FWSA SNOWSPORTS BUILDER AWARD 2009
Deedee Corradini, Women’s Ski Jumping USA

Deedee Corradini is a leader in the Olympic movement and one who is a champion of
women in the events of the Winter Olympics. Her journey has not been a long one, but
it is an interesting one and one which brought the Winter Olympics to the USA only
for the third time.

Deedee Corradini conducted a decade-long effort to bring the Olympics to the USA.
As Mayor of Salt Lake City, she became part of the effort to bring the Olympics to
Utah, the Utah team losing the bid for 1998 by only 3 votes, but winning the 2002
Olympic Winter Games on the first ballot, which is rarely done. She is the only
woman ever to hold the office of Mayor of Salt Lake City, and served for two four y
terms, from 1992-2000.

When the selection of Salt Lake became official, she served on the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee
(SLOC) from 1995-2000 and in that time she was instrumental in helping to get women’s bobsled and skeleton
into the Olympics. She was included as a member of the USOC delegation when the Olympics came to Utah.

She is the President of Women’s Jumping USA (WSJUSA), continuing her campaign to get women ski jumpers
into the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver 2012 (ski jumping is the only event in the Olympic Winter Games
that does not allow women—men’s ski jumping has been part of the modern day Olympics since 1924). WJUSA
filed suit in Vancouver to force the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) to allow women’s ski
jumping as an event. The FIS had already voted 114-1 in 2006 to allow a women’s World Championship under its
sanction, as well as inclusion in Vancouver 2010; four months later the IOC Executive Committee voted in the
negative after a 5-year battle.

She has spent untiring effort to bring women’s events into the Olympic Winter Games, as well as her current
leadership in WJUSA. She has now directed her attention to the litigation aimed at making women’s ski jumping
an event in Vancouver 2010.

2008 Snowsports Builder Winner