updated 9:40 a.m. ET Feb. 26, 2006

TURIN, Italy - Short track speedskater Allison Baver is among 12 American athletes in the running for a spot on the sixth season of the Donald Trump show “The Apprentice.”

Baver, 21, of Reading, Pa., is a two-time Olympian and the girlfriend of U.S. men's short track speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno.

The others in contention are freestyle skier Travis Cabral, speedskater Casey FitzRandolph, bobsledder Todd Hays, speedskater Chad Hedrick, snowboarder Danny Kass, freestyle skier Joe Pack, freestyle skier Speedy Peterson, women’s ice hockey player Angela Ruggiero, skeleton racer Katie Uhlaender, snowboarder Seth Wescott and speedskater Chris Witty.

Cabral, 22, of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., is the 2002-03 World Cup moguls champion. Cabral has been a consistent force on the World Cup circuit since the 2002-03 season, when he broke out to win the moguls title. In 1999, at age 15, Cabral became the youngest U.S. moguls champion in history.

Hedrick, 28, of Houston, makes his Olympic debut and qualified for five events. He had a breakout year in 2004 winning the world all-around title — becoming the first American to claim the crown since Eric Flaim in 1988 — and claiming gold in the men's 5,000-meter event and bronze in the 10,000-meter race at the world championships.

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FitzRandolph, 31, of Madison, Wis., won gold in 2002, becoming the first American to win the 500-meter race at the Games since Eric Heiden accomplished the feat in 1980.

Peterson, 24, of Boise, Idaho, is the reigning men's aerials World Cup champion. Nicknamed "Speedy" at a ski camp when he was a kid, he made his Olympic debut at the 2002 Salt Lake Games, where he was ninth.

Hays, 37, of Del Rio, Texas, is still the top American driver after his silver-medal performance at the 2002 Games. He is a leading medal contender in both the two- and four-man events in Turin. Hays' best results have always come in four-man, the event in which he won silver at Salt Lake and two world championship medals: silver in 2003 and bronze in 2004.

Kass, 23, of Mammoth Lakes, Calif., is one of snowboarding's biggest stars. He enters his second Games looking for his second Olympic medal. He took silver in the halfpipe at the 2002 Games where he, along with Ross Powers (gold) and J.J. Thomas (bronze), was part of an historic American sweep in the event.

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Pack, 27, of Park City, Utah, competed in front of his home crowd in the 2002 Olympic aerials competition. He capped his Olympic debut with a silver medal.

Ruggiero, 26, of Harper Woods, Mich., won gold in Nagano in 1998 and silver in Salt Lake in 2002. She has emerged as one of the team's leaders and is widely regarded as the top defenseman in the world.

Uhlaender, 22, of Breckenridge, Colo., finished sixth in the 2004-05 World Cup standings, her first season on the circuit.

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Wescott, 30, of Farmington, Maine, is a first-time Olympian. The Maine resident's gold was the only first-place finish for the American men at snowboarding worlds.

Witty, 31, of Park City, Utah, won the U.S.'s only two speedskating medals at the 1998 Games, taking bronze in the 1,500-meter event and silver in the 1,000-meter race. Witty, who held the world record in the 1000, finished behind Marianne Timmer of the Netherlands.

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