The main purpose of this site is to showcase and publicize my career as an alpine ski racer and the amazing things I have been able to experience and accomplish because of it. Also linked to this home page are three other pages; a photo gallery, a page with personal accomplishments and rankings, and a page detailing my journey as an alpine racer. I didn't build this site to brag or because I'm cocky and want to show off how good I am. I built it (yes I wrote ALL the code for this site) to help bring some attention to the sport of ski racing, to myself, and to my team. Enjoy.

My name is Hugh Coley Oliver, but everyone calls me Coley. I love to ski, and I especially love to race. I learnt to ski while I was learning to walk. Skiing is in my blood, both my Mother and Father were ski racers. I am a Freshman on the UNH Alpine Ski Team. Skiing for a Division 1 ski team is one of the hardest things for a young athlete to accomplish in the US. Aside from being on the US Ski Team, skiing D1 is the hardest level to reach in ski racing. It is much harder than playing Division 1 football or hockey. Am I being to bold? Maybe. But consider this. There are two divisions of collegiate racing. East and West. The West has five Division 1 ski teams, the East has seven, so 11 schools total. And each team only has six spots per gender. That means every college bound skier in the country is fighting for one of a possible seventy-two spots. Seventy-two spots for countless racers. And thats before you count out the spots that are taken by Canadian and European skiers who come to the US for a free education on scholarship.

But I digress. That is not the point of this site. The point I was trying to prove is that Alpine Racing is the hardest sport for young athletes to succeed. I have worked my entire life to get where I am today, nothing was given to me and I don't expect anything ever will be. I could not be happier to be part of one of the most elite college sports teams in the world. What I am trying to say is I don't understand why our sport has so little recognition in the US. Did you know that an American man has won the Giant Slalom World title 3 years running, won an Olympic Gold medal and a total of 11 World Cup races? His name is Ted Ligety and he is the best Giant Slalom skier in the world. Did you know that an American woman has won a total of 4 Overall World Titles, 12 discipline World Titles, an Olympic Gold medal, and 53 World Cup races? Her name is Lindsey Vonn and she is the most successful ski racer of all time. With success like that you would think ski racing would be a more widely publicized sport in our country but it isn't.

With that said my goal with this site is to publicize myself. I would love to hope that I could publicize the entire sport someday but that is far to big of a task for right now. So here is my story.