Jacobs To Attend World Pro Ski Tour Race

~Race To Air March 19 on CBS Sports~

GLENS FALLS, NY –

Jake Jacobs of Glens Falls will attend the World Pro Ski Tour event at Sunday River, Maine March 9-11. The event offers a total purse of $30,000, with the winner taking home $10,000. An international field is expected to race, including a number of US Ski Team athletes, among them Robby Kelly and AJ Ginnis both of whom recently competed at the FIS Alpine World Championships in St. Moritz.

The World Pro Ski Tour features head-to-head racing on parallel slalom courses. Skiers must qualify for a birth into the round of 32. Advancement through the brackets is accomplished by skiing faster than your opponent over two run heats. The courses feature two 4 foot high pro jumps.

Jacobs, the son of John and Susan Jacobs of Glens Falls, has had a prodigious ski racing career. In 2009, he was the youngest male to win the coveted Empire Cup Trophy at age 15 which is awarded by the combined results of Slalom, Giant Slalom and Super-G at the Empire State Games. Jake went on to compete on the FIS international circuit with several starts in Nor Am competition in Colorado as a member of Gunther Birgmann’s Treble Cone Race Academy. He is currently employed at the Inside Edge Ski & Bike shop, and coaches at West Mountain. He will be sponsored by Reliable Racing Supply/Inside Edge and will represent West Mountain as his home ski area.

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About World Pro Ski Tour

Bob Beattie started the World Pro Skiing tour during the 1960s, at a time when the top World Cup athletes had been disenfranchised by the FIS (Federation International de Ski), as polemics arose over amateur versus professional status in relation to Olympic competition. Beattie’s tour soon attracting the best ski racers in the world, among them Jean-Claude Killy, Henri Duvillard and Billy Kidd. Beattie closed his tour in 1981, but a few years later, Ed Rogers of Bath, Maine turned his regional pro tour into an international series called the U.S. Pro Tour. Rogers sold his 1996 and it disbanded soon after. Dual format pro skiing has since been dormant, until this year. Rogers, along with co-founders Craig Marshall (Portland, ME), Kevin Clarke (North Conway, NH), Barrett Stein (San Diego, CA) and John Jacobs (Glens Falls, NY) are re-launching the Tour on March 9-11 at Sunday River, ME. A multi-stop tour is in the planning stages for season 2017-18. For more information, visit www.worldproskitour.com.

About Reliable Racing Supply

Reliable Racing Supply (RRS) has provided ski racing enthusiasts and the ski resort industry with innovative and hard-to-find products since 1965. RRS was first to introduce flexing slalom poles called Break-A-Way to FIS World Cup competition at Waterville Valley, NH in 1980. Break-A-Way slalom poles were featured at the 2015 FIS Alpine Ski World Championships at Vail/Beaver Creek, and at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. Visit www.reliableracing.com for more information.