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At 17, Girdwood's Katie Rowekamp is making waves in the Alpine ski world
Oct. 30—Katie Rowekamp is going big. Rowekamp, who is from Girdwood, has launched a career trajectory just as steep as Mount Alyeska's North Face, which she grew up skiing. At 16, she was named to the U.S. Alpine Ski Team, the youngest member of a squad that includes luminaries like Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson. And last weekend, as a freshly minted 17-year-old, Rowekamp found herself ...