Notable:
A former downhiller who raced on the U.S. Development Team, Christian Questad is now a skiercross weekend warrior who spends his weekdays working as a structural engineer in Denver, CO. Questad competed in his first skiercross, the Paul Mitchell X Qualifier at Northstar-at-Tahoe, CA in 2002 and crashed. Undeterred, Questad went on to finish 4th at the Smirnoff Ice Speed Cross at Vail, and then finished 2nd at the Swiss Army Skiercross in Crested Butte, CO.

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"I was just trying to learn the game," says Questad about the 2002 season. "It is not as easy as it looks. I came into the season kind of arrogant."