SIERRA NEVADA, Spain (Mar. 6, 2017) – A team of 19 freeskiers will headline U.S. Freeskiing at the 2017 FIS Freestyle World Championships in Sierra Nevada, Spain, March 6-19. The U.S. skiers will compete in halfpipe, slopestyle and skicross.

The highly competitive U.S. team competing in Sierra Nevada include 2017 FIS slopestyle crystal globe winner McRae Williams (Park City, UT), X Games Aspen halfpipe gold medalist Aaron Blunck (Crested Butte, CO), 2014 Olympic halfpipe gold medalist Maddie Bowman (South Lake Tahoe, CA) and Mammoth Mountain U.S. Grand Prix slopestyle winner Maggie Voisin (Whitefish, MT). Tania Prymak (Goshen, NY), the most successful American female skicross athlete in history, will headline the skicross team.

COPPER MOUNTAIN, CO (Dec. 17, 2016) – The Americans earned several spots on the halfpipe podium Saturday at the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix. Annalisa Drew (Andover, MA) was second and Devin Logan (West Dover, VT) was third for the ladies, while Aaron Blunck (Crested Butte, CO) was third for the men.

It was a first career Grand Prix podium for Drew, who struggled in her first two runs, but was able to collect herself and put it together on her third and final run. “I just went up top and talked to my coaches to discuss what I needed to do better,” Drew said. “I kept my spirits up and just put it down, which I’m excited about.”

It was Logan’s fourth halfpipe podium at the Grand Prix—a rare double threat. She also has three slopestyle podiums, including a win at Park City in 2014.

Marie Martinod of France won the event in what turned out to be a challenging halfpipe, due to all the fresh snow that has been falling at Copper Mountain over the past several days.

TIGNES, France (March 10, 2016) – The U.S. scored three podium finishes at the final FIS World Cup halfpipe event of the season in Tignes, France. Maddie Bowman (South Lake Tahoe, CA) won the event for the women while Annalisa Drew (Andover, MA) was second. Lyman Currier (Boulder, CO) took second for the men. Devin Logan (West Dover, VT) became the first freeskier (halfpipe/slopestyle/big air) to win the FIS Freestyle Skiing overall crystal globe.

Maddie Bowman wins the last World Cup of the season.

TIGNES, France (March 9, 2016) – The U.S. will lead the pack into the final FIS Freeski World Cup halfpipe event of the season in Tignes, France Thursday. With 10 of the 16 overall finals spots nabbed by American athletes, the U.S. looks to finish the season strong. In coordination with the SFR Freestyle Tour, the event will be held under the lights on Thursday in one of the world’s best halfpipes.  

The American men locked down six of the 10 spots in the finals. David Wise (Reno, NV) was the top overall qualifier, followed by Alex Ferreira (Aspen, CO) and Lyman Currier (Boulder, CO) in second and third respectively. Aaron Blunck (Crested Butte, CO) was fifth, Broby Leeds (Vail, CO) was seventh and Kyle Smaine (South Lake Tahoe, CA) was ninth. 

ASPEN, CO (Jan. 29, 2016) – Olympic champion Maddie Bowman (South Lake Tahoe, CA) made it four gold-medal performances in a row at X Games Aspen when she topped the field Friday night in SuperPipe. Ayana Onozuka of Japan took silver and Annalisa Drew (Andover, MA) earned the bronze.

Bowman used a new trick - the switch 900 to win gold - a trick that has never been landed by a woman in competition before. She learned the trick this week in Aspen.

“I’ve learned multiple tricks here. It’s a great learning environment,” Bowman said. “Everyone’s just throwing down all the time. It’s sweet.”

Bowman only returned to competition last week at the U.S. Grand Prix in Mammoth, after nearly a year off snow due to injury. In February of 2015 the Tahoe native suffered a blown ACL and microfracture, which required two surgeries.

Breckenridge, CO (Dec. 11, 2015) — American skier Brita Sigourney (Carmel, CA) hit the podium at the first major freeskiing contest of the season, the Dew Tour Breckenridge. Sigourney took third in the superpipe competition with a run that included a leftside 900 and an alley oop 540. Teammate Annalisa Drew (Andover, MA) was the top seed, but wasn’t able to lay down a run in the final and finished sixth.

