PARK CITY, Utah (Oct. 18, 2017) – U.S. Ski & Snowboard has announced a four-stop Toyota U.S. Revolution Tour for the 2017-18 season. Copper Mountain Resort, Colorado, Waterville Valley Resort, New Hampshire, Park City Mountain, Utah and Mammoth Mountain, California will play host to the next generation of talented riders and skiers in halfpipe, slopestyle and big air.

Copper Mountain and Mammoth Mountain have been regular Rev Tour stops over the past few seasons. This will be Waterville Valley Resort’s second year on the tour and Park City Mountain is returning for the first time in 10 years.

“The resort portfolio for the Rev Tour is consistently one of the best across our events series,” said Eric Webster, U.S. Ski & Snowboard Senior Director, Events. “Copper, Waterville Valley, Mammoth and Park City have some of the best park and pipe set ups in the country and are veterans when it comes to putting on great events for these athletes.”

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (Sept. 13, 2017) – Olympic snowboarder Justin Reiter, a 10-time national champion and World Cup winner, is closing the chapter as one of America’s most successful parallel snowboarding athletes. Reiter is retiring as an athlete but plans to continue his passionate engagement with the sport as a coach.

“This was a hard decision as the 2018 Olympic season is finally here,” said Reiter. “But in the end, I just no longer felt the same fire in my heart as I used to. To be the best you have to give your best. I could no longer continue to commit all that I am to the sport I love so much.”

CARDRONA, New Zealand (Sept. 7, 2017) – Chloe Kim (Torrance, CA) led a USA sweep at the Winter Games NZ halfpipe, with Kelly Clark (Mammoth Lakes, CA) second and Maddie Mastro (Wrightwood, CA) third.

17-year-old Kim echoed her dominance of previous seasons to kick off the Olympic year with her fourth World Cup win. Sitting in third after qualifiers, she threw it all out there with a  winning run that included a backside air, frontside 1080 tail, cab 720 indy, alley-oop indy and a McTwist indy for a score of 90.50. “It’s my first Winter Games and it’s been awesome!” said Kim. “It was nice to land something. On the second run I wanted to try the back-to-back tens, but it was a bit wild. Cleaning it up for the next contest will be a priority for me.”

TransWorld SNOWboarding dubbed the U.S. Snowboard Team as the odds-on favorite for medaling in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, stating, “In our opinion, this is the best that the US has ever looked in terms of sheer volume of talent heading into the 2018 Winter Olympics.”

They break down the qualification process and favorites in slope, big air and halfpipe, including riders like Red Gerard, Chris Corning, Jamie Andrson, Kelly Clark and more.

Take a look at TransWorld’s article: U.S. Snowboarding Team an Underdog for the 2018 Winter Olympics?

Hailey Langland (San Clemente, CA) won gold in the 2017 X Games big air, impressing the judges by becoming the first woman to land a double cork in competition history. To top it off, the 16 year old has been nominated for a Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for the Don’t Try This at Home award.

Langland is up against skateboarders Lizzie Armanto and Nyjah Huston, BMX riders Connor Fields and Alise Post, surfer Keala Kennelly and Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris.

Help Langland win the Kids Choice Award by voting here. Winners are announced on July 16 at 8 p.m. ET.

U.S. Ski & Snowboard has announced its U.S. Snowboard Team snowboardcross, halfpipe and slopestyle/big air nominations for the 2017-18 season. Nominations include those active athletes who qualified based on published selection criteria in the prior season.

Each athlete accepting their nomination to U.S. Snowboard Team receives world class program support, along with access to the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Center of Excellence, as well as athletic benefits including elite coaching, sport science, sports medicine and high performance staff, and education opportunities.

An official team announcement will be made in the fall.

U.S. Snowboard Team
2017-18 Team Nominations
(Hometown; Club; USASA Series; Birthdate)

SPINDLERUV MLYN, Czech Republic (March 31, 2017) — American men claimed the top two spots at the Junior World Championships slopestyle on Friday, with Chris Corning (Silverthorne, CO) taking the win and Judd Henkes (La Jolla, CA) in second.

It wasn’t a surprise to see Corning take the top spot, as he won the final World Cup of the season on the same course the previous weekend. Corning has had an incredible season, topped off by the gold medal at the 2017 Junior World Championships.

The U.S. crew celebrates a great day at the Junior World Championships on Friday. (USSA)

VEYSONNAZ, Switzerland (Mar. 26, 2017) — Jonathan Cheever (Saugus, MA) and Mick Dierdorff (Steamboat Springs, CO) were on the podium at the final team snowboardcross World Cup of the season, with a second-place finish on Sunday.

It was an excellent way for the team to finish the season; the result marked Dierdorff’s first career World Cup podium result and Cheever’s first since taking third at Stoneham in 2012.

Nick Baumgartner (Iron River, MI) and Alex Deibold (Boulder, CO) were fifth, taking the win in the small final. Austria’s Markus Schairer and Alessandro Haemmerle teamed up for the big final win and Chris Robanske and Kevin Hill of Canada rounded out the podium in third.

Rosie Mancari (Anchorage, AK) and Colleen Healey (Plymouth, NH) were the top American finishers for the women, placing eighth.

SPINDLERUV MLYN, Czech Republic (Mar. 25, 2017) – Chris Corning (Silverthorne, CO) hit the highlight to an incredibly successful season when he won the final FIS World Cup slopestyle event of the season on Saturday.

Corning was coming in hot off a double medal week at the World Championships in Sierra Nevada, Spain, where he earned silver in big air and bronze in slopestyle. Spindleruv Mlyn is his second World Cup win—the first came at Cardrona in 2015.

Corning will remain in Spindleruv Mlyn for the Junior World Championships next week, where he is expected to be highly competitive after winning the junior titles in both big air and slopestyle in 2016. 

The men’s 2017 crystal globe award for FIS overall slopestyle snowboarder went to 16-year-old Red Gerard (Silverthorne, CO), who had his first career World Cup win at the Mammoth Toyota U.S. Grand Prix in February.