Kyle Tress

{{short description|American Olympic skeleton racer (born 1981)}} {{BLP sources|date=February 2012}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Kyle Tress | image =  | image_size =  | alt = | caption =  | nationality = American | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|5|29}}<ref name="ibsf-profile"/> | birth_place = | residence = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = | years_active = 2002–2017 | height = 183 cm<ref name="ibsf-profile"/> | weight = 95 kg<ref name="ibsf-profile"/> | website = {{URL|www.kyletress.com}}  | country = {{USA}} | sport = Skeleton | retired = 2017 | coaching = {{JPN}}<ref name="ibsf-media-igls"/>  | worlds = | regionals = | nationals = | olympics = | paralympics = | commonwealth = | highestranking = | pb = }}

'''Kyle Tress''' (born May 29, 1981) is an American Olympic skeleton racer<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nj.com/sports/times/index.ssf?/base/sports-6/12637971154471.xml&coll=5 |title=No Olympics for Tress |date=January 18, 2010 |work=New Jersey On-Line |accessdate=April 5, 2012 |archive-date=January 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116192510/http://www.nj.com/sports/times/index.ssf?/base/sports-6/12637971154471.xml&coll=5 |url-status=dead }}</ref> who competed from 2002 until 2017. He placed 25th in the 2011 FIBT World Championships in Konigssee, Germany. His best World Cup finish was 5th in the men's event at St. Moritz, Switzerland on January 11, 2013, and Lake Placid, New York, on November 5, 2012.<ref name="ibsf-profile"/> On January 18, 2014, Tress was named to the 2014 Olympic team.<ref name="2014team">{{cite news |author=U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation |title=2014 U.S. Olympic Skeleton Team Announced |publisher=TeamUSA.org |date=January 18, 2014 |url=http://www.teamusa.org/Road-to-Sochi-2014/Features/2014/January/18/2014-US-Olympic-Skeleton-Team-Announced |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140120200228/http://www.teamusa.org/Road-to-Sochi-2014/Features/2014/January/18/2014-US-Olympic-Skeleton-Team-Announced |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 20, 2014 |accessdate=January 18, 2014}}</ref> His last World Cup race was in February 2017, at Igls, where he finished in 19th place;<ref name="ibsf-profile">{{cite web |accessdate=December 31, 2017 |publisher=International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation |url=http://www.ibsf.org/en/athletes/athlete/100786/TRESS |title=Kyle TRESS |archive-date=December 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214090101/http://www.ibsf.org/en/athletes/athlete/100786/TRESS |url-status=dead }}</ref> the following season, Tress began coaching the Japanese national team.<ref name="ibsf-media-igls">{{cite web |publisher=International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation |accessdate=December 18, 2017 |title=Media Guide Athletes: Skeleton — Innsbruck (AUT) |date=December 13, 2017 |author=Stahlhacke, Angela |url=http://www.ibsf.org/images/news/Media_Guide_17-18/IBSF_Media_Guide_17-18_skeleton_5_Innsbruck.pdf |archive-date=December 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222051722/http://www.ibsf.org/images/news/Media_Guide_17-18/IBSF_Media_Guide_17-18_skeleton_5_Innsbruck.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Personal life== A native of New Jersey, Tress graduated in 1999 from South Hunterdon Regional High School.<ref>{{cite news |last=Tredrea |first=John |url=http://www.centraljersey.com/archives/lambertville-city-rallies-for-hometown-olympian-kyle-tress/article_496d304e-6c1f-5cc9-9fdf-006eecd6a46b.html |title=LAMBERTVILLE: City rallies for hometown Olympian Kyle Tress; Banner wishing him well hangs over Bridge Street |website=centraljersey.com |date=January 29, 2014 |accessdate=April 1, 2016 |quote=He’s Kyle Tress, a Lambertville favorite son and 1999 graduate of South Hunterdon Regional High School. A member of the three-man U.S. skeleton team, he will compete in the Winter Olympics in Solchi, Russia, next month.}}{{dead link|date=March 2024}}</ref>

Tress lives and trains in Lake Placid, New York, at the United States Olympic Training Center.{{update inline|reason=still true now that he is coaching Japan?|date=January 2018}}

He will be attending Yale University in the fall of 2018.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

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== External links == * {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181205073538/https://www.kyletress.com/ |date=mdy |title=Official website}} * {{IBSF|130534}} * {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051108114813/http://skeletonsport.com/athletes/?contactid=1027 |date=mdy |title=Kyle Tress at Skeletonsport.com}} * {{Team USA|new_id=kyle-tress|old_id=TR/Kyle-Tress|archive=20230530074422}} * {{Olympics.com profile|kyle-tress}} * {{Olympedia}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tress, Kyle}} Category:1981 births Category:Living people Category:American male skeleton racers Category:Olympic skeleton racers for the United States Category:Skeleton racers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Category:People from Lambertville, New Jersey Category:Sportspeople from Hunterdon County, New Jersey Category:21st-century American sportsmen