A St. Cloud State student from Lakeville is atop the extreme sports world.
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Cameron Naasz earned the Red Bull Crashed Ice title Feb. 27 in St. Paul, safely skating a 1,600-foot ice track that dropped 12 stories in front of the Cathedral of Saint Paul.
Wearing his distinctive black and orange suit, with the Belzer’s Chevrolet Dodge Ram KIA endorsement, he finished the title race in 30.24 seconds.
Naasz, 26, edged defending champion Scott Croxall of Canada, by inches in front of a crowd estimated at 100,000. He is the first American to win the title.
The St. Paul event aired at 3:30 p.m. CT March 5 on FOX Sports North.
The former youth hockey player and public relations major won three of four events on the 2015-16 circuit: Quebec City, Canada; Munich, Germany; and St. Paul. He placed fourth in Jyväskylä-Laajis, Finland.
Naasz collaborated with three Canadians — Scott Croxall, Kyle Croxall and Adam Horst — to win the team competition Friday night. Canada’s Jacqueline Legere won the women’s world championship.
In its 16-year, ice cross downhill is billed by its sponsor, Austrian beverage company Red Bull, as the fastest sport on skates.
His advisers were Mass Communications Department professors Lisa Heinrich (retired) and Marie Dick.
Video and photo used by permission of the Red Bull Content Pool.
