Taylor Huske
Aspen High School
Age: 18
Class: Senior
Sports: Baseball and golf.
Sporting achievements: Four years varsity golf, three years varsity baseball.
Athletic aspirations: Finish out my year and have fun with club sports in college.
If you could go to dinner with one athlete — living or dead — who would it be and why? Pete Rose — he was the first person my dad introduced me to when I first watched baseball.
Favorite sports movies? “Major League.”
Prefer spandex or sweat pants? For sure, sweatpants.
Favorite workout/warm up music? Rage Against the Machine, The Offspring, and a little Damien Marley.
Superstitions? I never wear my socks.
Who or what inspires you? Friends, family, and having that feeling when you win a game.
Dream sports car? Chris Taylor’s supercharged Bug or a fighter jet.
Vegetarian or carnivore? Omnivore.
Kelly Beairsto (aka Kelly Cosas)
Aspen
Age: 45
Sports: Skiing, biking, hiking, and sailing
Day job/profession: Alpine ski instructor.
Athletic achievements: Certified as a level three, fully
certified instructor in Canada (CSIA) and the USA (PSIA). Level one
certified coach in Canada (CSCF). One season with the first female
synchronized skiing team for Mammoth Mountain, and now 10 years with
the Aspen Team Diva women’s synchronized ski team.
Athletic aspirations? To compete in the Swiss Synchro competition and to hike in Nepal.
Favorite pre-game/pre-competition meal? Cereal and cold milk.
Post competition? Atlantic salmon and fiddleheads.
If you could go to dinner with one athlete — living or dead — who would
it be and why? Nancy Greene, a Canadian ski racer, because of her many
accomplishments, but more importantly that she was a female athlete who
pushed herself to new heights back in the ’60s with almost no female
athletic role models to draw inspiration from.
Favorite workout music? Sarah McLachlan.
Ankle or tube socks? Tube.
Who or what inspires you? People who see good in everything.
Superstitions? None.
Vegetarian or carnivore? Carnivore — Argentine asado de cordero, of course.