Jamie Crane-Mauzy (Jamie MoCrazy) is an American

freestyle skier Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Winter Olympics. It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins and can include skiers sliding rails and ...

and motivational speaker.

Life and career

Jamie Crane-Mauzy was born in Westport, Connecticut. At the age of 9, she won State Championships in gymnastics and skiing. She graduated with a BA in Communications from Westminster College in 2019. Crane-Mauzy was the first female skier to land a double backflip in a competition at the

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. Her professional career ended after a skiing accident in 2015, and she now works as a motivational speaker. In 2023, Crane-Mauzy co-directed the short documentary ''#MoCrazyStrong'', along with Mark Locki, which premiered at

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, won the best biographical documentary short at the

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2015 skiing accident

On April 11, 2015, Crane-Mauzy was involved in a serious accident while competing in the World Tour Finals in Whistler. In an attempt to move up from fourth place, she upgraded her flat 3 to a double flat seven. She completed the jump and landed on her feet, but caught her edge and whiplashed her head onto the snow. Her brain immediately began bleeding in 8 different spots and her brain stem was damaged, causing complete paralysis on her right side. She was treated in Vancouver General Hospital, where she remained for 8 days before again being transported to Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, UT.

Freestyle skiing results

* 2010 1st Junior World Championships, New Zealand *2013 7th

(Slopestyle) Aspen, Colorado *2015 13th

FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships The FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships is the world championship organized by the FIS for freestyle skiing. It was first organized in 1986 and is now held every odd year. Currently, the disciplines included in the World Championships are Aeri ...

(Slopestyle) Kreischberg, Austria *2015 13th

(halfpipe) Kreischberg, Austria

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Crane-Mauzy, Jamie 1992 births American female freestyle skiers Living people 21st-century American sportswomen