Career
Competing in two Winter Olympics, Siler earned his best finish of fifth in the two-man event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. In 1985 Siler served as the United States team coach and also Chairman of the United States Bobsled Federation Competition Committee. He later coached the Jamaican bobsleigh team that participated at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
He would be profiled as Irving "Irv" Blitzer (played by John Candy) in the 1993 American film Cool Runnings.