UNDERGRAD REPORT: CODY TOWNSEND
Besides pursuing the major in Language Studies, Cody Townsend is a world class skier who regularly travels around the world to take part in major competitive skiing events. Cody placed first in the Chinese Downhill at the Red Bull Cold Rush at Big Mountain, British Columbia last February, and second at the Big Mountain Pro freeski event in Switzerland last March. You can see what Cody gets up to when not doing his phonology assignments here.
Cody will be performing closer to home shortly. On November 20 and 21, the legendary ski film producer Warren Miller will be at the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz to show his newest ski movie, Playground, a film in which Cody plays a starring role.
Cody reports:
I had the chance to go to the Todrillo Mountains in Alaska with Warren Miller this past Spring to ski and explore some of the biggest and baddest mountains this planet has to offer, all while catching it on film for this year’s ski movie, `Playground’. You see, I have been taking the Winter quarters off for the past three years to pursue my career as a professional skier. In between the Fall and Spring quarters jam-packed with Syntax and Semantics, I depart for the snowy lands to film movie segments, compete in big mountain skiing competitions and travel the world in search of winter perfection. So come one, come all (or don’t come at all) down to Warren Miller’s `Playground’ at the Rio Theatre on Nov. 20 and Nov 21 to check out some sick skiing from around the world and see what someone from the Linguistics Department does in between derivations and propositional logic.
Have a look at the movie’s tour schedule Cody Townsend is a world class skier who regularly travels around the world to take part in major competitive skiing events. Cody placed first in the Chinese Downhill at the Red Bull Cold Rush at Big Mountain, British Columbia last February, and second at the Big Mountain Pro freeski event in Switzerland last March. You can see what Cody gets up to when not doing his phonology assignments here.
Cody will be performing closer to home shortly. On November 20 and 21, the legendary ski film producer Warren Miller will be at the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz to show his newest ski movie, Playground, a film in which Cody plays a starring role.
Cody reports:
I had the chance to go to the Todrillo Mountains in Alaska with Warren Miller this past Spring to ski and explore some of the biggest and baddest mountains this planet has to offer, all while catching it on film for this year’s ski movie, `Playground’. You see, I have been taking the Winter quarters off for the past three years to pursue my career as a professional skier. In between the Fall and Spring quarters jam-packed with Syntax and Semantics, I depart for the snowy lands to film movie segments, compete in big mountain skiing competitions and travel the world in search of winter perfection. So come one, come all (or don’t come at all) down to Warren Miller’s `Playground’ at the Rio Theatre on Nov. 20 and Nov 21 to check out some sick skiing from around the world and see what someone from the Linguistics Department does in between derivations and propositional logic.
Have a look at the movie’s tour schedule here, and at the trailer here.