Fox Sports — Cameron Naasz sat in the hot tub looking over the Swedish mountains, friends at his side and a 3-foot vessel of bubbly in his hand.
The Lakeville, Minn., native and St. Cloud State student had just ripped his way down a perilous strip of ice with bumps, jumps and obstacles in a matter of seconds. Now, the kid who couldn’t skate well enough to play varsity hockey was schmoozing with the higher-ups from Red Bull and the NBC Sports Network, basking in the afterglow of his ascent toward the top of a fledgling sport called ice cross downhill.