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Accomplishments
Qualifying
for the Olympics and coming 67th at the World Championships in
Slalom in Val d'isere.
Education
Harrow School in London, Aldro School in Surrey, Faulkner’s
Academy (now Cayman Islands International School) and Cayman Preparatory & High
School in the Cayman Islands. He is presently at Brown University
in Rhode Island studying geo-biology.
News
Dow Travers will make a historic leap for the Cayman
Islands at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada in February
2010. He qualified in the Giant Slalom last summer through an
international ranking system in Antillanca, Chile. Dow chose
the giant slalom which is considered the ‘art of skiing’ because
it is a combination of all the alpine skiing disciplines.
Born and raised in Grand Cayman, Dow, 22 is the eldest of three talented skiing
brothers; Dillon, 18, and Dean, 13. His brothers are the biggest influence on
his skiing career as they are always competing with each other.
He went to boarding school in the UK for many years. Family winter
vacations were always on the ski slopes of Beaver Creek, Colorado.
The boys loved it and recently started skiing in Aspen, which
is his favourite place to ski. It’s
only been in the last year that Dow, who is still a student,
has been able to concentrate on skiing more competitively.
Dow notes “It’s my first Games and very unusual that someone from
the Caribbean is going to the Winter Olympics and I hope to do as well as I can
do. It’s the beginning of a long run. It’s the first time I’ve
been able to focus solely on skiing and the peak of physical ability is 28 so
I’ve got six more years and at least one more Olympics in me and once I
get out of Brown I can really start focusing. I’m now getting
to the point where I can compete at a higher level.”
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