NY Times Magazine features USA Women's Ski Jumping Team on the cover

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Monday, November 25, 2013 at 11:13am EST

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PARK CITY, Utah - The Visa Women's Ski Jumping Team is the cover story of the Nov. 24 edition of New York Times Magazine.

New York Times Magazine, Nov. 24, 2013

The story, titled "Who Said Girls Can't Jump?", takes an in-depth and raw look at the decade-long struggle to get a women's ski jumping event into the Olympic Winter Games by focusing on the U.S. team's fight to get there and to win.

Visa Team members featured include Sarah Hendrickson, Lindsey Van, Jessica Jerome,Abby Hughes and Alissa Johnson.

Renowned Montreal writer Mireille Silcoff and award-winning photographer Martin Schoeller produced the comprehensive package, following the team off and on for eight months.

The print edition of the magazine is available Sunday, Nov. 24 and the online version can be seen at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/magazine/who-said-girls-cant-jump.html?ref=magazine

Campaign to Raise $70,000

In conjunction with the New York Times Magazine cover story, Women's Ski Jumping USA has launched a new fundraising campaign to raise $70,000 to meet budget demands - our most expensive World Cup season ever. There are two easy ways to donate:

1. 'READY TO FLY' ONLINE SPIRIT STORE

Choose from an array of cool Ready To Fly film and WSJ-USA items.

GO TO: https://www.rallyme.com/rallies/333/readytofly2014

2. ADOPT A DREAM

Pledge & Donate $5,000by FEB. 23, 2014 and you will be part of a special group of supporters helping the Visa Team's Olympic dreams come true. All we need are 14 people or businesses ready to take this historic journey with us.

TO PLEDGE: email Robbie Beck, executive director at [email protected]

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN
http://www.wsjusa.com/donate

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