Background
Baver was born in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Baver was born in Reading, Pennsylvania.
She was a marketing and management major at Pennsylvania State University (2003) and an Master of Business Administration at the New York Institute of Technology. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, in Turin, Italy, Baver finished seventh in the Women"s 500 m competition, following a third-place finish in Semifinal A and a collision with the Czechoslovakian Republic"s Kateřina Novotná in Final B, which took her out of the race for fifth place.
Baver trains with the United States permanent winter sports Olympic team, in Salt Lake City, Utah. In the 2005-2006 season, she was ranked third overall in the World Rankings. On February 8, 2009, Baver collided with teammate Katherine Reutter on the third lap of the 1500 m race in Sofia, Bulgaria and fractured her leg in multiple places.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics, in Vancouver, Baver competed in three events.
In the 1500 m, Baver did not make it past the semifinals. In the 1000 m, Baver was disqualified in the heats.
In the 3000 m relay, Baver"s United States. team finished fourth but were awarded the bronze medal after one of the teams was disqualified for an infraction. In October 2010, Baver was the Grand Marshal for the 2010 Pennsylvania State University Homecoming celebrations.