Height: 5-7 (1.68m)
 Weight: 135 (61.4kg)
 Birth Date: Dec. 10, 1978
 Birth Place: Concord, NH
 Home Town: Moultonborough, NH
 Team: A
 School: Cornell University
 Sponsor: Sprint
 Year on Team: 9th
 Club: Team Summit

Hardaway is an all-around athlete whose talents aren’t limited to the slopes. She started skiing at age 6, and gave up gymnastics for the sport. She says gymnastics gave her the best base for everything else, including team sports. As a freshman shortstop in high school, Hardaway drove in the game-winning run in the semifinals of the 1994 state softball tournament. She also helped the Moultonborough Panthers come from behind to win a volleyball state title and continued her softball career at Cornell University, where she played center field.

Hardaway has always been a clutch player and team member, and correlates being in a moguls start gate to being at bat with the game on the line. "The bottom line is that when I'm in the gate, I'm comfortable," she says. "I just love pressure."

Sixth place 2002 Winter Olympic Games, Salt Lake City, UT. After two seasons of knee problems, Hannah Hardaway broke through in 2000-2001 when she placed third in the year-end moguls standings and created high drama for the U.S. team at the World Championships. Ten days after earning her first career World Cup win on the Olympic course in Deer Valley, Utah, Hardaway won the qualifying round in her World Championships debut. In the final (in which athletes start clean), she was the last skier to compete. She crashed on the top jump and ended up 14th. Hardaway rebounded with a third-place finish nine days later at the World Cup at Sunday River, Maine, a second place in Japan, and finished the World Cup season with a second victory at the finale in Himos, Finland. She also won her second consecutive U.S. moguls title that March.

Child prodigy
Hardaway had a lot of success at a young age. She made the U.S. team at 16, won five junior U.S. national titles and the 1997 junior world title in Finland. She just missed a berth at the 1997 World Championships, but in early 1998, her knee troubles began. Her promising career was derailed by two knee surgeries - one in 1998 and one in 1999. The problems began when she blew out her left ACL, MCL and meniscus at a minor (Nor-Am) event in Lake Placid, New York, that she was using as practice.

Clutch athlete
Hardaway started skiing at 6. At 11, she met Evan Dybvig, who was skiing bumps at Killington, Vermont. When her brother, inspired by Dybvig, pursued freestyle, 12-year-old Hannah began competing because she wanted to be like her brother. She gave up gymnastics to do it, and looking back, she says gymnastics gave her the best base for everything else, including team sports. As a freshman shortstop in high school, Hardaway drove in the game-winning run in the semifinals of the 1994 state softball tournament. She also helped the Moultonborough Panthers come from behind to win a volleyball state title. She continued her softball career at Cornell University, where she played center field. She has always been a clutch player and correlates being in a moguls start gate to being at bat with the game on the line. "The bottom line is that when I'm in the gate, I'm comfortable," she says. "I just love pressure."

Golden roommate
Hardaway was 1992 Olympic gold medalist Donna Weinbrecht's roommate during the 2001 World Championships, where the veteran superstar did not qualify for the finals for the first time in her World Championships career.

Hannah Hardaway At A Glance

Career Highlights... Placed fifth in moguls at the 2002 Winter Olympics | Captured six World Cup medals in 2002 | Double gold medalist in 2000 National Moguls and Dual Moguls Championships | Awarded the 1997 Junior World Championship gold medal | Member of the US Freestyle Ski Team since 1996 | Five-time Junior National Champion |

Lights, Camera, Action... Hannah was one of two Olympic athletes to be featured on MTV’s “Diary” | Served as guest host of Nickelodeon’s “Wild and Crazy Kids” show | Since completing her studies at Cornell in business management and marketing, Hardaway hopes to become a creative director in advertising |

Hardaway On-Base... At Moultonborough Academy High (NH), she was named first team all-state in softball, basketball and volleyball | She also led her teams to three state titles in softball and one in volleyball | Accepted to Cornell University on an academic scholarship, Hannah played centerfield for the Ivy League Champion softball team |

Career Highlights

2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games - 5th Place
2002 2nd at U.S. Freestyle Championships
Ranked 2nd in the world in 2002
Two World Cup wins in 2001
U.S. mogul champion for 2000 and 2001
1997 Junior World moguls champion
Five-time Junior National Moguls champion
Winner of 53 moguls competitions