World champion Kaysha Love, three-time Olympic champion Kaillie Humphries-Armbruster and five-time Olympic medalist Elana Meyers Taylor were named to the U.S. World Cup bobsled team Saturday, as the Americans began shaping their roster for this winter’s Milan-Cortina Games.
Also making the team: a three-time NCAA indoor track champion for Notre Dame, a former Dartmouth football player and a Division II school’s assistant athletic trainer — someone who hadn’t seen a bobsled until a few weeks ago.
The 24-person roster — with on-ice training expected later this fall at Park City, Utah — will represent the U.S. on the World Cup circuit that starts on the Olympic track in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, in mid-November. Being on the national team doesn’t automatically assure sliders of an Oly