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PFC Courtney Zablocki

PFC Courtney Zablocki joined the Colorado Army National Guard after her fourth-place finish at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy. She has finished in the top 10 in the past two World Championships, and though she has not yet won a medal at a World Cup event, she did place fourth in December 2001 in Igls, Austria. At the World Cup event on the Cesana Pariol track, a test event for the Torino Olympics, PFC Zablocki finished fifth.

As a private first class in the Colorado Army National Guard, she started in luge at age 12 after seeing an advertisement for a luge clinic posted at a local recreation center. She won the street luge time trial at the clinic and later received an invitation to Lake Placid, NY to try the sport on ice. After her first run down the ice chute, she said to herself, “OK, that’s it. I’m never doing that again.” But her second run was less scary, and she decided the sport was fun. She attended one more screening camp at Lake Placid before being named to the U.S. development team. She began competing internationally at the junior level in the 1996-97 season. A former gymnast and diver, PFC Zablocki has good “toe point,” and her family joked that her aerodynamic feet would make her a good “luger.”

Noteworthy

• Highest U.S. Women’s Olympic finish in Torino, Italy 2006 (4th Place)
• U.S. track record holder, Salt Lake City, UT
• Two time National Champion (2004-2005, 2005-2006)
• Challenge Cup Bronze medalist
• 2007 Verizon U.S. National Championships Bronze medalist
• A Winter 2006 World Cup team event Bronze medalist
• 2005-06 Verizon U.S. National Champion
• 2002 Olympian
• A Fall 2005 World Cup team event Gold medalist
• Inducted into the Colorado Sports Women Hall of Fame in 2006
• Member of the Colorado Army National Guard

In Their Own Words

“It hasn’t been easy …The hardest part was trying to be consistent; to earn the best result you possibly could, so you could get whatever tier you needed to make the Olympic Team.”