Miller's Signed Olympic Helmet on eBay
Benefits former Team technician's breast cancer battle
Five-time Olympic medalist Bode Miller (Franconia, NH), who captured
a historic full compliment of medals in Vancouver is auctioning his
signed Olympic helmet on eBay to help raise money for Pam Warman, a
former U.S. Ski Team technician, who was recently diagnosed with
breast cancer.
The helmet, which was worn by Miller in the Olympic slalom, can be
found at
www.ebay.com and ends Wednesday, March 10 at 10:15 p.m. ET.
Warman, originally from Portillo, Chile tuned skis for the U.S. Ski
Team from 2001-2006 including Steven Nyman (Sundance, UT) and Bryon
Friedman (Park City, UT). She now calls Lake Tahoe, CA home and
spends her winters working with Sierra at Tahoe Resort and her
summers landscaping with Pete Lavin (AKA Baby Huey), the long-time
start house hype-man for the men's World Cup team.
"I started with the Development Team then moved up to the Europa Cup
program," said Warman, who received her cancer diagnosis seven weeks
ago following a routine mammogram. "I was working with Steven Nyman
and Bryon Friedman when they got their first World Cup starts. I
kind of became the mom for all these guys when they were younger."
"Bode has always been an extremely generous guy. I remember him
buying U.S. Ski Team jackets for the Development Team a while ago,"
she recounted. "No one knew where they came from. Bode didn't want
the credit, he just wanted to help out."
Along with Miller, Warman struck a particular friendship with Jake
Zamansky (Aspen, CO), who began spearheading the auctions, which
will also include items from Nyman, Friedman and three-time Olympic
medalist Julia Mancuso (Olympic Valley, CA).
"Jake and I have always been really close because he and my oldest
son share the same birthday, but all the guys know me really well,"
she said. "I just dropped them all a line asking if there was
anything they could do to help and they immediately began putting
things like this auction together."
"Pam is such a friend to so many members of our team," said Zamansky,
a 2010 Olympian along with Miller and Nyman. "It was really easy for
us to get moving on this. We are putting together what we can, but
Bode's helmet was such a big item, we wanted to get that up right
away. There will be more items that we'll auction down the line."
The auction closes Wednesday, March 10 at 10:15 p.m. ET. A separate
fund raiser is planed for Warman at Sierra at Tahoe on April 13. The
event will feature a dual giant slalom with current and former
members of the U.S. Ski Team, plus an auction and live music by
Friedman.
For more information, log on to
http://pamwarman.webs.com/