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Height: 5-8
Weight: 166
Birthday: March 6, 1964
Birthplace: Schenectady, NY
Hometown: Waterville Valley, NH
School: Hudson Valley Com. Coll.

Gate-runner Bill Enos, who's three days older than "Old Lady" Sondra Van Ert, keeps ignoring chronology. At a point when snowboarders his age no longer are competitive, thirtysomething Enos is riding like a kid.

He enjoyed his best international results a year ago, reaching his first podium - on the '98 Olympic GS hill - and had two other top-5s.

Enos also rode in his first World Championships and is looking to improve on that performance this season in San Candido.

Comment: "My goal is to win the World Championships GS title. It's realistic but it's going to be a hard one. I'll have to focus."

Start-up: Three phases - skiing, snowboarding, serious snowboarding. His grandfather started Maple Ski Ridge outside Schenectady, so Enos was on skis at 18 months. Originally, he was a freestyle skier, skiing combined ("I liked ballet and aerials"), but he quit skiing to play basketball in high school.

A couple years later, he came back to skiing, moving to Waterville Valley to learn from ex-U.S. Freestyle Ski Team Coach Nick Preston at Waterville Valley Academy. (Enos and wife Therese still live in the area.)

Start-up II: "I was working construction in Schenectady one winter and I saw these snowboards with a little bend in 'em at the Ski Market in Latham [N.Y.]. My boss and I went in and measured 'em, then the next day we were working indoors on this job and we wound up making our own 'boards, using just materials on the job site- some wood, some metal for the edges...we each made one."

Start-up III: "But then I really got started snowboarding when I was 25 and my mother gave me a real snowboard for Christmas. She was a PSIA instructor at Maple Ski Ridge and so I'd ski and snowboard there, about half and half, and I won a couple of contests..."

"Other" job: He spent the summer working at a skateboard park.

Other non-jobs: Skateboarding, mountain biking, golf ("I may try the Senior PGA tour when I get to be 50.")

The Z-meister: Z, the Enoses' dog, is 100 pounds of black Lab and pit bull

Great Dane: Mike Kildevaeld, who lives in San Diego, trains at Waterville Valley and competes for Denmark, convinced Enos to bag freestyle skiing and try riding. "He had boots, so I got hard boots," said Enos, giving new meaning to "monkey-see, monkey-do."

Bookshelf: Grisham, Grisham, and Grisham. "I've read 'em all."

Needler: He enjoys pushing the younger riders. "I guess I'm on the team for a purpose. I learn from them, they learn from me, and we're a team."