![]() She married fellow elite bobsledder (and 2022 Games alternate) Nic Taylor in 2018. Pilot Elana Meyers Taylor is a three-time Olympian who has won a medal at each Games, most recently taking silver at PyeongChang 2018 with pusher Lauren Gibbs. ![]() Humphries earned bronze at the 2018 PyeongChang Games. She won her first race as an American citizen just two days later at the IBSF World Cup stop in Altenberg, Germany.įor Canada, Humphries won back-to-back bobsled golds in the two-woman at Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014 she is the first woman to defend her bobsled title at the Olympics. 2, 2021, when she finally had her citizenship ceremony in San Diego, California. Humphries' status for the 2022 Winter Olympics was in limbo as she awaited U.S. During the 2021-22 Bobsled World Cup season, Humphries was second in monobob and fifth in the two-woman standings. Since joining Team USA, the pilot has won three world titles: two-woman in 20, and the inaugural women's monobob title in 2021. Kaillie Humphries, a two-time Olympic champion from Canada, switched to representing the United States in 2019 because of abuse and harassment she alleges she faced within Canadian bobsledding. During the most recent World Cup season, Hoffman and Humphries earned two bronze medals in Altenberg and Winterberg, Germany. ![]() That same calendar year, Hoffman won the Rookie Push and National Push Championships.Īs early as the 2019-2020 season, Hoffman occasionally teamed up with pilot Kaillie Humphries on the World Cup circuit Hoffman would sometimes slide with pilot Elana Meyers Taylor the following season. Hoffman took up weightlifting and competed internationally, but her athletic dreams really rocketed after participating in reality TV show Scouting Camp: Next Olympic Hopeful. USA Bobsled again took notice, and invited her to attend rookie training camp. Several years after graduating, she was asked to join the training camp for USA Bobsled - but initially declined due to finances. She originally played basketball for Louisiana State University Shreveport. Like many bobsledders, brakewoman Sylvia Hoffman has been passionate about a number of sports throughout her life.
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