Vito Wins Big at Grand Prix Final

KILLINGTON, Vermont (March 16) - U.S. Snowboarding's Louie Vito rocked the pipe hard to win the halfpipe competition as well as the overall season title at the Killington stop of the Chevy U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix Sunday.

The Killington Grand Prix event is a Five-Star rated World Tour event attracting the world's best snowboarders, including Olympians and World Champions battling for cash and prizes including a brand new Chevy truck. But in the end it was Louie Vito who took home his second straight Grand Prix victory and drove home with the cash and the Chevy truck.

The battle for the truck and the overall title was between Louie Vito, U.S. Snowboarding teammate Elijah Teter, last year’s Grand Prix title holder and Olympian Tommy Czeschin, and 2-time X Game Champion, Steve Fisher. Also in the mix were the two superstars from Finland Janne Korpi and Petee Piiroinen.

On his first run, Vito threw down an ultra sick frontside 10 into a cab 10, then a frontside 9, backside 9 and then a frontside corked 720. As he finished the flawless run, the crowd seemed to agree they had just witnessed the winning run.

As it turned out – they did because Vito’s run sealed the deal on the day’s victory as well as a Chevy Avalanche, which is the sweet ride awarded to the overall tour champions.

"I'm stoked on the truck. I got beat out of the tie breaker last year so I guess I had to wait a year to get it but now I have a fresh looking Avalanche and it feels good to get it," Vito said. "I just wanted to handle it on my first run. I'm happy. It was a good tour and a good season and now I can chill and enjoy the rest of the winter."

This event closed the curtains on a season of epic halfpipe competition at the Chevy U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix, with Shaun White winning the first Grand Prix and Louie Vito winning the final two and the overall title.

This Chevrolet U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix Halfpipe event will be broadcast on Saturday, March 29th at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on NBC television.

OFFICIAL RESULTS
Chevy U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix, Killington, VT
Men’s Halfpipe Top 6
1. Louie Vito (USA)
2. Greg Bretz (USA)
3. Peetu Piiroinen (Finland)
4. Janne Korpi (Finland)
5. Steve Fisher (USA)
6. Nathan Johnstone (AUS)

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Louie Vito is on Fire!

(Truckee, CA) – Louie Vito and Olympian Danny Kass once again battled it out in the men’s superpipe finals at the Vans Cup in Lake Tahoe in what many said was too close to call. After some deliberation the judges determined that Kass’ run edged out Vito’s and the crown went to Kass for the second year in a row. Had Kass sketched a bit, Vito was right there for the gold.

To get his second place in a field stacked with talent, Vito linked back-to-back 1080s, to back-to-back 900s, and a 720. The ten man international final included six Olympians.
Vito’s been on top of the snowboard world as of late and it showed at Tahoe. His 2nd was well-deserved.

"It was all really big and really smooth," Olympic Head Coach Mike Jankowski said. "Louie is obviously on fire and he wanted to beat Danny. He was going for it. But second place in a field like this is really huge.”

Vito is fresh off his 1st place finishes at the last Chevy Truck Grand Prix, Jeep King of the Mountain and the Etnies GVR.

The entire Vans Cup Superpipe contest will be seen on Fuel TV sometime in April.

OFFICIAL RESULTS
2008 Vans Cup
Superpipe Finals

1. Danny Kass (USA)
2. Louie Vito (USA)
3. Iouri Podlatchkov (Switzerland)
4. Andy Finch (USA)
5. Mason Aguirre (USA)

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Louie Vito Is Goofiest @ Bear Mtn.!

CORONA, Calif., (Feb. 25, 2008) – Monster Energy-backed Louie Vito has his foot on the gas as of late, scoring back-to-back-to-back wins a the Chevy Truck Grand Prix at Tamarack, Jeep King of the Mountain at Squaw Valley (Calif.) and, this past weekend, leading the Goofy team at the annual Etnies Goofy vs. Regular Snowboard Contest at Bear Mountain, Calif. Vito was the top scorer for the Goofy team in the slopestyle format contest; unfortunately they bowed out to the Regular team. The pain of the team loss was lessened a bit by the $1,750 Vito pocketed for his effort from Etnies.“I had a blast,” said Vito. “And made sure everybody around me was hot-wired on Monsters!”