Jeremy Bloom is an American former skier and
American football player. As a skier, he is a one-time world champion, two-time Olympian, and 10-time
World Cup gold medalist. He was inducted into the
National Ski Hall of Fame in 2013.
Bloom was a freshman All-American at the
University of Colorado. He was drafted by the
Philadelphia Eagles in the
2006 NFL Draft
The 2006 National Football League Draft, the 71st in league history, took place in New York City, New York, at Radio City Music Hall on April 29 and April 30, 2006. For the 27th consecutive year, the draft was telecast on ESPN and ESPN2, with ad ...
and was also a member of the
Pittsburgh Steelers
The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh. The Steelers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division. Founded in , the Steel ...
, but did not play a competitive game for either team.
Personal life
Bloom was born in
Fort Collins, Colorado
Fort Collins is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Larimer County, Colorado
Larimer County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 359 ...
, the son of Charlene, a ski and fly fishing instructor, and Larry Bloom, a clinical psychologist, and grew up in nearby
Loveland. His older sister,
Molly Bloom, is an author and former organizer of illegal poker games who wrote ''Molly's Game'', and was the inspiration for
the film of the same name. His cousin is ice hockey player
Colby Cohen. Bloom's father is
Jewish and his mother is Christian.
Skiing career
Bloom grew up skiing in
Keystone, Colorado
Keystone is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Summit County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Breckenridge, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Key ...
. At 15 he became the youngest male freestyle skier to ever make the
United States Ski Team.
On November 24,