Shaw Betsy

American snowboarder who competed in the 1998 Nagano Olympics. Previously, Shaw won the 1991 US Open Slalom. In 1995 she won the Giant Slalom, receiving the World Title, and that same year she received the bronze and silver medals for the ISF World Championships, held in Switzerland, and the snowboarding Alpine world title. She began skiing at the age of three with her father and siblings in Manchester, Vermont. She skied competitively, and was a member of the Burr and Burton ski team. In college, at age 20, she began snowboarding instead. She originally enrolled in the University of New Hampshire, but eventually transferred to the University of Vermont. She was sponsored by Burton, a snowboard manufacturer. Shaw retired from snowboarding a year after the Olympics. She married her husband and had two daughters. Career-wise, she is now a blogger and editor at the website Babycenter, and teaches skiing and snowboarding to children. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less