Kendall Wesenberg | |
Nationality: | American |
Birth Name: | Kendall Lorraine Wesenberg |
Birth Date: | 23 August 1990 |
Birth Place: | Castro Valley, California |
Alma Mater: | University of Colorado Boulder |
Height: | 5 ft 8 in |
Weight: | 150 lb |
Sport: | Skeleton |
Olympics: | 17th (Pyeongchang 2018) |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Kendall Lorraine Wesenberg (born August 23, 1990) is an American skeleton racer who competes on the Skeleton World Cup circuit. Wesenberg attended the University of Colorado, where she studied business administration, and lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She began racing skeleton in 2014.[1] [2] Wesenberg was named, along with Katie Uhlaender, to represent the U.S. in women's skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.[3]
Wesenberg started competing internationally in 2014–15 on the Europe Cup circuit, winning her very first race, at Lillehammer. She went on, with three fourth-place finishes and two seconds, to become the first American woman to win the overall Europe Cup season rankings.[4] [2]
She moved immediately to the World Cup for the 2015–16 season, taking 15th place at the World Championships in Igls and 11th in the season rankings. She took her first (and so far only) World Cup podium in 2017, with a silver medal at St. Moritz, and improved her World Championships performance to 13th at Königssee; also at the 2017 Worlds, she was on a team event (combined bobsled and skeleton) squad that finished 10th.[1]