A smart and talented Midwest native, Nick Goepper has the tools for success and it shows with his impressive roster of results, which includes two Olympic medals - bronze and silver - five X Games medals (three of them gold) and podium finishes at pretty much every other major event in freeskiing.

The 2014 season marked a standout year for Goepper, who landed on the podium at nearly every event he entered. Multiple World Cup podiums, a win at the Dew Tour and a second-straight X Games gold medal set the stage for his success in Sochi. At the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, Goepper made history for his sport and country by taking home the first-ever bronze medal in ski slopestyle and by sweeping the podium with fellow teammates Joss Christensen and Gus Kenworthy. Goepper topped off his banner season with his second-straight AFP slopestyle title.

Goepper's success continued in 2015 when he won his third consecutive gold medal at X Games Aspen. He also took podiums at the Dew Tour and the Frostgun Invitational, but then began to struggle with a series of shoulder injuries, starting with a dislocated left shoulder in Austria. He eventually had surgery on the shoulder and returned to snow in January 2016. 

Goepper began making waves on the slopestyle scene in 2012 with a silver at X Games Aspen, a win at Dew Tour Snowbasin, a third at Dew Tour Breckenridge and a slew of other podium results. Then in 2013 Goepper won gold at X Games Aspen, and finished third at the FIS World Championships. In addition to his podium-worthy skiing, Goepper graduated high school with a 3.7 GPA, earning himself an academic scholarship to Westminster University in Salt Lake City, Utah.

FIRST TRACKS
Goepper was five years old when he started skiing at Perfect North Slopes--his local ski hill in Southern Indiana. He says, “I took lessons in a ‘Ski-Doodles’ program. After my lessons, Mom would let me go up the rope tow and would catch me at the bottom. She needed to catch me because I couldn’t stop or turn.”

OFF THE SNOW
Goepper digs anything that incorporates moving and competing. You’ll find him surfing, skateboarding, playing ping-pong and going out an occasional date.