The JEEP® UNION SQUARE STREET SESSIONS returns to New York City to showcase a diverse and immensely talented field at the 2008 event to be held on Feb. 7, 2008 in Union Square. The athletes will show off their skills on a customized urban rail inspired by Danny Kass and fabricated at the Mountain Creek Resort’s Jib Lab.
Confirmed athletes include:
1. EDDIE WALL
2. LUCAS MAGOON
3. ZACK HALE
4. MIKE CASANOVA
5. LOUIE VITO
6. CHRIS ROTAX
7. YALE CUSINO
8. JONAS MICHILOT
9. JED ANDERSON
10. AARON BITTNER
11. PAT MOORE
12. SKYE GALE
13. BRANDON REIS
14. EIKI HELGARSON
15. ANDREW KAHKONEN
16. CHARLES REID
17. SAM HULBERT
18 BODE MERRILL
19. JEREMY CLOUTIER
The Jeep brand returns this year as title sponsor after the first year success of the Union Square Street Sessions. Jeep will join supporting sponsors Red Bull, Oakley, Burton, Sunday River Resort, and Mountain Creek Resort to once again bring the event to the streets of Manhattan.
The 2008 Jeep Union Square Street Sessions and its qualifiers will once again be broadcast on NBC’s Emmy award-winning Jeep World of Adventure Sports on Jan. 12, 2008 at 3:30 p.m. and Feb. 16, 2008, at 5 pm respectively with multiple re-airings on Universal HD.
The winter sports celebrations will continue in New York City on Saturday, Feb. 9 with NYC Parks & Recreation’s Winter Jam, an amateur rail jam and winter carnival with music, sledding, snowshoeing, cross country skiing and other winter activities held at the Central Park Bandshell, in coordination with Aura360 and the Olympic Regional Development Authority.
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