched the 2002 Olympic gold medal run of Bakken and Vonetta Flowers from the finish dock and celebrated with them at the end. She had been Bakken's brakeman for most of the races in the two seasons leading up to the Salt Lake Games, but lost her spot to Flowers after a December 2001 push off. "Everybody thinks I should be mad that they won, but I'm really not," Rohbock said afterwards. "There were times, obviously, I thought to myself, 'Oh, that could be me,' but it wasn't. It wasn't supposed to be." She did get a chance to go down the Olympic track in Salt Lake 0- but as a forerunner. Rohbock braked for a sled driven by fellow alternate Steve Holcomb.
Rohbock emerged from her 2002 Olympic experience looking for a way to direct her own career and decided to become a driver. "As a brakeman you feel expendable," she explains. "You're always waiting to get kicked out of the sled, just waiting for someone to come along and push better." In her early seasons as a driver she developed a reputation for driving on the edge and her tendency to crash.
Rohbock was a four-year member of the women's soccer team at Brigham Young University, where she was the leading scorer in the nation as a sophomore and graduated as BYU's all-time scoring leader. She was a two-time All-American in both soccer and heptathlon. One week after the Salt Lake Games, Rohbock traveled to California to try out for the WUSA's San Diego Spirit. She made the team and played for the Spirit for two seasons until the league folded. Rohbock was recruited for bobsled during her final collegiate track season.
Rohbock has been part of the World Class Athlete Program since 2000 and has attained the rank of sergeant in the Utah National Guard, where her primary role is recruiting. In December 2003, her unit was mobilized and Rohbock was called up. During a physical examination, she was diagnosed with a torn rotator cuff in her left shoulder and was not deployed to Iraq with her unit, the 115th Engineer Group, in March 2004.
Rohbock grew up in Orem, Utah, "on a farm and had everywhere to roam on my little dirt bike and was definitely a tomboy on my skateboard." The middle child of seven siblings, today she has 28 nieces and nephews. She describes herself as the jokester of the family and the most competitive. Skeleton athlete Noelle Pikus-Paceis also from Orem and both attended Mountain View High School, though not at the same time.
In February 2009, Shauna Rohbock won the Whistler World Cup on the 2010 Olympic track. While she says the victory was a great confidence booster, she isn't quick to call herself favorite for Olympic gold. "Helen Upperton, the Canadian driver, she was at sixty percent. She had torn cartilage in her ribs.... And Sandra Kiriasis 0- who won the last [Olympic] gold medal - had a little spat with her brakeman before and ended up not racing with her. Those two will definitely be contenders and I told them I'm not fooled by them... It was good, definitely, to win there... But going into the Games it will be tough with those two back to 100 percent."
At the 2009 World Championships, Rohbock won the silver medal. It was her best finish at the global event -0 her prior best was two bronze medals - but she was frustrated and angry. Rohbock raced with Elana Meyers as her brakeman, as she had when she won at Whistler. But her first choice was longtime brakeman Valerie Fleming, with whom she won Olympic silver in Torino. Rohbock says the coaching staff wouldn't allow the move and she believes that cost her a world title. "I'm glad I walked away with the silver, but I was very, very frustrated because I know I could have won a gold medal there," she says. "I blame that on the coaches."
At the Torino Games, Rohbock drove USA-1 to an Olympic silver medal. She and Fleming finished .71 seconds behind Germany's Sandra Kiriasis, the Salt Lake silver medalist who entered the event as the heavy favorite. Rohbock's silver turned out to be the only medal won by the United States in sliding sports in 2006. Rohbock used the same sled that Jill Bakken rode to gold four years earlier. She still drives that sled, which she calls "Buddy."
Rohbock watched the 2002 Olympic gold medal run of Bakken and Vonetta Flowers from the finish dock and celebrated with them at the end. She had been Bakken's brakeman for most of the races in the two seasons leading up to the Salt Lake Games, but lost her spot to Flowers after a December 2001 push off. "Everybody thinks I should be mad that they won, but I'm really not," Rohbock said afterwards. "There were times, obviously, I thought to myself, 'Oh, that could be me,' but it wasn't. It wasn't supposed to be." She did get a chance to go down the Olympic track in Salt Lake 0- but as a forerunner. Rohbock braked for a sled driven by fellow alternate Steve Holcomb.
Rohbock emerged from her 2002 Olympic experience looking for a way to direct her own career and decided to become a driver. "As a brakeman you feel expendable," she explains. "You're always waiting to get kicked out of the sled, just waiting for someone to come along and push better." In her early seasons as a driver she developed a reputation for driving on the edge and her tendency to crash.
Rohbock was a four-year member of the women's soccer team at Brigham Young University, where she was the leading scorer in the nation as a sophomore and graduated as BYU's all-time scoring leader. She was a two-time All-American in both soccer and heptathlon. One week after the Salt Lake Games, Rohbock traveled to California to try out for the WUSA's San Diego Spirit. She made the team and played for the Spirit for two seasons until the league folded. Rohbock was recruited for bobsled during her final collegiate track season.
Rohbock has been part of the World Class Athlete Program since 2000 and has attained the rank of sergeant in the Utah National Guard, where her primary role is recruiting. In December 2003, her unit was mobilized and Rohbock was called up. During a physical examination, she was diagnosed with a torn rotator cuff in her left shoulder and was not deployed to Iraq with her unit, the 115th Engineer Group, in March 2004.
Rohbock grew up in Orem, Utah, "on a farm and had everywhere to roam on my little dirt bike and was definitely a tomboy on my skateboard." The middle child of seven siblings, today she has 28 nieces and nephews. She describes herself as the jokester of the family and the most competitive. Skeleton athlete Noelle Pikus-Paceis also from Orem and both attended Mountain View High School, though not at the same time.
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