Known as one of the world's most successful female ski racers, Lindsey Vonn is coming out of retirement to rejoin the Stifel U.S. Ski Team. She is the only American woman to capture downhill gold at the Olympics, has 82 World Cup victories, 137 World Cup podiums, seven World Championship medals, and 20 World Cup titles (including four Overall World Cup Crystal Globes).

In August of 2015, during her first full, injury-free prep period in years, Vonn suffered another setback in Coronet Peak training, fracturing her left ankle. She returned with a vengeance, though, taking a clean podium sweep of Lake Louise and then continuing to break records – like grabbing her 36th downhill win in a two-run sprint downhill in Zauchensee to tie Annemarie Moser-Proell’s record. In La Thuile, Vonn grabbed second in the downhill, clinching her eighth World Cup downhill title and becoming the first skier in history to have won 20 crystal globes, surpassing Stenmark's 19. Leading in the overall standings, Vonn crashed in Soldeu-El-Tarter, Andorra's super G, sustaining a left tibial plateau fracture and going down on a sled following the crash. The next day, Vonn decided to ski the alpine combined in what seemed to be a superhero-like feat. She did what no one expected she could have done, and won the super-G portion of the combined and ended up 13th after slalom, forcing a three-way tie for the combined globe with one event to go.

With three weekends of racing remaining in the season, Vonn won nine races and was leading the World Cup overall – by a slim margin – and super G standings and in a three-way tie for the alpine combined lead. She wisely called it a season to set her sights on the healing process and prepare for a couple of big years to come. When the 2017 season began, Vonn joined the men's speed team for early season training in Portillo, Chile and was off to a promising start before breaking the humerus of her right arm in a November training crash at Copper Mountain, CO. This injury had Vonn out until January 15th, when she returned to competition at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria. She won in just her second race back – a downhill the following weekend at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany – though she struggled to find her timing for much of the remaining season. Winning a bronze in the downhill at St. Moritz, Switzerland World Championships, she said: "The bronze for me today feels like gold."

In 2018, Vonn grabbed five more victories, bringing her win total to 82. At PyeongChang, she won bronze in the downhill—which felt like gold to her that day. Then, she capped off the season with a downhill victory in Are, Sweden, at the World Cup Finals over Italy's Sofia Goggia, but she lost the overall downhill globe race by a mere three points. 

For the 2024-25 season Vonn announced she would come out of retirement and return to the World Cup speed tour full time. In the opening races Vonn showed the world what she was capable of scoring a fourth and sixth place in the St. Anton super-G and downhill. Vonn then went on to qualify for the 2025 World Championships team. It was at the final World Cup of the season when Vonn wowed the home crowd in Sun Valley as she captured second place in the super-G, 2,565 days after her last World Cup podium. 

LOOKING BACK
Growing up in the Twin Cities area (in Burnsville), Vonn was on skis at two before moving into Erich Sailer's renowned program at Buck Hill. She commuted to Vail for a few years before the Kildow family moved to Vail in the late Nineties. En route to the World Cup, she excelled at every level: Junior Olympics, Trofeo Topolino, Whistler Cup (kids 11-14), Junior Worlds, NorAms and Europa Cup.

OFF THE SNOW
Vonn is a media mogul. From her roots in small-town Minnesota, she has become a regular on "Most Marketable" athlete lists. Lindsey also has a nonprofit, The Lindsey Vonn Foundation, whose mission is empowering girls from underserved communities with a positive and constructive atmosphere. Learn more about the Lindsey Vonn Foundation here. 

Vonn is also a massive fan of other sports and recently played a large part in the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games. Lindsey is heavily involved in women's sports and recently invested in the Utah Royals National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) team.