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The US Ski Team gathered in St. Louis for an annual fundraiser and Mikaela Shiffrin was front and center singing a duet on stage with Country Music superstar Dierks Bentley.
It is safe to call Dierks Bentley a ‘superstar’ in Country Music with 14 Grammy Awards nominations and other CMA wins, but his success pales in comparison to Mikaela Shiffrin. She’s won two Winter Olympics gold medals and has the most World Cup wins of any alpine skier in the history of the sport, male or female.
Suffice it to say that Mikaela Shiffrin and Dierks Bentley could have both been intimidated to share the the stage with one another. Instead, they both crushed a duet of ‘I’ll Be The Moon’, a song Dierks recorded with Maren Morris.
Mikaela Shiffrin Sings Duet With Dierks Bentley
According to another Instagram post from Mikaela, this annual US Ski Team fundraiser raised over $1 million for the US Ski and Snowboarding operations. As can be seen in the background of the photos, this year’s fundraiser them was ‘Mikaela’s Roadhouse’ with a ‘Route to 88’ sign on the wall, a nod to Shiffrin’s 88 alpine skiing wins.
Shiffrin is a few short weeks away from beginning the 2023-24 season. Her season kicks off on October 28th at Soelden in Austria for a giant slalom event. Mikaela Shiffrin’s final events of the season will come on March 24th of next year and she will somehow manage to squeeze in a whopping 44 individual races between now and then.
Mikaela had a pretty successful offseason. She won the 2023 ESPY Award for Female Athlete of the Year.
The day after winning the award she posted on Instagram saying “TBH…I seriously did not think I would win the ESPY last night. And, I kind of blacked out a bit on stage. But, I hope I at least got the message across about records, inspiration, how grateful I am for my entire support system, and setting the tone for the next generation to be great humans both on and off the mountain (or whatever their playing field is) and to maybe—hopefully—even reset my record one day.”
She then wrote about 1,000 words in the equivalent of an acceptance speech while also tagging all of the people she wanted to thank.
It’s clear from her words that she was very humbled and moved by winning the Female Athlete of the Year at the ESPYs.