{"id":165502,"date":"2026-02-15T07:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/165502\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T07:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:04:08","slug":"meet-boone-niederhofer-1st-texas-am-alum-to-make-the-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/165502\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Boone Niederhofer, 1st Texas A&#038;M alum to make the Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A San Antonio native who attended Churchill High School and walked on at A&amp;M, he had 35 catches for 327 yards as an Aggie. His lone touchdown came in 2014 against Lamar and he caught eight passes in a game that season against Mississippi State. He graduated from A&amp;M with a degree in petroleum engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Niederhofer, 32, worked in the oil industry before deciding in 2019 to jump into bobsledding. He made his debut at the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation World Cup in 2021 with Team USA. He did not qualify for the 2022 Olympics, but finished fourth with the four-man team at the 2025 IBSF Bobsled World Championships. Now he&#8217;s expected to compete for a U.S. Olympic team that hasn&#8217;t medaled in the four-man competition in over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball is a blue-collar sport, and bobsled is very much that exact same way,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/%E2%80%9CIt%E2%80%99s%20been,%20honestly,%20pretty%20surreal,%E2%80%9D%20Niederhofer%20told%20KBTX.%20%E2%80%9CAfter%20not%20making%20the%20games%20in%20%E2%80%9922,%20it%E2%80%99s%20been%20quite%20the%20journey%20to%20get%20back%20here%20and,%20honestly,%20just%20the%20Lord%20truly%20paved%20the%20way%20for%20me%20to%20get%20back%20here%20%E2%80%93%20from%20the%20support%20of%20my%20employer,%20to%20friends%20and%20family%20and,%20obviously,%20the%20support%20of%20my%20wife.%20It%E2%80%99s%20been%20an%20adventure,%20and%20I%E2%80%99m%20just%20truly%20honored%20to%20get%20to%20represent%20my%20country%20at%20the%20Olympics.%E2%80%9D\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Niederhofer told KBTX-TV<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of work that goes into it. We go fast. We can crash occasionally. So, you have to be pretty tough to be in this sport to begin with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His role as a pusher is key in helping the sled attain top speed. Bobsledding competitions begin Monday with medals awarded in the four-man event Feb. 22.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been, honestly, pretty surreal,\u201d Niederhofer said. \u201cAfter not making the games in \u201922, it\u2019s been quite the journey to get back here and, honestly, just the Lord truly paved the way for me to get back here \u2014 from the support of my employer, to friends and family and, obviously, the support of my wife. It\u2019s been an adventure, and I\u2019m just truly honored to get to represent my country at the Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Antonio native who attended Churchill High School and walked on at A&amp;M, he had 35 catches&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[65583,27,14539,19650,29,28,62737],"class_list":{"0":"post-165502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-team-usa","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-texas-a-m-aggies","11":"tag-texas-a-m-aggies-football","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news","14":"tag-winter-olympics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}