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Winter Dew Tour Breck Athlete Roster

Fisher, Pearce, Davis, Clark, Teter and Bright Among Confirmed Snowboard Athletes for Stop One of The Winter Dew Tour at the Breckenridge Ski Resort, Dec. 17-20, 2009.

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• November 11 2009 | 20 views

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Olympians Gather in the Windy City

Hundreds of the nation’s top media outlets are hunkered down in the heart of the windy city to conduct pre-Games interviews with America’s top Vancouver Bound Olympic hopefuls as the USOC Media Summit opened up for business in Chicago Thursday.

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• September 14 2009 | 9 views

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Fisher Posts Strong Finish In Dew Tour

The last stop of the Winter AST Dew Tour took place in Northstar-at-Tahoe last weekend. Sims rider, Steve Fisher had a phenomenal showing finishing first in prelims and taking second in finals beating out Shaun White with a score of 87.00. Fisher’s consecutive second place finishes at Mount Snow and the Toyota Championship, scored him 215 cumulative points slotting him second place in tour standings. Fisher also won the fans vote receiving the Toyota’s “Go Big” Award <http://www.allisports.com/toyota>  posted to the Dew Tour website. Not a bad way to end the first Winter Dew Tour!

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• February 25 2009 | 33 views

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Steve Fisher Raises Money for Prostate Cancer

PARK CITY, UT (Sept. 17) In the midst of prostate cancer awareness month, X Games gold medalist Steve Fisher (Breckenridge, CO) recalls what he felt at the age of 20 to learn that his father had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in December of 2003.

“It was completely overwhelming,” Fisher said. “It was literally just before the first Grand Prix in Breckenridge. He had just turned 51 and went in for his routine screening and his report came back that there were traces of prostate cancer.”

According to statistics, one in every six men are diagnosed with prostate cancer just like Fisher’s father, Ed, who was treated at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota a month after his diagnosis. Now, five years later, he remains cancer free.

“So far it hasn’t come back and he’s just really lucky that he caught it early enough to where they could get all of the bad cells,” Fisher said.

It was through his father’s experience and a desire to promote prostate cancer awareness and research funding that Fisher came to be involved with Athletes for a Cure, which is a program of the Prostate Cancer Foundation that enables athletes to raise money for the cause.

“I try to get everyone that I know to help donate for prostate cancer research,” Fisher said. “It’s so common. With breast cancer awareness being so popular but no men talking about prostate cancer I thought this would be a great way to raise awareness.”

Fisher’s father, a pediatrician couldn’t be happier that his son is involved with Athletes for a Cure and made the first donation to Steve’s campaign to raise $10,000.

“I was so pleased when he told me about it. I wish that there was more support behind him and hopefully there will be,” Ed Fisher said. “I think it’s huge that there is an organization like that. I think it’s fantastic that athletes are getting behind cancer awareness.”

Ed Fisher is also outspoken in trying to cast some light on prostate cancer, a disease he feels not enough people talk about.

“Men, unfortunately, just aren’t advocates for their health like women are. This isn’t a disease that men want to talk about very much,” Ed Fisher said. “It’s a goal of mine to try to do my part in increasing education and awareness for men because it’s so far behind what women have done for breast cancer.”

According to Ed, the key to beating the disease is early detection and bringing the research and medications for prostate cancer up to the same level as breast cancer - and through efforts like his son’s, he believes it is an achievable goal.

“Even just to make it something that men are aware of is great,” Ed Fisher said. “It’s such a necessary thing and he’s an amazing young man for doing this. I hope Athletes For A Cure takes off.”

To donate to Steve Fisher’s campaign click here.

To learn more about Athletes For a Cure, visit www.athletesforacure.org.

For comprehensive information on prostate cancer, visit www.ustoo.org

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• September 17 2008 | 54 views