Resi Stiegler Joins Bliz

Bliz USA is honored to welcome 3-time Olympian Resi Stiegler. Bliz  USA’s newest Alpine Athlete Force team member has represented the U.S. Ski Team for many years 

After a sidelining injury in 2019, Resi has spent her pre-season getting back into top level racing shape and back onto the World Cup. This season's main light shines in Cortina, Italy as Resi sets her sights on qualifying for the 2021 World Champs this February.

She’ll be wearing Bliz , sating "!they work. I was able to use them from the start of the world cup season which is held in Finland and testing the lenses with different lights have proven they work on the level I need them too! As well as some fire and fun with the sunglasses and wide range of looks they will work very well with my personality and my goals for #teamresi! "

When asked what race she is most excited for this season, Resi accounts "I am so happy to be racing world cup again and to be competing at the highest level and working my way up in points and working on qualifying for the World Champs."

She began skiing at age two and racing at six at Jackson Hole. Junior Olympic and Nor-Am success while still a teenager led to a berth on the U.S. Ski Team; she made her World Cup debut at age 17 in December 2002 at a slalom in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, where she finished a remarkable eleventh. At the 2003 Junior World Championships in France, she won bronze medals in slalom and combined, to which she added a tenth-place finish in combined at the "grown-up" World Championships that year in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Stiegler made her Olympic debut at the 2006 Torino games at age 20, placing eleventh in the combined and twelfth in the slalom.

Stiegler's trademark is the tiger ears she usually wears atop her helmet. She won a well-publicized battle with the International Olympic Committee, allowing her to compete with the ears at the Torino Olympics.

In order to understand a little bit about Resi's unfaltering devotion to Alpine, it's significant to go back in time to when it all began for her. "My dad was an Olympic Champion for Austria and moved to Jackson Hole to run the ski school there. It was the perfect way to be brought up in the mountains. I just loved to be out in the mountains, skiing or hiking or camping and I learned so much about myself and how to survive. Skiing was our form of daycare and it created this loving environment which built my career with passion for the sport from the beginning."

A true product of the mountains, Resi maintains the spirit of testing limits both within herself and out on the slopes. “I love having goals and I also love just surprising myself. It’s so cool to do something no one expected you to do or be able to accomplish. At my age it’s rare to see someone on the World Cup and after the career I have had I can say I still love every second of it, maybe even more now!”

We know Resi has a special home in the face of adrenaline-spiking activities, but what does she do when she's not globetrotting for outdoor adventure or competing the worlds toughest terrain? According to Resi, she'll find gratitude in just about anything that challenges her. "I think we are so lucky in this time to be challegned so easily and have it all at our finger tips. We can learn just about anything with the click of a button and explore most of the world very easily. I like to gather info and study things that interest me or regions we travel to. Anything that speaks to me or sparks my curiosity is a joy to dive into."

Hher hobbies inclkude surfing, hiking, writing, reading, van life, exploring, adventures to new countries