SIERRA NEVADA, Spain (March 18, 2017) — Aaron Blunck (Crested Butte, CO) capped off a huge season with a halfpipe victory at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships in Spain on Saturday night. Devin Logan (West Dover, VT) also earned a halfpipe medal, earning bronze for the ladies.

“I could not be more stoked,” Blunck said of his win. “This is the best season I’ve ever had and it’s been like a dream come true for me. I’ve just wanted to have as much fun as possible and this season it feels like that’s all it’s been.”

Aaron Blunck skied to the gold medal in the men’s halfpipe at the FIS Freestyle Ski & Snowboard World Championships. (Getty Images-David Ramos)

HAFJELL, Norway (March 11, 2017) – Maggie Voisin (Whitefish, MT) earned big air bronze at X Games Norway on Saturday, becoming the first American female skier ever to medal in big air at X Games.

Voisin claimed the third X Games medal of the week for the American skiers, stomping a left rodeo 900 Japan to earn her way to the podium. She threw the trick twice, scoring a 40 each time for a combined score of 80.

Devin Logan (West Dover, VT), who earned bronze in slopestyle Thursday night, finished seventh in big air. Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland won gold, earning the first perfect score ever awarded to a woman at X Games with a switch left double 1080. Estonia’s Kelly Sildaru took silver. 

HAFJELL, Norway (March 9, 2017) – Nick Goepper (Lawrenceburg, IN) earned a silver medal in men’s slopestyle at X Games Norway on Thursday, while his U.S. Freeskiing teammate Devin Logan (West Dover, VT) earned bronze for the ladies.

Goepper, who won three consecutive X Games Aspen titles from 2013-15, skied well on the challenging course to claim his fifth overall X Games medal (he also earned silver at his first X Games appearance in 2012).

Norwegian Oystein Braaten took the gold in front of the home crowd, while James Woods of Great Britain rounded out the podium with bronze.

Logan earned her second X Games medal, having taken slopestyle silver in 2012. With her podium finish in Norway, Logan jumped to the top of the overall rankings on the Association of Freeskiing Professionals (AFP) tour.

SEVEN SPRINGS, PA (March 7-8 2017) – Caroline Claire (Wilmington, VT) swept the Toyota U.S. Revolution Tour slopestyle events at Seven Springs this week, topping both podiums. The overall Toyota U.S. Revolution Tour champions were also crowned, with Claire winning for the women and Ryan Stevenson (Washington, NJ) for the men.

Cal Carson (Winter Park, CO) and Cody Laplante (Truckee, CA) also found the Rev Tour podium, placing second and third respectively for the men on Tuesday, while Nikita Rubocki (Boise, ID) was second for the women on Wednesday.

Wednesday’s event also served as the final stop of the FIS NorAm Cup Tour. Ethan Swadburg (Dillon, CO) was third in the NorAm Cup overall standings. Phillippe Langevin of Canada was first overall and his countryman Patrick Dew in second. The Canadian women swept the overall standings: Sofia Tcherntsky taking the top spot, Emma Stevens was second and Megan Cressey was third.

TIGNES, France (March 7, 2017) – The American skiers had an excellent showing at the final FIS World Cup halfpipe of the season on Tuesday, with Alex Ferreira (Aspen, CO) grabbing the top spot and Taylor Seaton (Avon, CO) taking second for the men.

It was Ferreira’s first major podium of the year, and it was a big one—he topped Seaton by almost four whole points with his second run. The two Americans were joined on the podium by French skier Kevin Rolland, who took third.

Rolland was also awarded the crystal globe award for topping the overall 2017 FIS halfpipe standings. Aaron Blunck (Crested Butte, CO) was the top overall American halfpipe finisher for the year, coming in third; he was ninth in Tignes on Tuesday.

For the women, Annalisa Drew (Andover, MA) was the top finisher in Tignes with a fourth-place performance. She was also the top American finisher on the overall 2017 FIS points list, coming in third.

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.

SILVAPLANA, Switzerland (March 3, 2017) – McRae Williams (Park City, UT) and Gus Kenworthy (Telluride, CO) scored podium finishes at the final FIS World Cup slopestyle event of the season, with second and third-place finishes respectively. Williams also earned the overall championship with the result, earning the FIS Crystal Globe for slopestyle.

Winning the crystal globe was a career moment for Williams, who held a spot in the top-five on the points list throughout the 2016-2017 season. The second-place finish at Silvaplana combined with his World Cup win at Font Romeu in January was enough to catapult him to the top of the list. It was his fourth career World Cup podium and his first overall win.

Joining Williams and Kenworthy on the podium was Teal Harle of Canada, who scored his first career World Cup win.

PARK CITY, UT (Feb. 21, 2017) – The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) and Seven Springs Mountain Resort announced today that, due to adverse snow conditions, the halfpipe skiing and snowboard portions of the U.S. Revolution Tour originally scheduled for March 7 and 9 have been canceled.

Additionally, Seven Springs has stepped up to host an additional slopestyle skiing event on Tuesday, March 7 as a make-up event for the missed competition from the Mammoth Mountain tour stop.

As the final stop on the tour, the Toyota U.S. Revolution Tour champions will be crowned at Seven Springs. Top rookie snowboard athletes at Seven Springs will earn invites to compete in the World Rookie Tour Finals in Austria and the freeskiing events will also serve as FIS NorAm Finals.

Toyota U.S. Revolution Tour – Seven Springs

BOKWANG PHOENIX PARK, South Korea (Feb. 18, 2017) – The American skiers had an excellent showing at the Olympic halfpipe test event on Saturday, scoring three podium spots. Torin Yater-Wallace (Basalt, CO) led the charge with a win for the men. Aaron Blunck (Crested Butte, CO) was second for the men and Devin Logan (West Dover, VT) was second for the ladies.

Yater-Wallace was the top qualifier coming into the final and also won the most recent World Cup, the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain, earlier this month. He rode that momentum into Saturday’s final, edging teammate Blunck with a run that included huge amplitude and technical tricks. “It’s really cool to ski in Korea and see the venue before the Olympics,” Yater-Wallace said. “It feels awesome to be here and I feel very lucky to end up in first place.”

BOKWANG PHOENIX PARK, South Korea (Feb. 18, 2017) – The FIS halfpipe World Cup Tour culminates this week with the official test event for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The qualification round was held on Thursday, with U.S. Freeskiing advancing seven athletes to the final.

Torin Yater-Wallace qualified first. (Getty Images-Cameron Spencer)