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Height: 6-1
Weight: 205
Birthday: May 20, 1969
Birthplace: Bellevue, WA
Hometown: Hood

Mike Jacoby has won everything in snowboarding but an Olympic medal. Maybe next year. Meanwhile, he keeps filling shelves with booty. Last season, he defended his World Cup giant slalom title (five wins, including Kanbayashi, the '98 Olympic venue) and added the GS silver medal from the first FIS World Snowboard Championships.

He's focusing on GS but Jacoby still may enter almost any event and, with his unique mix of talent, temperament and time (on a 'board), be a contender.

A hernia problem slowed him much of this fall, a vital training time for athletes. However, he expected to be ready for the first events in December, including the new U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix at Sugarloaf (where he won the '95 U.S. SL title).

Comment: "I didn't do much in slalom [last season]. I didn't really feel like putting on the pads. I felt like doing GS last year - and SL won't even be in the Olympics, so I really don't need to do it." Start-up: He's a recycled alpine skier, having started riding at 13. He and his pals hiked into the hills near Idaho's Kelly Canyon Ski Area; when the family moved to Auburn, Calif. In 1985, he made new friends, including Avalanche Snowboards co-founders Bev and Chris Sanders, who talked him into competing.

"They were going to the Worlds at Breckenridge and they said there was a Junior Division and I should go," Jacoby recalled. He had three top-10s in '86 as an amateur, then won the amateur slalom and GS titles in '87. Family vacations at Wyoming's Jackson Hole had introduced him to riding steep terrain where he developed techniques which helped him win around the world. He's still winning.

First Board: "In 1983, I started riding a homemade board. Some guys in my shop class cut a board out and then lost interest. So, I put the nose and tail in, reworked the shape, varnished it and rode it."

Vacation?: This summer, Jacoby helped build his new home in Underwood, Wash.; in Summer '95, he helped a friend paint a three-story, 90-year-old house.

Time-killers: Now that he resists blowing countless hours surfin' the 'Net, Jacoby enjoys flying, especially his 1963 Piper Cherokee, especially bound for surfing Oregon's coast. "There's a runway next to the beach. I throw all my stuff in the plane and fly to Manzanita. It only takes 45 minutes, compared to 2-4 hours by car."