Female Athletes & Boots Month Ski Week: Julia Mancuso

Great Boot Quotes in History:

"Uh, Boot Nation. We have a problem" - The Crew of Apollo 13 upon realizing there were no knee-high boots on the Moon.

Female Athletes and Boots Month - Alpine Week

Julia Mancuso

Julia Mancuso is the ideal Boot Nation heroine. She is beautiful, successful and does whatever she wants. On skis, that means Julia wins races and Olympic medals. Mancuso won the gold medal in the Giant Slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. Four years later, Julia won two silver medals in the Downhill and Combined events. Julia's three Olympic medals at the most any female alpine skier has ever won during her Olympic career. In addition, Julia competed in the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City Utah. Lastly, Julia has has seven wins on the World Cup circuit, including the 2012 season. 

Boot Nation loves Mancuso because of her power though. During the 2006 and 2010 Julia wore a plastic tiara during her races and she proved to be worthy of a queen. Julia's success is not limited to the slopes, however. Mancuso started her own lingerie line called Kiss My Tiara. Julia has also been an underwear model and modeled for Lange snow boots. 

Julia also wears knee high grey boots too! Julia plans to compete in her forth Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia in 2014. We hope to  see a lot more of Julia wearing her boots & tiara and winning medals in the future. 

Female Athletes & Boots Month Sarah Hughes

Female Athletes and Boots Month - Ice Skating Week: Sarah Hughes

Sarah Hughes was the 2002 Gold Medal Winner at the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. Sarah was just 16 at the time, one year older than fellow American Tara Lipinski  who won the gold medal at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. Her victory was the second straight gold medal for Team USA in Women's Singles Figure Skating and was the third out of the previous four Winter Olympic Games along with Krisit Yamaguchi. It would have been the forth consecutive win had it not been for a controversial scoring decision at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillhammer, Norway that prevented Nancy Kerrigan from winning the gold medal. 

Sarah Hughes was a long shot to win the gold medal. Prior to the Olympics, here best performance was winning a bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships. Moreover, Sarah was forth in the short program before putting together a solid long program, including seven triple jumps, two of which were triple-triple combinations.  Hughes benefited from skating before the three contenders ahead of her in the standings, all of whom made mistakes to give Sarah the gold medal. 

After finishing high school, Sarah went on to graduate from Yale University with a degree in American Studies. Sarah is an accomplished saxophone player as well. Sarah's younger sister, Emily also competed in the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy where she placed fifth. 

One of the great benefits to winning a gold medal is the winner gets to have her picture taken with the incredibly beautiful Sasha Cohen, who won the silver medal at the 2006 Winter Games. Sarah is a modest winner. But, she did appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated and Wheaties made a special tribute box for her. Sarah saves wearing her knee high boots for special occasions, like Heidi Klum's Halloween Party when she dressed up as an adorable kitty cat.