Snowboard Olympian Cody Winters rooted in Hermosa Beach surf
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”2487″ display=”masonry”]by Mike Waldner This is a tale that runs from surf to snow, from Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach to Steamboat Springs to Beijing. It also is a tale of an underdog. Check out Hermosa Beach native Cody Winters, 21, in the men’s parallel giant slalom in the Winter Olympics. He races Tuesday, February 8 in the morning in China, which will be in the evening on the 7th here. Winters, who now lives in Steamboat Springs, a town of about 14,400 in Colorado, raised nearly $40,000 for his campaign on the World Cup tour in Europe. That led to a spot on the U.S. Olympic Alpine snowboarding team, beating out competitors supported by national federations. “I’ve achieved it,” he said in a video sent by Dave Winters, his father. “I’m going. It’s pretty sick.” Dave. He grew up in Hermosa Beach and attended Mira Costa High in Manhattan Beach. “We surfed all over the place,” he said, speaking by phone from Steamboat Springs.”We’d go to Mexico and Hawaii. Longfellow was my home break. Our house was on 26th. But 26th did not have as good a break as Longfellow.” Dave played football for Coach Bill Cooper at Mira Costa as an undersized backup cornerback…
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