There was fresh snow on the ground in Breckenridge this morning, making the superpipe a little slow to start. “I had a couple of nerves on the first run and my skis were waxed up after practice,” Sigourney said regarding her fall in the first run. “It was sprinkling snow this morning and it put a layer of Velcro in the pipe, but the wax definitely helped before finals. This is the most nerve-wracking contest of the year because it’s so early. Now I’m excited to have some time off and get some training in to work on another run for X Games.”

BRECKENRIDGE, CO (Dec. 10, 2015) – The first major freeskiing competition of the 2015-16 season is kicking off in Colorado this week with the Dew Tour Breckenridge. U.S. athletes are competing against an international field in superpipe and slopestyle competitions.

Preliminary competition got underway on Wednesday with women’s semifinals in both superpipe and slopestyle. U.S. Freeskiing member Annalisa Drew (Andover, MA) led the field in superpipe, qualifying first with a score of 88.00, while her teammate Brita Sigourney (Carmel, CA) qualified third with an 84.60. Swedish skier Emma Dahlstrom topped the women’s slopestyle field with a score of 90.40. The two women scheduled to compete in slopestyle, Devin Logan (West Dover, VT) and Keri Herman (Bloomington, MN) did not start after taking hard crashes in training. The women’s superpipe final is Friday, while the slopestyle finals take place Saturday.

WHISTLER/BLACKCOMB, Canada (April 14, 2015) – Bobby Brown (Denver, CO), Annalisa Drew (Andover, MA) and Torin Yater-Wallace (Aspen, CO) all claimed World Championships titles at Whistler’s Association of Freeskiing Professionals (AFP) World Championships. Lyman Currier (Boulder, CO), McRae Williams (Park City, UT) and Devin Logan (West Dover, VT) also grabbed podium spots. 

Brown kicked off the winning streak, nabbing the top spot in men’s slopestyle finals landing his second and final run complete with a super smooth double cork 1080 mute on the first jump. Teammate Williams, who was just a .55 points shy of Brown’s winning score, grabbed the second spot with a pair of back-to-back switch double cork 1080s on the last two jumps.

Torin Yater-Wallace and Lyman Currier celebrate their podiums with Byron Wells of New Zealand at the AFP World Champs.

PARK CITY, UT (Jan. 15, 2015) – The 2014-15 U.S. Revolution Tour continues at Seven Springs Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania Jan. 26-30. The next generation of Olympic freeskiers and snowboarders will compete at “The Spot”— Seven Springs’ flagship terrain park—in the only Olympic-sized halfpipe on the East Coast for a chance to win a piece of the $67,000 tour prize purse. 

An industry leader in terrain park design, progression and innovation, Seven Springs is the perfect place to continue Revolution Tour competition, as current snowboarding tour leaders Jake Pates (Edwards, CO), Gabe Ferguson (Bend, OR), Maddie Mastro (Wrightwood, CA) and freeskiing tour leaders Kyle Smaine (S. Lake Tahoe, CA), Annalisa Drew (Andover, MA) and Tim Ryan (Waterville Valley, NH) will look to defend their early season leads. 

SEVEN SPRINGS HIGHLIGHTS

COPPER MOUNTAIN, CO (Dec. 19, 2014) - The U.S. Revolution Tour kicked off at Copper Mountain with Kyle Smaine (S. Lake Tahoe, CA) and Olympian Annalisa Drew (Andover, MA) winning the halfpipe competition, and Tim Ryan (Waterville Valley, NH) and Norwegian rider Johanne Killi taking home top honors in slopestyle.

Under cloudy skies, a heavy hitting international field showed up to compete at Copper Mountain’s 22-foot halfpipe and four-feature slopestyle course, but U.S. skiers took home three of the top spots. In women’s halfpipe, Annalisa Drew outdid New Zealander Janina Kuzma—who won the Visa U.S. Freeskiing Grand Prix at Copper two weeks earlier—and French skier Anais Cardeaux, with a left 900 safety grab. On the men’s side, Kyle Smaine’s left corked 1260 on the first hit bested Colby Stevenson (Park City, UT) and Beau Wells (Wanaka, NZ) to take home the win.