3-11-2022 Basch-Holly Flanders Skiing

In the 1980s, Holly Flanders competed in two Olympics and was a three-time World Cup ski racing champion. (COURTESY OF HOLLY FLANDERS)

Holly Flanders remembers being the anxious mom glued to the TV watching the X Games in 2011 as her rookie son prepared his first big air ski run.

So nervous, Flanders called her mother in New Hampshire who was also watching. Flanders admitted to her mother she was edgy.

3-11-2022 Basch-Holly Flanders
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Holly Flanders was inducted into the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame last Saturday during a ceremony at Bretton Woods. (COURTESY OF U.S. SKI AND SNOWBOARD HALL OF FAME)

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