COPPER MOUNTAIN, CO. (Dec. 21) – Aaron Blunck (Crested Butte, CO) moved to the top of the U.S. Olympic qualification standings with his halfpipe win Friday at the Visa U.S. Freeskiing Grand Prix Series presented by The North Face. Blunck sealed the victory in the FIS World Cup event with French favorite Kevin Rolland in second and teammate Gus Kenworthy (Telluride, CO) taking third, vaulting himself into the third qualification spot. Previous points leader David Wise (Reno, NV) dropped into second place in the standings after he failed to qualify for Friday’s final.
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MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN, CA (Nov. 8, 2016) – Veteran U.S. Ski Team member and three-time Olympian Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain, CA) continues her longstanding commitment to giving back to the ski racing community as she announces recipients of the 2016-17 Stacey Cook/Sun Valley Ski Tools (SVST) Competition Team. Recipients are chosen based on criteria such as passion and dedication to the sport, community involvement and character.
Project Gold is an invitation‑only talent identification and development camp. Invitations are extended to top‑performing development athletes who have competed at the Futures Tour, the Revolution Tour, or the USASA National Championships. Invitations are released on a rolling basis, with prequalified athletes receiving their notifications beginning in late February or early March.
U.S. Snowboard Team member and seven-time FIS Crystal Globe Winner Chris Corning closed out his season with a third-place finish on Sunday at the World Cup finals in Silvaplana, Switzerland.
SOS Outreach, a sport outreach and mentorship program serving 15 communities and 24 mountain resorts nationwide, was awarded U.S. Ski & Snowboard’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Champion Award. The award is focused on recognizing a person, group, organization, or program that has contributed significantly and sustainably to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in skiing and snowboarding.
U.S. Ski & Snowboard has announced its U.S. Ski Team cross country nominations for the 2019-20 season, including the largest D-Team the U.S. has fielded in many years with nine athletes.
PARK CITY, Utah (May 15, 2025) - U.S. Ski & Snowboard has officially dropped the 56 nominations for the 2025-26 Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team.
COPPER MOUNTAIN, CO (Dec. 22) – Olympic gold medalist Kelly Clark (West Dover, VT) mathematically clinched her spot on the 2014 Olympic halfpipe snowboarding team Saturday with her win at the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix at Copper. Clark led a U.S. sweep of the halfpipe finals with Arielle Gold (Steamboat Springs, CO) and Gretchen Bleiler (Aspen, CO). The American women took the podium in Saturday’s FIS World Cup, which doubled as a U.S. Olympic qualification event, despite the slow and difficult conditions in the pipe. With the rest of the U.S.
PARK CITY, UT (Jan. 18) – Angeli VanLaanen (Bellingham, WA) secured her spot on the first-ever Olympic team for halfpipe skiing Saturday with her win at the Visa U.S. Freeskiing Grand Prix. Brita Sigourney (Carmel, CA) put down another impressive run finishing second with double-threat Devin Logan (West Dove, VT) in third. The rest of first-ever U.S. Olympic team for slopestyle and halfpipe skiing will be nominated during a ceremony Saturday night.
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PARK CITY, UT (Jan. 18) – Keri Herman (Bloomington, MN) clinched her spot on the first-ever U.S. Olympic team for slopestyle skiing with her second-place finish Saturday morning at the fifth and final Olympic qualifier at the Visa U.S. Freeskiing Grand Prix. Julia Krass (Hanover, NH) took the win on the Kings Crown slopestyle course while Canadian Dara Howell slipped into third. The men take to the course Saturday afternoon for the final battle for Sochi spots.